Chechens, Crimean Tatars and people from the former Soviet republics, all with deep historical grievances against Moscow, are eagerly taking up arms for Kyiv.
The Holodomor commemoration came as President Vladimir V. Putin was accused of using missile strikes on Ukraine’s power grid to freeze the country into submission.
Memorial typically conducts a marathon reading of the names, ages, professions and dates of death of those killed under Stalin, but it had to find other ways to honor the victims after the authorities banned it.
The 1934 opera, revived this season at the Metropolitan Opera, stoked the ire of the Soviet state, or so the story goes. But archives tell a more interesting tale.