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Going Underground (Continuity)
The "underground" exhibition Continuity [Sviaz' vremen] has been underway in Petersburg since September. The parents of Yuli Boyarshinov, who was convicted in the Network Case, were involved in organizing it.
The exhibition is dedicated to political prisoners. They produced some of the works on display themselves using improvised means while in pretrial detention centers and penal colonies. Poetry readings and art therapy sessions at which postcards for political prisoners are produced also held in the space.
Bumaga visited Continuity and shows here how the exhibition is organized.
The "underground" exhibition opened in September in a private space. The organizers have already planned to close it several times, but people keep coming. "We didn't think it would last that long. There is even a poetry reading scheduled for Saturday," Nikolai Boyarshinov, Yuli Boyarshinov's father, told Bumaga.
Photo: Andrei Bok
The exhibition features works by current political prisoners, including those involved in the Network Case. Some of the works are dedicated to the victims of the Great Terror.
The living room — the main exhibition space — contains paintings by the artist Ad'u. She says that exhibition spaces are reluctant to take her work. "They say, 'Well, you know,'" she shares with us.
A portrait of Karelian historian Yuri Dmitriev and maps of Sandarmokh hang under the ceiling. Dmitriev was convicted of "sexual violence" against his adopted daughter. He was scheduled to be released in 2020, but the court toughened his sentence from three and a half years in a medium security facility to thirteen years in a maximum security penal colony.
There are paintings dedicated to Alexei Navalny. A protest action with flashlights, which took place in Russian cities on February 14, 2021, is depicted as a flashlight shining into the sky and signaling for help.
One of the paintings alludes to a protest action by Pavel Krisevich: a man on a cross, under whose feet dossiers of political cases burn. Next to it are drawings by Krisevich himself, which he made while in a pretrial detention center, using pieces of a sheet, improvised materials and homemade paints. In October, Krisevich, who had previously spent a year in pretrial detention, was sentenced to five years in a penal colony.
On the walls of the corridor outside the living room there are portraits of the young men convicted in the Network Case and their stories. Drawings by the men themselves are also presented. Nikolai Boyarshinov says that each of the convicts "has begun to draw to one degree or another."
In a closet in the hallway there are drawings by the artist cyanide the angry [tsianid zloi]. Since February, he has been producing one image every day about the war and political crackdown. On the closet doors and inside it there are portraits of Sasha Skochilenko and Seva Korolev, who are charged with "discrediting" the Russian army, Kansk Teenagers Case defendant Nikita Uvarov, and scenes of Navalny in a cell.
"Today, Sasha Skochilenko was remanded in custody until June 1. She replaced price tags in shops [sic] with anti-war messages. She faces 5 to 15 years in prison. #FreeSashaSkochilenko," Photo: Andrei Bok
There are also anti-war drawings in the exhibition. They are painted in yellow and blue colors. They were created by Ad'u, who, along with other artists, was detained during a protest rally in April 2022, when she was painting riot police against the backdrop of St. Isaac's Cathedral.
There is an art therapy group in the space, which has been led by Nikolai Boyarshinov's wife Tatiana since May. The group's members make postcards to fight burnout, stress and fear. They then send postcards to political prisoners.
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hecksinductionhour art, petrograd, protest, solidarity Leave a comment November 13, 2022 3 Minutes
The Story of Igor Paskar, Who Threw a Molotov Cocktail at the FSB's Offices in Krasnodar
Igor Paskar. Photo courtesy of Vot Tak (Belsat)
On October 28, the trial of Igor Paskar began in the Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don. He is accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the FSB's offices in Krasnodar, and also of setting fire to a [pro-war] "Z" banner. Paskar explains his actions as a protest against the war: after the alleged attempted arson at the FSB, he painted his face in the colors of the Ukrainian flag of Ukraine. The FSB has classified the protest as "terrorism," and the burning of the banner as "vandalism." Paskar faces ten to fifteen years in prison if convicted.
To Moscow and Back
Igor Paskar was born and lived until the age of thirty-five in a workers settlement in the Volgograd Region. He came of age in the 1990s, turning eighteen in 1994. After school, he enrolled in the administrative and industrial buildings maintenance program at the Volgograd Institute of Architecture and Civil Engineering, but had to quit his studies in his first year after he was drafted into the army. After two years in a construction battalion, Paskar returned to his native village and immediately began working odd jobs — on construction sites, as a loader, and as a courier.
In 1998, when Paskar was twenty-two, he was first sentenced to five years probation on charges related to drug trafficking. In 2001, he received two years of actual prison time for theft and possession of hashish. He was last convicted of a criminal offense — one and a half years probation for possession of marijuana — in 2006. The last ten years, Paskar told Vot Tak, he has been clean — he completely gave up using light drugs.
In 2013, Paskar moved to Moscow. At various times in the capital, he worked as a courier at Samokat, as a loader, and as a furniture assembler. He also sold rare items on Amazon.
He became interested in politics in 2018 — as his case investigator would later write, he became an "adherent of radical liberal opposition ideas." In 2021, Paskar was detained in Moscow for taking part in a protest rally called by Team Navalny after the politician's arrest.
In the summer of 2021, the activist returned to Volgograd, where he got a job as a courier. During one of the interrogations about this period, he said: "I was still interested in the work of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, and I supported Alexei Navalny. I publicly voiced my opinions among people I know, including at work, and I posted my opinions in messengers and chats."
The FSB on Fire
In February of this year, before the start of the Russian invasion, Paskar responded to an ad and took in a lost dachshund. According to the activist, stray dogs tried to attack the pooch several times, so he bought a flare gun to scare them away. He soon left his village in the Volgograd Region with his dog for work: he had found an unusual vacancy on the internet — picking strawberries in Adygea. Paskar was unable to start the job, however. There was a conflict in the workers' accommodations over the dachshund, and he fired the flare gun at the ceiling. Paskar himself called the police, and the court sentenced him to five days in jail. After his release from a special detention center, Paskar left for Krasnodar.
In a letter, he describes this period as follows: "I have had a whole series of failures in life over the last three months. When the special operation began, I was unable to transfer money from abroad after the SWIFT system was switched off. I had an Amazon account on which I traded rare items. After the start of the special operation, I lost my earnings. I could not get a job in Volgograd and decided to go to Krasnodar for seasonal work, but there were a number of failures. I was angry at my plight and decided to sacrifice myself for what I believe in — peace."
Paskar held his first anti-war protest in downtown Krasnodar on June 12, Russia Day. It was then that he threw a lighted bottle of gasoline at a banner featuring the letter Z and the slogan "We do not abandon our own." No one paid attention to his actions, the banner quickly went out, and Paskar was not detained.
Paskar then decided to carry out a protest action at the FSB's Krasnodar offices. He did not plan to go into hiding and prepared for his arrest by selling his phone and packing a bag for the pretrial detention center. "My criminal experience has left its mark on me. When a person has [this experience], they are no longer afraid to go to prison. They already know that you can live there too — not very well, but you can do it. It is not hell. This has an impact not so much on radical decisions as on accepting one's fate," Paskar noted in a letter to your correspondent.
On June 14, Paskar went to the FSB's offices on ulitsa Mira ["Peace Street"] in Krasnodar. A Molotov cocktail flew [sic] onto the building's stone porch. The activist then painted his cheeks yellow and blue and waited for passersby to react and for the authorities to detain him. He hoped that someone would record the protest on their phone and post the video on the internet. Passersby avoided the scene, however. FSB officers came out of the building after a few minutes and detained the activist.
The moment when the fire flared on the porch of the FSB offices in Krasnodar: Source: Baza. Courtesy of Vot Tak (Belsat)
A Burnt Rug
Paskar calls his protest symbolic, emphasizing that his actions could not have caused serious damage — only a rug was burned on the stone porch. Despite this, a criminal case was immediately launched against Paskar under Article 205 ("Terrorism") of the Russian Federal Criminal Code, which stipulates a penalty of ten to fifteen years in prison.
On October 28, the Southern District Military Court began considering the case — according to the amendments to the law adopted in 2014, only four district military courts [in Russia] can try terrorism cases. The court extended Paskar's term in the pretrial detention center for six months, and ruled that the trial would be open to the public. The first hearing on the merits in the case was scheduled for November 10.
In 2016, for setting fire to the door of the FSB headquarters in Lubyanka Square [in Moscow], the performance artist Pyotr Pavlensky was sentenced to pay a fine of 500 thousand rubles under Article 243 of the Russian Federal Criminal Code ("Destruction or damage to objects of cultural heritage or cultural artefacts"). And yet, at the trial, the artist demanded that his actions be reclassified as terrorism.
Earlier, the [exiled opposition] politician Gennady Gudkov said that Paskar's actions could be deemed disorderly conduct: "In any civilized country, such a thing is regarded as disorderly conduct and is punished with a warning or a fine." And gallery owner Marat Guelman called Paskar's act activism.
Paskar is being aided by the human rights initiative Solidarity Zone, which previously announced a fundraiser to pay for Paskar's lawyer.
Source: Ivan Astashin, "'He became an adherent of radical liberal ideas': the story of Igor Paskar, who threw a Molotov cocktail building at an FSB building," Vot Tak (Belsat), 31 October 2022. Translated by the Russian Reader
Vot Tak has published an article about Igor Paskar, who is accused of throwing a Molotov cocktail at the FSB offices in Krasnodar and setting fire to a "Z" banner. He did this to drawn attention to the war and voice support for the people of Ukraine.
On October 28, the Southern District Military Court began trying Paskar's case.
Solidarity Zone has been providing comprehensive assistance to Paskar.
We are now raising funds to pay for Igor's lawyer.
Fundraiser details:
Sberbank card
4276 5500 2065 1710 (Zlatislava)
PayPal: solidarity_zone@riseup.net (marked "for Paskar").
Cryptocurrency (be sure to email us at solidarity_zone@riseup.net if you transfer cryptocurrency to support Igor Paskar)
bitcoin: bc1qfzhfkd27ckz76dqf67t0jwm4gvrcug49e7fhry
monero: 86565hecMGW7n2T1ap7wdo4wQ7kefaqXVPS8h2k2wQVhDHyYbADmDWZTuxpUMZPjZhSLpLp2SZZ8cLKdJkRchVWJBppbgBK
ethereum: 0xD89Cf5e0B04b1a546e869500Fe96463E9986ADA3
other altcoins:
https://nowpayments.io/donation/solidarityzone
#solidarity#nowar#prisoners
Source: Solidarity Zone, Facebook, 31 October 2022. Translated by the Russian Reader
hecksinductionhour antifascism, protest, regions, solidarity, war and peace 1 Comment November 1, 2022 6 Minutes
720 People Can't Be Wrong
"Contacted us: 720 people. Amount paid out: 10,295,596 rubles. Total amount of fines: 13,781,500 rubles. Fines already paid: 529. We need to urgently raise: 852,000 rubles."
Some European politicians think that Russians do not want to fight Putin and tacitly support the war. But we know quite well that this is not the case because we continue to help pay the fines of those who have openly opposed the authorities. Since the beginning of the war, 720 people, facing 13,781,500 rubles [approx. 230 thousand USD) in fines, have contacted us. Thanks to your support, we have already paid most of this amount, namely 10,295,595 rubles.
The fines have due dates, and right now we urgently need to disburse another 852,000 rubles [approx. 14 thousand USD) so that the unjustly convicted do not have problems. These people opposed Putin and his war at the most dangerous time. We have no right to leave them to face the system alone. Let's help our brave fellow citizens!
Help us raise these 852 thousand rubles — it will be a great way to support the real Russia, the Russia opposed to Putin, war, and injustice: acf.international/#donate.
Team Navalny
Source: Anti-Corruption Foundation, email newsletter, 18 August 2022. Translated by the Russian Reader, who just donated twenty dollars to the Anti-Corruption Foundation. According to Wikipedia (citing Rosstat, the Russian Federal Statistics Service) the Russian Federation had a population of 145.5 million people as of 1 January 2022 (including the approximately 2.4 million people living in the illegally "annexed" Crimean Peninsula). According to OVD Info, the police have made 16,437 detentions (which may not necessarily have led to fines, jail terms, criminal charges or any other consequences for the people detained) for anti-war protests since 24 February 2022. In fact, this number has barely changed since mid-March of this year. As of 8 July 2022, AP reported, "Net Freedoms had counted 68 criminal cases involving false information charges and at least 2,000 misdemeanor cases for the alleged disparagement of the Russian military."
hecksinductionhour protest, solidarity Leave a comment August 18, 2022 August 18, 2022 1 Minute
The Singuniversal Wages of Glocalism
"The Slavic peoples are like one family. I can't bear the idea of fighting with Ukraine."
— Man skating on Moscow's "packed" outdoor ice rink, quoted on "PM," BBC Radio 4, 20 December 2021
