01 April 2020

Holy Martyr Abraham of the Volga Bulghars

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Saint Abraham of Bolgar Today, the calends of April, is the feast-day in the Holy Orthodox Church of another Turkic martyr for the Christi...
30 March 2020

Amangeldy: Batyr and Kóterilis through a Soviet lens

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Amankeldi İmanov (Elýbaı Ámirzaqov) and Balym (Shara Jıenqulova) in Amangeldy Before, I made the claim that the Sergei Eisenstein film Iva...

Shaman: A taiga duet for the violin and Jew’s harp

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Dmitri (Igor Gotesman) and his horse in Shaman I confess, I was a bit gun-shy of joint French productions set in northern or central Asia,...

Beloe solntse pustyni: a deserving cult-classic Ostern

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Rahimov (Musa Dudaev) and Suhov (Anatolii Kuznetsov) in Beloe solntse pustyni Ваше благородие, госпожа Разлука, Все мы с ней не встретим...
29 March 2020

Holy Hieromartyr Markos of Arethousa, Holy Deaconmartyr Kyrillos of Heliopolis and all those with them

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Saint Markos of Arethousa القديس مرقس الرستني The twenty-ninth of March, in the Holy Orthodox Church, is the feast day of Saint Markos of ...
28 March 2020

Jordanes: critic of phyletism?

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Goths at the Battle of Hadrianople One of the books I have been reading recently is De origine actibusque Getarum , a unique and precious ...
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Brat 2: ‘Are y’all gangsters?’ ‘No, we are Russians.’

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Danila Bagrov (Sergei Bodrov, Jr) in Brat 2 Aleksei Balabanov’s sequel to Brat , Brat 2 , is at once quite a bit more and quite a bit les...