Hints and tips:
...“I will never forget how I hid flowers under my jacket, exiting the metro station that was surrounded by police vans,” said Svetlana, declining to give her full name out of fear of potential retribution....
...She’s gone to Russia on the trail of her equally quixotic grandmother, the real-life Svetlana Stalina, daughter of the Soviet leader, who defected to the west in 1967 for mysterious reasons....
...As resident sound healer Svetlana Chebysheva plays the bowls, vibrations flow forcefully into the body in a way that is much more relaxing than it might sound....
...‘But,’ he affirms, ‘everything to do with Svetlana is true. I’ve told myself none of this happened but that’s running away from it like an alcoholic. It’s dishonest to hide in amnesia.’”...
...“There’s definitely an embrace of technology and innovation that I think will make the UK continue to be a great place to do business.”...
...Thanks to the ever-daring and discerning independent publisher Fitzcarraldo — who now have an almost suspiciously long list of Nobel laureates on their books including Olga Tokarczuk, Svetlana Alexievich...
...But, by the end of it, I came to the uncomfortable realisation that I myself am a “cold-war liberal”....
...Recounting the incident to Svetlana, she says: “She was like ‘Who are you’. But I thought it was a metaphysical question.” Either/Or is, at least in part, a novel of sexual awakening....
...All would probably agree with the person who says: “I feel very different from who I was in December 2019.”...
...Our friend Svetlana, who recently returned to Kyiv from Bulgaria, where she had spent six months, is once more considering packing her bags....
...“I’m a lawyer, a volunteer and a woman — I understand what they [Russian soldiers] can do if they come here,” she said. “But a lot of people watch me....
...In the research I conducted across the UK, France and Germany to unpick the root causes of nostalgia, I was struck that Britons are less trepidatious about the future....
...So Selin and her friend, um, Svetlana come up with this framework for, um . . . Svetlana actually comes up with it....
...Svetlana Shapovaliants vividly remembers visiting the first Ikea store in Russia, shortly after it opened in 2000....
...“I’m taking the amazing, strong women I know and work with, and listening to their needs.”...
...A young single mother, Svetlana, watches the sun-bleached show with her two children. “I want to be with those people,” she says. Soon, she advertises herself as a mail-order bride....
...But few saw expectation and reality diverge quite so sharply, and with such far-reaching consequences, as Svetlana Tikhanovskaya....
...“I'm sure that now he is afraid of all the people around him, of his closest circle, he is afraid to be betrayed.”...
...One of the collateral shows, an exhibition on Svetlana Kana Radevic is among the most successful....
...“It’s very painful for me that my husband’s in jail and I’m not with my children, I had to take them out [of Belarus],” she said....
...“I don’t need power, but my husband is behind bars. I had to hide my children. I’m sick of putting up with it, keeping quiet, and being afraid,” Ms Tikhanovskaya told the crowd....
...“Belarusians, I call for your prudence and ask you to respect the law. I do not want blood or violence....
...“I want Russia to be free. I support Navalny. I want a future for my children,” said Svetlana, 60, a retiree, at the Moscow rally. “I’ve really had it. Everything is falling apart....
...I auditioned 384 women to play my mother, before meeting the woman who could fill the shoes of Svetlana. The shoots started in Santa Barbara, with a set built to look like our Soviet apartment....
...“I will try to do it to the end.”...
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