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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with The man in the frame is General Valery Zaluzhny, commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. There are no insignia on his jacket, zipped tight to his chin. His torso and legs are concealed beneath the desk which also accommodates a computer screen without keyboard or mouse; and a pen held […]
by Editor - Sunday, May 28th, 2023
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By John Helmer, Moscow @bears_with “He was not a nihilist for nothing!” This is one of the funniest, and at the same time one of the saddest lines written by Ivan Turgenev in Fathers and Sons, the novel of his which preserves its contemporaneity through the Russian revolutions better than any other classic of Russian […]
by Editor - Sunday, May 28th, 2023
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