Tag: Fabio Capanni

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After swapping the conservatory for the computer screen, the Catalan vocalist and pianist Marina Herlop was forced to play a waiting game as it took two years for her debut album Pripyat to be released. Picturing herself as a domestic gardener, a stubborn horticulturalist who might prune her ornamentals only after first raking the muck and planting some seeds,...

Between 1949 and 1989, the Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests on the steppe of northeast Kazakhstan, south of the valley of the Irtysh River. Exposing an estimated 1.5 million people to fallout while reshaping their surrounds, by 1989 the author Olzhas Suleimenov had helped to establish Nevada Semipalatinsk, one of the first anti-nuclear movements in the Soviet Union....