Day: October 23, 2017
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Exploring Russia’s Rural Airports
Forget your preconceptions of how airports should look.
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Why Did So Few Novels Tackle the 1918 Pandemic?
Surprisingly few U.S. writers touched by the 1918 pandemic wrote about it. But flu lit appears more popular today than ever
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Russia’s Interfax News Agency Site Down After Hack
The source of the attack has not yet been determined
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Russia’s 2018 World Cup Costs Soar Another $600 Million
A decree signed by Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Tuesday did not state the reason for the latest increase
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Russian Police Threaten to Kill Navalny Supporters After They Compare Police Wages to Sweden
The video culminates with the officer calling the video’s author a ‘Swedish homosexual’
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Sobchak Campaign Teams Up With Igor Malashenko, Who Once Helped Yeltsin
“You can laugh at me, but I understand show business”
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A Fresh Look for Smithsonian’s Oldest Art Museum
The Freer’s renovation comes with a new thematic presentation of Asian Art—and the Peacock Room is reopened, as well
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‘Madman’ Attacker Denies Trying to Kill Ekho Journalist Felgenhauer
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters on a conference call on Tuesday that Felgenhauer was attacked by a “madman.”
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Pussy Riot ‘Slightly Occupies’ Trump Tower
“We came to occupy Trump Tower to call attention to political prisoners,” Pussy Riot wrote in a Facebook post on Monday.
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Moscow Mayor Sobyanin Seeks New Term to ‘Finish Reforms’
Sobyanin’s plans to relocate around 10 percent of Moscow’s population sparked mass demonstrations this summer
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Moscow Gang Accused of ‘Purging’ Homeless People Sentenced
Three of the defendants were found to have psychiatric illnesses
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Radio Station Publishes Security Footage of Man Who Stabbed Russian Radio Host
The man then pepper-sprays the guard and then ducks under a turnstile, running into the building
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Russia Accuses U.S. of Stealing Seized San Francisco Consulate Archives
Another episode in the San Francisco consulate saga