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The USSR occupied eastern Europe, calling it ‘liberation’ – Russia is repeating the crime in Ukraine | Sergei Lebedev

In the post-Soviet states, statues can be removed and street names changed. But achieving sovereignty of memory is far harder

We often hear that it is Russia’s inability or unwillingness to deal with …

18 days ago

Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway audiobook review – a new Smiley from le Carré’s son

Perfectly emulating the tone of his father’s spy novels, this cold war tale also benefits from Simon Russell Beale’s impeccable reading

It is 1963 and, having retired from “the Circus”, spymaster Geor…

19 days ago

Two Prosecutors review – a petrifying portrait of Stalinist insurrection

Cannes film festival
Drawn from a suppressed story by gulag survivor Georgy Demidov, Sergei Loznitsa’s haunting film unravels a terrifying parable of bureaucratic evil

An icy chill of fear and justifie…

Sound of Falling review – intergenerational angst haunts a German farmhouse

Cannes film festival
Told in four different timeframes in the same rural family home, this story of national guilt and yearning is powerfully unsettling

Here is a mysterious and uncanny prose-poem of …

'Terrified' British student, 18, says she is pregnant as she appears in court on drugs charges after vanishing in Thailand then reappearing in Georgia accused of smuggling 30lb of cannabis

'Terrified' Bella May Culley, 18, faces being caged in an overcrowded ex-Soviet jail after being arrested on drug smuggling charges. She told a court that she was pregnant and refused to answer quest…

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