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Sunday, December 22, 2024

‘Nutcracker’ Is a Casualty of a ‘Quarantine’ of Russian Culture in Lithuania by Andrew Higgins and Jenny Gross

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 Ru…

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Monday, March 19, 2018

2,000 Years Before #MeToo, a Central Asian Epic of Girl Power by Andrew Higgins

The new telling of “Forty Girls,” which mixes video, songs and traditional and modern music, is a bold departure for a Muslim country, especially Uzbekistan.

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