Gallows humor and serious social themes are combined in the provocative play Noční krajina, whose Czech premiere was presented by the National Theater in Brno last week. It was written by the fifty-one-year-old German playwright Marius von Mayenburg, and was performed for the first time at the end of last year in Berlin. The bitter … Read more
Everyone who watches the news today knows that Russia is killing Ukrainian women and children. Less well known are the tortures it subjects its own citizens to. The world public knows the name Alexei Navalny. He keeps getting new prison sentences, even for the time he was no longer free. The conditions of his imprisonment … Read more
Today we have the opportunity to get acquainted with the story adventure game Indicate, which takes us to an alternative version of Russia in the 19th century. The main character is a nun named Indika and the play deals with sins, sorrow and moral dilemmas. Overall, it is meant to go beyond the traditional framework … Read more
View 20 photos Photo: Reuters In mid-September, Cuba announced that it had detained seventeen people who were recruiting young Cubans to go fight for Russia in Ukraine. For desperate young men, enlistment was one hope for a better life. In addition, not everyone realized what they had actually signed up for and thought that they … Read more
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) suspended Russia with immediate effect due to the inclusion of sports associations from the annexed Ukrainian territories. The IOC announced this on the website after the meeting in Mumbai. At the beginning of October, the Russian Olympic Committee unanimously approved the acceptance of sports organizations from the Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk … Read more
In times of clanking guns and political skirmishes between Russia and Europe, we need dialogue, says Russian writer Guzel Jachina. The author of the award-winning novels Zulejka opens her eyes, Children of the Volga and Train to Samarkand likes to chat with readers. She considers preserving the dialogue to be more important today than a … Read more
After all, the Russian under-17 teams will not participate in the battles in the qualification for advancement to the European Championship. The European Football Union (UEFA) allowed them to return to the competition at the end of September, but after the announced boycott of several European countries, it did not find a technical solution to … Read more
While a bloody war broke out between Israel and the Palestinian movement Hamas, the leader of the Palestinian Authority Mahmoud Abbas is going to Moscow. However, according to analysts, Russia is staying out of the conflict in the Middle East for now because it is benefiting from the fact that the eyes of the whole … Read more
Currently, the mask regime is introduced only for medical workers. The acting director spoke about this within the direct line. Deputy Governor for Social Policy of the Tomsk Region Svetlana Gruznykh. Let us recall that at the end of September a sharp increase in the incidence of ARVI was recorded in the Tomsk region. Several … Read more
AP, culture Updated 4 hours ago The second year of the Chopin International Piano Competition for period instruments began in Warsaw with a gala concert, the star of which was the 82-year-old Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich. The first was held in 2018, when Polish native Tomasz Ritter won. He also took part in the opening … Read more