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1. Telegram Founder in Hot Water

What fate awaits billionaire Telegram founder Pavel Durov?

Tags: france, VKontakte, Telegram
2. The Post that Angered a City

The wife of a Novosibirsk legislator mocked the city on Instagram, leading to questions about her lifestyle.

Tags: corruption, france, Instagram, politics, united russia, novosibirsk
3. Russian Artists Crash the Pompidou

Russian artists brought unauthorized performance art to Paris's biggest contemporary art museum. 

Tags: anti-war, dissent, performance art, france, art
4. A Dead Man Is Sending Bones

The French embassy in Moscow received a package from Crimea with bones inside. The sender was a dead Italian producer.

Tags: Moscow, international relations, packages, france, Crimea
5. Punk Rock, Folklore, and Putin

In which we unpack what Putin had to say about Ukraine while in France and what it's got to do with a punk band and a folk ditty.

Tags: Ukraine, international relations, france, vladimir putin
6. French in Russian

In this issue's language insert, we look at French words that have made their way into Russian. (Link to article downloads PDF of the page.)

Tags: france, french
7. Provence Pastoral

On Vladimir Nabokov’s little known hiatus as a farm hand.

Tags: russian emigres, france, nabokov
8. French Treat

This year marks the 235th anniversary of the birth of Antonin Carême, a French chef who left his mark on Russian cuisine in the form of the dessert known in Russia as sharlotka and everywhere else as charlotte Russe.

Tags: france, sharlotka

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