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From TAC’s Bookshelf: How do you say “Save the Whales” in Russian?
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From TAC’s Bookshelf: How do you say “Save the Whales” in Russian?
The Pushkin House Book Prize is celebrating its 11th awards year with six shortlisted books that represent a wide range of scholarship — and memories —about Russia, past and present.
Ryan Jones (The Conversation)–Every year, an estimated 13 million people go whale-watching around the world, marveling at the sight of the largest animals ever to inhabit Earth. It’s a dramatic reversal from...
The Soviet Union was a latecomer to industrial whaling, but it slaughtered whales by the thousands once it started and radically under-reported its take to international monitors.
The history of Soviet whaling belongs to anyone who looks out to sea and sees nothing.