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Emmure (/ɛˈmjuːr/) is an American metalcore band formed in 2003. Originally based in New Fairfield, Connecticut, but now residing in Queens, New York, the group has a total of seven releases, with their first public release being a 2006 EP entitled The Complete Guide to Needlework. Victory Records took notice of the band after the release of their extended play and signed them, releasing their first full-length album Goodbye to the Gallows in 2007. Their second, third and fourth albums The Respect Issue (2008), Felony (2009) and Speaker of the Dead (2011) were all distributed through Victory too. After the band's initial four-album contract with Victory expired, they signed again with Victory to distribute their fifth and sixth studio albums Slave to the Game (2012) and Eternal Enemies (2014) as well. However after nine years of being signed to the label, Emmure would leave Victory in 2016 to sign with SharpTone Records, which is distributed through Nuclear Blast. The seventh album, titled Look at Yourself, released on March 3, 2017.

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WE CAME AS ROMANS announce Darkbloom II Headline Tour with EMMURE

We Came As Romans have announced a fall headlining run in support of their 2022 album, Darkbloom , fittingly dubbed "Darkbloom II Headline Tour." Deathcore vets Emmure — who haven't played a show since before the pandemic — have been tapped as direct support, with Bodysnatcher and Archetypes Collide set to round out the bill.

WCAR vocalist Dave Stephens commented: "After selling out every show of Darkbloom part one earlier this year and seeing the demand for the tour, we wanted to bring it to some of the cities we weren't able to play. We have worked hard to brainstorm a lineup that showcases the diversity of heavy music from Archetypes Collide to Bodysnatcher to Emmure.

"We have toured with Emmure more times than I can count, but this time will be one of the most exciting for us as it will be their first since late 2019."

Tickets will go on sale to the general public this Friday, August 25th at 10 a.m. local time. Check out the full itinerary below.

We Came as Romans Darkbloom II Headline Tour dates: 10/10 Indianapolis, IN – Deluxe at Old National Centre 10/11 Milwaukee, WI – The Rave 10/13 Grand Rapids, MI – The Intersection 10/14 Cleveland, OH – House of Blues 10/15 Joliet, IL – The Forge 10/17 Buffalo, NY – Town Ballroom 10/18 Toronto, ON – Danforth 10/20 Sayreville, NJ – Starland 10/21 Hartford, CT – The Webster 10/22 Providence, RI – Fete Music Hall 10/24 Albany, NY – Empire Live 10/25 Harrisburg, PA – HMAC 10/27 Norfolk, VA – The Norva 10/28 Carrboro, NC – Cat's Cradle 10/29 Columbia, SC – The Senate 10/31 Fort Lauderdale, FL – Revolution 11/01 Tampa, FL – Jannus Live 11/03 New Orleans, LA – House of Blues 11/04 Dallas, TX – House of Blues 11/05 San Antonio, TX – Vibes Event Center 11/06 Tucson, AZ – Encore 11/08 San Diego, CA – House of Blues 11/10 Pomona, CA – Fox Theater 11/11 Las Vegas, NV – Brooklyn Bowl 11/12 Salt Lake City, UT – The Complex 11/14 Denver, CO – Ogden Theatre 11/15 Omaha, NE – The Admiral 11/17 St. Louis, MO – Red Flag 11/18 Cincinnati, OH – Bogart's 11/19 Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl

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AS I LAY DYING Announces Spring 2022 European Tour With DYING FETUS And EMMURE

San Diego metallers AS I LAY DYING have announced the "Two Decades Of Destruction" European 2022 tour. The 29-date trek will kick off in Saarbrücken, Germany on March 19 and make stops in France, Sweden, and Italy before returning to Germany for the Impericon festivals. Joining the band on the tour will be DYING FETUS and EMMURE , with select dates including FIT FOR A KING .

AS I LAY DYING singer Tim Lambesis stated: "I'm incredibly grateful to have a chance to go back out on tour and for the tremendous support we've had on the 'Shaped By Fire' touring cycle so far.

"When I started AS I LAY DYING , I never imagined we'd have a chance to travel the world as we have, and now we'll be going back to places that feel like a second home at times.

"The band has been such an important part of my life personally, so it is very meaningful to see our music connect with so many other people as well."