A still from the film Transit (Christian Petzold, 2018)
Beyond freedom and justice, peace on earth is the ultimate purpose of political action. Violence and aggressivity are among the instincts that our nature has equipped us with to achieve the purpose of peace via devious and costly ways. This is Kant's thesis in Idea of a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View. I find it realistic, politically. Art is ridiculously powerless on the political level. Its domain is the purposiveness without the purpose. It places its bets on sensus communis, the faculty of agreeing by dint of feeling, as if it were an instinct, knowing well that the chances are great that it is merely an idea. My talk, I realise, is a plea for empirical pessimism combined with transcendental optimism, which is why I embraced neither the optimistic nor the pessimistic view of today's glocal art world. I am the observer who reflects on the situation. But I am a militant when I claim that there is a difference between the expanding glocal communities involved by the various art biennials and the singuniversal community demanded by the aesthetic judgement when it is uttered as 'this is art.' The latter community is humanity itself, all of us.
— Thierry de Duve, "The Glocal and the Singuniversal: Reflections on Art and Culture in the Global World," Third Text, vol. 21, no. 6 (2007), pp. 687–88
On August 2, 2013, Russian Paratroopers Day, Kirill Kalugin, a Petersburg university student, took to the city's Palace Square alone to protest the country's new anti-gay laws. He was immediately set upon by reveling paratroopers (or as he himself suggested, by national activists masquerading as paratroopers), an incident captured on video by Petersburg news website Bumaga.
Kalugin returned to Palace Square this year on August 2 to protest Russia's increasing militarism and imperialist misadventures in Ukraine. He was roughly detained by police some fifteen seconds after attempting to unfurl a rainbow flag emblazoned with the slogan, "My freedom defends yours." Despite the fact that Kalugin held his anniversary protest right next to Manifesta 10's provocative metallic Xmas tree, his protest has so far gone unremarked by progressive humanity (i.e., the international contemporary arts community) and the foreign press.
The interview below was published in August 2013 on the local Petersburg news web site Rosbalt three weeks after Kalugin's first protest on Palace Square. Unfortunately, it hasn't lost any of its timeliness, especially given the total absence of an anti-war movement in Russia and the singularity of Kalugin's bravery and insight.
— "Kirill Kalugin: 'My Freedom Defends Yours,'" The Russian Reader, 5 August 2014
Alexander Hotz
A Treaty on the "End of History"
Over time, it has become clearer why the Putin regime started rattling military hardware near the borders with Ukraine. It's not only about the fear of "NATO expansion" and the struggle for a sphere of imperial influence, as it had seemed at first.
Putin's "draft treaty" with the collective west is a more profound, existential document, reflecting the regime's fear of the logic of history, which naturally pushes Russia along the path of European progress and demolition of the dictatorship.
A desperate Putin has offered the west something in the spirit of Fukuyama that would secure the "end of history" and guarantee that the "political system" of Putin's Russia would remain unchanged. The belief in the power of a document that would stop historical progress is somehow touching in its naivety.
Fully in keeping with Saltykov-Shchedrin's imaginary town of Glupov, where "history has stopped flowing," the Putin regime does not propose ruling out "NATO expansion" as such. Rather, it dreams of consolidating the rejection of support for "color revolutions" in Russia, as if revolutions were fueled not by the system's rottenness, but by the insidious west.
That is the funniest thing about the draft "treaty." It transpires that it has nothing at all to do with NATO and imperial ambitions in the spirit of a "Yalta 2." It has everything to do with humdrum fear for the internal stability of Putin's political system. The deal proposed to the west is not fueled by imperial ambitions (although lip service is paid to them in the treaty, it is unlikely that its authors themselves believe that Ukraine can be returned to Russia's imperial orbit), but by fear of impending revolutionary change.
It is especially comical that a whole paragraph of the preamble is dedicated personally to Alexei Navalny, his regional organizations, and the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK).
Navalny's surname is not mentioned, but it sticks out of the draft treaty like a sore thumb. Putin demands "strict compliance with the principle of non-interference in the internal affairs, including refraining from supporting organizations, groups or individuals calling for an unconstitutional change of power, as well as from undertaking any actions aimed at changing the political or social system of one of the Contracting Parties[.]"
The Putin system's fear of "individuals," which has even seeped into the text of an international document, is impressive in its scale.
All is in order with the demagoguery here too. It is a con man's clever trick to tear up the Russian Constitution through a "plebiscite," change the political system, and then demand respect from the west for it. (Redraw the borders, grab Crimea, and then yell about the "principle of non-interference.")
We are going back to the bad old Soviet Union in terms of international agreements. What kind of language is this? "Changing the political system": as if we were not talking about democracy (something shared by Russia and the west), but about the struggle between two political economic formations — between capitalism and socialism.
It is no accident that the "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics" has wormed its way into the "treaty" in homage to the glorious Soviet past, for which the Russian kleptocracy yearns. In the 1970s, however, the Kremlin demanded that the west keep its hands off its socialist ideology. Today, the demand is different: "Keep your hands off our kleptocracy!"
The Kremlin stubbornly reproduces the worldview which collapsed along with the USSR a long time ago. Putin has not learned any lessons from history, however.
In fact, the whole draft "treaty" with the west is a desperate call to stop history, freezing Putinism's collapse due to its internal depravity. It is an attempt to pretend that the reason for the failures of the "social system" is the west's influence and support of Navalny. It was the same way in the USSR, which sought the cause of its own decrepitude in dissidents, "anti-Soviet agitation," and "western propaganda." But the cause was much simpler. Everyone was fed up with the Soviet regime: that was why it collapsed.
The "elites" of the "Pu dynasty" have learned nothing. They want everything to be as it was under "granddad" (Leonid Brezhnev), offering the west an immoral and anti-historical picture of the world in which there is no place for living history with its logic of progress, only for the "insidious influence" of secret services and foreign agents.
They have "Chekism on the brain," as has been said. A fatal case of it.
But there is an upside to this ridiculous document and its proposal to put the "end of history" down on paper à la Ugryum-Burcheev. It gives us a glimpse of the finale awaiting a "political system" which has lost touch with reality and lives in a dream world.
If you don't understand where history is headed, have a mystical dread of progress, and are nostalgic for the bad old Soviet Union, then ultimately you'll get another "geopolitical catastrophe," one for which you will be to blame, not Navalny or the United States.
Strange as it may sound, Putin wants the United States to subscribe to his version of history. This is not a dispute over spheres of influence, but over what kind of world we live in. The madman wants the doctors to recognize his hallucinations as the norm. (The doctors don't know what to do with the patient yet: he is not alone in the ward and has a knife in his pocket.)
But regardless of how things turn out for the "crazy old man," kudos to Alexei Navalny. It is not given to just anyone to be identified in Russian Foreign Ministry documents as the principal threat to Russia and its "political system."
Thanks to Alexander Skobov for the heads-up. Translated by the Russian Reader
hecksinductionhour art, post-soviet, putinism, war and peace Leave a comment December 20, 2021 6 Minutes
The English Lesson
Jenya Kulakova
A trifle, but an unpleasant one all the same.
According to the Russian Penal Code, convicted foreign nationals have the right to communicate with prison wardens in any language they speak and receive a response in that language. Vitya [Viktor Filinkov], as you know, is a citizen of Kazakhstan. In response to the razor blades planted [and "found"] by prison officials in his cell on his birthday, he wrote a statement in English.
And what do you think happened? The penal colony found an English teacher, Nadezhda Ivanovna Zhavikova, who works at Night School No. 13. in Orenburg, who "checked" Vitya's composition and "corrected" the "mistakes" in it so that the text would better suit the wardens. The only thing she didn't do, unfortunately, was grade the composition. But the prison staff probably gave her an A.
Vitya writes, "Before I started, current inspector had said that I should REPLACE my prison uniform. I DECLINED but he took it and gave me new one."
The meaning is clear. What does Nadezhda Ivanovna write in [her] translation?
"Before that, the duty inspector told me to PUT my clothes in ORDER. I SUGGESTED that he take it away and give me a new one in return."
At issue here is the tunic that was replaced against Vitya's will before he went to the baths. After he came back, prison officials "found" a shard of a blade in the seam of the tunic. It thus transpires that it was Vitya who asked for it to be replaced.
Vitya ends his statement with an appreciation of the production staged by the Correctional Colony No. 1 troupe: "I didn't brake the razor, it's a play. Good scenario, actors. Good game, well played."
Nadezhda Ivanovna feigns that she didn't understand what was at issue, and translates [the passage] as if Vitya was bragging about his own play-acting: "I didn't break the razor, it's a game. A good acting script. A good performance, well ACTED [by Vitya, apparently [because the verb is the singular in Russian, not the plural —TRR]]."
Maybe, of course, the teacher didn't do it out of spite, but simply couldn't make sense [of Filinkov's statement]. But somehow it seems to me that she made perfect sense of it and even made it over [to satisfy the wardens].
UPDATE. On a more practical note, if you have a translator's diploma and would like to write a specialist's opinion for the upcoming hearing appealing Vitya's transfer to a single-cell facility for a month, you're welcome!
❗ Viktor Filinkov and the torture colony
Viktor is a political prisoner in the Network case. The case is about a "terrorist community" of young men who were fond of airsoft and openly voiced opposition to Putin.
The FSB took these two facts and cooked up charges that got the defendants sent to prison for terms from six to eighteen years. Allegedly, the young men were divided into combat groups that were supposed to organize bombings in order to "sway the masses for further destabilization of the political situation in the country."
The defendants claim that they were tortured into confessing, and that the evidence in the case was completely manufactured by the security forces.
The verdicts were announced in February 2020. But the matter did not end when the young men were sent to penal colonies: the authorities began bullying them there. We know the most about their treatment of Viktor Filinkov.
For the slightest offense — such as "didn't say hello ten times a day to a prison employee," "washed ten minutes earlier than he was supposed to," "left his work station during work (he went to the work station next to his to ask how to use the machine because he hadn't been properly instructed)" — Viktor is sent to a punitive detention cell. Letters from [Viktor's] friends and relatives are opened, shown to other prisoners, and even replies to them are forged.
Things are so over the top that when there was a scabies outbreak in [Viktor's] cell, his cellmates were given ointment, but Viktor himself was not, because "he complained."
Now Viktor is being transferred to Correctional Colony No. 5 in Novotroitsk, to an isolated solitary cell, for repeatedly violating those supremely absurd rules. This colony is a torture colony, one of the most violent in Russia. In June, twelve inmates there engaged in a "collective act of self-mutilation" to protest the torture.
The Putin regime is a regime of vengeful scum. No one is safe from their lawlessness. This nightmare will become more and more commonplace with every passing day. Don't let that happen.
More information about how Victor is being bullied can be found in the article linked to in stories.
Release political prisoners!
Translated by the Russian Reader
hecksinductionhour antifascism, international, language, putinism, solidarity Leave a comment November 18, 2021 November 21, 2021 3 Minutes
Subtle Forms of Utter Hogwash
Dostoevsky and the Russian Soul
Rowan Williams' fascination with Russia began when, as a boy, he watched Sergei Eisenstein's Ivan the Terrible on television. After that he became a born again Russophile, learned the language, and even completed a doctorate on Russian Christianity. But no Russian figure has held his fascination more than Fyodor Dostoevsky.
Dostoevsky is still considered among the greatest novelists the world has ever produced. But his talent for writing complex, often contradictory characters is rooted in a single traumatic moment when, as a young man, he found himself before a firing squad. The event changed his life, his writing, and his views on Russia's place in the world.
Now that tensions between Russia and the West are once again running high, Rowan considers what the author's life and thought can tell us about the country today.
Ultimately, Rowan finds, what makes Dostoevsky such a wonderful novelist is his humanity. At a time of deep divides, this is a writer with something to offer us all.
Source: BBC Radio 4
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hecksinductionhour history, literature, nationalism, obscurantism, religion, social media Leave a comment November 15, 2021 November 15, 2021 1 Minute
What Matters in Russia
