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...And secondly, they're proposing hosting these talks in Minsk, the capital of Belarus....
...I still doubt that this extends to the Baltic states, which in theory “benefit” from protection under Nato’s Article V defence clause....
...This is a sorry state of affairs for a country that professes to be in the vanguard of cultural openness, and a city that considers itself to be the creative capital of the world....
...Brutal images are unfiltered through a soldier’s eyes, and no explanation is needed for the alienation and loss of self in the aftermath....
...Masterpieces of Chinese Painting: 700-1900, edited by Zhang Hongxing, V&A Publishing, RRP£40/$60 The world’s oldest painting tradition explored in the glorious catalogue to the V&A’s current, once-in-a-lifetime...
...POP Ziggyology , by Simon Goddard, Ebury Press, £20, 352 pages After the comeback and the V&A retrospective comes Bowie fatigue. Do we need more adulation?...
...Bear Alley, long since amputated to make way for the Holborn Viaduct, once hosted a tavern famous for bear-baiting....
...Chunks of medieval fabric survive incongruously amid the wealth of the imperial capital, only to be swept away by ambitious Edwardians and German bombers....
...Leslie Crawford is the FT’s Madrid bureau chief. Whose side are they on?...
...Sixteen years earlier a vast petroleum field had been discovered nearby, and by 1921 Tulsa had become known as “the oil capital of the world”....
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