April 22, 2021 Share
Police arrested nearly 1,500 people Wednesday during a day of demonstrations throughout Russia calling for freedom for imprisoned opposition leader Alexey Navalny, whose health reportedly is in severe decline after three weeks of hunger striking, according to a group that monitors political detentions.
The largest of the protests took place in Moscow, where thousands marched through the center city. Some of the people arrested were seized before the protests even began, including top Navalny associates in Moscow.
Navalny’s team called for the unsanctioned demonstrations after weekend reports that his health is deteriorating and his life was in danger.
For some, home is the house they grew up in. For others, it’s a country or a nation. Some find it in family, or in the arms of a lover, while others believe it’s where we go when we die. Some say home is the “
pale blue dot
” that is our planet, and still others believe it’s only a state of mind.
Despite a glorious rooftop view of the Empire State Building, when my rent doubled at the Garment District retail space where I was illegally living, I realized that New York City had become unlivable; worse, I had come to feel like a stranger anywhere else in my country of birth. I reasoned that it was time to make good on my longstanding threat of moving to Berlin. I boxed up my belongings, put them in a shipping container, and boarded a plane. I had no plan B, nor a plan A for that matter.
Project by BelTA s photographer on display in Hermitage
Oksana Manchuk with her works
SAINT PETERSBURG, 15 April (BelTA) – Works by BelTA s photographer Oksana Manchuk are on view in the State Hermitage Museum in Russia, BelTA has learned.
On 14-16 April, Saint Petersburg is hosting the 15th edition of the media forum of young journalists “Dialogue of Cultures”. The program of the forum includes the photo exhibition “Here I Live”. The exhibition is traditionally held in the Hermitage Museum. It showcases 300 works by 50 photographers.
Oksana Manchuk has presented eight works depicting the Student Village in Minsk. She worked on the project for one and a half years under the guidance of famous Russian photographer Yuri Kozyrev. “The project is called Babylon. It celebrates students who come from various foreign countries to study in Belarus. I wanted to show that despite their difficulties these young people have a lot in common,” Oksana Manchuk said.
Works by BelTA s photographer in Hermitage
Oksana Manchuk with her works
Works by BelTA s photographer Oksana Manchuk are on view in the State Hermitage Museum in Russia.
Oksana Manchuk has presented eight works depicting the Student Village in Minsk. She worked on the project for one and a half years under the guidance of famous Russian photographer Yuri Kozyrev. “The project is called Babylon. It celebrates students who come from various foreign countries to study in Belarus. I wanted to show that despite their difficulties these young people have a lot in common,” Oksana Manchuk said.
Photos by Oksana Manchuk
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A priceless treasure in the heart of Athens, the Numismatic Museum pays tribute to Greece’s integral role in the intricate history of coinage, serving as a key source of information on matters of economy from antiquity and beyond.
Housing a collection of over 500,000 coins, medals, gems, weights, stamps and related artefacts from the 14th century BC to modern times, this collection constitutes one of the richest in the world, paralleled by those of the British Museum in London, the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, the Bode Museum in Berlin, and the American Numismatic Society in New York.