Members of a Hasidic Jewish movement may sue the Russian government in an effort to recover 18th-century religious writings and prayers seized by the Nazi and Soviet armies, the Associated Press reports.
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December 6, 2006Russia is indignant about “blasphemous†moves by Estonia to criminalize displays of Soviet symbols in public, the AFP news agency reported quoting the Russian Foreign Ministry release.
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December 4, 2006According to Bloomberg News, Christie’s International sold a record ₤28.2 million ($55.1 million) of Russian art at auction in London yesterday, beating the previous record of $46.7 million, set by Sotheby’s in New York on April 26.
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November 30, 2006Sotheby’s raised ₤20.2 million ($39.3 million) from a sale of Russian art in London yesterday, as buyers snapped up paintings, porcelain and Faberge works including an imperial snuffbox, The Bloomberg News reports.
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November 29, 2006
Ukraine’s parliament adopted a law recognising a 1932-1933 famine that killed up to 10 million people as a Soviet “genocide” against the Ukrainian people.
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Four London auction houses expect to sell as much as 58 million pounds ($110 million) worth of Russian art next week, benefiting from a market that has expanded for six straight years, Bloomberg.com reports.
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November 24, 2006Russia’s army museum said Thursday that Soviet medals withdrawn from a Sotheby’s auction in London could have been stolen from the museum.
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November 23, 2006
Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is recovering after undergoing surgery in Germany on a key artery in the neck that supplies blood to the brain, the Gorbachev Foundation said Wednesday.
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Alexander Solzhenitsyn’s wife on Thursday presented the initial three volumes of the first full collection of his works to be published in Russia.
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November 17, 2006Pioneering sociologist Yuri Levada died Thursday at his institute in Moscow.
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