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Photos of Lost Russian Crown Jewels Found In US Library
A photograph of this tiara was found in the lost album. WASHINGTON, December 18 (RIA Novosti) – Long-lost photographs of four undocumented Russian crown jewels have been discovered in the rare books room of a US library, the US Geological … Continue reading
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New exhibit: Picturing Politics: Soviet posters from the Libraries’ Special Collections
Political art has been used for centuries in many forms including graphical, musical, performance, and literary. Visual social and political commentary constitutes a powerful tradition of artistic expression. Graphic, bright and compelling, Soviet posters are often viewed as the essence … Continue reading
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Legal battle against Russia for historic artifacts rankles US officials
By FREDERIC J. FROMMER Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is opposing a Jewish group’s bid to have civil fines levied against Russia for failing to obey a court order to return its historic books and documents — a … Continue reading
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The Most Damning Evidence of a U.S. Coverup of Soviet War Crimes
JOHN HUDSON SEP 10, 2012 On Monday, the U.S. National Archives released 1,000 declassified documents pertaining to the 1940 massacre of 22,000 Poles by the Soviet Union. The Cliffs Notes version? America’s coverup of the infamous Katyn Massacre was more extensive … Continue reading
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Kluge Scholar Evgeny Pivovarov discusses the Slavic collections in the Library of Congress
The Library of the Congress has one of world’s largest collections of Slavic items. Jefferson’s library, bought by Congress in 1815, contained a number of books about this distant region. However, Slavic items were hardly collected for the next century. … Continue reading
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Judaic Studies Department Co-sponsors Talk Tonight
Gal Beckerman, author of the award-winning book When They Come for Us, We’ll Be Gone: The Epic Struggle to Save Soviet Jewry will be the guest speaker at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 24, at the Jewish Community Center, 500 Clubhouse … Continue reading
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Russia Will Send Top Students Abroad, and Expects Them to Return
In an effort to grow its scientific workforce and to stimulate international research collaborations, the Russian government is set to pay for thousands of Russian students to attend top universities around the world. But to benefit from the generous scholarships, … Continue reading
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Trial to Literaturnaia gazeta
Binghamton University Libraries will be offering a trial to Literaturnaia Gazeta. Established on April 22, 1929 with the support of the “father of Soviet literature,” writer Maxim Gorky, Literaturnaia gazeta is a landmark publication in Russia’s cultural heritage. With its … Continue reading
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Campus Invited to Play About Russian Poet
Russian 380, Theater as Language, invites all to a student-written play based on the life and poetry of an acclaimed 20th-century Russian poet Anna Andreevna Akhmatova at 5 p.m. Friday, May 4, in UUW-324. In Russian with English subtitles. Akhmatova, … Continue reading
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Russian National Ballet Theatre to Perform Full-length Swan Lake
The Russian National Ballet Theatre will bring the timeless tale of Swan Lake to life in four acts on the Anderson Center stage at 8 p.m. Monday, April 23. A classic fairy tale filled with princes, princesses, evil and true … Continue reading
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