Dmitry Kostyukov

Aug 3, 2024 | nytimes.com | Sarah Lyall |Rory Smith |Dmitry Kostyukov

For most of the athletes at the Paris Olympics, the accommodations are to be endured, rather than enjoyed. In the name of sustainability, the beds at the Olympic Village feature cardboard frames and inflatable mattresses. The bathrooms are communal. To the horror of the French, the British have even complained about the food. One group of competitors, though, has no such issues.

Jul 4, 2024 | nytimes.com | Aurelien Breeden |Aida Alami |Dmitry Kostyukov

In the 1980s, a French punk rock band coined a rallying cry against the country's far right that retained its punch over decades. The chant, still shouted at protests by the left, is "La jeunesse emmerde le Front National," which cannot be translated well without curse words, but essentially tells the far right to get lost. That crude battle cry is emblematic of what had been conventional wisdom not only in France, but also elsewhere - that young people often tilt left in their politics.

Jun 28, 2024 | nytimes.com | Catherine Porter |Dmitry Kostyukov

Equally stunned by the results, and worried about what might happen in the French legislative election that begins this Sunday, was the centrist mayor of Gourin, Hervé Le Floc'h. President Emmanuel Macron announced the snap election on June 9, after the far right trounced his party in the European elections. "We all have some family in the United States," said Mr. Floc'h from his office in city hall, which overlooks the mini Lady Liberty.

May 16, 2024 | nytimes.com | Catherine Porter |Dmitry Kostyukov

I fell in love with the Louvre one morning while doing disco moves to Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" in the Salle des Cariatides. The museum, a former medieval fortress and then royal palace, had not yet opened, and I was following instructions to catwalk and hip bump and point in the grand room where Louis XIV once held plays and balls.

May 14, 2024 | buffalonews.com | Dmitry Kostyukov

Docks Vauban, a mall with a cinema, restaurants, and high-end boutiques, in Le Havre, France, April 22, 2024. This often-overlooked city, France’s largest seaport, has a museum full of Impressionist canvases, intriguing architecture and a new energy. (Dmitry Kostyukov/The New York Times)