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Yevgeny Prigozhin. Photo: Yuri Martyanov/Kommersant Russian businessman, owner of the Concord Group of companies, “Putin’s chef” and confidant of the president, founder of a media empire and the Wagner Group, and one of the most famous people in Russia, Yevgeny Prigozhin now faces criminal charges of organizing an armed rebellion. Prigozhin was born in Leningrad on 1 June 1961. We know that his…
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Russia's Musical Blacklist
Russia’s Musical Blacklist
Vera Musaelyan (Aloe Vera) is one of the pop musicians on Russia’s black list. Fontanka.ru has come into possession of a list of musical performers whose performances in Russia were allegedly considered undesirable. According to our information, the document has been circulated among promoters. Some of the musicians on the list have, in fact, had difficulties organizing concerts since the start…
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"One person and God are already a majority": the Petersburg teacher fired for reading Kharms and Vvedensky to high-school students
“One person and God are already a majority”: the Petersburg teacher fired for reading Kharms and Vvedensky to high-school students
“She had never read Vvedensky. It was so disgusting that I still feel physically sick.” • Teacher Serafima Saprykina recounts how Kharms and Vvedensky were put on trial during an emergency meeting at a Petersburg high school • Venera Galeyeva • Fontanka.ru • February 6, 2022 The class in which tenth graders listened to poems written by “fascist accomplices” and “enemies of the people” was…
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The Trailer
Ilia Kazakov Facebook January 25, 2021 Konstantin Selin is a born cameraman! He worked all Saturday in the epicenter of the largest protests in recent years in Petersburg, miraculously avoided getting shoved into a paddy wagon, and brought back the best video. I don’t know how he does it every time, but it looks like a seamless trailer for a documentary film, something for which Kostya deservedly…
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Doctors at Petersburg Hospital Rebel over Coronavirus Unpreparedness Doctors at Pokrovskaya Hospital in Petersburg Rebel over Lack of Protective Equipment, Oxygen and Drugs Fontanka.ru…
Bless This Mess
Metropolitan Varsofonius and his crew. Photo by Andrei Petrov. Courtesy of the St. Petersburg Archdiocese of the Russian Orthodox Church and Fontanka.ru
“Above All, We Must Repent Our Sins”: Petersburg Metropolitan Flies over City with Icon and Prayer Against Coronavirus Fontanka.ru March 31, 2020
MetropolitanVarsofonius of Saint Petersburg and Ladoga, following the example of his colleague in…
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“Aggressive Migrants Without Money Advance on Lakhta Center” The Lakhta Center skyscraper construction site in November 2018. Photo by the Russian Reader Aggressive Migrants Without Money Advance on Lakhta Center…
People Apps Petersburg police muster at five in the morning on May 29 in the parking lot of the Soviet-era Sport and Concert Complex (SKK) in the southern part of the city before heading off to raid the homes and workplaces of Central Asian migrant workers.
