The babushkas who guarded everyone's morals from the benches recounted the owners' exodus.
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There were babushkas or grandmothers who kept religious icons in their houses and taught their children to pray.
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We slept in wooden bungalows and crossed frozen rivers and lakes on skis, visiting picturesque villages where granny-style babushkas greeted us with warm smiles.
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On pavements where Soviet workers once tramped to shifts at the Uralmash heavy-machinery plant, babushkas now lay out their wares: apples, mushrooms, smoked fish.
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The more responsible members of the household—the old babushkas—subsequently use every piece of the pig and store it to last you through the winter.
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"I'm a little nervous about that and I'm going to have to start buying babushkas or something because it looks like it will be record lows," said Watters, referring to a headscarf tied under the chin popular among older Russian women.
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In the evenings, there was a revolving cast of Boris's Russian immigrant friends — his entourage of smitten babushkas, former Kiev taxi drivers and literary divas — who accepted a free week at the beach in exchange for tolerating sandy hubris and bad Russian.
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Building upon a nearly two-decade-long career as a pastry chef, Polzine immersed herself in medovik research, poring exhaustively over vintage cookbooks and making multiple visits to San Francisco's traditional Russian bakeries in an effort to wheedle out secrets from suspicious babushkas.
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Just like his ready-to-wear designs, which jumble elements, patterns, time periods and allusions that were seldom if ever jumbled before: pussy bows on men's shirts, babushkas atop power suits, sneakers under gowns, stripes with plaids, the old-fashioned meeting the space age.
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The clothes sent down the runway were the perfect The Secret Garden-meets-Twin Peaks-meets-Grey Gardens blend (a trio that works surprisingly well together); they were eccentric and genteel, and inspired by an unlikely muse: hoarders (which just might explain the trash bag-like babushkas tied around most of the models' heads).
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There are décor and impulse-buy touches borrowed from the 21 playbook: vases of leafy green fronds and jars of individually wrapped Korean face masks, the sort of thing that might confuse the bubbes and babushkas of yore, who once stripped down to their underpinnings in the big store's old communal dressing rooms, or even before.
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It chronicles a community of "self settlers" who live inside the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. She directed and produced (with Anne Bogart) the 2015 documentary "The Babushkas of Chernobyl", about the women of the Exclusion Zone, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in June 2015. In June 2013 she delivered a TED talk on the subject at TEDGlobal in Edinburgh, Scotland. She is featured in the 2013 documentary release Gringo Trails.
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Other images include the Twelve Apostles as 12 women in babushkas, sitting at a table by the seaside as they run their fingers around the edges of wine glasses to create an ominous hum. It also focuses on what it means to be gay in the 20th century, highlighting Section 28, of which Jarman was from the start a noted opponent. The film is augmented with unusually tinted shots of beaches and bizarre changes between classical, Cypriot and other types of music and sound.
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The foundation operates in Bishkek, the capital where most people live and in Batken, the poorest region in the country. In 2015 Kyrgyzstan participated in the Eurasian Economic Union with Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Armenia, but unfortunately this did not bring the expected export growth. With the new tax rates and the devaluing currency, the living costs have risen again and made life even more difficult for the elderly. At the moment around 57% of the babushkas (grandmothers) and dedushkas (grandfathers) receive pensions below the republic average of 4600 kyrgyz som (around 60 euro).
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