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Even Happy Birthday has a dark side: my quest to tell the history of the world in 50 pieces of music

The Nazis adopted Beethoven’s Ode to Joy. Happy Birthday hides a tale of corporate greed. And Putin uses Shostakovich’s Leningrad symphony as a call to arms. That’s why I put them in my soundtrack to the complexities of human existence

The Guardian - UK

Russia-Ukraine war: List of key events, day 1,299

Here are the key events on day 1,299 of Russia’s war on Ukraine.

Al Jazeera

Sex, Stalin and Shostakovich: the story of the 1934 opera the Soviet leader walked out of

At the BBC Proms in September, the Albert Hall will stage a concert performance of Dmitri Shostakovich’s controversial 1934 opera, Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District.

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Trump suffers another geography fail after calling Alaska ‘Russia’ as he rants ahead of Putin meeting: ‘Leningrad free’

Russian president Vladimir Putin was once deputy mayor of the city Trump misidentified

The Independent UK

'Hurt': Leningrad Siege Survivor, 84, Charged Over Peace Placard

Lyudmila Vasilyeva, 84, survived the Siege of Leningrad in World War II as a child.

International Business Times

RPO/Petrenko review – a blistering, multi-hued Shostakovich

Conductor Vasily Petrenko didn’t put a foot wrong in this Multitudes festival performance of the Leningrad Symphony, the drama enhanced by evocative video imagery by Kirill Serebrennikov and Ilya Shagalov

The Guardian - UK

Zelenskyy ‘fully committed’ to constructive dialogue with US after Trump defends Putin – as it happened

Zelenskyy’s statement comes after another significant overnight attack from Russia

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The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad by Simon Parkin review – the lost heroes of Soviet horticulture

This fascinating history of Nikolai Vavilov and the staff at his plant institute tells a story of almost unbelievable self-sacrifice while under siege during the second world war

The Guardian - UK

The inspiring scientists who saved the world’s first seed bank

The long read: During the siege of Leningrad, botanists in charge of an irreplaceable seed collection had to protect it from fire, rodents – and hunger

The Guardian - UK

The Forbidden Garden of Leningrad by Simon Parkin review – the botanists who defied Hitler

Help future generations or feed the starving? How besieged wartime scientists responded to a terrible dilemma

The Guardian - UK

United Opposition gives a tough fight to Giriraj Singh in Begusarai

Begusarai has long been known as the ‘Leningrad of Bihar’ or as ‘Mini Moscow’ because of the political dominance of the Communist Party of India (CPI).

The Hindu

St. Petersburg Commemorates 80th Anniversary of WWII Siege

St. Petersburg marks the 80th anniversary of the end of the WWII siege with memorial events. Putin lays flowers at monuments, honoring victims and survivors.

Top News

Putin Repeats Ukraine Nazi Claims At Leningrad Siege Memorial

President Vladimir Putin on Saturday said Ukraine "glorifies" Adolf Hitler's SS killing squads and vowed to "eradicate Nazism," as he opened a memorial marking 80 years since the end of the siege of Leningrad.

International Business Times

'For All Mankind' season 4 episode 6 review: Culmination of a storyline decades in the making

A new black market kingpin, an unlikely vocation shift for Ed Baldwin, and the long-awaited reunion of two estranged colleagues.

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Daily Mirror

Boris Johnson compares Vladimir Putin to 'the fat boy in Dickens' in bizarre speech

The former prime minister also urged his audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos to "stop worrying about Kremlinology" insisting Russia will "never" use nuclear weapons

Daily Mirror

Vladimir Putin rambles on about Patriotic War as Ukraine helicopter crash kills 18

As rescue workers scoured through the debris of the helicopter crash site in Brovary, Kyiv today, twisted despot Vladimir Putin bragged and droned on about Russia breaking the siege of Leningrad 80 years ago

The Guardian - UK

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Zenger

Hundreds Enter S3x Doll And Inflatable Manhood Swim Race

The event takes place on the Vuoksi river on its course through the village of Losevo, in the Leningrad region of Russia.

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Two Men Arrested For Hanging ‘Eff The War’ Banner From Russian Balcony

Two men have been arrested for hanging an anti-war banner reading “f**k the war” from a building in Saint Petersburg, the former Leningrad, in Russia.

Reuters

Rebranded McDonald's to reopen in Russia

Sunday marks a new dawn for Russia's fast-food lovers as former McDonald's Corp restaurants reopen under new branding and ownership, more than three decades after the arrival of the hugely popular Western fast food chain.

ABC News

Three months into his war in Ukraine, Vladimir Putin wants to restore Russian glory and protect his iron grip on power

Three months into his war, Vladimir Putin has learned the best way to protect power is to hang onto to it — at any price.

Reason

A Song of Middle-Earth, by Way of Russia: "The Orcs Marched out of Mordor"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OVGRZXw6WWY Here's the latest from Zoya, a singer with the prominent Russian band Leningrad (Russian lyrics here). It has over 350K page views, though it was just posted today (or yesterday Russian time)—I try to focus the posts in this thread on relatively prominent works, since my goal is in…

Asharq Al-Awsat

From Leningrad to Kharkiv, a Life Bookended by War and Despair

A lifetime ago and 1,400 km away, Margarita Morozova lived through the World War Two siege of Leningrad. Now the 87-year-old Ukrainian finds herself once more in a city under attack. The retired librarian lives in Kharkiv, a Ukrainian city of 1.5 million people that lies 25 km from the…

Reuters

From Leningrad to Kharkiv, a life bookended by war and despair

A lifetime ago and 1,400 km away, Margarita Morozova lived through the World War Two siege of Leningrad. Now the 87-year-old Ukrainian finds herself once more in a city under attack.

The Guardian - UK

First Thing: Zelenskiy likens Mariupol assault to Leningrad siege

Biden calls Putin a ‘war criminal’ amid attacks on Kyiv. Plus, 13% of mail ballots rejected in Texas primary

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