Smolensk Cemetery, Saint Petersburg Just as a miraculous icon chooses its own path — one we may sometimes trace through history into the present moment, without knowing where it will end in the future — so it happens that saints find their way to us.Even when we think there is…
Posts Written onAugust 2025
The Enchanted World of Sergei Parajanov
ArmeniaAt least four countries — Armenia, Georgia, Ukraine, and Russia — claim him as their own. Yet he, like every true genius, belongs to no one and to everyone. The Color of Pomegranates was the film that made him famous, but also the one that led to a ban on…
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Why is the Ulcinj Saltworks (Ir)relevant? The Ulcinj Saltworks is one of those tangled messes no one really wants to deal with. That’s probably the whole point with resources of immeasurable value—turn it into a bureaucratic knot that people won’t fight over too much, and then privatize it for next…