Added guitarist Phil Sgrosso : "It's a huge milestone for the band to reach the 20-year mark, something which couldn't have been done without the support and encouragement from our fans.

"We feel that it is our responsibility to them to keep pushing ourselves in providing better music and a better live show. That is why we are looking to go bigger than we ever have before with our stage production as well as curating a live setlist that will span and highlight pinnacle moments from the band's career.

"We are excited to return to the stage to celebrate this monumental occasion and hope to see many familiar faces in the crowd. Big thanks to Impericon for having us as this year's festival headliner as well as DYING FETUS and EMMURE for joining us on the trek."

AS I LAY DYING 's "Two Decades Of Destruction" European 2022 tour dates with DYING FETUS and EMMURE :

Mar. 19 - DE Saarbrücken - E-Werk Mar. 20 - FR Paris Elysée - Montmartre Mar. 22 - FR Toulouse - Le Bikini Mar. 23 - EP Barcelona - Raz/ zmatazz 1 Mar. 24 - EP Madrid - La Rivera Mar. 25 - PT Lisbon - Sala Tejo Mar. 26 - SP Bilbao - Santana27 Mar. 28 - FR Lyon - Transbordeur Mar. 29 - DE Würzburg - Posthalle Mar. 30 - NL Tilburg - 0 1 3 Apr. 01 - DK Copenhagen - Vega Apr. 02 - SE Gothenburg - Trädgårn Apr. 03 - NO Oslo - Rockefeller Apr. 04 - SE Stockholm - Fållan Apr. 06 - FI Tampere - Pakkahuone Apr. 08 - FI Helsinki - House Of Couture Apr. 09 - EE Tallinn - Helitehas Apr. 10 - LA Riga - Palladium Apr. 12 - PL Warsaw - Progresja Apr. 13 - CZ Prague - Roum Karlin Apr. 14 - HU /Budapest - Barba Negra Apr. 15 - SK Bratislava - Rafinery Gallery Apr. 16 - AT Vienna - Arena Impericon Festival ** Apr. 17 - CH Zürich - X-tra Impericon Festival ** Apr. 19 - IT Milan - Alcatraz ** Apr. 20 - IT Rome - Orion ** Apr. 22 - DE Munich - Zenith Impericon Festival ** Apr. 23 - DE Leipzig - Messe Impericon Festival ** Apr. 24 - DE Oberhausen - Turbinenhalle Impericon Festival **

** With FIT FOR A KING (No DYING FETUS )

Late last month, guitarist Nick Hipa confimed his departure from AS I LAY DYING , explaining that he can no longer justify being part of "a superficial pursuit" of the "story and meaning" that the band's 2018 reunion was built upon.

Although Hipa 's exit was originally rumored in August 2020, neither he nor his bandmates had publicly spoken out about the split until he took to his Instagram on August 31 to write: "At this point though, it has been well over a year since I have distanced myself from [ AS I LAY DYING ] on a personal and professional level. In that time they have only given fans merchandising posts and show announcements. This sort of activity highlights and reinforces our differences.

"Respectfully, I left because the story and meaning we built our reunion upon decayed considerably over time. What primarily endures is a superficial pursuit I cannot justify supporting or being part of. This is not an indictment on any who choose to remain or be involved. There is tremendous good that can be accomplished through singular focus on the power of music. However to my memory and recent experience, it comes at the cost of tolerating behavior which at times mistreats, disrespects, and hurts other people. I do not have it in me to walk that road again.

"The talent and unshakeable ambition of the band is undeniable. They will continue to release successful music and do great business. On a human level, I hope everything else fares well for them."

Lambesis was famously convicted in 2014 for his role in a murder-for-hire plot against his estranged wife.

In May 2014, Lambesis was sentenced to six years in jail after pleading guilty to paying a San Diego police officer posing as a hitman $1,000 to kill his wife. Approximately two and a half years later — on December 17, 2016 — he was discharged from a California detention facility and was transferred to the Division of Adult Parole Operations.

In June 2018, AS I LAY DYING played its first show with Lambesis in five years and released a new single. Lambesis also owned up to his crimes in a long apology on the band's Facebook page after his release.

In September 2019, AS I LAY DYING released its seventh full-length album, "Shaped By Fire" , via Nuclear Blast .

