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Five Great Reads: a grand book heist, being outed as an IRA guy, and the desperate mishandling of the Israel-Gaza conflict

Guardian Australia’s weekend wrap of essential reads from the past seven days, selected by Imogen Dewey

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The Pushkin job: unmasking the thieves behind an international rare books heist

The long read: Between 2022 and 2023, as many as 170 rare and valuable editions of Russian classics were stolen from libraries across Europe. Were the thieves merely low-level opportunists, or were bigger forces at work?

The Guardian - UK

Tainted love: how Ukrainians are ridding themselves of Russian-language books

Putin’s invasion has seen Ukrainian book lovers recoil from Russian literary dominance, by a range of means

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Georgians arrested over cross-Europe thefts of rare library books

Suspects alleged to have posed as academics to access books and replace them with copies, says Europol

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After Amadeus: Brian Cox as Bach is theatre’s latest orchestral manoeuvre

Oliver Cotton’s The Score, a new drama about Bach’s confrontation with Frederick II, continues a rich tradition of plays about great composers

The Guardian - UK

How Russian history and the concept of 'smuta' (turmoil) sheds light on Putin and Prigozhin – and the dangers of dissent

In Russia, failed coups portend turmoil and collapse. They also herald greater repression, and a tightening of centralised control. This is because Russian history has swung back and forth between chaos and autocracy, which have become mutually reinforcing symptoms of the same historical condition.

The Conversation

I’ve come to love Chișinău: my home city in Moldova deserves the spotlight

European leaders visiting the Moldovan capital for a political summit will see a city rich in cultural influences and wine-making history

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Pushkin must fall: monuments to Russia’s national poet under threat in Ukraine

Since last February’s invasion more than 30 statues of the 19th-century poet seen as a symbol for tsarist imperialism have been dismantled

The Guardian - UK

Wartime Ukraine erasing Russian past from public spaces

Ukraine is accelerating efforts to erase Soviet and Russian influence from its public spaces by pulling down monuments and renaming hundreds of streets to honor its own artists, poets, soldiers and independence leaders

The Independent UK

Italy's La Scala opens season to Ukrainian protests

Italy’s premier opera house is opening its new season with the Russian opera “Boris Godunov” and Ukrainian protests the selection is a propaganda win for the Kremlin

The Independent UK

How Tolstoy hurts Putin's attempt to rewrite history

On April 10, Moscow police arrested Konstantin Goldman for brandishing a book in public. Mr Goldman had posted an image on social media in which he posed holding a copy of Tolstoy's War and Peace next to a section of a World War II monument that commemorates Kyiv's status as…

Bangkok Post

Queen suffers more heartbreak as another close friend within her inner circle dies

The Queen, who is currently on her summer break in Balmoral, is mourning the death of her close childhood friend Lady Myra Butter, who passed away last week at the age of 97

Daily Mirror

Making sense of the senseless: Ukrainian war-art exhibition arrives in Brussels

The Captured House, part of a Ukrainian diplomacy drive, tours works created since 24 February

The Guardian - UK

From Pushkin to Putin: Russian Literature’s Imperial Ideology

Russian classical literature, chock full of dehumanizing nationalism, reads disturbingly familiar today.

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Why is Ukraine trying to cancel Russian culture?

Ukraine has ramped up its de-Russification efforts, but figures like Tolstoy and Pushkin were also targeted by Russia.

Los Angeles Times

Commentary: Putin’s war is shattering my Russian identity

“Russia is not Putin.” As a lecturer in Russian history, and an ex-Soviet Russian American, I have said these words many times. But now the treasures of Russia’s culture — its poetry, novels, movies, theater, symphonies — must be weighed against the current regime’s premeditated murder of the innocent. In…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Russian Conductor Gergiev Shunned by La Scala, Other Venues

Russian Valery Gergiev will not conduct at Milan's La Scala this week after he failed to condemn Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and he is also set to be sidelined from roles in Munich and Rotterdam. Gergiev - general director of the St. Petersburg Mariinsky Theater and regarded as close to…

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