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A Russian court has increased the sentence handed down to a former employee of late Kremlin opponent Alexei Navalny by two years to nine and a half years in prison. On Tuesday, a court in the city of Ufa in the Urals upheld an appeal by the public prosecutor's office against the sentence for allegedly creating an "extremist organization" in June 2023 and increased the sentence for Lilia Chanysheva, Navalny's team announced. Internationally, detained supporters of Navalny are considered political prisoners of the repressive Russian power apparatus. The spokesman for Navalny's team, Kira Yarmysh...
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The classical music conductor Michael Boder has died at the age of 65, Vienna's Musiktheater an der Wien announced on Monday. The musician died on Sunday in the Austrian capital. He had been conducting rehearsals there for a project to mark the 150th anniversary of Arnold Schönberg's birth. Boder was considered a specialist for the music of the 20th and 21st centuries, conducting world premieres by composers such as Germany's Hans Werner Henze, Manfred Trojahn and Aribert Reimann, and Poland's Krzysztof Penderecki. Stefan Herheim, the artistic director of the Musiktheater an der Wien, praised ...
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The late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia will receive the "Freedom Prize of the Media" from a leading German forum this year, with Julia Navalnaya set to accept the award in person. The prize is presented each year at the Ludwig Erhard Summit, named after the conservative former chancellor who came to power in the 1960s. It is awarded to public figures who have made a special commitment to freedom of expression, dialogue and democracy. Russian politician and former chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov received the award in 2023, with other past recipients including Ukrainian pr...
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The late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia will receive the "Freedom Prize of the Media" from a leading German forum this year, with Julia Navalnaya set to accept the award in person. The prize is presented each year at the Ludwig Erhard Summit, named after the conservative former chancellor who came to power in the 1960s. It is awarded to public figures who have made a special commitment to freedom of expression, dialogue and democracy. Russian politician and former chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov received the award in 2023, with other past recipients including Ukrainian pr...
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The late Russian dissident Alexei Navalny and his wife Yulia will receive the "Freedom Prize of the Media" from a leading German forum this year, with Julia Navalnaya set to accept the award in person. The prize is presented each year at the Ludwig Erhard Summit, named after the conservative former chancellor who came to power in the 1960s. It is awarded to public figures who have made a special commitment to freedom of expression, dialogue and democracy. Russian politician and former chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov received the award in 2023, with other past recipients including Ukrainian pr...
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Legally Blonde will return to screens as a spin-off TV series “inspired by the film”, it has been announced. Reese Witherspoon, who starred as pink-obsessed sorority girl Elle Woods in the original 2001 film, is revisiting the story as her production company Hello Sunshine confirmed it was behind the TV remake. While the plot remains under wraps, it is being written by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who created TV series Gossip Girl starring Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley and Ed Westwick. The duo also created teen drama The OC, starring Mischa Barton, Adam Brody and Olivia W...
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Legally Blonde will return to screens as a spin-off TV series “inspired by the film”, it has been announced. Reese Witherspoon, who starred as pink-obsessed sorority girl Elle Woods in the original 2001 film, is revisiting the story as her production company Hello Sunshine confirmed it was behind the TV remake. While the plot remains under wraps, it is being written by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, who created TV series Gossip Girl starring Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley and Ed Westwick. The duo also created teen drama The OC, starring Mischa Barton, Adam Brody and Olivia W...
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Skiing's glamour couple of Mikaela Shiffrin and Aleksander Aamodt Kilde have announced their engagement. American Shiffrin posted several photos of Norway's Kilde and herself with a sparkling ring in the Austrian city of Innsbruck early Friday, with Shffrin's spokeswoman confirming the news. The skiing and sports community was delighted, with French skier Alexis Pinturault, former US great Bode Miller and American sprint legend Allyson Felix among those to congratulate them in the comments section. Austrian ski jumper Eva Pinkelnig said "Yaaaayyyy (finally)", and Shiffrin's team-mate Breezy Jo...
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British-Austrian journalist Hella Pick has died in hospital in London at the age of 94. The news of her death was released on Thursday by her Austrian publisher, Czernin Verlag, who cited Pick's closest friends. Born in Vienna, Pick had to flee from the National Socialists to England as a child, where she made a career as a foreign affairs journalist and reported on world-changing events as a long-standing correspondent for The Guardian newspaper. Pick was regarded as a pioneering female journalist, particularly in the field of foreign policy reporting. She covered the Cuban Missile Crisis and...
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The German Benedictine monk Notker Wolf has died, according to his abbey in Bavaria, St Ottilien. He was 83 years old. Wolf died while travelling from Italy back to Germany, according to St Ottilien. His publishing house, Herder, also confirmed his death on Wednesday. Wolf was known among German Catholics for his writing, his outspoken political views - and as a rock musician and electric guitarist, earning the nickname "The Rocking Abbot." His name was repeatedly floated as a potential candidate to become a bishop in Bavaria. "Notker Wolf was one of the defining faces of Christianity in Germa...
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