In any case, for reasons of security, I cannot give anyone’s surnames and first names as examples. The other part of the artistic community — apparently, the prevailing one — continues to engage in the production of art, come hell or high water, within Russia’s current system. Putin ...
"In excavations at a large graveyard apparently dating to the end of the eighth and beginning of the ninth centuries, when the region was under the domination of the Avar tribe, archeologists have unearthed hundreds of brick fragments inscribed with menorahs and other Jewish symbols, including at...
The Old Testament is chockablock with sacrifice, beginning with Abraham’s sacrifice of his son Isaac. It would be odd, of course, to assume that Schlosberg was talking about biblical connotations in his conversation with Sobchak (and it is doubtful the interviewer has ever thoughtfully read ...
This finding shows that synthetic maps of Russian Y chromosomal data are not severely affected by such artifacts; similarly, we have revealed strong correlations between the two synthetic maps in cases of Adyges (unpublished data) and Russian28 surnames data. Because uniform coverage of the area ...
Modern Industrial = beginning 150-200 years ago. This resembles more closely the modern teachings for the history of mankind studies. Most important however is the authors’ interpretation of how these time frames relate to diseases. The fifth period in the Russian influence upon American geography...
Now, there is a long tradition of general nouns being used as surnames for cartoon animals, such as Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck. However, there is also a tradition of using such names with articles, as seen with Rocky the Flying Squirrel and Bullwinkle the Moose (at right, from the main...
The Veps have also long adopted average Russian names and surnames. Local historians, of course, can talk for a long time about their unique patterns—the “very special” curls and squares with which the Veps decorated clothes and towels. But all this is a matter of the distant past, ...
What’s more, all the victims gave the names of those who had treated them so brutally. They said that the perpetrators – police officers, prison staff or Committee of National Security operatives – very often made no attempt to cover up their identities. Their first names and surnames are...