Day: May 21, 2017
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Russian Regulators Find Illegal Cartel Where Navalny Says He Unmasked ‘Putin’s Favorite Chef’
Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service says it’s uncovered a price-fixing cartel in the Defense Ministry’s procurement contracts worth billions.
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Why Langston Hughes Still Reigns as a Poet for the Unchampioned
Fifty years after his death, Hughes’ extraordinary lyricism resonates with power to people
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Why These Humans Are Museum Treasures, Too
A portrait photographer captured 24 staffers from the National Museum of Natural History posing with their favorite artifacts from the collections
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The True Story of Brainwashing and How It Shaped America
Fears of Communism during the Cold War spurred psychological research, pop culture hits, and unethical experiments in the CIA
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Why a Modern Cosmetics Company Is Mining Armenia’s Ancient Manuscripts
Armenia’s folk remedies and botanical traditions are getting a new look
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Chechen Leader Kadyrov Says His Underage Children Earn More Than Putin
Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov reportedly earned more than Russian President Vladimir Putin last year.
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Russian Believers Form 1.5 Kilometer Mega-Line to See Holy Relics in Moscow
Russian believers have flocked to the capital’s iconic Cathedral of Christ the Savior in a bid to see holy relics from one of Russian Orthodoxy’s most beloved saints.
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One in Four Russians Witness Police Brutality — Poll
Almost a quarter of Russians have witnessed or experienced beatings carried out by police and medical staff, a new report has revealed.
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Relics of Saint Nicholas leave Bari for Moscow
For the first time in almost thousand years, Orthodox believers in Russia will be able to venerate one of the most important Saints without leaving their country The ark with a fragment of the relics of Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker, one of the most revered figures in Russia, has been passed over to the Russian…
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930 years of waiting: fragment of St Nicholas’s relics to arrive to Russia from Italy
About what preceded this unique event and how Moscow is preparing to meet the relic – in the TASS material A fragment of relics of St Nicholas the Wonderworker, who passed away more than 1,700 years ago, will be transported from in the Italian city of Bari to the Christ the Savior Cathedral in Moscow.…
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Fragment of St Nicholas’s relics ready for transportation to Russia from Italy
The expert said that about 80% of the skeleton and the skull of St Nicholas has reached our days intact Preparations have completed in the Italian city of Bari for a unique operation to transport a fragment of relics of St Nicholas the Wonderworker, who passed away more than 1,700 years ago, to Russia for…
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Cheaper Than Ever Before: In Moscow, Fierce Competition Between App Providers Is Driving Taxi Fares Down
Within the last three months, the price war escalated between Moscow’s three major app providers — Yandex-Taxi, Gett and Uber, — making the city’s taxi market a liberal microcosm for an economically illiberal Russia.