Ola Cichowlas
Moscow-based reporter. All things Russia. Also tweet about Poland & E.Europe. Bylines: @PoliticoEurope, @ForeignPolicy, @NewStatesman. [email protected]
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«Русские грузины. Фильм первый», фрагмент о Нико Пиросмани
20 февраля в прокат выходит первая из двух частей документального проекта Леонида Парфенова — «Русские грузины. Фильм первый». В нем Парфенов расскажет о Баг...
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Ola Cichowlas
A trailer to Leonid Parfenov’s upcoming two part film on the role of Georgians in Russian culture & political life (includes a Georgian choir beautifully singing Pugacheva’s “million roses” that was based on Pirosmani’s unrequited love), looks promising
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Moscow 8: the N. Korean filmmakers who defied Pyongyang
As the Korean War raged eight of Pyongyang's young heroes -- all members of the North's new elite, destined for a life of privilege and power -- left for Moscow to study at a prestigious film school. Scattered to the corners of the Soviet Union...
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Ola Cichowlas
The story of 8 North Koreans sent to study cinema in Moscow in 1950s, where they denounced Kim Il Sung's personality cult. USSR granted them asylum but on condition they live far apart so they were sent to Irkutsk, Volgograd & Murmansk
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Встреча Лукашенко с представителями экспертного сообщества и СМИ продолжалась почти семь с половиной часов
Глава государства ответил на несколько десятков вопросов, которые касались широкого спектра тем.
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Ola Cichowlas
If you had a long day, think of the reporters in Minsk who listened to Lukashenko for 7.5 hours today
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Young Moldovans fight corruption as election nears
For Andrei Trupceac, the breaking point came when courts in his native Moldova overturned the results of a local election that had been won by an opposition candidate. "That day I understood that justice doesn't work here," said the 30-year-old,...
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Ilan Shor's candidacy has infuriated many. Here's an @AFP story on young Moldovans returning from abroad to fight corruption
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Russia's Patriarch Kirill blasts 'schismatic' Constantinople church
Russia's Patriarch Kirill blasted the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople as "schismatic" for granting independence to the Ukrainian church, a move that pushed Moscow to cut ties with Orthodoxy's mother church. "The Constantinople...
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Ola Cichowlas
Patriarch Kirill: "By identifying with schismatics, Constantinople became a schismatic." Says most Orthodox believers back breaking ties but calls on clergy to explain "Ukraine situation" with church goers
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«Начал терять зрение и способность говорить»: Петр Верзилов попал в реанимацию в тяжелом состоянии. Его близкие говорят о возможном отравлении
Участник Pussy Riot, издатель «Медиазоны» Петр Верзилов вечером 11 сентября попал в больницу в тяжелом состоянии. Как рассказала «Медузе» его девушка, участница группы Вероника Никульшина, он начал терять зрение, речь и способность передвигаться.
Putin says two Skripal poisoning suspects are 'civilians'
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Wednesday the two men Britain suspects of poisoning former spy Sergei Skripal with military-grade nerve agent are not criminals and have been identified as civilians. Speaking at an economic forum with Japan's...
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Ola Cichowlas
Putin: “There is nothing special there, nothing criminal, I assure you. We'll see in the near future”
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Единый день протеста. Последствия
Аресты участников акций против повышения пенсионного возраста
Russian Orthodox Church slams Constantinople rival over Ukraine
The Russian Orthodox Church on Friday slammed its Istanbul-based rival for sending representatives to Ukraine and vowed to retaliate as the two churches are locked in negotiations over Ukraine's religious future. The jab comes a week after Russia's...
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Ola Cichowlas
Russian Orthodox Church furious at Constantinople patriarch for sending representatives to Ukraine, vows to retaliate (but how?) @AFP
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Idlib residents urge Turkey to stave off regime attack
Hundreds of Syrians took to the streets in the country's last major rebel bastion of Idlib Friday, calling on neighbouring Turkey to help prevent a regime assault on their region. Demonstrators in the northwestern province also denounced a summit...
Gardens and games, but no contest in Moscow mayor poll
Moscow authorities have decorated the streets and swept the ballot paper clean of serious opposition candidates as the Russian capital prepares to re-elect its Kremlin-backed mayor on Sunday. Like Vladimir Putin ahead of presidential polls in...
Ola Cichowlas
This lede by @theo_merz: "Moscow authorities have decorated the streets and swept the ballot paper clean of serious opposition candidates as the Russian capital prepares to re-elect its Kremlin-backed mayor"
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Party cups as gas masks: Idlib civilians prepare for battle
Hudhayfa al-Shahad strapped a colorful paper cup filled with cotton and charcoal to a child's face and tightened a plastic bag around his head: an improvised gas mask if chemicals once again fall on Syria's Idlib.
The Strange Unreality of Life During Eastern Ukraine's Forgotten War
Four years on from the Minsk Agreements, millions of civilians have gotten used to a new "normal."
AFP, Correspondent (Beijing) job with Agence France-Presse (AFP) | 82461
The international news wire Agence France-Presse is looking for an enterprising Anglophone correspondent to join its team in Beijing.
GRU, Russia's spy agency with growing global footprint
Britain said Wednesday that two officials from Russia's GRU intelligence agency carried out a poisoning attack on a former spy on British soil in March, using a Nina Ricci perfume bottle containing a nerve agent. - GRU stands for the Main...
Counter-terrorism police release images of two suspects in connection with Salisbury attack
Both men have been charged by the CPS
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Ola Cichowlas
Dawn Sturgess' partner Charlie found "a box he thought contained perfume in a charity bin", he tried to put bottle and applicator together at home, Dawn "applied some of the substance on her wrists before feeling unwell"
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The Kremlin Wants Information. To Get It, Agents Show Up With Flowers.
It took a while for a young woman to figure out that the smiling man who asked her for coffee was trying to recruit her as an informer.
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"He acted like an old friend I didn’t recognize" - scary story on how the FSB recruits informers
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The fight to save, not shut, a McDonald's in France
For decades, McDonald's was the brand French people loved to hate. French farmer and one-time presidential candidate Jose Bove built a political career through his opposition to McDonald's which saw him trash a restaurant in the south of France in...
Ola Cichowlas
Really enjoyed this story about a community's unlikely fight to save their local McDonald's in Marseille
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