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In an article written specifically for Re: Russia, Daniel Treisman argues that this reverse evolution was caused not by the conservatism and imperial ambitions of the Russian population, as is commonly believed, but rather by the ongoing process of social modernisation, which Putin's spin dictatorship could no longer control. [5]
Sergei Maratovich Guriev (Russian: Серге́й Мара́тович Гури́ев, Ossetian: Гуыриаты Мараты фырт Сергей, romanized: Gwyriaty Maraty fyrt Sergej; born 21 October 1971) is a Russian economist, who is the dean and a professor of economics at the London Business School, prior to which he was the provost of the Institut d’études politiques in Paris ...
His mother, Anne Treisman, and father, Michel Treisman, [3] were experimental psychologists, while his stepfather was the Nobel Prize-winning social psychologist and pioneer of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman. Treisman’s older sister, Jessica, is a Professor of Cell Biology at New York University, [4] and his younger sister, Deborah, is ...
The Mauritanian is a 2021 legal drama film based on the memoir of Mohamedou Ould Slahi, [5] a Mauritanian man who was held from 2002 to 2016 without charge in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, a United States military prison.
The film tells about the shooting of a demonstration of workers in Novocherkassk in 1962.Lyudmila is a party worker of the local city committee, and a staunch communist. During a large workers' strike at the Novocherkassk Electric Locomotive Plant over rising food prices and cuts in wages, Lyudmila witnesses the mass shooting of demonstrators by order of the Government Commission, which is ...
In the winter of 1946, in Leningrad, a group of German prisoners of war are sent to a female transit camp by the cruel Russian Colonel Pavlov (John Malkovich).When they arrive, the Russian female soldiers show hostility to the prisoners on the grounds that have killed their families and friends; only Dr. Natalia (Vera Farmiga) and the cook treat the prisoners with dignity.
Sergei (Seryozha) Aleshkov loses his family, and the last remaining member of his family (his aunt) is captured by the Germans. Sergei is then rescued by an army regiment 142nd Guards Rifle Regiment of the 47th Guards Rifle Division). He is adopted by the unit commander, Commander Kuznetsov, and becomes the youngest member of a regiment in WWII.
The following night, Natalia lets Nick, Burton and a group of Russian mercenaries (Yuri, Sergei, Alexi, and Pavel) into the club. They find Julia, strung out, and escape the club in a shootout where only 2 of the Russian mercenaries, Yuri (Asen Blatechki), and Sergei (Antony Argirov) survive; Sergei has been badly wounded in the leg. They begin ...