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Putin The Columnist
Russian PM Vladimir Putin has tried his hand at writing. For the first time in his career, the politician wrote a column for Russias media - the essay, entitled “Why is it hard to fire a person?”.
Remembering Solzhenitsyn
Thursday marks 90 years since the birth of the late Nobel Prize-winning author, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. He died this August at his home outside Moscow, leaving behind an enduring legacy.
Solzhenitsyn Dies
Reuters, Moscow in Russia, August 2008.
Russians are mourning Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the Soviet dissident writer and Nobel prize winner, who has died at the age of 89. He died at 23:45, Moscow time, Sunday - after a long time of illness. Solzhenitsyn’s son says his father worked up to the end, and died at home in [...]