The return of AS I LAY DYING raised some questions, particularly since Hipa categorically denounced the band's disgraced frontman as a "sociopathic narcissist in definite need of rehabilitation" in a social-media post back in 2014.

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Emmure is an American metal core band from Queens, New York consisting of Franie Pameri, Jesse Ketive, Mark Davis, Mike Mulholland, and Adam Pierce.

Emmure was first formed in 2003 when Frankie Palmeri met Ben and Joe Lionetti online, which prompted Palmeri to travel to the Lionetti’s in New Fairfield so that they could start rehearsing as a band. Bassist Mark Davis and guitarist Jesse Ketive also joined them and recorded two demos, “Nince Eleven Zero Four” and “Demo” in 2005. The demos successfully caught the attention of This City Is Burning Records who helped them release Emmure’s first EP entitled “The Complete Guide To Needlework.” The EP further led to more attention and resulted in Emmure signing with Victory Records. In 2007 the band released their first full-length album, “Goodbye To The Gallows.”

In 2008 they successfully completed their first tour of a majority of the United States, supporting various other bands such as Misery Signals, August Burns Red, and Burn Down Rome. That same summer, they went on a headlining tour with bands like Endwell, On Broken Wings and Recon. Despite the successful run of tours, the Lionetti brothers left the band, who were replaced by Mike Mulholland and Michael Kaabe. Following the small lineup change, the band released their third album, “Felony” which was released on 18 August 2009.

The group again set out on tour alongside Of Mice and Men, Pierce the Veil and In Fear And Faith. After the tour of the United States, they toured Europe with various other bands such as Parkway Drive and Comeback Kid. The band continued to successfully tour and release albums, and in 2014 released “Eternal Enemies” followed by month long promotion tour.

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Well, the first thing that can be said of Emmure, is that they are one crazy, unique, and colorful band. Now that that's out of the way, if you like crazy lyrics with brutal vocals, then you have the right band. These guys are absolutely incredible live, I was lucky enough to be in the front of the pit watching them on the From Death to Destiny tour. Sadly, my venue wasn't smart enough to check how well Frankie's vocals came through before the show started due to the fact hat he screams at such a low and deep tone, that if the sound is not properly set you can lose his voice with the instruments. Despite the fact that I had to at points struggle to hear his vocals due to faulty sound settings, these guys absolutely killed it! They sounded almost identical to the way they do on records, and they have one of the most energetic stage presences that I have witnessed. I went with a group of people that part of them had never really liked Emmure before, however, once they got up there and played even they were going crazy, the guys have such an incredible vibe that it can translate throughout an entire venue. So, if you feel like going to a show with the members jumping around, going crazy, and giving their all into a performance, definitely go see Emmure!

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Connecticut metal core outfit Emmure seem to be able to speak to a great deal of people in their own unique way when they perform onstage. It does not matter how large or small the venue, Frankie Palmeri and co manage to get the whole room engaged in order to really get the most out of their outrageous live performance. Most of the time there is a good section near the front ready to mosh, yet Emmure are not content until the whole room is a swirling, jumping mess.

The chaos is soundtracked by sweeping instrumentals complete with screeching guitar riffs, deep bass notes and stinging percussion. The vocal simply helps with the dramatic feeling of 'Bring a Gun to School' as the crowd raise their hands and surge towards the front. This level of mayhem is consistent throughout the show and the more riled up the crowds become, the harder the quintet thrash out their music. Palmeri seems to feel it his duty to maintain and command this level of frenzy. 'Children of Cybertron' wraps up the evening well and leaves the crowds battered, bruised but wishing they could do it all over again.

It was my first time seeing Emmure and it couldn't have been better! So much energy from them and the audience. They played all my favorite songs and it was an awesome experience, I can't wait to see them again in Leeds or elsewhere. The other bands there were also amazing. Rise of the Northstar, Fit for a King, Alpha Wolf and Obey the Brave. The best gig I've been to so far. Would highly recommend going to see them!! :) :)

Amazing show considering the lead singer had damaged vocal chords! Frankie's fill in was absolutely kick ass! Emmure is a talented group of musicians who bring heavy rifts and high energy. One of my favorites!

