Kalanta of the New Year information

Kalanta of the New Year (Αρχιμηνιά κι Αρχιχρονιά) is a Greek traditional carol (kalanta). This carol is commonly sung around the New Year and accompanied...

Romas Kalanta (22 February 1953 – 14 May 1972) was a 19-year-old Lithuanian high school student who killed himself by self-immolation in an act of protest...

Christmas Eve, New Year's Eve and Epiphany Eve, and sing the corresponding folk carols, called the Kalanta or Kalanda or Kalanta Christougenon, the word deriving...

It was sparked by the self-immolation of a 19-year-old student named Romas Kalanta in protest against the Soviet regime and the subsequent ban authorities...

List of political self-immolations Thích Quảng Đức, set himself on fire in 1963 in protest of persecution of Buddhists in South Vietnam Romas Kalanta, set...

Italy on the Giudecca island has also been given the name of Jan Palach. Jan Zajíc Thích Quảng Đức Ryszard Siwiec Evžen Plocek Romas Kalanta Oleksa Hirnyk...

after two weeks from the release of the CD single. The videoclip of "Kalanta" was released on 19 December, soon followed by the video of her next hit single...

that compared to other similar incidents of that time, such as the self-immolations of Palach or Romas Kalanta, Siwiec death's is unique in how little...

caused Moscow to soften the regime. In 1972, young Romas Kalanta immolated himself in Kaunas in a public display of protest against the regime. This was followed...

the new bible that the twentieth century had written for us." Nadezhda Yakovlevna Khazina was born in Saratov, southern Russia, the youngest of four...

specializing in the history of the All-Union Communist Party. Shortly thereafter, on May 25, she was named head of the new department of the history of Leninism...

headquarters of the Vishera department of Solovki ITL} Shalamov was released in 1931 and worked in the new town of Berezniki, Perm Oblast, at the local chemical...

with the Devils" Eulogies: A Horror World Yearbook, edited by Nanci Kalanta (NYX Publications/HW Press, 2006) ISBN 0-9776681-0-X – Includes the Little...

Escaped Tells the Day-to-day Facts of One Year of His Torturous Experience (see scanned 1945 original in PDF format), New York: digitized by Zchor.org, OCLC 233992530...

Russian regime, and swiftly became one of the leading figures in Russian anarchism. After strongly denouncing the new Bolshevik government in various anarchist...

Staff Battalion, memoirs of Juozas Klimas on his wartime experiences, three-act drama by Anatolijus Kairys on Romas Kalanta. In January 1991, Kardas was...

repeatedly subjected to searches and heists. Sakharov was named the 1980 Humanist of the Year by the American Humanist Association. In May 1984, Sakharov's wife...

In the Soviet Union, a systematic political abuse of psychiatry took place and was based on the interpretation of political dissent as a psychiatric problem...

Grand Prix of Aviation FAIWGPA champion, famous of flight under 10 bridges in Vilnius. He also flew inverted under a bridge in Kaunas Romas Kalanta – high...

persuaded by a friend to change it to the Orwellian inspired year of 1984. Amalrik predicted the collapse of the regime would occur between 1980 and 1985...

of the New Economic Policy and the introduction of the first Five Year Plan, it set out systematically to end all originality and independence in the...

sphere of influence in India.[citation needed] In the same year, a secret directive of the Central Committee opened a new secret department in all the Soviet...

(Eulogies II: Tales From the Cellar, edited by Christopher Jones, Nanci Kalanta, and Tony Tremblay, HW Press, 2013) "A Soldier's Story" (Vampires Don't...

became professor of philosophy at the University of Moscow. In the same year, he was accused of participating in a conspiracy against the government; he...

candles in the Kaunas military cemetery and sang national songs, resulting in clashes with the Militsiya. On 14 May 1972, 19-year-old Romas Kalanta, having...

1986, the House-Museum of Boris Pasternak was founded (the first house-museum in the USSR). In 1990, the year of the poet's 100th anniversary, the Pasternak...