Estonia as a nordic country that got occupied by USSR Nordic countries formed the Nordic Council due to shared history and culture. While this was happening Estonia was unfortunately occupied by the USSR. Had Estonia (aka Estland) not lost its independence in WW2 it may have been a natural, ...
If you are looking for a stiff upper lip response to Covid, Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko is a better choice. He refused vaccination for himself, but allowed it for his citizens, both with the Russian vaccine and the Western ones. (Actually, Putin also refused vaccination, for Sputni...
A growing interest in the music of the peoples of the USSR and the fraternal Slavic countries yielded important creative results in such works as Prokofiev’s String Quartet No. 2, on Kabarda and Balkar themes (1941), Shebalin’s String Quartet No. 5, on Slavic Themes (1942), and Lia...
Stranger Things(Netflix) came back for its final couple of episodes, which were very good. I’m not sure they really warranted the wait from the previous batch, since they didn’t do anything especially different or climactic. The Russian end of things all felt a bit superfluous and unneces...