Fantastic show, could not have been better !!!! Emmure brought house down hard fast furious !!!!! Come back soon !!!!! Support bands killed it !! I’d rebook them asap on back end of there tour

Well I would love to write a review, but I'm in too much pain and covered in bruises to even move too much. This is strain enough. What an amazing show. What a live performance, all the bands!

It was an amazing show. I’ve been a fan of Emmure for many years so I was stoked to finally see them live. The guest bands killed it too!

Come back to Toronto soon.

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AS I LAY DYING Announces European 2022 Tour With DYING FETUS And EMMURE

San Diego quintet  AS I LAY DYING  announces  “Two Decades Of Destruction”  European 2022 Tour. The 29-date tour kicks off in Germany with stops in France, Sweden, and Italy before returning to Germany for the Impericon Festivals. Joining the band on the trek are  DYING FETUS  and  EMMURE  with select dates including  FIT FOR A KING.

Tim Lambesis  states, “I’m incredibly grateful to have a chance to go back out on tour and for the tremendous support we‘ve had on the ‘Shaped By Fire’ touring cycle so far. When I started AS I LAY DYING I never imagined we’d have a chance to travel the world as we have, and now we’ll be going back to places that feel like a second home at times. The band has been such an important part of my life personally, so it is very meaningful to see our music connect with so many other people as well.”

“It’s a huge milestone for the band to reach the 20-year mark, something which couldn’t have been done without the support and encouragement from our fans” comments  Phil Sgrosso.  “We feel that it is our responsibility to them to keep pushing ourselves in providing better music and a better live show. That is why we are looking to go bigger than we ever have before with our stage production as well as curating a live setlist that will span and highlight pinnacle moments from the band’s career. We are excited to return to the stage to celebrate this monumental occasion and hope to see many familiar faces in the crowd. Big thanks to Impericon for having us as this year’s festival headliner as well as DYING FETUS and EMMURE for joining us on the trek.”

AS I LAY DYING ‘s  “Two Decades Of Destruction”  European 2022 tour dates with  DYING FETUS  and  EMMURE :

Mar. 19 – DE Saarbrücken – E-Werk Mar. 20 – FR Paris Elysée – Montmartre Mar. 22 – FR Toulouse – Le Bikini Mar. 23 – EP Barcelona – Raz/ zmatazz 1 Mar. 24 – EP Madrid – La Rivera Mar. 25 – PT Lisbon – Sala Tejo Mar. 26 – SP Bilbao – Santana27 Mar. 28 – FR Lyon – Transbordeur Mar. 29 – DE Würzburg – Posthalle Mar. 30 – NL Tilburg – 0 1 3 Apr. 01 – DK Copenhagen – Vega Apr. 02 – SE Gothenburg – Trädgårn Apr. 03 – NO Oslo – Rockefeller Apr. 04 – SE Stockholm – Fållan Apr. 06 – FI Tampere – Pakkahuone Apr. 08 – FI Helsinki – House Of Couture Apr. 09 – EE Tallinn – Helitehas Apr. 10 – LA Riga – Palladium Apr. 12 – PL Warsaw – Progresja Apr. 13 – CZ Prague – Roum Karlin Apr. 14 – HU /Budapest – Barba Negra Apr. 15 – SK Bratislava – Rafinery Gallery Apr. 16 – AT Vienna – Arena Impericon Festival ** Apr. 17 – CH Zürich – X-tra Impericon Festival ** Apr. 19 – IT Milan – Alcatraz ** Apr. 20 – IT Rome – Orion ** Apr. 22 – DE Munich – Zenith Impericon Festival ** Apr. 23 – DE Leipzig – Messe Impericon Festival ** Apr. 24 – DE Oberhausen – Turbinenhalle Impericon Festival **

** With  FIT FOR A KING  (No  DYING FETUS )

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Putin seeks to deepen trade ties with Beijing in China’s ‘little Moscow’

A fter a Thursday spent in Beijing reaffirming the harmony between Russia and China, certified with the signing of a joint declaration to the effect that relations between the two countries have reached their “highest-ever level,” and after announcing collaboration in all manner of fields — from artificial intelligence to lunar exploration and military dominance — while also accusing the United States of still thinking “in Cold War terms” and of taking a “destructive and hostile” course aimed at the containment of both Moscow and Beijing, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday used the second day of his official visit to the Asian giant to travel to Heilongjiang, a border province located in northeast China whose historical roots with neighboring Russia run deep.