The Facebook post appealing for help in finding missing Bashkir activist Ilham Yanberdin
Environmental activist disappears, his belongings found in forest belt
OVD Info
His associates have been looking for Bashkir grassroots activist Ilham Yanberdin (Ilham Vakhtovik) for a week. They published an appeal on social media, stating that Yanberdin's relatives had not been able to contact him since October 11.
Idel.Realii reported that, on October 17, passersby found Yanberdin's phone and personal belongings in the forest belt of the Ufa neighborhood of Inors, near the place where the activist lived. The missing person's case has been transferred to the criminal investigation department.
The day before the disappearance, Yanberdin told his colleagues he planned to attend a protest in defense of the monument to Salavat Yulaev in Ufa on October 11, at which about ten people were detained. He never showed up for the rally.
Ilham Yanberdin is known in Bashkortostan for his active role in opposition protests. Among these were rallies in defense of the Kushtau shihan and actions by Alexei Navalny's supporters. He was prosecuted for the protests that took place in January 2021.
In Ufa, the Interior Ministry sought to collect more than two million rubles from Yanberdin, Lilia Chanysheva and Olga Komleva for the "work" of its police officers during the January 2021 protest rallies. A similar decision was made by a court in Omsk. Daniil Chebykin and Nikita Konstantinov were judged to have been the organizers of the January 23 and 31 protests there and ordered to pay the Interior Ministry more than one and a half million rubles.
In June 2021, Yanberdin was detained at a people's assembly held after the environmental activist Ildar Yumagulov was attacked and beaten by persons unknown on April 18 in Baymak. Yanberdin was later released from court. The case file was sent back to the police for verification due to violations in writing up the arrest sheet.
The monument to Salavat Yulaev in Ufa. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia
9 Moscow Restaurants Awarded Coveted Michelin Stars
Andrea Palasciano (AFP)
French gastronomic bible the Michelin Guide awarded nine Moscow restaurants with its coveted stars on Thursday, unveiling its first lineup of recommended eateries in Russia's up-and-coming food scene.
Long derided as a gastronomic wasteland, Russia's restaurant scene has emerged in recent years from a post-Soviet reputation for blandness, with establishments in Moscow regularly making lists of some of the world's best.
Representatives of the Michelin guide — considered the international standard of restaurant rankings — released the first Moscow edition of their iconic red book at a ceremony at Moscow.
Sixty-nine restaurants were recommended in all.
Two restaurants — Twins Garden run by twin brothers Ivan and Sergei Berezutskiy, and chef Artem Estafev's Artest — were given two stars.
Seven restaurants were given one star, including White Rabbit, whose chef Vladimir Mukhin featured in an episode of the Netflix documentary series "Chef's Table."
None were given three stars — the Holy Grail of the restaurant world.
'Difficult time'
Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said at the ceremony that the release of the guide was an important event at a tough time for the restaurant industry.
"It's big moral support in this time of pandemic, when restaurants are having a particularly difficult time," he said.
Sobyanin said it also showed Russia had rediscovered a food tradition that had suffered under the Soviet Union.
"Unfortunately during the Soviet period these traditions were lost," he said.
"I am proud that Moscow's restaurants have become a calling card for our fantastic city."
Michelin's international director Gwendal Poullennec told a press conference that the guide had used an international team of inspectors for its list and there was "no compromise in our methodology."
Speaking to AFP earlier, he said Russia's food scene had been "reinventing" itself since the 1991 fall of the Soviet Union.
"There is an evolution of the Russian culinary scene. It is more and more dynamic," Poullennec said.
He said he was surprised by "the quality and abundance of produce" in Moscow restaurants, highlighting in particular the seafood, such as crab and caviar, that are "exclusive" elsewhere but in Russia are available at a "reasonable price."
Russia became the 35th country to have a Michelin guide and Moscow is the first city of the former Soviet Union to be awarded stars.
The selection of restaurants will appear in print and also be available via an app in 25 languages, including Russian.
Crab, smetana and borscht
Michelin in December said that chefs in Moscow had set themselves apart by highlighting Russian ingredients, including king crab from the Far Eastern city of Vladivostok and smetana, the sour cream used in preparing beef stroganoff.
Moscow restaurants have increasingly turned to local ingredients after Western sanctions following Russia's annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014 resulted in a scarcity of many European foods.
A number of restaurants that relied on meat, cheese and fish imported from the West were forced to close, while those that strived to source their ingredients from Russian regions became more competitive.
In explaining why it chose Moscow, the guide last year pointed to the "unique flavors" of the "nation's emblematic first courses such as borscht."
Another leading French restaurant guide, Gault et Millau, launched its first Russian edition in 2017. In 2019, Gault & Millau was sold to Russian investors.
Twins Garden and White Rabbit have previously featured on the World's 50 Best Restaurants list.
Michelin also recently expanded to Beijing, Slovenia and California.
Russia Sets New 'Anti-Records' for Covid But 'Somehow This isn't Agitating Anyone'
Window on Eurasia (Paul Goble)
Staunton, Oct. 12 – Russian officials continued to report unprecedentedly high numbers of infections (28,190) and deaths (973) over the last 24 hours, with other statistics equally devastating including a surge of new cases over the last week by 16 percent for Russia as a whole and more than 30 percent in 11 regions.
Twenty-six regions have imposed QR requirements for entrance to public places, and 605 Russian schools have gone completely over to distance instruction. Many more have done so in part. More than 90 percent of Russia's covid beds are full and 6,000 patients are on ventilators.
And the pandemic is hitting members of the Russian elite, not only in the regions but in Moscow, where 11 Duma deputies are now hospitalized with coronavirus infections, even though 70 percent of the members of the lower house of the legislature have received their shots.
But despite all this and the fact that it is being widely reported, a Rosbalt commentator says, "everything in Russia is calm: people are digging their graves without particular noise … and one has the impression that somehow this isn't affecting anyone."
Meanwhile, in other pandemic-related developments in Russia today,
The Russian government may be optimistic about getting WHO and EU approval for its vaccines but the Russian tourist industry is less so and doesn't expect movement before the end of the year.
Some regions are facing a shortage of doctors in hospitals for general treatment because they have been reassigned to give coronavirus vaccine shots.
The Kremlin says "the main danger" is that the pandemic isn't ending but rather returning in new waves as new strains emerge.
The pandemic has increased the trust people have in imaginary figures and also in some public ones, Russian psychologists report.
Russians suffering from ordinary flu and other infections are now competing with the victims of coronavirus pandemic for access to medical treatment.
N.B. In the original article, the links were inserted in parentheses in the body of the text. I have embedded them for ease of reading. TRR
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Today's Mail Bag (How Russia Was Betrayed)
Nikolai Starikov
How Russia Was Betrayed
Who is the culprit of Russia's troubles in the last three hundred years? Why do we show benevolence and generosity to those who betray us? Leading historian and opinion journalist Nikolai Starikov explores the history of Russia's relations with the leading countries of the world and answers these questions. This book is a collection of shocking facts about the treachery and cynicism of most countries in Europe and the United States, which will not leave even those who are remote from history and politics unmoved.
A leading public historian of Russia, writer, economist and politician explores the history of Russia's relations with the leading countries of the world.
This wonderful book gives a comprehensive answer to the question: why today, as a hundred years ago, as two hundred years ago, does Russia have only two allies, its army and navy?
Are we the problem? Is it our naivety? Our almost complete lack of rancor? Our generosity and benevolence?
Yes, partly.
But mostly the problem is the guile and cynicism of most countries in Europe and the United States.
Starikov's book calmly, step by step, argument by argument, reveals the damning truth about Russia's relations with so-called allies, partners and brothers.
The reader will discover a lot of unusual, shocking facts in this book. Consequently, it will open everyone's eyes and reveal the main secret of the ages: who is the culprit of our troubles over the past three hundred years?
Source: Litres email newsletter, 7 October 2021 + website
Were you surprised when you found out about all the offshore companies that Ernst, Chemezov and others own? We weren't particularly surprised. It has long been clear why Putin and his friends need power: to steal. They don't do anything useful, but all of them are billionaires. Their children are billionaires, and even their mistresses are billionaires. They made themselves rich at the expense of the federal budget.
The owners of offshore companies are very unhappy when they are not allowed to steal quietly, when they are prevented from disposing of the country as if it were their property. Therefore, they brand all dissatisfied people as "foreign agents" and "extremists" and declare them enemies of Russia.
But they are not Russia. We are Russia. While they are crooks and enemies of our country.
Support Team Navalny, and we promise to spend every ruble to fight Putin and his offshore friends. As always.
Attention! Do not use PayPal if you have a Russian account. We advise everyone who lives in Russia to donate in cryptocurrency: it is the safest way right now. And we also advise you to install a VPN if you cannot open our links: then no blocking will be able to prevent you from opening them.
Thank you for being on our side!
"Navalny has been in prison for 261 days."
Source: Anti-Corruption Foundation/Team Navalny email newsletter, 7 October 2021
Central image courtesy of Ozon.ru email newsletter. Translated by the Russian Reader, who received these images and texts via email this morning.
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Smart Voting
Unsurprisingly, the Navalny organization's Smart Voting app recommends that people on my "home" street in Petersburg vote for the real Boris Vishnevsky. If you have a favorite address in Russia, try the app out to see the recommended candidate. ||| TRR
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Navalny's Musicians
13 musicians not allowed to perform at City Day concert in Moscow due to support for Navalny
Tasya Elfimova
The Federal Protective Service (FSO) did not allow several musicians to perform at a concert in honor of City Day in Moscow due to their alleged support of Alexei Navalny.
Sergei Sobyanin and Vladimir Putin were planning to attend the celebration, so the FSO vetted the lists of performers in advance. The FSO did not admit thirteen people to the performance without explaining the reasons. Dmitry Klyuyev, an employee of the State Academic Chapel Choir, believes that it happened because the musicians were in the leaked databases of Alexei Navalny's projects or had taken part in protest rallies.
Four employees of the chapel choir, three people from the Svetlanov State Orchestra and six people from the team of directors were removed from the concert.
"The organizers are in shock, no one has explained anything to them," Klyuyev said.
Source: OVD Info
Alexander Gudkov, "Aquatic Disco," a song inspired by Alexei Navalny's revelations that the blueprints for "Putin's palace" contained a room labeled as such
Moscow Police Use Leaked Personal Data To Investigate Navalny Supporters
RFE/RL Russian Service
Moscow police are using leaked online personal data from projects linked to jailed opposition politician Aleksei Navalny to investigate people who have supported the Kremlin critic.
The OVD Info website said on August 17 that police had visited some 20 individuals who registered for online projects developed by Navalny associates or donated to Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and his other projects.
According to OVD Info, police are demanding explanations from the people as to how their names were included in the leaked data related to Navalny's online projects and why they are involved with him.
In June, a court in Moscow labeled FBK and Navalny's other projects and groups extremist and banned them. Under Russian law, cooperation with such groups is considered illegal and may lead to criminal prosecution.
Police have not said how they obtained the people's personal data from Navalny's websites.
One person, who was not identified, told OVD Info that police asked him to file a legal complaint against Navalny to accuse him of sharing personal data.
Journalist and municipal lawmaker Ilya Azar, whose personal data was among those leaked, wrote on Telegram late on August 17 that police had tried to visit him as well, but he was not at home.
"They talked to [my] neighbors about some personal data leaked on the Internet," Azar wrote.
One such leak took place in April, when the online campaign called "Freedom to Navalny" was reportedly compromised.
Navalny associates said at the time that a former FBK worker had "stolen" all the personal data of those who registered at the pro-Navalny site.
After that leak, the Moscow [subway] fired dozens of workers whose personal data turned up among the names of Navalny supporters.
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this skin is not that bad but seriously if you want my money you gotta put more effort into your job rito even it is not ultimate skin it still cost money !
They could have honestly went with more brighter tones on the clothing... As opposed to their dark route. Perhaps the gold should have been emphasized more?


