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Rasputin: Untangling the man from the wild and complicated myth

REVIEW: Was he a demonic master manipulator who seduced half the Russian aristocracy or a misunderstood mystic? Guy Walters picks up Antony Beevor’s new biography and discovers a powerful new reading of one of the most charismatic figures in history

The Independent UK

‘Arctic blast’ threatens to disrupt UK horse racing programme until next week

Ascot is the only jumps meeting card in Britain which does not face an inspection, with below freezing forecasts for Wincanton and Haydock

The Guardian - UK

28 Ways Heated Rivalry Changes The Book, From The Face-Off Ad To That Cottage Ending

Dive into 28 book-to-screen changes in Heated Rivalry — from Scott and Kip’s episode to that cottage ending.

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The best recent translated fiction – review roundup

The Ferryman and His Wife by Frode Grytten; Woman in the Pillory by Brigitte Reimann; Iran+100, edited by various; Sea Now by Eva Meijer

The Guardian - UK

Every single Stranger Things death - ranked for shock factor!

From Barb to Bob to Billy to, well, all the others, here are all the Stranger Things deaths and how they turned the series on its head

Evening Standard

A US Orthodox nun became an online influencer. Then she spoke out against the war

Sister Vassa Larin was widely known for teaching thousands on YouTube about saints and holy days

The Independent UK

Archbishop apologizes for meeting with Putin in Alaska

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Archbishop who met with Putin admits he made a mistake by not calling for end to Ukraine war

Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the USA leaders slammed the archbishop’s meeting with Putin as ‘a betrayal of the Gospel of Christ’

The Independent UK

Prayers for peace in Alaska ahead of Trump-Putin summit

Orthodox Christians are taking part in three days of prayer for peace, with hope that the prayers ‘will touch the hearts of our leaders’

The Independent UK

‘These people are disposable’: how Russia is using online recruits for a campaign of sabotage in Europe

Moscow’s intelligence services have launched a new type of attack on the west, violent but piecemeal and hard to prove

The Guardian - UK

Lukashenko Set To Extend 30-year Rule In Belarus

Reclusive Moscow-allied Belarus will hold a presidential election Sunday, with President Alexander Lukashenko set to cruise through to victory unchallenged for a seventh term, prolonging his three-decade authoritarian rule.

International Business Times

Premiership strugglers call on former £13m midfielder to help relegation scrap

St Johnstone require January additions to boost their chances of survival.

The National (Scotland)

Peter Sellars' staging of Prokofiev’s `The Gambler' is Salzburg Festival's latest offbeat success

Offbeat operas have been some of the Salzburg Festival’s best in recent years, the latest a colorful, outlandish and entertaining staging of Sergei Prokofiev’s “The Gambler” by director Peter Sellars

The Independent UK

First Machine Guns, Then Screams, Then Moscow's Concert Inferno

First there were rounds of machine gun fire, then piercing screams of panic and then the Crocus City Hall went up in flames.

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Attack on Alexei Navalny ally was work of Russian special services, says Lithuania counter-intelligence

An assailant reportedly sprayed tear gas in Leonid Volkov’s eyes before attacking him with a hammer outside his home

Evening Standard

Alexei Navalny ally attacked with hammer and tear gas in Lithuania

Leonid Volkov used to be in charge of Mr Navalny's regional offices and election campaigns

France 24

Russian dissidents in France: The price of exile, far from Putin's Russia

On February 24, 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of its neighbour, upending the lives of millions of Ukrainians. But the conflict also changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of Russians opposed to the war. Some left for Armenia, Georgia or Turkey, while others requested asylum in France. It…

Evening Standard

Alexei Navalny's funeral will be held in Moscow church

It comes after the opposition leader’s spokesperson alleged that funeral agencies had been ‘prohibited from working with them’

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Russia claims Alexei Navalny died of 'sudden death syndrome' as mother searches for body

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny died from a heart attack at a Siberian penal colony where temperatures plummet to -30C, it is claimed.

Al Jazeera

Russia’s Putin will not go unpunished for Navalny’s death, wife Yulia says

The Kremlin critic’s mother also said her son was ‘alive, healthy and happy’ when she saw him this week.

The Guardian - UK

‘They see Hollywood movies as a right’: the Russians breaking the law to watch Barbie

Despite a Hollywood boycott triggered by the Ukraine war, Russians are still able to access the big releases thanks to a network of illicit screenings

The Guardian - AU

What happened in the Russia-Ukraine war this week? Catch up with the must-read news and analysis

Ukraine break’s Russian stronghold’s first line of defence; Putin to meet Kim Jong-un; Rustem Umerov poised to become Ukraine’s new defence minister

Evening Standard

Kremlin’s propaganda film about Ukraine war flops as Russians watch Barbie instead

“The last thing they want is to be reminded of the war”

The Guardian - UK

Kremlin’s propaganda film about Ukraine war plays to empty cinemas

The box-office flop, about a fictional violinist who gets caught up in the atrocities, is further evidence that Russians want to forget about the invasion

The Guardian - UK

Irene Schwab obituary

Other lives: archaeologist, academic and adult literacy teacher and trainer

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