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1 week ago | 
fivebooks.com | Edward Wong |Anne Applebaum |Mishal Husain |Victoria Amelina
At the Edge of Empire: A Family's Reckoning with China Growing up, Edward Wong didn’t hear his father talk much about the older man’s life in China. Perhaps that’s why Wong found himself retracing the elder Wong’s footsteps through the borderlands of the Chinese empire, in his work as the New York Times’s Beijing correspondent.
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Feb 24, 2025 | 
lawliberty.org | Victoria Amelina |Nadya Williams |Thomas Powers |Robert G. Natelson
In the gym of a Ukrainian kindergarten named Fairy Tale, there is a shell hole. It happened on February 17, 2022—a week before Russian tanks rolled over the border and this round of the invasion officially began. It presaged worse to come—more tearing of any imagined border between the fairytale world, where the wicked are always punished, and this world, where the evils of war are all too real.
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Jul 19, 2024 | 
brickmag.com | Ronna Bloom |Victoria Amelina |Grace Mahoney |Thomas Larson
The day I discover I’ve been catfished, I walk into the local library because I don’t know where to put myself. I am bewildered. Wander among the books. A white police officer is talking to a Black security guard. On my way out, I hear him ask, “Do you want to file a criminal charge?” I don’t hear the answer. It’s teeming with rain as I walk up Bathurst Street, loud with cars. A bus splashes, and I jump out of the way. A man chuckles behind me, and I jump again, but this time a yell comes out.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
michaeljudge.substack.com | Victoria Amelina
It seems an eternity, but today marks the one-year anniversary of the cowardly Russian missile attack that killed the gifted writer and TFP friend Victoria Amelina. The Ukrainian poet, novelist, essayist, and documenter of Russian war crimes was mortally wounded on June 27, 2023, in an attack on a civilian target—a popular family restaurant—in Kramatorsk, Ukraine. The mother of a young son, Victoria hung on for five days before finally succumbing to her injuries on July 1. She was 37.
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Jun 26, 2024 | 
brickmag.com | Victoria Amelina |Grace Mahoney |Andrea Zimmerman |Thomas Larson
Ne m’oubliez pasThe first meat dishes at the home on Lepky were a sham. The Tsilyks don’t even have enough food for themselves. So I’ve had to get used to pearl barley, buckwheat, and pasta. Animal bones are first used for thin soup broth, and only after that do they come to me. I didn’t feel like hunting before—so now this is what I have. But I am here temporarily. I still believe I will return to Novers’k.
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Apr 6, 2024 | 
losandes.com.ar | Maria Gonzalez |María González |Mauricio Videla |Sandra Conte |Victoria Amelina
El pronóstico del tiempo anticipa que, por lo menos hasta este domingo, las temperaturas serán muy veraniegas en la provincia de Mendoza. Pese a ser una noticia desalentadora para el “team otoño”, los días serán agradables e ideales para pasear por la ciudad. En este sentido, la Dirección de Contingencias Climáticas anticipó un sábado con nubosidad variable, leve ascenso de la temperatura, vientos leves del noreste e inestabilidad por la mañana.
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Aug 18, 2023 | 
razon.com.mx | Victoria Amelina
Tras la caída del Muro de Berlín, en 1989, muchos creyeron que las fronteras se borrarían. Recuerdo cantar "Wind of Change", del grupo alemán Scorpions, en 1990 en un campamento de verano internacional cerca de Pskov, entonces parte de la Unión Soviética. Sentía que la letra me hablaba: “El mundo se está cerrando / ¿alguna vez pensaste / que podíamos ser unidos como hermanos?”. ¿Éramos “hijos del mañana” que soñaban con un futuro mejor? ¿Dónde estamos ahora?
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Aug 7, 2023 | 
newyorker.com | Victoria Amelina
only women testify in this strange town one speaks of a missing child two speak of the tortured in the basement three repeat what rapes and avert their eyes four speak of the screams from the military headquarters five speak of the executed in their own yards six speak but are incomprehensible seven check food supplies counting out loud eight call me a liar because there is no justice nine talk on their way to the cemetery I’m also on my way because I know them all in this town its survivors...
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Jul 22, 2023 | 
desk-russie.eu | Victoria Amelina
Dans cet essai écrit en mars 2022 au début de la guerre d’agression russe en Ukraine, et publié par la revue en ligne Eurozine, Victoria Amelina, jeune écrivaine ukrainienne tuée récemment par un tir de missile à Kramatorsk, se penche sur la « Renaissance fusillée ». L’expression désigne la génération d’écrivains et d’artistes ukrainiens assassinés par le régime soviétique dans les années 1930, et la riche culture qui a été détruite ou qui n’a jamais eu l’occasion de voir le jour.
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Jul 7, 2023 | 
lavanguardia.com | Victoria Amelina
Capítulo 1Un caniche como armaLos perros no se miran en los espejos. Pero a pesar de no haberme visto nunca, no me cuesta adivinar qué aspecto tengo. Soy un caniche blanco, demasiado alto, con una melena abundante y despeinada y unas garras delicadas en las patas. Además, los pelos de mi oreja izquierda son notablemente más oscuros y tienen un color amarillento parduzco. Oí cómo lo decían cuando me compraron. “¡Es defectuoso!”, exclamaron.