The best way to get around Prague is on foot or by public transportation. Exploring this city on foot is a treat for the eyes, plus many of the most noteworthy attractions are within walking distance of one another. There is an extensive public transportation system that includes bus, tram and subway lines.
To get into the city from the Václav Havel Airport Prague (PRG), you can take the No. 119 bus to Nádraží Veleslavín metro station on the green line (line A) to the city center. You could also spring for a taxi, which will cost you about 450 to 560 korun (about $20 to $25) to the city center, but be aware that many taxis have a reputation for overcharging.
Numerous and compact, the historic districts of Prague are best explored with your own two feet. There is a lot to see, so your legs will probably grow tired. When this happens, hop on public transit to whisk you back to your hotel or off to the next neighborhood.
There are three, color-coded underground metro lines, which operate from around 5 a.m. to midnight. Metro Line A (green) offers access to the most tourist attractions, so it may be convenient to select a hotel near one of the stations on this line. Ticket and transfer fares can be confusing, so make sure to buy the correct ticket. A basic ticket costs 32 korun (about $1.40) and allows 90 minutes of unlimited travel throughout the network of buses, trams and subways. Short-term, 30-minute tickets, which cost 24 korun (or about $1) are available as well as 24-hour passes (110 korun or about $4.90) and three-day passes for 310 korun (about $13.75). When purchasing tickets from machines, make sure you have coins (most don't accept notes).
Tickets must also be stamped (or validated) at the machines on board for trams and buses or at the station (most are near escalators or stairs) for metro rides. Since there are no turnstiles or barriers to entering the train, it can be easy to make the mistake of not validating your ticket. But you'll want to be sure to stamp your ticket before getting on the metro, or else you might find yourself subject to a fine. If you're carrying large bags, you'll want to factor in an additional 16 korun (about $0.70) for luggage transport.
The numerous tram lines service practically the entire city. Unlike buses, you'll never have to hail a tram, as they make every stop. You'll most likely spend the majority of your time on either the No. 22 or 23: Deemed "the tourist trams," these two service popular attractions like Prague Castle and the National Theatre. They're also notorious for attracting pickpockets, however, so keep your valuables close when riding. Trams operate between 4:30 a.m. and midnight (there are night routes, but they don't run as frequently and service is limited). You can use the same tickets on the tram as you use on the metro.
Bus Prague's bus system covers the outskirts and will be of little help during your stay. However, the bus does come in handy for getting to and from the airport. From the airport, you can take bus No. 119 to Nádraží Veleslavín metro station and then take the Line A (green) into the city. The bus uses the same types of tickets as the metro and the tram.
Car There is no need to rent a car if you plan on staying in the city: The roads are frustrating and parking is expensive. But if you want to explore outside of Prague, you'll find a car might come in handy. You will find rental agencies scattered throughout the city and at the Prague airport. And here's a tip: Many of the local car rental agencies offer lower rates than the international firms. Also, you will need an international driver's license if you are planning to rent a car. You must obtain your international driving permit before leaving the U.S. You can apply for one here.
If you need to get somewhere quickly, a taxi is your best bet, but ride with care. Drivers have been known to swindle unsuspecting tourists. Consult with your hotel concierge on appropriate fares for top points around the city. If you can, ask your hotel or the restaurant you're dining at to call you a cab – they will connect you with a trustworthy company. If you must hail a cab from the street, make sure to agree upon a price before getting into the taxi and look for visual cues that it's official: Cabs must have a yellow roof lamp that is permanently installed; "TAXI" must be printed in black letters on both sides. The driver's name, license number and rates should be printed on both front doors. It's also a good idea to write down the address of your destination before you head out to assist with the language barrier. AAA Taxi and City Taxi are two reputable companies in Prague. If you'd rather use your smartphone to connect with a reputable driver, you can use apps like Uber and Liftago.


