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A moaner's story, shortlisted for the Ockham fiction award

Olga was badly injured by shrapnel during Vladimir Putin's assault on Kyiv last week and has been seen cradling her newborn baby while wrapped in a foil blanket and covered in bandages

Olga says a blanket wrapped around the baby protected the child from shrapnel

Ukrainian Nina Slastian, 53, has been unable to contact her friends and family for three weeks and is desperate to know if they are still alive after Russia bombed the theatre in Mariupol

Anastasia Budiashkina is excellent as a young athlete exiled during the 2014 revolution in this moving drama released to raise funds for Ukrainian refugees

Olga and her two children, including six-month-old Vera, are crossing Europe by road, fleeing war in Ukraine with the help of a group of Spanish taxi drivers who drove to Poland to support the mass evacuation of refugees.

Exclusive: Muscovite who has risked arrest to oppose Putin’s war says Russians like her want to leave country for good

Three wildly different debuts from Australian authors and two strangely hopeful — yet uncomfortably close to home — dystopian novels are among our book critics' top picks for the month.

Queues of people snaked through Moscow shopping malls on Tuesday as the scramble for hard currency continued, and Russians faced increasing isolation as sanctions made travel harder and sports teams were ejected from major competitions. Western sanctions over Russia's invasion of Ukraine threaten to decimate the economy, and have already…

Located in Paris's famed Montmartre district, the Moulin Rouge is the most famous cabaret in the world and has entertained revellers for 120 years. Home to the French cancan, it recruits the best dancers, who wear the best costumes. Each show requires 1,000 costumes at a budget of €4 million.…