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Daria Kozyreva used 19th-century poetry and graffiti to protest Russia’s war on Ukraine. Ukraine has agreed to a full temporary ceasefire and accused Russia of stalling on a truce agreement. Putin ...

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ST PETERSBURG, April 18 (Reuters) - A Russian court handed down a prison sentence of nearly three years to Darya Kozyreva, a young activist who used 19th-century poetry and graffiti to protest the ...

A Russian court handed down a prison sentence of nearly three years to Darya Kozyreva, a young activist who used poetry and graffiti to protest the conflict in Ukraine. Google CEO Sundar Pichai ...

Stuart H. Goldberg, a professor of Russian at the Georgia Institute of Technology spoke on Wednesday about the process of poets signaling, and readers interpreting, the authenticity of a work at ...