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54 days ago

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

found 2025 › Mar › 12 (Wed) @ 07:45 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

They played Red Square, launched MTV Russia and got driven home from a gay club by the police. But the freedoms witnessed by Pet Shop Boys have been crushed. Singer Neil Tennant relives those heady d…

56 days ago

Goodbye Lenin: Finnish museum reinvents itself in response to shifting relations with Russia

found 2025 › Mar › 10 (Mon) @ 07:09 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Former Lenin Museum in Tampere, which opened in 1946 as a symbol of Finnish-Russian friendship, has rebranded amid Ukraine war

A Finnish museum dedicated to the Russian Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin ha…

59 days ago

I've been to every country in Eastern Europe - here are the best places to go and the THREE countries you should avoid at all costs

found 2025 › Mar › 07 (Fri) @ 18:51 UTC

a story from The Daily Mail › The Daily Mail

When I first ventured into Eastern Europe, aged 19, it was 1998 and, despite the collapse of the Iron Curtain, hospitality was still dour Soviet Union-style. But so much has changed since then.

61 days ago

Revealed: the scammers who conned savers out of $35m using fake celebrity ads

found 2025 › Mar › 05 (Wed) @ 10:06 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

Georgia-based group used deepfake videos and false news featuring Martin Lewis, Zoe Ball and Ben Fogle to promote fraudulent crypto schemes

How call centre scammers duped 6,000 people
What is investmen…

62 days ago

‘I aspire to be like water’: the exquisite buildings of Liu Jiakun, winner of architecture’s top prize

found 2025 › Mar › 04 (Tue) @ 19:17 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

He turns steelworks into parks and makes ‘rebirth bricks’ from earthquake rubble. As the novelist, meditator and ‘accidental architect’ wins the Pritzker prize, we look at the masterful temples, cave…

66 days ago

Soviet Chess Grandmaster Boris Spassky Dies at 88

found 2025 › Feb › 28 (Fri) @ 06:50 UTC

a story from The Moscow Times › The Moscow Times

Spassky is best remembered for his 1972 world championship match against Fischer, a contest that became a symbol of U.S.-Soviet rivalry during the Cold War.

Russian chess grandmaster Boris Spassky dies aged 88

found 2025 › Feb › 28 (Fri) @ 06:50 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

World champion will be remembered for the ‘match of the century’ against American Bobby Fischer in 1972

Soviet chess grandmaster Boris Spassky, who was famously defeated at the height of the cold war,…

Soviet chess champion Boris Spassky dies at 88

found 2025 › Feb › 28 (Fri) @ 06:50 UTC

a story from Euronews › Euronews

Boris Spassky was a Soviet chessboard ace who became an émigré to France in 1976 and a French citizen in 1978.

70 days ago

The ugly truth of American violence has never been plainer

found 2025 › Feb › 24 (Mon) @ 18:42 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

An extract from Omar El Akkad’s new book argues that Gaza put to bed the fantasy of the USA as freedom fighter

‘I’m sitting on the side that’s launching bombs’: author Omar El Akkad on the hypocrisy o…

Nikt Nie Woła (Nobody’s Calling) review – hypnotic passions in postwar Poland

found 2025 › Feb › 24 (Mon) @ 07:48 UTC

a story from The Guardian › International

A mysterious stranger arrives in a small town in western Poland soon after the second world war, and embarks on a string of messy, equally enigmatic affairs

This cult 1960 Polish film is a political a…

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