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July 31, 2015

✣ Lawmakers consider assisted suicide bill Lawmakers in the District of Columbia in America are considering legislation that permits doctors to prescribe a lethal dose of drugs to patients who are deemed mentally competent, have received a terminal diagnosis of six months or less and wish to end their lives. Ukrainians condemn gay partnership plan

This is what it’s like to be a despot’s daughter

July 31, 2015

Stalin’s Daughter by Rosemary Sullivan, Fourth ESTATE, £25 Svetlana Alliluyeva, the daughter of Joseph Stalin, not only had the courage to defect from Russia but also the ability to describe the experience of growing up in her father’s monstrous shadow. Her book, Twenty Letters to a Friend, published soon after her defection in 1967, became