This second event of the Russian leader’s trip — framed within the 75th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between Beijing and Moscow — took on a cultural and economic aspect. Putin traveled to the capital of the region, Harbin, without his counterpart, Xi Jinping , with whom he spent much of Thursday in formal meetings with the two leaders’ delegations, as well as sharing a walk and tea alone by a lake, taking in a concert, and attending an informal dinner with their closest confidants.

Once known as “little Moscow,” Harbin has had close ties with Russia since the late 19th century. It has welcomed numerous expatriates from the neighboring country and maintains a historical link still distinguishable in architectural elements, such as the domes of the Orthodox Cathedral of St. Sophia.

Putin, who was received and accompanied in Harbin by Chinese Vice President Han Zheng, began his visit by laying a wreath at the monument dedicated to Soviet soldiers who fell alongside Chinese troops during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945), when Japan occupied parts of China. The Russian leader’s agenda included the opening of the 8th Russian-Chinese Expo and the 4th Russian-Chinese Interregional Cooperation Forum, as well as a visit to the Church of the Protection of the Blessed Virgin Mary, an Orthodox temple, and Harbin Polytechnic University.

Putin took advantage of the border location, where relations have not always been peaceful between the neighbors, to talk about growing economic ties. He made special mention of gas and oil, the great liquidity lifeline for Russia after over two years of war in Ukraine. “I am confident that our strategic alliance in the energy sector, which has become a reliable support for the entire global energy market, will continue to strengthen,” Putin said at the opening ceremony of the Russian-Chinese Expo and Interregional Cooperation Forum, as reported by the Russian agency Tass .

Analysts expected that the Russian leader would try to advance a possible agreement during his visit on the Power of Siberia-2 gas pipeline, which has been under negotiation for years and would pump gas to China through Mongolia. In negotiations with Xi on the subject, Putin added, prospects for “such multifaceted cooperation” were discussed, as reported by Tass.

Putin also praised trade figures between Moscow and Beijing, which exceeded $240 billion in 2023, up 26.4% from the previous year. “This is far from the limit, of course,” Putin said.

Russia’s disengagement from much of the world since the 2022 invasion of Ukraine has at the same time meant a strengthening of ties with China that the West is wary of. “More effort is needed to curtail delivery of dual use goods to Russia that find their way to the battlefield,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said last week at the end of a trilateral meeting with the Chinese leader and French President Emmanuel Macron in Paris.

The declaration sealed Thursday between Putin and Xi can be expected to add to the mounting mistrust in Brussels and, particularly, Washington. The lengthy text, which stretches to over 12,000 characters in its Chinese version, is particularly critical of the U.S., which the two leaders accused of trying to “undermine strategic stability in order to maintain its absolute military superiority.”

The pact condemns what it considers a U.S. missile deployment that threatens Russia and China and the widespread use of the U.S. nuclear umbrella among its allies in the region such as Australia; it also condemns Aukus — the security agreement between the U.S., Australia, and the United Kingdom — and what it considers Washington’s growing military presence in the Asia-Pacific region. Moscow and Beijing “will strengthen coordination and cooperation to confront the hostile and destructive course of the so-called dual containment policy of the United States towards China and Russia,” the communiqué states.

“Both sides oppose the creation of a closed and exclusive bloc structure in the Asia-Pacific, especially a military alliance against third parties,” the statement adds. “NATO’s destructive moves in the region,” it concludes, “have had a negative impact on peace and stability.”

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The Russian leader visited an institute in Harbin known for defense research. President Xi Jinping saw him off with a rare and seemingly deliberate embrace for the cameras.

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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia attended a trade fair on Friday in a northeastern Chinese city and toured a state-backed university famous for its cutting-edge defense research, highlighting how economic and military ties between the countries have grown despite, or perhaps because of, Western pressure.

Mr. Putin’s visit to Harbin, a Chinese city with a Russian past, is part of a trip aimed at demonstrating that he has powerful friends even as his war against Ukraine — a campaign that he is escalating — has isolated him from the West. The visit followed a day of talks between him and President Xi Jinping of China that seemed orchestrated to convey not only the strategic alignment of the two powerful, autocratic leaders against the West, but a personal connection.

