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...Russian émigré literature has, she says, been an inextricable element of the country’s culture ever since Alexander Herzen, the radical Russian thinker, went into exile in 1847....
...Now, the spotlight is on Anna Sorokin, also known as “the fake heiress” or “the Soho grifter”....
...Among the passengers were the theologians Nikolai Berdyaev and Sergei Bulgakov, the critic Yuly Aikhenvald, the sociologist Pitirim Sorokin and many others....
...Two Belarusian journalists were jailed for two years on Thursday after filming a protest against strongman president Alexander Lukashenko....
...Smirnova’s Vaganova-trained technique and her instinctive rapport with Sorokin’s baton and the lead violins (Alexander Kalashkov and Vladimir Kotlyarevsky) made for a flawless Odette....
...Tsvirko, a pupil of Alexander Vetrov and Petukhov, was dream casting for Basilio....
...and friends of about $275,000 while wearing a Supreme hoodie, Alexander Wang leggings and sneakers....
...Sorokin’s admiration for Germany was mutual....
...Alexander Motyl of Rutgers University recently wrote of a “coming Russian collapse”....
...Inside the Kremlin, meanwhile, President Vladimir Putin is said to be taking advice from a small inner circle, primarily of fellow KGB alumni such as Nikolai Patrushev and Alexander Bortnikov....
...Alexander Volchkov’s Crassus, Spartacus’s Roman adversary and eventual nemesis, cannot match Vasiliev in either animal excitement or by such total abandon to the choreography, but he remains a fine dancer...
...Secondary roles are grandly alive – Gennady Yanin as an accordion player, Alexander Petukhov as a tractor driver, are admirable in resource....
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