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The Russian Navy Murders
Read more...There was a murder ring operating at the Admiralty in St Petersburg... Rather like the infamous “kill squad” of US army soldiers implicated in the Maywand District murders in Afghanistan in 2010, Russian naval cadets were going out and killing people – local citizens – purely for the fun of it and then boasting about it to their fellow servicemen. Besides five murders in St Petersburg alone (this...
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Worldbackwards: The Elena Basner Case
Read more...On 16 July 2014, a major retrospective of Kazimir Malevich opened at the Tate Modern in London. But the woman responsible for the cardinal redating of Malevich ’s canvases and a radical reassessment ...
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Broken China: Plagiarism at the Hermitage
Read more...On 7 December 2014, the Hermitage Museum grandly celebrated its 250th anniversary. The programme of events included a dazzling light show on Palace Square, the opening of a new wing in the General St...
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Comparison of Samples of Khmelnitskaya with Original Text of Natalia Sipovskaya
Read more...Chapter I Natalia Sipovskaya: ?? ??????? «????????????? ????» ??????? ???? ???????????? ????????, ????????? ???? ? ????? ??????? ????????? ??? ??? ????????? ?? ??????? ????????????, ? ???????????? ??...
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Comparison of Khmelnitskaya with Original Text of Alexandra Troschinskaya
Read more...Alexandra Troschinskaya: ????? ?? ?????? ?????????? «?????????» ??????????, ?????????? ?? ???? ??????, ??? ?????? ??????????. ?? ??????? ???? ? ?????? ?????????? ??????? ????? ? ??????? ? ?????????? ...
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