albeit larger than life size scale), of a woman who might be “Mother Russia”. But if you then look south, down the main axis of the monument, your jaw will drop. The monument stretches over a distance of about half a kilometer. ...
In a testament to his proximity to political power, Kurtyka died in April 2010 after the presidential plane in which he travelled with then Polish President Lech Kaczyński and several other high-level officials crashed on its way to a ceremony in Smolensk, Russia. For anticommunist entrepreneurs...
Faculty of Biology, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye gory 1/12, Moscow, 119234, Russia Boris Osadchenko & Yulia Kraus Contributions Y.K. and T.M. designed the research; T.M., B.O., and Y.K. performed the in vivo and TEM studies; T.M. and Y.K. performed confocal micr...
Soviet historiography has proclaimed that the formation of modern capitalistic and commercial system in Russia were realized in the seventeenth century. This view was based on the fact that all-Russian market with its bourgeois economic ties took from only in the seventeenth century, and above all...
continent and the Eurasian empire ofRussia weremoving intoFriedrich Rosen believed that his father was playedbythe Jewish community,because hewas a“goy”.InRosen’smemory,Laib AronLeviHirsch,aleader of the community,once toldhis father“In small oath, Mr.Consul, perjury is permissiblewith...
and the lyrics for “I’ve Got a Pocketful of Dreams” became “I’m gonna save the world for Wall Street/Gonna fight for Russia, too/I’m fightin’ for democracy/I’m fightin’ for the Jew.” As for the smash hit “Little Sir Echo,” by the time Schwedler finished with it, it...
In the last century, muskoxen have been reintroduced to Northern Quebec, Norway, Russia, Southwest Greenland, and Alaska (see Fig. 1). The reintroduction effort in Alaska was to replace populations extirpated by overhunting. Muskox populations today inhabit a large and relatively diverse range ...
(the idea of introducing a bovine model into the artist’s studio stems from Courbet, who brought a bull into his short-lived studio academy in the 1860s). Only at the very end of the 19th century, in the relatively liberated and open atmosphere of Repin’s studio and circle in Russia...
In southern Russia, it was used to deter snakes [31]. Therefore, we find ethnographic accounts of similar practices in three linguistically different regions of Europe. Why has white bryony practically disappeared from folk pharmacopoeias? Nowadays, ethnobotanical studies in central-eastern and ...
Etkind revises Kant’s position vis-à-vis the European imperial hegemony. In the period when Königsberg changed hands between Prussia and Russia, he argues, Kant was a colonial subject. This unique subaltern experience helped him to formulate his ethical and political philosophy, including his ...