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Google News: Moscow bistro serves wine, foie gras – and revolution
[Financial Times] - But walking through the red doors of “Zhan-Zhak”, as it is known to Muscovites, on Nikitsky Boulevard, just along the road from where the writer Nikolai Gogol once lived, is like crossing the front line from occupied territory into a rebel sanctuary.
Guardian: Russians express their frustration with explosion in political satire
[The Guardian] - The 19th century gave birth to some of the finest satirical writers: Ivan Krylov, Mikhail Saltykov-Schehdrin, Nikolai Gogol and numerous other Russian writers ridiculed social injustice, corruption and petty tyranny – as endemic in Russia then as they
Guardian: The Government Inspector – review
[The Guardian] - In Roddy Doyle's new adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's political satire, the laughter seems very comfortable. Doyle retains the Russian names and plot from the original, but updates the language with a colloquial Irish flavour and contemporary
Guardian: Literary giant Nikolai Gogol opens new chapter in rivalry ...
On 200th anniversary of Nikolai Gogol's birth bickering neighbours lay claim to writer and vie for legacy.
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