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Enlish Russia, WW2 Like Reconstruction:

“A few days ago an anniversary for the blockade of St. Petersburg city during the World War 2. For more than two years the city was in the tight circle of German troops. The front line was already in the suburbs and the downtown was bombed constantly. People suffered from the hunger and illnesses. Tens of thousands died. For those who survived it’s a great day, and those guys dressed in WW2 uniforms dedicate this show for them, the heroes of the blocked city.”

Building Design, Chetwood Associates’ sail-like ‘wind dam’ lands on Lake Lagoda:

“The dam, which would be located over a gorge at Lake Lagoda in north-west Russia, includes a cup-shaped spinnaker sail, believed to be the first of its kind, which will generate renewable energy by funnelling the wind through an attached turbine.

The spinnaker shape is similar to the mainsail of a yacht, and is thought to be particularly effective in capturing wind.”

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Heise Security: “(…) so, we see signs of Russian nationalism at work here, but no Russian government connection.”

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Moment Magazine: “The Brins were no different from their fellow immigrants in that being Jewish was an ethnic, not a religious experience.”

Clive James: “Akhmatova was the embodiment of the Russian liberal heritage that the authoritarians felt bound to go on threatening long after it had surrendered. As such, she was an inspiring symbol, but when a poet becomes better known than her poems, it usually means that she is being sacrificed, for extraneous reasons, on the altar of her own glory.”

Trouw: “Het Russische concern Sistema wordt met steun van president Poetin vermoedelijk aandeelhouder in Telecom Italia en zo indirect uitbater van glasvezelnetten in Nederland.” Zie ook: “KPN laat Gazprom zijn Duitse glasnet verhuren.”

English Russia: Russische militaire objecten in de omgeving van Murmansk op Google Earth. Duikboten, raketsilo’s en veel verlaten spul.

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• Apple - Trailers - 49 Up - Trailer 1
  “The seventh film in a series of landmark documentaries that began 42 years ago (…) interviewed a diverse group of seven-year-old children from all over England, asking them about their lives and their dreams for the future.”
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• Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | More4 risks US ire with Bush assassination film
  “Digital channel More4 will court controversy once again this autumn with a fictional piece, shot as a documentary, about the assassination of the US president, George Bush.”
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• LEXPRESS.fr - reportage photo - Photographie: Marilyn, la dernière séance - L’Express
  “1962, une suite de l’hôtel Bel-Air à Los Angeles, Marilyn Monroe pose devant l’objectif de Bert Stern. L’actrice, sans maquillage, accepte de se dénuder. La séance photo dure douze heures, Bert Stern prend 2571 clichés.”
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• YouTube - Frank Lloyd Wright in Half Life 2
  A tour of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kaufmann House in Half Life 2.
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• Welcome to I V Y p a r i s
  “I V Y Paris is a pretty cool arts collective and gallery with an ambitious agenda. They run an arts newsletter, salon, a Europe-wide rundown of featured listings, a still-germinating but promising guide to Paris hottness, and of course, a blog.”
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• The St. Petersburg Times - Top Stories - Who Is Faking Russia’s Great Paintings?
  ““The level of forgery is so high that even our experts, who are very skilled, were unable to see that the paintings were fake,” said Anna Kiseleva, head of the expert department at Grabar.”
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• China’s art collectors not ready for buying spree in West - Asia - Pacific - International Herald Tribune
  “In mainland China, it’s still a bit early for Impressionist, Modern paintings,”
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• BBC ON THIS DAY | 2 | 1943: Germans surrender at Stalingrad
  “1943: Germans surrender at Stalingrad”
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• » Interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose, Part 1 | Web 2.0 Explorer | ZDNet.com
  “This is the first of a two-part article presenting that interview.”
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