Day: May 28, 2023
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‘Most Important’ Drone Attack on Kyiv Since Invasion: Ukraine
Corrected to reflect that one person was injured, not killed, in warehouse fire. Russia carried out its “most important” drone attack on Kyiv overnight Saturday-Sunday since the start of the invasion, Ukrainian military authorities said. Forty of the 54 drones launched targeted the capital, killing two people and wounding three. “In total a record number…
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In ‘Places of Tenderness and Heat,’ Olga Petri Maps the Queer History of Late Imperial St. Petersburg
A single snapshot of a madding crowd moving through a bustling capital city can only tell us so much. Any conclusions we might draw from such an image can only be made on a surface level — from clothing, facial expressions and body language. All we can do is make vague inferences. But if one…
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‘Almost Nothing Had Changed’: Anti-War Russians Risk First Trips Home Since Invasion
When animation artist Varvara returned to Russia earlier this year for the first time since fleeing abroad after the Kremlin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, the main emotion she felt was surprise. Not by how much had changed in her homeland after over a year of war — but by how little. “If you read the…