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1) Dead Time
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Russian
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The book by researcher Svetlana Eremeeva is an analysis of the representations of military funerals in 2022 in the public space. The author sought to find out not so much how military men are buried today, but what it means for their loved ones, for society and the state as a whole. By defining the contours of the lifeworlds behind the wires of the dead, the author shows the untenability of the rhetoric about "brotherly" peoples of hardly a single...
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English Russian Bilingual children's book. Perfect for kids learning English or Russian as their second language.
In this children's book, you meet a girl named Amanda who has a habit of wasting her time. That is until, one day, something magical happens and Amanda finally realizes that time is the most precious thing we have-and that once it is wasted, it is lost forever. In order to get her lost time back, Amanda goes on a journey and learns to...
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Russian
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Follows five ordinary Russians living in extraordinary times, from their sheltered Soviet childhood, to the collapse of the Soviet Union during their teenage years, to the constantly shifting political landscape of post-Soviet Russia. Together, these childhood classmates paint a complex picture of the dreams and disillusionments of those raised behind the Iron Curtain.
4) Oblomov
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Russian
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A moving adaptation of Ivan Goncharov's great 19th century tragi-comedy novel about a gentle aristocrat who would rather sleep than compete in a modern world of expanding industrialization.
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Russian
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Krasnohorivka: a town on the front lines of the war-torn region of Eastern Ukraine. When poet/filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk first visits the Trofymchuk-Gladky family home, she is surprised by what she finds: while the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, single parent Anna and her four children are managing to keep their home as a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Every member of the family has a passion for cinema, so it feels natural...
6) Zerkalo
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Russian
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Tarkovsky's looking glass is not merely cracked but shattered and we see the jagged, jumbled reflections of its shards, images of Tarkovsky's childhood mixed with fragments of his adult life--a child's wartime exile, a mother's experience with political terror, the breakup of a marriage, life in a country home--all intermingled with slow-motion dream sequences and poetic chunks of stark newsreels.
7) The duelist
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Russian
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Returning to Saint Petersburg after a long exile, the dashing Yakovlev, a retired army officer, makes a comfortable living by winning other people's duels. An enigmatic, focused, and extremely skilled professional, he leaves a trail of dead bodies behind him as he swirls through polite society. But when Yakovlev meets the naive young Prince Tuchov and his beautiful sister, Princess Martha, the normally cold-hearted mercenary is surprised by hitherto...
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Russian
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The Ascent tracks two Byelorussian peasant soldiers - one on the path to redemption, the other to hell - as they try to evade Nazi forces during World War II.
Wings: Suffocated by modern-day living, a buttoned-down headmistress reminisces about her glory days as a World War II pilot.
12) Hipsters
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Russian
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While the Cold War heats up on the world stage, rebellious youth in 1955 Moscow wage a cultural battle against dismal Soviet conformity, donning brightly colored black-market clothing, adopting American nicknames and reveling in forbidden jazz.
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Russian
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"'Churov i Churbanov' -- polnyĭ kinoshnoĭ dvizhukhi korotkiĭ roman s nepredskazuemym si͡uzhetom i gustoĭ, mrachnovatoĭ piterskoĭ atmosferoĭ. Zhivëshʹ-zhivëshʹ, i vdrug vyi͡asni͡aetsi͡a, chto u tebi͡a estʹ dvoĭnik, chʹë serdt͡se bʹëtsi͡a sinkhronno s tvoim. Da ne prosto dvoĭnik, a tvoĭ byvshiĭ odnoklassnik: otlichnik ili, naoborot, podozritelʹnyĭ tip, s kotorym u tebi͡a reshitelʹno nichego obshchego v zhizni bytʹ ne...
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"In this book, there are no secrets. For over a century we've been welcome in Muromtsev apartment in one of the old houses in Moscow. Their joys and losses, hopes and disappointments reflect the history of their country. As with any family who had to live in the 20th century. A song on the radio, books and clothes in the closet, scanty or abundant food for the family table are witnesses sometimes more truthful than the people themselves. One need...
18) Tolstovskiĭ dom
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Russian
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"A novel about the lives of several families living in the famous Tolstoy apartment building in St. Petersburg. This book is about their lives, full of disappointments and success, the last few decades, and so on."--
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