Привет!

May 27

[video]

"The Spectacular Spektor" - Newsweek

• Jesse Ellison: This summer you’re going back to Russia for the first time in 22 years. Why has it been so long?
• Regina Spektor: A combination of circumstances and opportunity. For a while, you couldn’t go, and even if you could, my family didn’t have the money. That was true for years. Then, when we did have the money, there were other things, like college. And if you’re going to have one family vacation, maybe it’s not going to be the intense, emotional one. Maybe you just want to go to New Jersey and sit on the beach. Because so much time went by, in my mind it became this very distant, complicated place. I started getting scared that all my memories would go away if I went there.
• Jesse Ellison: You felt your new memories would erase the old ones?
• Regina Spektor: My whole ambivalence has been that you remember things one way as a child and when you look at them as an adult, it replaces them. I want a signed guarantee saying, “Your previous memories shall remain untouched and unharmed. We will catalog every one and you will have just as many.” But memory is its own narrative. Even if 50 people saw the same thing happen at an intersection and they went home and wrote about it, their stories would all be different.

iwantedtoseetheuniverse:

Drew this myself of St. Basil’s cathedral.

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May 08

bschwartz:

In Russian, if you want someone to repeat something (an essential phrase in any language) you would write пожалуйста повторите and say “pozhaluĭsta povtorite”.

Apr 18

jennilee:

Kindskopf (Head of a Child) at the State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg - 1997 
400 cm x 600 cm
oil and acrylic on canvas
Preparation for the Gottfried Helnwein Retrospective

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Apr 14

orthodoxicons:

The Ascension of Christ. Icon from Sinai monastery VI century

Вознесение Господне

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Apr 08

fuckyeahrussianpolitics:

Left Front movement leader Sergei Udaltsov (C, front) and other opposition activists gather in Red Square in central Moscow April 8, 2012. Participants held a rally to protest against policies, conducted by the Russian current authorities, and to encourage people to join them in the so-called “March of the millions” on May 6 on the eve of the inauguration of president-elect Vladimir Putin, according to local media. The leaflet displays a portrait of Vladimir Putin and reads (L, top) “He got tired”.

Apr 02

Mar 28

Senior Thesis Snapshot - On European Environmental Policy

tuftsir:

David Maas (International Relations) David’s thesis explores the rise of the radical right in Russia following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. First, David is examining how the turbulence of the 1990s allowed for radical right groups and their ideas to emerge in the country. From here, David’s thesis will investigate Vladimir Putin’s response to the phenomenon: the Russian government in the 2000s has attempted to both suppress the movement while also adopting many of its tenets. David hopes to identify why the government has acted in this way, and how policies have helped shape the radical right today.

Mar 24

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