A University of Miami music professor uses the pages of the <em>New York Times</em> to suggest that the music of Dmitri Shostakovich and other Russian composers are “cultural weapons” in the service of Vladimir Putin.
Oksana Koshak, 39, a senior civil servant, and Olga Korllovich, 35, a medical translator, set up a rescue charity - Tailed Hostages of War - for displaced pets.