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Christopher Vourlias For three small nations tucked away in a far corner of Northeastern Europe, wedged between the sprawling tundra of Scandinavia to the north and the lumbering bear of Russia in the east, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania have long realized their strength in numbers: In 1989, amid mass protests calling for independence from the Soviet Union, half a million people joined hands in a human chain stretching from Tallinn to Vilnius.

Abel Ferrara’s latest film, “Siberia,” finds his constant muse, Willem Dafoe, in an icy, isolated wasteland not explicitly meant to be the Russian tundra but rather an abstract plane of solitude. His character Clint, an English-speaking bartender out of place in this far-off land populated by indigenous peoples, follows the ambient energy of the area on a metaphysical journey through his own past.

Chess is a game of intense concentration, with silence only broken by the ticking of the timer. For composer Carlos Rafael Rivera, the task of scoring such a game in the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit was impossible, so he opted for a very different approach. Instead of scoring a game, he would score the player.

President Joe Biden and Russian President Vladimir Putin concluded their summit on Wednesday with an agreement to return their nations’ ambassadors to their posts in Washington and Moscow and a plan to begin work toward replacing the last remaining treaty between the two countries limiting nuclear weapons.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorAnimaccord, the Russian company behind one of the world’s top five children’s shows, animation series “Masha and the Bear,” has revealed plans to expand into longer-form content, including a feature film, as well as podcasts, tech-driven content and custom-made content for social media platforms. More than a decade after its launch, the show “just keeps giving and giving,” Animaccord CEO, Claus Tomming, told Variety.

Slipknot have announced that their 2021 festival dates this summer in Russia, Ukraine and Europe have been rescheduled to 2022.Taking to social media on Friday (June 11), the metal icons shared new dates for festival shows in Moscow, Kiev, Bucharest, Plovdiv, Athens and Wacken.

NBC News’ Keir Simmons interviewed Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, with a preview airing on NBC Nightly News with Lester Holt on Friday evening and the interview on Monday.

Fandango, which on Friday is finally making advance tickets available a little under one month before the film opens on July 9. The movie ticketing service earlier this year polled a group of 4,000 moviegoers, which selected “Black Widow” as its most anticipated movie this summer.