Recruitment advertising for the Russian Army
Recruitment advertising for the Russian Army featuring the slogan, “People are not born heroes — they are self-made,” in 2023 in Ivolginsk, Russia. Credit... Nanna Heitmann for The New York Time
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A SPECIAL RUSSIAN FLIGHT TO WASHINGTON
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more WEAPONS AND SECURITY BY STEPHEN BRYEN A SPECIAL RUSSIAN FLIGHT TO WASHINGTON Have Negotiations Started? Stephen Bryen Dec 30 [via email] A Special Flight Squadron Il-96 departed Moscow at 0919 in the morning, went on to St. Petersburg where it landed at 1016. At 1215 it departed St. Petersburg for New York, an 11 hour 52 minute flight, arriving at 12:10 AM, December 26. It would leave New York at 0834 and arrive in Washington at 0927 after a 53 minute flight. It would remain in Washington until later that afternoon, departing Dulles Airport at 16:49 (4:49 PM). According to the official Russian spokesperson, Maria Zakharova, the flight was arranged for "another rotation of diplomats." If the flight actually brought high level official interlocutors to Washington for meetings, the meetings could have lasted no more than a few hours. It is about a 50 minute trip from Dulles to downtown DC, but the meetings could have bee...
A Cultural Casualty of the War in Ukraine: ‘The Nutcracker’
Lithuania’s national opera house had stopped showing Tchaikovsky’s 1892 masterpiece in solidarity with Ukraine over the war with Russia. Then a new minister expressed fondness for the Russian composer, igniting a furor. Lithuanian’s National Opera and Ballet Theater during intermission at the ballet “Les Millions d’Arlequin” in Vilnius this month. Credit... Andrej Vasilenko for The New York Times By Andrew Higgins and Jenny Gross Andrew Higgins reported from Vilnius, Lithuania, and Jenny Gross from Brussels. The New York Times , Published Dec. 22, 2024 Updated Dec. 24, 2024 Unimpressed by the substitute for Tchaikovsky’s “Nutcracker,” the mother and her young daughter left at the intermission, a small protest over a decision by the opera house not to perform the Russian composer’s Christmas classic. “Everything about ‘The Nutcracker’ is much better — the music, the dance, the story,” said Egle Brediene, 38, hurrying out of Lithuanian National Opera and ...