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...The lawyer, Vasily Dubkov, did not say why or where he was detained, but told independent Russian news site Verstka that the incident was an attempt to stop him from carrying out his duties....
...The ministry also claimed three naval drones targeting Black Sea fleet ships were destroyed by the Russian navy warship Vasily Bykov....
...Vasily Piskarev, chair of the lower house of parliament’s Security Committee, said: “Everyone remembers the chaos of the 1990s: rampant crime, lawlessness . . . Putin put an end to that....
...There are no casualties,” the governor, Vasily Golubev, said. “Four people received light injuries from broken glass.”...
...Argylle joins a team dedicated to taking down Vasily Federov, a ruthless Russian oligarch who is plotting to take power....
...We see a mass grave filled with children’s bodies. Later comes a rare cut outside Mariupol. In New York, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations, Vasily Nebenzya, is questioned about the footage....
...Taken together with Platonov’s other major novel, The Foundation Pit — also available in translation by the Chandlers — it firmly establishes the author alongside Vasily Grossman as one of the great Soviet...
...In 2022, only one tanker, the heavily reinforced Vasily Dinkov, carried Russian crude oil via this route to China....
...The Kremlin’s shift to what Vasily Astrov, a senior economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies (WIIW), calls “military Keynesianism” is a radical break from the conservative macroeconomic...
...With Vasily Barkhatov’s new production for Berlin’s Deutsche Oper, it’s hard to tell the difference. Heaven knows, Berlin could use a decent new Simon Boccanegra....
...reading Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman while in pretrial detention at Moscow’s Lefortovo prison....
...The Russian defence ministry also reported an attempted Ukrainian drone attack on two unmanned patrol ships of the Black Sea Fleet named Sergei Kotov and Vasily Bykov 340km south-west of Sevastopol....
...In this sense the novel resembles “Vasily Tiorkin”, an epic war poem published in 1942 by Alexander Tvardovsky, later a brave, revered literary editor....
...The trade ministry’s ban includes emailed correspondence relating to work activities, said its deputy head Vasily Osmakov, a measure that is being matched by other ministries....
...In a video posted by Vasily Polonsky, the independent Russian journalist, Orlov said police had seized his electronic devices, a “No War” badge, Memorial stickers and a book documenting alleged Russian war...
...Both Vasily Smyslov, in 1954-57, and Boris Spassky, in 1966-69, won the world title on their second attempts....
...He took his first break from coverage a year later, when a few of us travelled to Vietnam. Evan lugged around a massive copy of Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate, reading long passages out loud....
...In Vasily Grossman and The Soviet Century, the biographer Alexandra Popoff wrote that the novelist had lived during the worst possible time to be a humanist, pacifist and internationalist, making his writings...
...From 2006 to 2021, the RLPO enjoyed 15 successful years under the Russian-British conductor Vasily Petrenko, a difficult act to follow, but since Hindoyan’s arrival last year, he has promised to be an inspired...
...“Russia is facing an economic shock in stages,” said Vasily Astrov, an economist at the Vienna Institute for International Economic Studies....
...Scenes in which Vasily is introduced to his extended entourage — from a “suntan architect” to a self-esteem-raiser to a department devoted to the downsizing of governmental departments — are particularly...
...The Russian, playing under a neutral Fide flag, was unbeaten with 9.5/14 and led from start to finish. Only Vasily Smyslov and Boris Spassky have previously won two Candidates in a row....
...One of the greatest fiction writers to emerge from the second world war was the Soviet novelist and war reporter Vasily Grossman, whose stupendous novel Stalingrad contains a remarkable portrait of the last...
...Vasily Golubev, the regional governor, wrote on Telegram that workers had found fragments of two drones at the refinery....
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