State media showed Mr. Putin and Mr. Xi, neckties off after formal talks on Thursday, strolling under willow trees and sipping tea at a traditional pavilion on the sprawling grounds of Zhongnanhai, the walled leadership compound in Beijing, with only their interpreters. As Mr. Xi saw Mr. Putin off in the evening, he even initiated a hug — a rare expression of affection for the Chinese leader.

“Xi’s very deliberate embrace of Putin for the cameras wasn’t just to emphasize the closeness of the political relationship between the two countries and their leaders,” said Richard McGregor, a senior fellow for East Asia at the Lowy Institute in Sydney. “There was also a touch of disdain directed at Washington, which has been pressuring Beijing to withdraw support from Moscow. That clearly isn’t going to happen in any substantive fashion.”

The show of camaraderie was the final touch in talks that culminated in a joint statement that took aim at the United States, which Mr. Putin and Mr. Xi have accused of seeking to suppress their countries. The statement pledged that Russia and China would work more closely in critical sectors like energy, space and the military.

The large size of Russia’s delegation, which included Mr. Putin’s top security and energy officials, as well the length of the bilateral meetings, implied the seriousness with which both sides have approached the negotiations, said Alexander Gabuev, a China expert at the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin.

“It’s like an iceberg,” he said. “The public documents are symbolic and largely meaningless. But there’s an underwater part, which is likely to be much more significant.”

Still, Mr. Putin’s visit also showed the limits of the countries alliance. In China, Mr. Xi rolled out the red carpet for Mr. Putin, but the visit did not produce any public commitments to concrete new projects or investments between the two countries.

Specifically, Mr. Putin and Mr. Xi have not publicly reported any progress on a planned new gas pipeline from China into Russia, known as Power of Siberia 2. Russia urgently needs the pipeline to redirect the flow of its gas exports from the rapidly declining market in Europe.

Mr. Putin had no news to share about the pipeline’s progress when he was asked about it in a brief news conference at the end of his trip on Friday.

“I am not prepared to discuss any technical details, but the interest of both sides in realizing these projects has been confirmed,” Mr. Putin said, referring to Power of Siberia 2.

He also deflected a question about reports that Chinese banks are reducing transactions with Russian clients out of fear of Western sanctions, turning the conversation from China to the shortcomings of the U.S. financial system.

The growing security ties between the two nuclear-armed powers was a focal point of Mr. Putin’s visit to Harbin, and the Harbin Institute of Technology.

While China and Russia are not formal allies committed to defend each other with military support, their armed forces have worked together more closely in recent years. Their air forces and navies have held joint military exercises, including near Alaska and Taiwan, the de facto independent island claimed by Beijing. On Thursday, the two leaders issued words of support for their separate claims to Taiwan and Ukraine.

And while China has vowed not to provide Russia with lethal weapons, it has been the top supplier of components like semiconductors and machine tools that have both civilian and military uses.

While that is helpful, Mr. Putin still seeks access to more sophisticated tools. The Harbin institute is best known for its research of rockets, missiles and space technology — expertise that Russia would greatly benefit from as the war in Ukraine has revived its need for a more robust military-industrial complex. The institute also trained North Korean scientists who worked on Pyongyang’s nuclear weapons program, according to The Wall Street Journal and South Korean media.

Mr. Putin’s tour of the institute was steeped in symbolism. The 103-year-old institution recently opened a joint campus with St. Petersburg State University, Mr. Putin’s alma mater. And in something of a snub to Washington, the school belongs on the United States’ so-called entity list, barring it from accessing American technology and taking part in educational exchanges because of its links to the People’s Liberation Army.

“We should be less concerned about what particular technologies China might be sharing with Russia from Harbin or elsewhere, than the larger pattern and signal that this visit represents,” said Markus Garlauskas, a security expert at the Atlantic Council.

“China did not need to host Putin at Harbin in order to transfer technologies from there to Russia,” he added. “That this visit took place so openly is a visible and symbolic sign of Beijing being willing to provide directly military-applicable technology to support Russia’s war against Ukraine.”

