Howard Amos
Editor at Carnegie Politika
Writer at Freelance
Mostly Russia. Author @BloomsContinuum & editor @CEIP_Politika. My book 'Russia Starts Here - Real Lives in the Ruins of Empire' is out now
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3 days ago |
fivebooks.com | Howard Amos |Lucy Ash |Benjamin Nathans |Alexei Navalny
Russia is a lot in the news at the moment, but the Pushkin House Book Prize has been around for a while. For those who don’t know it, could you say a bit about the prize and what kind of books you, as judges, were looking for? The Pushkin House Book Prize has been awarded annually since 2013 to celebrate the best nonfiction book written in relation to Russia. Indeed, the judges’ attention extends beyond Russia. Russia’s imperial legacies, for example, are very much on the agenda now.
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2 weeks ago |
ourcommunitynow.com | Howard Amos
Share To the west of Russia's Ural Mountains lies a picturesque body of water called Nuclear Lake. It's difficult to access, and visitors have to travel north by boat along the Kolva and Visherka rivers from the small town of Nyrob, where the tsars once exiled their political opponents. The lake itself, which is about 690m (2,300ft) at its widest point, is not linked directly to the dozens of nearby waterways, and the final approach is on foot along a boggy track.
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2 weeks ago |
bbc.com | Howard Amos
The Soviet plan to reverse Siberia's rivers with 'peaceful nuclear explosions'Andrei FadeevIn the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia's rivers flowing south, instead of its natural route north. The project was a grand failure – but 50 years on, the idea still won't completely go away. To the west of Russia's Ural Mountains lies a picturesque body of water called Nuclear Lake.
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2 weeks ago |
flipboard.com | Howard Amos
A 3D Model Reveals What the Parthenon and Its Interior Looked Like 2,500 Years AgoStanding atop the Acropolis in Athens as it has for nearly 2,500 years now, the Parthenon remains an impressive sight indeed. Not that those two and …
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1 month ago |
themoscowtimes.com | Michele A. Berdy |Howard Amos |Lucy Ash |Alexei Navalny
Pushkin House has announced the short list for this year’s Book Prize.
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RT @Pushkin_House: Excited to announce our Book Prize events! 📍5 Jun: @howardamos & @parfitt_tom 📍10 Jun: @DrRadchenko & @GulnazSharaf 📍13…
My first talk about 'Russia Starts Here' in London - this Wednesday (14th) at 19-00 at @KingsCollegeLon. Everybody welcome! You can sign up here (also available online): https://t.co/cW6xRFsGRy https://t.co/0l0mGXtG0H