Grand Duke and Duchess Some 15 years ago a teacher of Literature at my school lent me a book to read. In the wake of budding interest in the tragic history of the end of the Romanovs dynasty in Russia...
Earlier this week I had to recall how, during a trip to Carmarthen in 2007, I walked into a Waterstone’s shop and took a textbook on the English language off the shelf. It was a manual for schoo...
I love discovering versions of well-known songs in different languages. Here are three absolutely different versions, not only in that one is in English, another is in French, and the third is in Ital...
The Russian Federal Service for Intellectual Property, Patents and Trademarks (Rospatent) has upheld a complaint from the UEFA in the plagiarism dispute concerning the famous symbol of the Champions L...
… I was in a terrible worry: Daniel (my late ex-husband) was coming to Russia on September 13. One, I wasn’t sure if he’d be allowed to fly, and we both missed each other badly. Two ...
Whenever my native country’s people win awards and receive accolades, I feel immensely proud and happy. Alexander Sokurov has won the Golden Lion at the 68th Venice International Film Festival f...
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These films have long been deemed classical, and their directors are counted among the geniuses of modern cinema – but nothing stopped the Novosibirsk authorities to close down a local film thea...
My school teacher eventually brought a small TV in the class, and we’d occasionally catch a bit of TV during the day, but more often so in the morning, especially when we had a “nil lesson...
I have recently republished my 2007 short story The Kiss: The Story of a Dream on Yahoo! Associated Content. In Chelyabinsk later in September they are going to unveil a monument under the name The K...