Stalin's Favorite Cartoonist Still Drawing at 104
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Adolf Hitler wanted him executed as soon as German forces took Moscow.
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The poll conducted by European football journalists from 52 countries organised by France Football magazine, voted for the 28-year-old Ukrainian for his outstanding scoring record for Milan since he joined the Italian side in 1999.
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This collection brings together nearly three decades of Roz ChastÂs cartoons, which capture the oddness, discontinuity and plain absurdity of the world around us.
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Viktor Schreckengost, an artist and prolific industrial designer whose ubiquitous works ranged from familiar toys and White House porcelain to innovative trucks and even lawn mowers, has died. He was 101.
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The dark comedy is stirring memories of a former dictator known for rights abuses and a tough line on Pyongyang.
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DRESDEN, Germany -- When the Nazis came to power, Fritz Glaser was a marked man. A wealthy Jewish lawyer, he was also well known as a collector of modern art -- works condemned by Hitler as "degenerate" and soon banned under the Third Reich.
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Thousands of versions of Pinch, which comes in Russian and English language versions, are still circulating on the Internet.
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The last major post-communist brewery is still in state hands for now. But an American rival looms large
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Igor Zhukov tears a small orange sticker reading "Yushchenko! Yes" from a huge portrait of the smiling Viktor Yanukovych on Lenin Square in the center of Donetsk.
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THEY were always a bolshie lot at The Age, which may account for the newspaper's old nickname of "the Spencer Street Soviet". And little has changed as the paper approaches the dual milestones of Sunday's 150th ...
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VLADIKAVKAZ, Russia -- In a terrifying videotape, 10-year-old Georgy Farniyev sat near a bomb, his hands behind his head and his face a mask of misery. He looked certain to die, but survived through luck, self-possession beyond his years, and enough grit to pull shrapnel out of his own arm.
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Once a month, our nationally syndicated cartoonist, Ed Gamble, gives readers a chance to enter his humorous world.  He draws a cartoon. You get to imagine the caption.  Ed selects his favorite, and the winner receives a signed copy.
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NORTHEASTERN STATION, Russia  - When Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev died and the Communist propaganda machine organized a mass outpouring of grief, Sergei Zimov hardly noticed.
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STOCKHOLM-The last major work of renowned Russian painter Ilya Repin will be auctioned off in Sweden in December, after being tucked away in a private collection for 50 years.
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THE BACKGROUND: Street protests in Kazakhstan 20 years ago this weekend foreshadowed the demise of the Soviet Union four years later, but an ex-communist still rules the country and many Kazakhs still harbor grievances.
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The late Salvador Dali, the world-famed surrealist painter, born in the Spanish fishing village of Figueres, would have been 100 this year.
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"My terror is that we will reach old age abandoned"  As a police officer, Luigi Marzano was used to being in command. He still walks ramrod straight, but at 97 and deep into retirement, his memory is weakening and he has turned over command of his household to a virtual stranger half his age.Rita Duda, who left Ukraine in search of work, lays out caffe latte and cookies each day for Marzano's breakfast, shops for him, and, every afternoon after his nap accompanies him to a bench on the corner, which he shares with ladies and gentlemen in their 70s and 80s while their caretakers _ Ukrainians, Moldavians, Poles and Romanians _ catch up on gossip. Read more