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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.

International Business Times

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

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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

Evening Standard

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…

France 24

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’

Evening Standard

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.

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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.

Al Jazeera

‘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 - UK

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

The Guardian - AU

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”

Evening Standard

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

The Guardian - UK

Why a top YouTube exec is defecting to an A.I. startup

Martin Kon, YouTube's CFO, will become the startup's COO in a sign of how hot language A.I. is becoming

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The Independent UK

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 Guardian - UK

Arctic cycling and sailing to South Korea: the Russians fleeing conscription

Tens of thousands have fled Russia after mobilisation, with many taking unorthodox routes

Los Angeles Times

An agent told this 'Stranger Things' star he wouldn't work until 50. 'She was wrong'

Brett Gelman is no stranger to characters. As in, "he's a real character."

AFP

Russian LGBT artists find sanctuary in Paris

Paris (AFP) - For many LGBT Russian artists, the invasion of Ukraine and the accompanying political crackdown was the final straw.Helped by a Paris charity, they have found a new home in France.

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The Independent UK

‘The Russians are not far away’: Inside the town braced for the coming storm of Putin’s forces

In the frontline town, Kim Sengupta finds residents – and pets – braced for Russia’s advancing troops

The Guardian - UK

Hundreds of desperate Ukrainians are still searching for missing relatives

People visit a tent hoping to find loved ones – or a negative result that means they may still be alive

AFP

Blasting techno, Kharkiv youth brave the bombs to deliver food

Kharkiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - With their red Opel Astra blaring techno music and the boot full to the brim with supplies, three Ukrainian volunteers deliver aid to Kharkiv neighbourhoods targeted by Russian rockets.

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