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Construction workers in Berlin, view from above

Berlin Streetcar (Grosse Berliner Strassenbahn), 1924

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…

"A Guide to Berlin" is a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925 in Berlin. The first English translation was published inThe New Yorkeron March 1, 1976.

Satirical animation about an architect who designs a beautiful building only for it to be made increasingly bland by each bureaucrat he sees, so by the time they are built, it is just a generic apartment block.

Oil and gas pipelines in Central Asia. Note: The Kazakhstan-Chinese pipeline (green) from Atyrau (north of Aktau) to China is finished by now

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