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Three near-identical Boris Vishnevskys on St Petersburg election ballot

theguardian.com
2025-12-302021-09-07 by Andrew Roth
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Russian opposition politicians are used to finding spoiler candidates with identical surnames running against them in order to confuse voters at the polls. Now it appears that the impersonators are changing their faces as well. That’s what Boris Vishnevsky, a … Read more

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Soviet TV version of Lord of the Rings rediscovered after 30 years

theguardian.com
2025-12-302021-04-05 by Andrew Roth
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A Soviet television adaptation of The Lord of the Rings thought to have been lost to time was rediscovered and posted on YouTube last week, delighting Russian-language fans of JRR Tolkien. The 1991 made-for-TV film, Khraniteli, based on Tolkien’s The … Read more

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