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The two Putins

The birth year 1950 on Putin’s symbolic gravestone in Tbilisi opens the door to a curious Georgian legend: that Putin was raised in the Georgian village of Metekhi

Carpets flying with a tailwind at the Hungarian Museum of Ethnography

According to the museum’s introduction, the exhibition presents “the rich heritage of Azerbaijani carpet art and its contemporary legacy”

Russian hero and related dead

In the cemetery of the Church of St. Bartholomew in Vyšší Brod, founded in 1259, stands an unusual grave: a simple concrete monument bearing a red star and a gold hammer and sickle, with the gilded inscription below

Hidden Stalins

There are places in the Caucasus where not only the faithful hide away, but Stalin himself prefers to stay out of curious eyes

On Victory Day

In front of the museum, next to Stalin’s former house and the empty pedestal of his monumental statue, a small group of hardcore fans stands excitedly with flags and flowers, ready to celebrate

Dissolving: The snake

Beard science

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