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THE TRUTH ABOUT: Aleksandr solzhenitsyn | History Defined

'Murder prediction' algorithms echo some of Stalin's most horrific policies — governments are treading a very dangerous line in pursuing them

The U.K. government is developing a program that seeks to identify murderers before they commit the ultimate crime. The real-world application of this type of tool will have devastating consequences.

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‘It allowed us to survive, to not go mad’: the CIA book smuggling operation that helped bring down communism

From George Orwell to Hannah Arendt and John le Carré, thousands of blacklisted books flooded into Poland during the cold war, as publishers and printers risked their lives for literature

The Guardian - UK

The Navalny I knew was naive about Putin’s Russia, but he gave us hope. We are his hope now

He would have made a good president, but the Russia in which that could have happened no longer exists, says novelist Mikhail Shishkin

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Boris Johnson praises Nadine Dorries's 'balls' at book launch

The former PM compared her to Russian dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Evening Standard

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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