News about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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www.dailymail.co.uk, December 28, 2023
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After months of solitary confinement, Putin can't break Alexei Navalny: He's already dreaming about being Santa from his new Arctic prison cell

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 27, 2023
The FKU IK-3 penal colony is a Soviet-era prison camp located deep inside the Arctic Circle, 1,200 miles north-east of Moscow. It is expected to be one of Russia's toughest prisons, with the temperature expected to decrease to minus 28 degrees over the next week. It was revealed on Monday that it was the new home of President Putin's public enemy No. 1 Alexei Navalny. Now we know where he was missing during a 20-day period for his criminal team: in transit from Penal Colony No. 6 - a mere 150 miles from Moscow - to the frozen north.

Why can some wines be matured in bottles for years and others can't?

www.dailymail.co.uk, December 27, 2023
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS: The ability of a wine to age and improve in the bottle is dependent on several variables, and not all wines are suitable or intended for long-term storage. Tannins are found in grape skins, seeds, and stems, as well as in oak barrels. Red wines have generally higher success than white wines. Tannins' preserve and assist wines in age gracefully. They will polymerise and soften over time, leading to a smoother texture in the wine. If you were to try a classic claret such as Chateau Margaux, Lafite, or Latour in its youth, it would have been astringent. The tannins would have softened to something deep, intricate, and alluring on the nose and palate after a decade or two. A wine must age for a long time and require its elements to develop in harmony. Tannins give structure and add oxidative capacity. The more tannin, the slower a wine will oxidize.

Laurence Fox holds a book about GULAGS as he is released on bail following arrest for 'conspiring to damage ULEZ cameras' - as actor says he only learned he was sacked from GB News while in a police station

www.dailymail.co.uk, October 4, 2023
After being arrested by officers, Fox posed for the cameras outside of Croydon's detention facility. He was seen scrunching a Tesco bag while simultaneously clutching a copy of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's book The Gulag Archipelago. A day after threatening to tear them down with an angle grinder, the 45-year-old political activist posted a video on X showing five police officers'storming his house.' As police officers arrived to search his house in south London, footage of the actor smoking a cigar in his living room revealed him. 'This, ladies and gentlemen, is the nation we live in.'

Jeopardy! Contestants mispronounced Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's name, causing the contestants to be disowned

www.dailymail.co.uk, May 11, 2023
Bialik, who has been split hosting duties with Ken Jennings since July, got a glimpse under the heading 'The Quotable Alex' on Tuesday. All sports said the competition was a challenge to compare selected quotations with the famous figures that referred to them. This particular clue related to Soviet dissident author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, an answer that all three contestants responded correctly, but without the correct spelling. As a result, the former Big Bang Theory and Blossom actor denied each competitor that the clue was correct, a decision that many people on the internet disagreed with.

Who do the high priests of cancel culture most resemble?The witch hunters of Salem

www.dailymail.co.uk, September 4, 2022
Charges of 'racism,'homophobia,'transphobia, 'transphobia,' and even "fascism' from activists (left) are common, and no evidence is required to obtain a 'cancellation.' Author J.K. Rowling (right) is one of the prey on social media for a prey. t's why school libraries have banned Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird (1960) (inset left) and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale (1985) (inset righ) after complaints about 'racist, homophobic, or misogynistic words and themes'.