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1 month ago

Putin Showers Elon Musk With Praise in Odd Remarks: Not Often Such People Appear In The Human Population'

Putin praised Elon Musk for his ambitions in space, likening him to Soviet rocket scientist Sergei Korolev and highlighting the importance of groundbreaking ideas in human progress.
US politics
UK news
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Soviet-era dissident given draconian' jail sentence in Russia for anti-war views

Alexander Skobov has been sentenced to 16 years in prison in Russia for opposing the war in Ukraine, highlighting increased repression in the country.
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

We swept into Moscow in Gorbachev's limousine': Neil Tennant's love affair with Russia before the cancer of Putin'

I have been interested in Russia since reading a book when I was a young boy about the 1917 revolutions. It fascinated me that the Russian empire was replaced by another empire, the Soviet Union, which unleashed a lot of energy but rapidly became a brutal dictatorship under Stalin... This interest fed into the lyrics I wrote.
London politics
Books
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months ago

Andrey Kurkov: At 17, I got my hands on an illegal copy of The Gulag Archipelago'

Literary encounters shaped my childhood and influenced my development as a writer.
NYC music
fromwww.nytimes.com
5 months ago

Review: William Kentridge's Collaged Fever Dream of Shostakovich

The New York Philharmonic's performance integrates art and history, reflecting on the complexities of Soviet nostalgia and the artistry of Shostakovich.
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