Josef Stalin: Last News

Eurovision Song Contest onto its wanted list.Jamala – real name Susana Alimivna Jamaladinova – was listed as being sought for violating a criminal law in the Interior Ministry database (via AP News). She was allegedly charged for spreading false information about the Russian military and the ongoing fighting in Ukraine after a law banning such was adopted last year.The singer won the 2016 singing contest with her song ‘1944’, which was named after the year that the Soviet Union deported Crimean Tatars, an annexation largely regarded as illegitimate by other countries who still viewed Crimea as a Ukrainian territory – nearly two years after Russia annexed Crimea, according to Pitchfork.A post shared by Jamala (@jamalajaaa)‘1944’ depicted the suffering endured by her ancestors during deportations under the regime of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, which caused further tension with Russia.According to AP News, Russia protested against the song from being allowed in the competition, saying it violated rules against political speech in Eurovision.

There’s a lot to take in and even more to process in American-Armenian director Michael Goorjian’s ambitious period piece: What he’s tilting at here is not beyond the realms of comedy, as Armando Iannucci proved with his 2017 jet-black satire The Death of Stalin. But tone is crucial, and Amerikatsi has a waywardness that too often undermines its intent — there’s a lot that works here and so much that doesn’t. There are moments that are sensitive, thoughtful, and really quite moving — in an elegant, silent-movie way — but the framing is so dark in its humor that many viewers may never make it to them.

Vladimir Putin has become “weak and pathologically suspicious”, a defence expert has said.Putin was slammed in the wake of a 10th anti-Putin oligarch being found dead. Pavel Pchelnikov, a 52-year-old PR manager for Russian Railways, was found shot dead at home in Kolomenskaya, Russia on Wednesday.

Chechnya, Crimea and now Ukraine in a bid to restore the historical Russian empire. Russia, and its successor state the USSR, has had more than its fair share of unscrupulous and often brutal leaders.

Jay Weissberg The 20th century is likely unique in laying claim to three sociopathic dictators whose complete disregard for humanity in either the individual or the collective has justifiably earned them the label “monsters.” Hitler, Mao and Stalin shredded utopian notions of moral progress, their crimes exposing the inadequacy of language to convey the scale of their atrocities while sending psychologists tripping over themselves in an attempt to explain the nature of evil.True to form, Sergei Loznitsa (“The Event,” “Maidan”) doesn’t attempt to explain the unfathomable, and he makes language subservient to the image because he knows that words lie.

Also on this day: Utah is admitted as the 45th state.The U.S. Supreme Court, in Gonzalez v.