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Rick Steves: In Bulgaria, Sofia surprises

Edit San Francisco Chronicle 14 Oct 2016
In my student days I spent lots of time exploring Bulgaria and its capital city, Sofia ... In the museum’s sculpture garden of communist propaganda, Lenin, who once topped the main pillar in the center of town, still faces the storm. ....

Patrick Marber’s dynamic revival of Tom Stoppard’s Travesties is anything but one

Edit New Statesman 13 Oct 2016
Tristan Tzara launching the absurdist art movement Dada, and Lenin fomenting the rhetoric that brings a summons to govern Russia ... The arguments between Carr, Joyce, Tzara and Lenin about whether the purpose of art is to soothe, ridicule, politicise or spiritualise clearly represent Stoppard’s ars poetica, while also having general resonance....

Widener SBDC Receives Full Accreditation (Widener University)

Edit Public Technologies 13 Oct 2016
Lenin Agudo, director of the Widener University SBDC, received Widener's accreditation certificate from both Adriana Menchaca-Gendron, SBA associate administrator for Small Business Development Centers, and C ... Pictured from left to right are Christian Conroy, state director, Pennsylvania SBDC; Lenin Agudo, director, Widener SBDC; Adriana Menchaca-Gendron, associate administrator, OSBDC, SBA; George Slook, business consultant; C.E....

Aravindakshan puraskaram for Sachithananthan

Edit The Times of India 13 Oct 2016
THRISSUR ... The award consisting of Rs 25,000 and a certificate was decided by a panel including M A Baby, Lalitha Lenin, Vaisakhan master and Kavumbayi Balakrishnan ... Being a teacher, he inspired many into the world of literature and knowledge ... RELATED....

UKIP Scotland leader: 'UKIP has done more for world revolution than Marx and Lenin put together'

Edit Business Insider 13 Oct 2016
David Coburn MEP. Since being elected as an MEP in 2014, David Coburn has revelled in his profile as UKIP's only elected politician in Scotland, and the party's leader north of the border. To say that he is a controversial and colourful character would be an understatement ... Business Insider's Thomas Colson ... David Coburn ... That’s not on ... I think, quite frankly, that UKIP have done more for world revolution than Karl Marx and Lenin combined ... ....

International honour for Merkku Thodarchi Malai

Edit Deccan Chronicle 12 Oct 2016
Directed by Lenin Bharathi, the film has been selected for a screening at the International Film Festival of Kerala (IFFK), one of the highly-rated film fests in India ... Pawan Kalyan begins Vedalam remake ... ....

Pravda comes to Scotland 'to extend Russian influence in the UK'

Edit The Guardian 12 Oct 2016
Don’t see it as propaganda, says the editor, it’s just ‘important to counterbalance the US administration-led consensus regarding the Middle East’. @GreensladeR. Pravda, one of the most famous and most controversial newspapers in the world, is planning to set up a branch in Edinburgh ... He told the paper ... Hmmm ... Pravda (Truth) was founded in 1912 and soon became the main campaigning organ of the Bolsheviks led by Lenin ... Sources ... ....

The Growing Charm of Dada

Edit The New York Review of Books 12 Oct 2016
Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris/© 2016 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/ADAGP, Paris. Francis Picabia. The Lovers (After the Rain), 1925 ... A handful of these decided in 1916 to create a new kind of evening entertainment. They called it Cabaret Voltaire and established it at Spiegelgasse 1, not far from the room that was occupied by an occasional visitor to the cabaret, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ... ....

Russia’s Deception and Denial Machine (The Institute of World Politics)

Edit Public Technologies 11 Oct 2016
(Source. The Institute of World Politics). The main narrative of post-Communism is that the Russian Federation is unique and, therefore, its system is neither of the West nor of the East. Instead, it is sui generis ... In Bolshevik Russia Marxism-Leninism was the reigning millenarian ideology which, while promising paradise on Earth, operated according to morally relativistic dialectics to keep the Communists in power in perpetuity ... (noodl....

Lessons of sterling's ghastly crash!

Edit Khaleej Times 11 Oct 2016
The Brexit vote had compelled me to publish several columns recommending UAE investors short sterling at the top of its trading range of 1.33 (if only to hedge steep losses on their UK property!) ... No more ... No longer ... Lenin once observed that the Tsar's armies voted with their feet - in our age of electronic finance, foreign exchange traders vote against a government's idiotic policies by dumping its currency on their Bloomberg screens....

How the politicisation of science allowed rogue theories to prosper in the USSR

Edit New Statesman 10 Oct 2016
A new book by Simon Ings reveals the terrors, follies and surprising successes of Soviet science. " data-adaptive-image-768-img="" data-adaptive-image-1024-img="" data-adaptive-image-max-img=""> ... In the light of events since Stalin had outmanoeuvred Trotsky to succeed Lenin, Kapitsa should have known better ... Specialists of all kinds were well paid and enjoyed privileges because Lenin understood and appreciated their importance ... ....

Travesties review – a tonic from start to finish

Edit The Guardian 09 Oct 2016
5 / 5 stars. Menier Chocolate Factory, London. Tom Hollander is sensational in this exuberant Stoppard revival. On the way home from Patrick Marber’s scintillating production of Travesties, I tried to make up a limerick starting ... Twitter ... he swanks about having known James Joyce, Lenin and dadaist artist Tristan Tzara ... Forbes Masson’s Lenin is entertaining as not much more than a walk-on part (that itself is a joke) ... ....

You, Me, Lenin: New Turkish Movie to Star Wooden Soviet Leader

Edit Sputnik 09 Oct 2016
A new Turkish movie in the making will tell the story of a wooden bust of Vladimir Lenin which nearly formed the center piece of the town square of one of the country’s coastal towns ... ....
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