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MOSCOW (Sputnik) – There is no reason to believe that the Russian ruble will be unstable in the upcoming year, Russia’s Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Thursday. The Russian currency exchange rate is mainly affected by sanctions and fluctuations in energy…
PARIS (Sputnik) – A printing house of a major regional French newspaper, Ouest-France, was locked down during the night into Thursday by protesters claiming allegiance to the “yellow vest” movement, the newspaper said in a statement. “A group of protesters, who…
For a lot of people, the major news stories in 2018 — from the midterm elections to the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court confirmation battle — just went by in an endless scroll of push notifications. It’s easy to get lost…
Illustration by Cari Vander Yacht The word of 2018 is “justice,” according to Merriam-Webster. The art world paved the way last year, when the collector and philanthropist Agnes Gund launched the Art for Justice Fund (with the Ford Foundation), dedicated…
I was not born a Bendel’s girl. Raised in a middle-class household thirty minutes north of Manhattan, I was weaned on malls—strip malls, outlet malls, underground malls. If I associated upscale department stores with anything, I associated them with food.…
US stocks enjoyed the greatest single-day increase in their history a day after Christmas, only two days after suffering their worst single-day decline, the Dow Jones Industrial Average and other indices revealed. The Dow gained 1,086.25 points on the day’s trading —…