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The Finding your Family Link offers access to resources to help with tracing Indigenous family history. These include the online Aboriginal Biographical Index (ABI), a family history information kit which includes 44+ printable fact sheets and a Brief Guide to Indigenous Family History Research. There are Online Collections which include the Koori Mail (1991-current), Dawn and New Dawn magazines (1952-1975) plus other resources.

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Captain Marvel Preview : not your average superhero
It may have taken nineteen movies to get there but get there it has and the MCU's first female-led solo entry is on its way towards establishing a major new character set to be its face in phase 4 and beyond (sorry, Natasha, sorry, Wanda, we were kinda rooting for you ladies for a while). With the small matter of the aptly titled Avengers Endgame marking the "end of an era" after a decade long's worth of interconnected storytelling, cinephiles and longtime fans of this successful –verse are hoping Cheeseburger (her callsign in the comics) can pick up the baton left behind by her male counterparts to lead the MCU into—who knows, another decade's worth of stories, maybe? But let's not look too far yet. There's still an issue of introduction and an establishment of her character and world to navigate first before she goes to town on Thanos in Endgame. Here's what we know about Captain Marvel, and what to expect.
RELEASE DATE While Captain Marvel was originally announced for release in t…
The Funniest man on earth!
He should be the funniest human on the planet, if he isn't already, note I did not say man as there might be a lady waiting to usurp the crown (Anna Kendrick and the likes). Human as in surpassing all male and female, the heart of kevin is something worth writing about.
We can say he is our most celebrated the comedy-verse, if not Eddie Murphy, recalling the days of back from America, the thing is Eddie is old school sitcom, Kevin is the Future.
Mr Kevin Darnell Hart, born in Philadelphia been active since the year 2001. That's funnily a long time, we thought he just popped out the woodwork you know like BAM! It's kevin people ha-ha, (rubs palms) apparently our star did not, the great kevin also has a back story, guess nothing good really never comes easy, not even jokes, how do you be funny, actually funny for two hours?. Get the crowd rolling?. That's Hardwork and brilliance people, but Mr. Hart makes it look easy and that's one thing we all love.
Netflix's Cloverfield paradox will make you hate Noodles
Well, if it isn't another prediction of the end of all humanity as we know, the collapse of all civilization and a mission to journey the outer reaches of the universe, sort of like passengers to save a dying earth then what's the sci fi about?... no offense Star Wars.
The movie has an earlier sequel from 2016, which I did not understand one bit 10 cloverfield lane). A group of scientists take the all familiar one-or-two-survives matyr journey through the vast universe, in search of a human sustainable planet. The movie was released by Netflix and directed by Julius Onah.
Although the scientifis spinoff was meant to be released by paramount pictures, it was sold to Netflix. So Ava, our unfortunate heroine (Gugu, Mbatha-raw) is leaving her husband whose role in the movie was a bit sketchy. She journeys through space with her crew that includes David Oyelowo, Zhang Ziyi and others.
The movie is a bit stoic and not so deep, speak of the appearance of the lady in the arm eating w…
Avengers 4 Preview : What and what not to expect
Was it not late last April that the latest instalment of the Avengers franchise, Infinity War, stormed into theaters and cinema outlets around the world, winning the praise of casual moviegoers and the majority of the critics, as well as rewriting the box office records to become the fourth highest grossing movie of all time evidenced by BO receipts to the tune of $2.04bn and the highest grossing movie based on a comic book property? Yes, although it feels just like yesterday.
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The world marveled (pardon the pun) as the combined might of the disparate Marvel Cinematic Universe franchises took on the unstoppable Mad Titan Thanos (played to dastardly perfection by Josh Brolin) on his mission to claim all of the Infinity Stones towards "Snapping" half of all Life in the universe from existence, and wept as they failed. Thanos won, and several of the heroes we've grown to love over the past decade of MCU storytelling bit the dust, literally, sending the mega-franchise down a …
From the attires, to the smug smiles of Harvey Specter, from the motivational speeches of Louis Litt to the money sounding theme song (Greenback Boogie) Suits is a series portraying smarts, witts and upper class swagger, it's like Ally Mcbeal got an upgrade.
The series shows the Life of a drug dealer turned lawyer, that should say a lot. It's set in a mordern New York Law firm where the supposedly bests are hired, only those who graduated from harvard.
You'll definitely find the philosophy of Harvey Specter Hilarious and the Foresights of Jessica applicable to everyday life.
You should see this series.
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Avengers 4: Everybody calm down
For those people chanting "Death to Thanos" you might want to reconsider
Rumours suggest that the upcoming spinoff of the Avengers sequel to its predecessor (Avengers: infinity war) it portrays a Solid unification against Thanos. The ending of Infinity war was really emotional, it was painful and kinda annoying to watch our beloved heroes crumble like dust at the hands of Thanos and his infinity stones.
But will Thanos really be defeated?, I do not think so, Thanos is pretty bad ass to go down predictably, even when help has been called up front to squash him (Death watch 1977), the whole thing went sideways and none of the surviving infinity warriors can defeat him, not iron man, definitely not captain marvel, my theory however is that he could be locked up like in one of Barry Allen's meta human traps in The Flash , trapped in some sort of time warp.
The movie is expected to be released on 3rd May 2019 and it's untitled, just "Avengers 4".
It's also…
A Wrinkle In Time : Why I wasn't feeling 'it'.
I remember watching it and feeling like.. come on 'surprise me' or 'hit me with something' the whole story's lost somewhere between inspirational and fantasy.
A wrinkle in time is meant to be a great movie, but turns out to be a not that great movie due to imbalance of character, the whole thing is bland and uncoordinated, characters were out of place, I don't even want to touch "Charles Wallace".
So these two kids, and a third who I didn't even know why he had to tag along, it's not like meg needed any protection or what ever, she seemed pretty strong headed and efficient. I'm not saying the whole thing is not worth it, just a few major errors here and there.
Meg, Calvin and "Charles wallace" embark on an astronomical journey through space and time to find her missing father. Hearing this alone should promise more, but the movie got derailed from the start I mean the whole thing is because he left for four years? That seemed pr…
Christopher Robin Review
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Christopher Robin official movie poster (Source: Disney.com)
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Bronte Carmichael, Mark Gatiss, Jim Cummings, Brad Garrett, Nick Mohammed.
Director: Marc Forster
Christopher Robin is an emotional, feel-good stroll down memory lane with a just above average quality in its technical aspects and a message that could be easily misinterpreted, depending on its viewer.
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Daniel Rowland
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Winner of the First Prize at the 1995 Oskar Back competition at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam
Winner of the Brahms Prize in Baden-Baden
Stellar playing.. Daniel Rowland has a powerful, glamorous tone, gleaming at the top and throaty and rugged down at the bottom (Gramophone)
These wide-ranging performances could leave listeners stunned by their power and insight… they amply provide the kind of authenticity you might expect to hear from violinists like Ivry Gitlis, Ida Haendel, Isaac Stern, or Enescu himself-a force of nature which actually raises goose bumps. Urgently recommended! (Fanfare)
Dutch/English violinist Daniel Rowland's playing has been acclaimed as "wonderful, ravishing in its finesse" by The Guardian, "totally and truly charismatic" by Beeld, while The Herald praised his "astonishing sound and uniquely single-minded intensity".
Daniel has established himself on the international scene as a highly versatile, charismatic and adventurous performer. Concerto performances in 2018 included Philip Glass with the Orchestre de Picardie and at the Kuhmo Festival, Lindberg Concerto in Joensuu, Berg in Dusseldorf and at the Stift Festival, Bernstein with the Princeton and Columbus Symphony Orchestras and Vivaldi/Piazzolla Seasons in Dublin. In the first few months of 2019 Daniel appears with the Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, returns to Finland as soloist in Schnittke and Schumann and performs the Michiel van der Aa Concerto in Mexico and the Philip Glass in Stettin, Poland.
He has performed in many of the world's most prestigious concert halls, most notably the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Carnegie Hall in New York, the Royal Albert Hall in London, the Glinka Hall in St. Petersburg and the Gulbenkian in Lisbon, and has collaborated with noted conductors such as Andrei Boreiko, Djanzug Khakidze, Viktor Liberman, Lawrence Foster, Heinz Holliger, Francois Xavier Roth, Bernhard Gueller and Jaap van Zweden.
Gorgeous, intense and hyper musical interpretations.. Rowland shows an imposing array of violinistic colors, from very hazy pastels to fiery temperament. (NRC Handelsblad)
It was not just the technical brilliance of his playing or the astonishing richness of his tone that gave his performance its unique stamp of quality. He radiated a single-minded intensity that made him seem totally at one with the music. (The Glasgow Herald)
A passionate chamber musician, Daniel has performed with artists as diverse as Ivry Gitlis, Polina Leschenko, Heinz Holliger, Dawn Upshaw, Gilles Apap, Alexander Lonquich, Priya Mitchell, Marcelo Nisinman, Michael Collins, Nicolas Daniel, Lars Vogt, Willard White and Elvis Costello. He is a frequent guest at foremost international chamber music festivals such as Kuhmo, Stellenbosch, Risor, Sonoro, Beethoven Festival Chicago, Rio de Janeiro, Chiemgau, Osnabrück and Oxford. The Stift International Music Festival, of which he is the founder and artistic director, saw its fourteenth edition in August 2018.
Daniel forms an acclaimed recital duo with pianist Natacha Kudritskaya. Their recording Les Années folles (Ravel, Debussy, Poulenc, Gershwin & Antheil) for Gutman Records was released in June '15 and was followed by their disc of Enescu violin/piano works for Champs Hill Records in November '16, with a new Franck/Chausson release coming shortly. Daniel and the superb Serbian/French cellist Maja Bogdanović also perform together regularly as a duo, with engagements in the USA and at many of Europe's leading festivals. Daniel is also a founding member of the contemporary tango quintet ChamberJam.
Since May 2007 Daniel has been the first violinist of the renowned Brodsky, leaving in May 2019 to concentrate on his solo career. Daniel is professor of violin at the Royal College of Music in London and an International Visiting Artist at RIAM in Dublin. He plays the Ex-Rode Guarneri del Gesù violin (Cremona ca. 1736), kindly on loan from the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation. Daniel was born in London, and started his violin lessons in Enschede after his parents moved to Twente in the eastern Netherlands. He studied with Jan Repko, Davina van Wely, Herman Krebbers, Viktor Liberman and Igor Oistrakh. Meeting Ivry Gitlis in 1995 was of great significance, leading to lessons in Paris and, later, to musical collaborations. Daniel's competition successes include first prize at the 1995 Oskar Back competition at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam and the Brahms Prize in Baden-Baden.
...glorious playing…ravishing in its finesse. (Tim Ashley, The Guardian)
…Rowland's spur-of-the-moment, light-on-the-bow inspiration, whereby the music vanished in the very act of articulation – a bewitching quality that few musicians possess (Andrew Clark, Financial Times)


