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Ethan Shanfeld International streaming service Start has announced it is developing a limited series adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic novel “Crime and Punishment.”Created and directed by Vladimir Mirzoyev (“Russian Death,” “Her Name Was Mumu”), the eight-episode drama series will follow the book’s protagonist Rodion Raskolnikov, as well as his sister Dunya.Like the book, the series follows the desperate and indebted Rodion, who is swayed by a dark force to commit petty theft in a supermarket. Tormented by his conscience, Rodion is led to murder an old woman, causing crippling guilt and paranoia to set in.While the novel takes place in 19th century Russia, the series is set in modern-day St.

Bleachers have announced a lengthy run of North American tour dates, sprawling into the second half of 2022.Sans a brief detour through Barcelona for this year’s Primavera Sound festival, the band have 22 dates on their itinerary thus far. Each of the tour’s legs will feature unique support acts – Charly Bliss, for example, will open for the two sold-out dates in Boston where Bleachers will play their first two records in full (2014’s ‘Strange Desire’ on Thursday March 24 and 2017’s ‘Gone Now’ on Friday 25).Allison Ponthier will kick the festivities off throughout May, performing with Bleachers in Orlando, St.

Ed Meza @edmezavarZDF Enterprises has closed deals with Asian buyers for new Scandinavian and Russian series, among them “Agatha Christie’s Hjerson,” “Sherlock: The Russian Chronicles” and “Top Dog.”Japan’s AXN Mystery picked up exclusive pay-TV rights for “Agatha Christie’s Hjerson,” a playful, modern-day whodunnit based on the fictional detective Sven Hjerson, created by Christie’s fictional writer Ariadne Oliver. The series centers on Hjerson and trash TV producer Klara Sandberg, who wants to reset her career with a true crime show featuring the once renowned criminal profiler.

OnlyFans star, who allegedly fell from the 22nd floor of a high-rise building in St.

Remember that longing you felt after an episode of “Sex and the City” to shop at the characters’ favourite New York haunts and drink cosmopolitans at the same bars? Or that sense of wanderlust for the seaside cliffs of Ireland after watching “Game of Thrones?”

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Netflix has picked up its first ever Russian drama series with Anna K.

Naman Ramachandran “Anna K” (working title), a contemporary retelling of Leo Tolstoy’s classic novel “Anna Karenina,” will be Netflix’s first Russian original drama series.The series is set in modern day Russia, where socialite Anna Karenina, the wife of the soon-to-become governor of St. Petersburg, embarks on a love affair with Vronsky, the heir of an aluminium empire.

Nikki Bella is letting fans know that even though she has a fiance in Artem Chigvintsev with who she shares a baby, she doesn’t need to drag them along for short getaways. The Dancing with the Stars pro and their eight month old son Matteo stayed home while Nikki, 37, and twin sister Brie flew to St.

A young Florida woman was shot to death on Tuesday evening while in her car with her 1-year-old daughter in her arms, and her 2-year-old daughter in the back seat.

Also on this day:  British troops burn Buffalo, N.Y., during the War of 1812.The United States and Mexico sign a treaty under which the U.S. agrees to buy some 45,000 square miles of land from Mexico for $10 million in a deal known as the Gadsden Purchase.

A prominent Russian scientist who was working on a COVID-19 vaccine was found dead with a stab wound after plummeting out his window in St. Petersburg, according to news reports.

MOSCOW — Madonna is boasting about not paying a $1 million fine allegedly slapped on her for supporting Russia’s LGBTQ community at a 2012 show in St. Petersburg. But a Russian court threw out the lawsuit filed by a group of conservative activists, and the singer was never fined a single

Back in 2012, Madonna performed in the Russian city of St. Petersburg, where she made an impassioned speech supporting the LGBTQ community in a nation where homosexuality has been criminalized.

Tom Brady is not above the coronavirus lockdown — at least not in his new hometown!

No special treatment! Tom Brady was kicked out of a park in Tampa Bay, Florida, that was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.

The State Department’s annual human rights report that was released on Wednesday notes violence and discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity was commonplace around the world in 2019.

NASCAR and IndyCar both reversed course Friday and pulled the plug on racing this weekend, with IndyCar suspending its season through the end of April due to concerns over the COVID-19 pandemic. NASCAR only suspended Sunday's race at Atlanta Motor Speedway and next week at Homestead-Miami Speedway.

Taylor Swift's father recently fought a burglar who broke into his $4 million Florida penthouse, a newspaper is reporting.The Tampa Bay Times saidthatScott Swift returned to his home in the Vinoy Place Towers in St. Petersburg on Jan.

Taylor Swift's father recently fought a burglar who broke into his $4 million Florida penthouse, a newspaper is reporting.The Tampa Bay Times said that Scott Swift returned to his home in the Vinoy Place Towers in St. Petersburg on Jan.

Russian police stormed a Pussy Riot music video shoot in Saint Petersburg on Sunday (February 10), citing the country’s “gay propaganda” law, according to a statement the band released overnight. They say the political police accused them of “extremism” and “making an illegal video” but failed to provide legal justification for the group’s removal from Lenfilm studio, where they were filming.

A little over a week since wowing some 103 million people with her Super Bowl Halftime Show performance alongside Shakira, Jennifer Lopez has entered into an exclusive multi-year touring partnership with Live Nation.