Section: The Guardian (The United Kingdom)
The Guardian film show extra podcast: Sex change controversy, 1D or 007 and Emperor Palpatine takes back power
The Guardian’s daily film news podcast. Now showing… Tomboy thriller causes controversy, a younger – tuneful – James Bond and the shock election bringing Emperor Palpatine back into power … …read more Source: The...
‘Emperor Palpatine’ wins Ukraine city council election
A 25-year-old man who works as ‘emperor’ for ‘LLC Palpatine Finance Group’ won a local government seat during a race that saw many Star Wars-themed names in the runningThe PR campaign for Star Wars: The Force Awakens saw an unexpected and unintended boost this week after a candidate known as Emperor Palpatine won a seat during a...
Babushkas of Chernobyl trailer: women who refused to leave the dead zone – video
Watch the trailer for filmmakers Holly Morris and Anne Bogart’s documentary about the extraordinary survival story of the Ukrainian women who refused to leave their homes following the nuclear disaster in 1986. The film follows the community living and working within the exclusion zone, which also includes scientists, bureaucrats and...
Russian police detain director of Ukrainian library in Moscow
Investigative committee tells court to arrest Natalya Sharina over ‘anti-Russian propaganda’Russian police detained the director of a Ukrainian library in Moscow on suspicion of inciting ethnic hatred, in the latest twist of the ongoing standoff between the two nations.The Russian investigative committee said in a statement on Thursday it...
Chernobyl’s babushkas – the women who refused to leave the exclusion zone
A new documentary follows the unlikely rebel grandmothers who returned to their radioactive homes after the nuclear disasterOn 26 April 1986 the Chernobyl nuclear power plant’s reactor No 4 blew up after a cooling test. The resulting nuclear fire lasted 10 days, spewing 400 times as much radiation as the bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Today...
Putin’s nemesis | Natalia Antelava
Mikheil Saakashvili, the former president of Georgia, makes no secret of his hatred for the Kremlin. Now he has taken the fight to Ukraine – as the newly appointed governor of its most corrupt region. Can he survive long enough to make a difference?The governor was late. It was the end of a hot day in July, and 38 people, most of them women, sat...
Chewbacca arrested at Odessa polling station – video
The Star Wars character is detained at a polling station in Odessa on Sunday, when local elections were taking place across Ukraine. The man inside the costume was held for the ‘administrative offence’ of not being able to produce ID and was also fined 170 hryvnia (£5). He was reportedly apprehended when lending support to Darth...
Chewbacca in court over lack of ID while driving Darth Vader to Ukraine election
Star Wars character appears before court in Odessa after man inside costume failed to provide identity documentsThe Star Wars character Chewbacca has been dragged before a court in Odessa, in perhaps the most surreal episode in local elections across Ukraine that have been both hotly contested and full of dirty tricks.The man inside the costume...
Russia and Ukraine suspend direct flights between countries
Talks aimed at bringing trade war to and end fail as thousands of travellers and businesspeople now face arduous journeys between nationsDirect flights between Ukraine and Russia were grounded on Sunday, as mistrust between the two countries boiled over into a new trade war that could affect hundreds of thousands of people.“I never thought it...
Ukraine rebels expel Médecins Sans Frontières from region
Self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic blacklists international medical aid charity without giving reasons Rebels in Ukraine have ousted an international task force of doctors in the country’s war-torn east, denying thousands of civilians urgent medical care.The self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic has blacklisted...