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Valeriy Konstantinovich Sarychev - respectivamente, em russo, Валерий Константинович Сарычев (Estalinabado, 12 de janeiro de 1960) é um ex-futebolista tajique que atuava como goleiro. Naturalizado sul-coreano desde 2000, adotou o nome Shin Eui-son (em coreano, 신의손).

Carreira

Em clubes
Revelado pelo Pamir Duxambé, iniciou sua carreira profissional no mesmo clube, em 1978. Em seus 4 anos de clube, Sarychev jogou 93 partidas. Em 1981 foi contratado por outro CSKA, o de Moscou, pelo qual entrou em campo apenas 4 vezes. Seu melhor momento no futebol soviético foi no Torpedo, pelo qual venceu a Copa da URSS em 1985–86 e a Supertaça em 1987. O goleiro atuou em 161 partidas com a camisa dos Alvinegros.

Em 1992, assinou com o Ilhwa Chunma (atual Seongnam FC), disputando 157 jogos e vencendo a K-League 3 vezes, além de um título da Copa da Liga, um da Liga dos Campeões da AFC e a Supercopa Asiática de 1996. Após um ano parado, Sarychev ainda passou pelo Anyang LG Cheetahs (futuro FC Seoul) entre 2000 e 2004, quando se aposentou aos 44 anos de idade. A despedida oficial, no entanto, foi em 2005, e depois que parou de jogar, virou treinador de goleiros.

Seleção
Em agosto de 1997, a seleção do Tajiquistão levaria 16 jogadores para enfrentar a Coreia do Sul, porém apenas 12 atletas viajaram devido a falta de passaportes. Por isso, a Federação de Futebol da ex-república soviética decidiu chamar Sarychev e o atacante Vitaliy Parakhnevych (nascido na Ucrânia), que assim como o goleiro, jogava na K-League (era atleta do Chonbuk Hyundai na época). Este jogo foi o único de Sarychev pela Seleção Tajique.

