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August 20, 2014 Marina Galperina

Sixteen-year-old Lolita Richie has never even heard of “racist space alien” Valeria Lukyanova, she claims. Aspiring to internet fame and anatomy-defying “living doll” aesthetics, “I’m the ultimate vamp woman,” the teenager tells the Daily Mail. And so it begins. Lolita boasts just 40 followers on Russian social network VK page. Her 33-year-old mother, former actress Anya Richi, takes photos of Lolita dressed up in Anya’s old […]

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March 1, 2013 Eugene Reznik

In January, Melville House reported a story about the Nabokov Museum at his estate outside St. Petersburg being vandalized by a group “unable,” among other things, “to separate fact from fiction.” It had a tone vaguely reminiscent of an Onion piece and described how a small group, going by some combination of “Orthodox Cossacks” and “free […]

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