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Iron Bars And Iron Feliks March 01, 2021 12:43 GMT The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:19:29 0:00 Aleksei Navalny has been sent to prison apparently to a facility in the Vladimir region that former inmates describe in chilling terms. Back in Moscow, a vote on whether to return Soviet secret-police founder Feliks Dzerzhinsky s statue to Lubyanka Square or put up a monument to medieval prince Aleksandr Nevsky was abruptly canceled. Irina Lagunina, director of special projects at RFE/RL s Russian Service, joins host Steve Gutterman to discuss. Pop-out player ....
No media source currently available 0:00 0:04:27 0:00 Mad Maps: Kaliningrad: The Tiny Russian Ham Inside An EU Sandwich Seventy-five years have passed since the German city of Koenigsberg and its surrounding area became Kaliningrad, now an odd piece of Russia disconnected from the rest of the country. So how did a German region become a Russian exclave? And what role does it play for Russia today? By Kaisa Alliksaar and Kristyna Foltynova From the effects of the coronavirus pandemic to the brutal crackdown on anti-government protests in Belarus, As chosen by Lucie Steinzova and Kateryna Oliynyk Concurrent political crises in Russia’s neighborhood have commanded the Kremlin’s attention. But its relative caution ....
share Print As part of an occasional series on how the end-of-year holidays are celebrated in our broadcast region, we talked to Irina Lagunina from RFE/RL s Russian Service about seasonal traditions in her country. Western visitors to Russia at this time of year may be surprised to discover that the locals usually refer to the seasonally decorated conifers you see everywhere as New Year firs or New Year spruces. So why would they call them this when they re commonly known as Christmas trees in many other places? According to Irina Lagunina from RFE/RL s Russian Service, it s largely a quirky legacy of the country s Soviet past. ....
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