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`On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians` (by Vladimir Putin)
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, Professor at the University of South-Eastern Norway, and an editor at the Russia in Global Affairs journal. Follow him on Twitter
. Ukraine has gone from trying to reduce usage of Russian, and banning or curtailing media and art using the tongue, to now accusing Moscow of monopolising and culturally appropriating everything from Borsch to the writer Gogol.
You might laugh at nonsense debates like ‘Kyiv or Kiev?’ or whether Mikhail Bulgakov was Russian or Ukrainian, but, like most culture wars, what seems to be just minor and silly fixations masks larger existential questions about the future of the nation.
A good writer is basically a story-teller, not a scholar or a redeemer of mankind.
Isaac Bashevis Singer
1904-1991
Winner, 1978 Nobel Prize in Literature
Isaac Bashevis Singer is the only Nobel Prize laureate for literature to ever have written primarily in Yiddish. Born in Radzymin, Poland, and raised in the shtetl of Bilgorai, Singer wrote his numerous books and stories in America, to which he fled from the Holocaust in 1935. His works ressurect a noble and petty world of Eastern European Jewry that he knew intimately.
The son of a Hasidic Rabbi, Singer s stories and novels are populated by the creations of centuries of Jewish superstition and folklore: dybbuks, demons, witches, and goblins, as well as the more friendly golems and the people of Chelm. But in addition to a tradition of Talmud and Kabbala, he was influenced by Baruch Spinoza, Nikolay Gogol, Leo Tolstoy, and Fyodor Dostoevsky. His novels and short stories often feature pathetic but pure martyrs, or alterna