Song Zhongping, a commentator in Beijing who is a former military officer, defended Mr. Putin’s visit to the institute, pointing to the school’s cooperation with Russia in education.

“Communication at the university level between China and Russia is consistent with the academic exchange and national interests of both countries,” Mr. Song said.

Mr. Garlauskas said the tour of the institute had echoes of when Mr. Putin hosted Kim Jong-un, the North Korean dictator, at a Russian spaceport last year before Pyongyang began supplying Moscow with ballistic missiles and other munitions to use in Ukraine.

“What China shares with Russia, Russia could easily then turn around and share with North Korea,” Mr. Garlauskas said.

Not long ago, it was China that drew greater benefits from access to Russian military technology. Starting in the 1990s, and peaking in the early 2000s, Beijing was a major buyer of Russian arms. Sales then began to slow after Moscow grew concerned about China reverse-engineering Russian weapons, said Elizabeth Wishnick, a senior research scientist at the Center for Naval Analyses in Virginia.

It wasn’t until about a decade ago that cooperation between the two sides returned, leading to China’s acquisition of more Russian jet engine technology and surface-to-air missile systems. Still, in a sign that there are limits to its cooperation with China, Russia is holding out sharing its silent submarine technology, a feature that makes the vessels especially hard to detect, Ms. Wishnick said.

Mr. Putin is also using his visit to Harbin, where he attended a trade fair, to promote the flow of goods between the countries.

China has given Russia an economic lifeline by buying huge amounts of Russian oil to circumvent the effects of its financial isolation from the West. Not only that, with many foreign consumer brands also leaving Russia, Chinese companies have stepped in to fill a vacuum for the likes of automobiles , smartphones and televisions. That contributed to a record $240 billion in two-way trade between the China and Russia in 2023, up from $190 billion in 2022, according to Chinese customs data.

Maintaining that growth in trade is a major focus in both countries, analysts said, now that Western pressure on Chinese banks to scale back transactions with Russian firms is believed to have led to the first year-on-year decline in trade in more than two years in March.

One solution would be to increase the amount of transactions settled in local currencies rather than dollars to avoid the risk of sanctions. Mr. Putin said on Thursday that more than 90 percent of commercial transactions conducted between Russia and China were now being cleared in rubles or renminbi.

“Protecting the financial assets of big banks in China is the top crucial interest of China,” said Shi Yinhong, an international relations professor at Renmin University in Beijing. He said China was trying to reduce its exposure to the dollar beyond just in Russia, but that the room to do so was “limited.”

Olivia Wang and Anatoly Kurmanaev contributed reporting.

David Pierson covers Chinese foreign policy and China’s economic and cultural engagement with the world. He has been a journalist for more than two decades. More about David Pierson

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Book Tour: At home with Amor Towles

The author of “A Gentleman in Moscow” and “The Lincoln Highway” guides us through his personal library.

The library in Amor Towles’s beautifully appointed home not far from Gramercy Park in Manhattan looks and feels like the Platonic ideal of the concept: tall windows, tasteful art on the walls, many comfortable seating options and well-ordered shelves filled with classic literature. Perfect for reading in, of course, but when I visited in March, Towles first wanted to talk about writing. This is the room where he composed, among other books, his acclaimed bestsellers “A Gentleman in Moscow” and “The Lincoln Highway.” (His newest, “Table for Two,” a collection of stories and a novella, was published last month.)

Towles first brought out a few of what he calls the “design books” for his novels — notebooks that he fills with details for about four years before he starts officially writing. “I’m just trying to imagine: What happens? Who are the people?” he said. “Where are they from, what’s their personality? What are the settings? Who says what, and why? What are the tones?”

Some of the notes he scribbles are longer and more fully realized than others, but Towles estimates that he writes 80 percent of what ends up in his fiction on a computer, once the handwritten design books have done their duty.

Guides from the past

To conjure all those details and tones, Towles partly and very happily relies on documents dating from the eras he writes about. His shelves still include classic travel guides to Moscow, including one published by Intourist in 1932 and a Baedeker guide from 1914. “Intourist was the Politburo-owned tourist agency of Russia,” Towles said, “and at one time its offices were in the Metropol Hotel [the primary setting of ‘A Gentleman in Moscow’]. I had street maps from the ’30s that I could look at. Part of it was to see how they described for the Westerner something that they were trying to impress them with, et cetera.”

