Word: nihilisme
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Magnitsky's death has triggered a wave of public discussion in Russia - reaching as high as the Kremlin - about the squalid conditions in the country's jails and bureaucratic incompetence. But it has also renewed focus on an odious criminal practice that embodies what President Dmitry Medvedev describes as the...
And he promises his next project won't deviate much from his trademark nihilism. He starts shooting next summer what he describes through stifled laughs as "a film about the decomposition and the humiliation of the human body in old age." Sounds like vintage Haneke - no soppy happy ending in...
The failure to provide opportunities for all its Muslim population is another way in which Germany's unwillingness to think big has hurt it. Germany is fundamentally a strong and cohesive society. Sour Ossis and disaffected immigrant communities do not threaten a new Weimar or a revival of the nihilism...
Indeed, in Cortázar’s hands, all the possible consolations to which his characters turn—“vodka and Kantian categories,” love or political action—inevitably become only “tranquilizers against any too sharp coagulation of reality...
Gill emphasizes that the decision may have been a cynical move, one not indicative of the broader "Medvedev Spring" - a trend towards liberalization that some in the media have been noting since Medvedev took office in May 2008. "I think it's too early to judge to what extent there...