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By John Helmer, Moscow The idea that a picture is worth a thousand words is only a century old. As old, that is, as publishing newspapers profitably has depended on selling advertisements to catch the eye of credulous readers. Released in London yesterday, pictures of two Russians suspected of poisoning Sergei and Yulia Skripal on […]
by Editor - Wednesday, September 5th, 2018
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By John Helmer, Moscow Botanists can’t say for certain how many hoary old chestnuts, if planted in the right conditions, will turn into a stand of Castanea sativa; that’s the botanical name for chestnut trees. It’s more certain that when Oxford University recently published a book of interviews with eighty wealthy Russians, conducted by a […]
by Editor - Wednesday, September 5th, 2018
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