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Genome mapping reveals the tensions between ‘origins’ and ‘homelands’. Our genetic ‘origins’ are probabilistic, not deterministic, because they show our ancestors’ mobility across space, not that they were born into a ‘homeland’ within a particular…

Washington Post article — reflections on the significance of it all

Kharkiv deputy head Ihor Terekhov comments on the "illegal" removal of the monument and reveals the plan to have it re-erected.

Project for the New Church of the Holy Sepulchre
1939-1940
Luigi Marangoni & Antonio Barluzzi, architects

In this New York Review of Books piece, Vladimir Sorokin reflects on the symbolism of the toppled monuments, drawing parallels and making distinctions between how it was done in Russia in 1991 and in Ukraine in 2014, and raising the question of what…

Sasha Senderovich's NYT op-ed on the toppling of the Lenin statue in Kiev

a history of the Lenin statue in Kiev (toppled in December 2013)

Body parts from the demolished statue made available for sale online to earn monetary support for pro-Kiev volunteer battalions in the east.

This map of the Caspian was created by Guillaume Delised and was based on recent information collected by Carl Vanverden in 1719, 1720 and 1721 at the request of tsar Peter I. The first map of the Caspian based on relatively accurate observations of…

photographs of the toppled Lenin statue in Kiev