Títulos

Clube
Torpedo Moscou
 Copa da URSS: 1985–86

Cheonan Ilhwa Chunma
 K-League: 1993, 1994, 1995
 Copa da Liga: 1992
 Campeonato de Clubes da Ásia: 1995
 Campeonato Afro-Asiático de Clubes: 1996
 Supercopa Asiática: 1996

Anyang LG Cheetahs
 K-League: 2000
 Supercopa da Coreia do Sul: 2001

Ligações externas
 Perfil de Valeriy Sarychev  em transfermarkt

Futebolistas do Tajiquistão
Futebolistas do Seongnam FC
Futebolistas do CSKA Moscovo
Futebolistas do FC Torpedo Moscou
Futebolistas do FC Seoul
Jogadores da Seleção Tajique de Futebol
Naturais de Duxambé

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To mentor, nurture and support the professional artistic growth of
emerging and early career artists across the Visual and Applied Arts
The Jane Phillips Award is a memorial to Jane Phillips (1957 – 2011) Mission Gallery's first Director.
The Jane Phillips Award has been successful and is evolving, responding to the artistic community and forming new partnerships. We wish to develop and broaden the scope of the award by introducing two new exciting prizes, plus a year long programme of Residencies, including an international partnership, which will exist alongside the main award.
We will support, on an annual basis, two Art and Design graduates of UWTSD, Swansea and Carmarthen with a Student Prize. This will be in the form of an exhibition at our offsite space within the National Waterfront Museum, plus a Graduate Residency at the new Elysium Studios on High Street in Swansea. These will exist alongside and complement, the main Jane Phillips Exhibition Award which continues to be biennial. This will be in the form of a solo exhibition at Mission Gallery and bursary.
Jane Phillips award is administered by Mission Gallery www.missiongallery.co.uk
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Despite warnings, Trump to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel with embassy move
By Felicia Schwartz , Dion Nissenbaum , and Rory Jones
Published: Dec 6, 2017 6:19 a.m. ET
Arab leaders protest, U.S. embassies brace for violence
Jerusalem's Old City and the Dome of the Rock, pictured Tuesday.
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Despite appeals and warnings from world leaders, President Donald Trump is poised to reverse decades of U.S. policy on Wednesday by declaring Jerusalem Israel's capital and beginning the process of moving the U.S. Embassy to the holy city, a step that threatens to spark unrest across the Middle East and undermine American efforts to forge a new peace plan.
Trump placed a flurry of phone calls to Arab leaders Tuesday, on the eve of a policy address in which he plans to explain the move, and fielded protests from Arab, Palestinian and European leaders to his plan, according to foreign officials. The State Department, meanwhile, warned U.S. embassies around the world to prepare for possible protests and violence and banned travel by government employees and their families to Jerusalem's Old City and the West Bank.
The U.S. will delay the actual embassy relocation for now to address logistical and security challenges, officials said, but U.S. recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital also will come as a potent diplomatic step with implications for regional peace.
The president in his 1 p.m. Eastern speech Wednesday will direct the State Department to begin the process of moving the embassy, including by identifying and constructing a new facility in Jerusalem, administration officials said Tuesday.
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Q: Linebreak in Package algorithm2e I'm using the algorithm2e package for pseudocode. I got some very long lines that needed to be wrapped. Is there a way to indent the  following (breaked) lines and/or put a mark at the first line to signalize that there happened a linebreak (similar to solution for listings package)
I found a similar question for the listings package, that was answered before, but I'm looking explicitly for an algorithm2e solution.

A: In fact there is a simpler solution: use classical \hangafter and \hangindent. This works fine with algorithm2e.
Notes:

*

*\skiptext is the length of text indent in algorithm for a new block; so I choose 1/2 of this indent;

*no need to redefine internal macro as \algocf@endline as almost all can be redefined in algorithm2e. Use \SetEndCharOfAlgoLine to redefine end of line
See below for an example of use of \hangafter and \hangindent:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{algorithm2e}% http://ctan.org/pkg/algorithm2e
%
\newcommand{\nosemic}{\SetEndCharOfAlgoLine{\relax}}% Drop semi-colon ;
\newcommand{\dosemic}{\SetEndCharOfAlgoLine{\string;}}% Reinstate
\newcommand{\pushline}{\Indp}% Indent
\newcommand{\popline}{\Indm\dosemic}% Undent
%
\begin{document}
\begin{algorithm}[H]
  \SetAlgoLined
  \KwData{this text}
  \KwResult{how to write algorithm with \LaTeX2e }
    initialization\;
  \While{not at end of this document}{
    read current\;
    \eIf{understand}{
      go to next section\;
      \nosemic this is a very long statement that has to be\;
        \pushline\dosemic wrapped over two lines\;
      \popline current section becomes this one\;
      \hangindent=.5\skiptext\hangafter=1
      this is a very long statement that should be indented automatically on the next
      lines if this statement is longer than one line\;
      Following lines should be indented normally\;
    }{
      go back to the beginning of current section\;
    }
  }
  \caption{How to write algorithms}
\end{algorithm}
\end{document}

A: The following minimal example defines

*

*\nosemic: remove printing of the end-of-line (EOL) character (typically ;);

*\dosemic: reinstate printing of the EOL character;

*\pushline: indents line by 1em (the typical indent); provided by algorithm2e as \Indp;

*\popline: remove indent of \pushline (undent?); provided by algorithm2e as \Indm

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{algorithm2e}% http://ctan.org/pkg/algorithm2e
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\nosemic}{\renewcommand{\@endalgocfline}{\relax}}% Drop semi-colon ;
\newcommand{\dosemic}{\renewcommand{\@endalgocfline}{\algocf@endline}}% Reinstate semi-colon ;
\newcommand{\pushline}{\Indp}% Indent
\newcommand{\popline}{\Indm\dosemic}% Undent
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\begin{algorithm}[H]
  \SetAlgoLined
  \KwData{this text}
  \KwResult{how to write algorithm with \LaTeX2e }
    initialization\;
  \While{not at end of this document}{
    read current\;
    \eIf{understand}{
      go to next section\;
      \nosemic this is a very long statement that has to be\;
        \pushline\dosemic wrapped over two lines\;
      \popline current section becomes this one\;
    }{
      go back to the beginning of current section\;
    }
  }
  \caption{How to write algorithms}
\end{algorithm}
\end{document}

Since I am unfamiliar with your algorithm2e setup, I'm not sure how you would like to combine the four commands. As such, I've kept them separate for maximum (yet manual) usage.

A: \Indp and \Indm can be used in the package algorithm2e for indent and removing indent. I have tested it.

