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This Instagram Account Shares Historical Pics In Their Original Form, And These 28 Are Just Wow

Photos play an important role in our understanding of history.

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This Instagram Account Shares Historical Pics In Their Original Form, And These 40 Are Just Wow

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How Vladimir Putin projects his image as a modern-day Peter the Great

Russian energy giant Gazprom is reported to have been hit particularly hard by sanctions imposed as a result of the war with Ukraine. An internal report – obtained and published by the Financial Times – has forecast that the company is unlikely to recover gas sales lost as a result…

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Michael Jayston obituary

Veteran stage and screen actor hailed for his roles in the 1971 film Nicholas and Alexandra and BBC TV’s Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

The Guardian - UK

Blood on the Snow: The Russian Revolution 1914-1924 by Robert Service – review

This work of a lifetime presents high-octane, high-politcal drama – and attempts to rehabilitate the ‘bourgeois’ provisional government that preceded the Bolsheviks

The Guardian - UK

Wagner chief gloats about comparisons to Rasputin

Yevgeny Prigozhin made the comments in response to a Financial Times article comparing him to Russian mystic Grigori Rasputin

The Independent UK

Pronouncing Foreigners' Names

Some comments on the thread about pronouncing foreign country names (such as Qatar and France) raised the question of how we should pronounce foreign people's names. Here too my answer is: We should follow the English norms, which often depart from the norms in those people's native languages—just like, I…

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The Crown: Who were the Romanovs and did King George V betray the Tsar?

The new series shines a light on the link between the British royal family and the Russian imperial family

The Independent UK

Russian state TV hails 'Putin the Emperor' in delusional diatribe after chilling speech

Yevgeny Satanovsky compared Vladimir Putin to the "Emperor of All Russia" Tsar Nicholas II - who was toppled in Russia's 1917 revolution - although he said Putin was better

Daily Mirror

The Story of Russia by Orlando Figes review – Vladimir Putin and the power of myth-making

The historian’s latest work on Russia is a lucid chronological journey that ably illustrates how narratives from the nation’s past have been used to shape its autocratic present

The Guardian - UK

Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor review – butchery of the Bolsheviks

Personal testimonies humanise the Stalingrad author’s mesmerising study of the bloody battle for power after the collapse of the tsarist regime

The Guardian - UK

What would King Charles mean for the monarchy, Australia and the republican movement?

This week’s Platinum Jubilee marks 70 years of Queen Elizabeth II’s reign over “the people of the United Kingdom, the Realms and the Commonwealth”. This occasion, the first ever for a British monarch, allows us to reflect on the importance of succession.

The Conversation

Commentary: Russia didn’t learn from the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. But Ukraine can

On television and online, commentators reach furiously for comparisons to past conflicts for insights into the Ukrainian-Russian war. How will it ever end?

Los Angeles Times

Understanding Putin and the Russian psyche

In times of crisis, Russian leaders have tended to seek oppressive control instead of peace talks

The Hindu

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