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...In narrating Ukraine’s 20th-century past, Hrytsak gives due attention to horrors such as Joseph Stalin’s forced collectivisation of farms, which led to the Holodomor, or famine, of the early 1930s....
...So here we go — and, as ever, you can find me at tony.barber@ft.com. ‘Large families must become the norm’ It’s a timely moment to look at Russia’s demographic problems....
...Wilson ennobled as a life peer his old friend, Joseph Kagan, who had already received a knighthood in 1970, and made large financial contributions to Wilson’s trust....
...Tony Kent’s The Shadow Network (Elliot & Thompson, £16.99) is the latest outing for his team of Joe Dempsey and Michael Devlin....
...tony.barber@ft.com Letters in response to this article: Did Russia’s priests have a part in Putin’s palimpsest?...
...Joseph Saina, chair of the Australian Horticultural Exporters’ & Importers’ Association, said: “The government [was] paralysed in its ability to act in the wharf dispute because of the relationship with...
...Cautiously, the government is preparing to replace the Cyrillic-based alphabet used for Kazakh since Joseph Stalin’s dictatorship with a modified Latin alphabet....
...Margaret Thatcher lost ground to the old imperial protectionist Joseph Chamberlain as the party’s source of historic inspiration....
...I’m at tony.barber@ft.com. Woolworths and Amazon First, some thoughts on western aid for Ukraine in its war of self-defence against Vladimir Putin’s Russia....
...A good, succinct analysis appeared in this Twitter thread from Joseph Torigian of the American University in Washington....
...It’s the title of a quite brilliant book on east-central Europe since the second world war by the American scholar Joseph Rothschild....
...And just to round off, I mean, Tony Blinken said only the Haitians can determine their future....
...Hôtel de la Boétie opened last month on Rue la Boétie, a block and a half off the Champs-Élysées in the 8th arrondissement – a very tony address, where the hotel’s excellent value (rates start at €250) marks...
...First, it could provide an excuse for an even harder crackdown on Putin’s domestic critics, in much the way that the murder of Sergei Kirov in 1934 paved the way for Joseph Stalin’s terror....
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...This month, supporters outside the 9,000-capacity Joseph Marien stadium held up homemade signs pleading for last-minute tickets....
...The original Broadway production, which opened in 2017, won 10 Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Book and, for Yazbek, Best Original Score....
...Puccini’s death, Opera Australia is dedicating a concert to his most famous (and some lesser-known) arias and duets from works such as Madama Butterfly, Tosca and La bohème, sung by a cast including tenor Joseph...
...Most of this happened after the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and, in particular, under Joseph Stalin’s dictatorship....
...Comprising some 2,700 homes, it achieved some notoriety as an emblem of urban deprivation in the media 20 years later when Tony Blair chose to give his first speech there as prime minister — its monolith...
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