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New neurobiological research shows that bullying can be linked to biological changes
Posted on April 25, 2015 Updated on April 20, 2016
Bullying Gets Under Your Skin: Health Effects of Bullying on Children and Youth
Tracy Vaillancourt Ph.D., Professor and Canada Research Chair in Children's Mental Health and Violence Prevention at the University of Ottawa, and Elizabeth Edgerton, M.D., Health Resources and Services Administration
Bullying is defined as unwanted, aggressive behavior among school-aged children that involves a real or perceived power imbalance. The behavior is repeated, or has the potential to be repeated, over time. Studies suggest that this type of peer victimization is a pervasive issue — 28% of children and youth reported being bullied at school during the 2011 school year. Research since the 1990s shows that children who are bullied are more likely than their peers to develop mental and physical health problems. Now, new neurobiological research shows the negative effects of bullying on the physical health, mental health, and overall well-being of children and youth.
Genetics research, neuroimaging studies, and studies of the stress response system reveal harmful biological changes associated with bullying. For instance, studies show bullying causes depression in children and youth. Researchers have tried to explain this bullying-health link by examining the role of the body's stress response system. These studies suggest that bullying impacts the body's stress response system and that these changes can be risk factors for poorer health. Researchers are now examining specific genetic vulnerabilities that may place a person at risk for later health impairment and disease risk factors, such as poorer immune function. These studies suggest that peer victimization seems to "get under the skin" and that exposure to peer abuse affects the developing stress response and expression of genes, which places children and youth at greater risk for poorer health outcomes.
This emerging body of neurobiological research was recently highlighted at the April 2014 Institute of Medicine (IOM) and National Research Council (NRC) working session, "Building Capacity to Reduce Bullying and Its Impact on Youth Across the Lifecourse." The two-day workshop, sponsored by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) brought together experts from across the field of bullying prevention to explore the impacts of bullying and research-based prevention strategies. Experts highlighted studies documenting the biological risk markers and harmful changes associated with bullying were highlighted throughout the workshop.
However, far more research is needed to understand the complex relationship between bullying, health outcomes, and neurobiology. A deeper understanding of the neurobiology of peer victimization could help explain why some children and youth become ill as a consequence of bullying, while others do not. It is well-documented that factors such as family life, school climate, gender, and temperament can impact health outcomes of bullying. However, much less attention has been paid to how a person's biology may also affect health outcomes of bullying or to how the experience of being humiliated by peers on a consistent basis may alter gene expression in such a way that health problems ensue. Recognizing the "invisible scars" bullying can leave is an important step in promoting positive well-being for youth through adolescence and into adulthood.
Tracy Vaillancourt is a Canada Research Chair in Children's Mental Health and Violence Prevention at the University of Ottawa where she is cross-appointed as a full professor in the Faculty of Education (counselling program) and in the School of Psychology, Faculty of Social Sciences. Elizabeth Edgerton is the Director of the Division of Child, Adolescent and Family Health at the Health Resources and Services Administration.
To learn more, register for the April 27, 2015 webinar "Bullying Gets under Your Skin: Effects of Bullying on Children and Youth" hosted by the Children's Safety Network.
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Director: Josef von Sternberg
Screenplay: Robert N. Lee (adaptation by Charles Furthman; story by Ben Hecht)
Stars: George Bancroft (Bull Weed), Evelyn Brent (Feathers McCoy), Clive Brook (Rolls Royce), Fred Kohler (Buck Mulligan), Helen Lynch (Buck's Girl), Larry Semon (Slippy Lewis), Jerry Mandy (Paloma)
Josef von Sternberg's Underworld, which was released to great acclaim and box office success in 1927, the year in which synchronized sound began its dominance of Hollywood, is frequently cited as the first modern gangster film, the progenitor of the controversial early-'30s triumvirate of Little Caeser (1930), The Public Enemy (1931), and Scarface (1932). Although the film lacks many of the later gangster films' most important elements, particularly references to bootlegging and, of course, the clearly ethnic accents of the gangster antiheroes, virtually everything else about it was ahead of its time. There had been gangster films before-notably D.W. Griffith's 1912 one-reeler The Musketeers of Pig Alley-many of which were shot in New York City's slums and featured real-life criminals as extras, but Underworld was the first to make art out of the genre, with von Sternberg bathing the screen in expressionistic shadows and displaying an impressive grasp of montage editing to heighten the impact of on-screen violence. The result is a brilliantly executed criminal melodrama that helped set the stage for one of Hollywood's most notorious genres.
Although not explicitly set in Chicago, the story for Underworld was originally concocted by Chicago journalist-turned-screenwriter Ben Hecht, who derived some of his ideas from the Cicero and South Side mobs in the Windy City, which the unnamed critic at Variety noted in the first line of his or her review. This was typical of silent-era crime films, which tended to tell stories literally "ripped from the headlines" with only minor changes in names and dates, and Underworld, despite being largely fantastical in conception, is awash with small touches that connect it to real-life events, such as the gunning down of a gangster in a flower shop, which audiences at the time would have immediately connected with the similar slaying of Chicago mobster Dion O'Banion three years earlier.
Underworld's main character is a former lawyer-turned-alcoholic bum (Clive Brook) who one night happens across a bank that is being single-handedly robbed by the infamous gangster Bull Weed (George Bancroft). Bull Weed decides to take the bum under his wing; he rechristens him Rolls Royce and puts him to work, first cleaning up at the Dream Caf, the saloon where all the gangsters hang out, and later as his personal assistant and second-in-command. It is in this capacity that Rolls Royce crosses paths with Feathers McCoy (Evenlyn Brent), Bull Weed's dynamic and flirtatious "moll," leading to a love triangle in which various loyalties are tested when Bull is sent to prison for murdering a rival gangster who tried to rape Feathers, thus freeing her and Rolls to pursue the feelings they had previously needed to repress.
The story, which was adapted from Hecht's initial 18-page outline by Charles Furthman and then scripted by Robert N. Lee, is fairly flimsy, melodramatic material set against the backdrop of organized crime, but it works well enough, especially given the strong performances by George Bancroft, whose grinning, swaggering bluster has a way of morphing from the genial to seething rage; Clive Brook, whose character is almost entirely internal, yet deeply expressive; and Evenlyn Brent, who plays up Feathers' flapper-era independence while also conveying a genuine emotional longing.
However, it is von Sternberg's visual style and the art direction by German migr Hans Dreier (the entire film was shot on studio sets) that elevates Underworld into something more than a run-of-the-mill crime picture. Although hardly as baroque as his later films with Marlene Dietrich, von Sternberg was clearly a student of both German expressionism and Soviet montage theory, as he employs both approaches with the kind of dexterity and aplomb that is more indicative of European, rather than American, silent cinema. Having made only two films previously, the independently produced The Salvation Hunters (1925) and the unreleased and now lost Charles Chaplin-produced A Woman of the Sea (1926), von Sternberg was looking for a way to meld his avant-garde sensibilities with studio material, and Underworld turned out to be the perfect vehicle. Even critics who didn't think much of the film, such as The New Republic's Louise Bogan, couldn't help but be impressed by von Sternberg's virtuoso aesthetics, especially his ability to convey complex action with only a few shots: "This kind of incisiveness," she wrote, "this giving of the part for the whole, when used imaginatively, not spottily or as a trick, is a method exactly suited to the screen, and one little used."
Throughout the film von Sternberg is particularly fond of using shadows expressively, as when he frames Rolls Royce and Feathers at Bull Weed's trial with the gangster's massive shadow on the wall behind them, which both dominates them visually and reminds us that the man to whom they both owe so much is on trial for his life. This is counterbalanced with von Sternberg's strong sense of how to use close-ups to emphasize emotions and break up the visual field. The film's climax, which finds Bull Weed busting out of prison in search of his cheating girl and former friend, is awash with contrast and elliptical shapes that eventually give way to a frenetic editing rhythm when he is cornered in his apartment with machine-gun-wielding police outside (not surprisingly, von Sternberg described the film in his autobiography as "an experiment in photographic violence and montage"). The scene is strongly reminiscent of Tony Camonte's cornering and ultimate demise in Scarface, although Underworld wears its underlying melodrama very much on its sleeve as Rolls risks his life amid a hail of bullets to prove his loyalty to Bull. Although couched in fairly realistic terms, virtually everything in Underworld is pure fantasy, a celluloid projection of popular conceptions of the gangster life, which may be its most important and lasting legacy.
Underworld Criterion Collection Blu-ray
Underworld is available exclusively via The Criterion Collection's "3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg" Blu-ray box set, which also includes The Last Command (1928) and The Docks of New York (1928).
Aspect Ratio 1.33:1 (all three films)
Linear PCM 2.0 stereo (all three films)
Subtitles None
Video essay by UCLA film professor Janet Bergstrom
Video essay by film scholar Tag Gallagher
Swedish television interview from 1968 with director Josef von Sternberg
96-page booklet with essays by Geoffrey O'Brien, Anton Kaes, and Luc Sante; notes on the scores by the composers; Ben Hecht's original story for Underworld; and an excerpt from von Sternberg's autobiography
Distributor The Criterion Collection
Release Date October 8, 2019
All three films in the "3 Silent Classics by Josef von Sternberg" Criterion Collection Blu-ray box feature the same high-definition transfers that were used nine years ago for their DVD boxset, except now they are presented in their full resolution (which also means that the dreaded windowboxing has been removed). All three films were subjected to extensive digital restoration, resulting in images that are among the best I have seen of films of this vintage. Underworld was transferred from a 35mm fine-grain positive print, The Last Command was transferred from a 35mm duplicate negative, and The Docks of New York was transferred from a 35mm fine-grain master positive. Of the three films, I would say that Docks looks consistently the best, with incredible contrast and black levels; there are occasional sequences that show significant scratching, usually around reel transfers, but most of the film is remarkably clean and stable. The same goes for Underworld, which also shows some signs of damage in the form of scratches and vertical hairlines, but very little given the film's age. The Last Command probably looks the worst, although the term "worst" is entirely relative here, as it still looks better than most silent films on home video. The image is slightly softer and more grayish, and there appears to be more damage that couldn't be digitally corrected. Suffice it to say, though, that all three films look amazing for their age, and Criterion has done a magnificent job preserving them. Each of the films also comes with a choice of two different lossless Linear PCM two-channel stereo soundtracks. All three films have new orchestral scores written exclusively for this release by Robert Israel. Underworld and The Last Command also feature slightly less conventional orchestral scores by Alloy Orchestra (which premiered in 2007 and 2008 at the New York and Telluride Film Festivals, respectively), and The Docks of New York includes a piano- and vocal-based scored by Donald Sosin and Joanna Seaton. All six scores sound clean and robust and add greatly to the pleasure of the viewing experience, regardless of which one you choose.
The supplements included here are also the same as those that were included in the DVD boxset. Underworld and The Last Command are each accompanied by a detailed, informative visual essay, each of which runs about 35 minutes. In "Underworld: How It Came to Be," UCLA professor Janet Bergstrom spends 36 minutes studying the film's fine details, as well as discussing its relationship to von Sternberg's earlier films, including The Salvation Hunters, from which many clips are included. On The Last Command disc, Tag Gallagher contributes an essay titled "Sternberg Until '29," which focuses primarily on the director's biography and early works, with about five minutes devoted to a detailed exploration of each of the three films included in this boxset. On The Docks of New York disc we have a 1968 interview with von Sternberg (40 min.) from Swedish television, in which he discusses the entirety of his career, with quite a bit of attention paid to his silent films. The boxset also includes a beautifully designed 96-page booklet with essays by critics Geoffrey O'Brien, Anton Kaes, and Luc Sante; notes on the scores by their composers; Ben Hecht's original story treatment for Underworld; and an excerpt from von Sternberg's autobiography Fun in a Chinese Laundry about actor Emil Jannings.
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Overall Rating: (3.5)