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2017/05/18 - 23:53 •
Crimea, Culture
The film title refers to the family story of the author. In the late 1950s, Crimean Tatar artists deported to Central Asia organized a folk song and dance ensemble. The uncle of Akhtem Seitablaiev suggested to call it “Haytarma,” which...
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2016/10/10 - 03:26 •
Analysis & Opinion, History, Russia
A new book documents the way that the peoples whom Stalin deported are seeking to preserve the memory of that crime by erecting monuments in the face of Vladimir Putin’s effort to kill such recollections via a new crime for which the...
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2016/09/01 - 21:09 •
Analysis & Opinion
The recent appointment of Russia’s new minister of education might interest our readers if only because the dismissed former minister Dmitry Livanov was immediately appointed by Vladimir Putin to the post of special presidential...
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2016/05/28 - 09:22 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia, Ukraine
Russian poet Sergey Gandlevskiy was recently arrested in the Moscow metro for tearing down a portrait of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin. Police threatened to punish him for “vandalism and hooliganism,” but eventually released him without...
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2016/02/27 - 16:45 •
Analysis & Opinion, Russia
The Crimean Anschluss opened the way for the “completely open” justification of Stalin and thus of everything Soviet because “in fact, the Soviet was and is Stalin,” not only because he ruled for so long but also because “he...
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2015/01/31 - 19:42 •
Analysis & Opinion
If Russians “swallow” the Davidova case, then soon anyone and everyone can be arrested and imprisoned in Russia. The arrest in Vyazma of Svetlana Davidova, the mother of seven who is being accused of treason because of her...
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2014/09/01 - 19:51 •
Analysis & Opinion, Featured
A number of Russian NHL stars have quickly taken to backing their homeland in the war against Ukraine, with multiple MVP Alexander Ovechkin making the most recent headlines. The negative attention was significant enough that Hall of Famer...
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