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...But elsewhere, thieves act with impunity to cut down traffic-light poles with angle-grinders to sell them for scrap....
...But he squarely confronts black spots in Ukraine’s past, such as the anti-Jewish pogroms of the Russian civil war era and the ultranationalist massacres of Poles during the second world war....
...“In every European city, in Italy or in France, fountains always create a pole of social gathering,” says Petaloti....
...Most of this happened after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and, in particular, under Joseph Stalin’s dictatorship....
...The Himalayas are often described as the “third pole” for being the largest mass of frozen fresh water outside the North and South poles....
...Joseph Conlon, director of the Greek programme, is pointing at a painting projected on to a whiteboard. He makes a joke, at which the whole class erupts into laughter....
...Königsberg was renamed after Mikhail Kalinin, the titular Soviet head of state under Joseph Stalin. The Germans were moved out....
...He said Moscow threatened a repeat of the famine imposed by Joseph Stalin in the 1930s. “They want to create hunger,” he said....
...Polish admiration for the dissident Russian writer Joseph Brodsky is being questioned because of a vicious anti-Ukrainian poem he wrote....
...Since Muskie was Polish-American, and Brzezinski was born in Poland, Albright joked that she had gone from “Pole to Pole”....
...Paris suspects that “in tune with their natural instincts, they are looking to form a club of hardliners with the Poles, the Baltics and the Dutch to hinder the Franco-German axis,” Duclos says....
...The attenuated light poles in the stairwells are, for instance, wonderful — architectural in their presence, understated but elegant....
...Dhambit Mununggurr, from Arnhem Land in Australia’s far north, breaks with the tradition of using earth colours in her clusters of blue poles, “because the earth is blue, the sea is blue, and the sky is...
...The Poles and the Hungarians have also passed laws that undermine judicial independence....
...The result of this has been institutional gridlock between two poles of power that are concerned exclusively with political survival....
...Joseph Conrad, a great writer in English, was himself a Pole. He wrote in English to find a larger audience, Polish being a language known to only about 50m people worldwide....
...What the political historian Joseph Rothschild calls a “return to diversity” has become increasingly apparent....
...Months later, Russia’s parliament passed a watershed resolution that admitted Soviet leader Joseph Stalin had personally approved the executions....
...To make “Untitled (Poles for a Dangerous Art World)”, she stuffed bread, beeswax, matches, lint and a can of tuna into plastic bags, which she then dangled from poles attached to the wall....
...As he emails Brussels Briefing: “In his novel Heart of Darkness, Joseph Conrad said it best: ‘All Europe contributed to the making of [the villainous ivory hunter] Kurtz.’...
...Analysts said that the economic cost will be difficult to gauge with roads and telephone poles still under water....
...The area is famous for izinyoka — the Zulu word for snakes — youths who risk electrocution by tapping Eskom poles for illegal connections to local squatter camps....
...The protesters set upon the police, beating them with metal poles, umbrellas and fists. Then a police officer shot his pistol directly at the student, who collapsed to the ground instantly....
...And after returning to Kinshasa full time from 2003 he developed a reputation as one of President Joseph Kabila’s most courageous and consistent critics....
...Crown Castle Sector: telecoms / HQ: Houston, US Key stat: The company is building 10,000 ‘small cell’ mobile phone antennas on street lights and utility poles this year....
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