A framed picture of Ewan McGregor, in character, used in the production of the recently released adaptation of “A Gentleman in Moscow,” sits on a shelf nearby. Towles said it appeared as part of a secret police file in the show: “You don’t even notice it on screen, but it’s tucked under a paper clip on top of the file.”

A full encyclopedia set from 1931 is another treasure that combines pleasure and work for Towles. “I think it was 48 cents per book. My first novel, ‘Rules of Civility,’ happened to be set in 1938, and I thought: ‘This is great, I can check the population of New York City right there.’ I love old, weird reference.”

A treasured checklist

Towles majored in literature as an undergraduate at Yale and took the few creative-writing courses the school offered at the time. When he was a sophomore, the experimental-fiction writer Walter Abish was a visiting professor.

“At the end of the class,” Towles remembered, “he said to us: ‘All this has been great. I liked your work. I hope my comments have been helpful. But probably the most valuable thing I can do is give you a hundred books that I like.’ So he gave us this list. And because he was an avant-gardist, it was a lot of people who, at the age of 19, I had never heard of: Andre Breton, Barthelme, Beckett, Heinrich Böll … international writers, but all playing with form, that’s what he was interested in.”

Towles immediately started checking for the recommended titles anytime he visited a used-book store. “I’d stack them up, and I’d read a novel a day off of his list,” he said. “That was a totally different kind of experience than studying Henry James or Shakespeare or Chaucer in the academy. A lot of these books [on Abish’s list] were not perfectly made. A lot of them are stabs at something.”

Matthiessen, mentor and friend

The year after Abish taught at the school, Peter Matthiessen arrived for a semester. Matthiessen was already a celebrated writer of both nonfiction (“The Snow Leopard”) and fiction (“At Play in the Fields of the Lord”). He singled out Towles’s work for praise and told the young writer, “I’m going to take your time here very seriously, and I hope that you’re going to take your time with me very seriously, too.” The encouragement was “a gift,” Towles said. The next year, Towles worked with him again, and the two struck up a long friendship.

Towles laughed remembering Matthiessen’s underwhelmed reaction to the draft manuscript of “Rules of Civility” (“He didn’t know why I was writing a book set in 1938”), but when the book became a bestseller, the mentor wrote him a note of congratulations, saying that his daughter had loved it and was thrilled to find her father’s name in its acknowledgments.

New ideas, new language

In addition to his fond remembrances of his formal education, Towles referred to himself more than once during the tour as a “reader-writer,” someone who is constantly refining each of those skills in a conscious conversation between them. He stopped at a shelf of books — the “big ideas” collection, kept together — by Augustine, Darwin, Nietzsche, Marx, Freud and others. “What these things have in common for me is that [their authors] had to invent a new language to express their discovery. They weren’t doing the new version of something or doing a ‘spin’ on so and so. [Freud’s] ‘Interpretation of Dreams’ is a totally radical, weird book.”

“Marx and the group around him, they invented that whole thing of, ‘There is no more time! Now is the time to make a decision!’ This sweeping, bold things in single-sentence paragraphs: ‘ All people must …’ That’s electric. And you realize that you can apply that language in your novel. It’s doing something very different. I get very interested in how non-narrativists turn on language in the pursuit of a particular outcome, that I can then sort of use in some weird way.”

“Now you’re in the first-edition zone,” Towles said, opening the glass doors directly behind his writing desk. “And now you’re really into heroes: Faulkner, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Conrad, Emily Dickinson.” (Towles also listed the Transcendentalists in this league; he was born and raised in the Boston area and said that “a lot of the personality aspects of Emerson and Thoreau are second nature to me.”)

“This is kind of crazy, just time coming around the corner,” he said, pulling one modest-size blue book off the shelf. “This is a first edition of ‘The Great Gatsby.’ It was owned by Dorothy Ann Scarritt,” he noted, pointing to her signature inside the book. “This is August 1925. She later becomes famous because she is Oppenheimer’s secretary at Los Alamos. She’s like the second employee at Los Alamos; she’s there the entire time and she organizes his entire life. She’s involved with bringing everyone in, getting them set up.”

Scarritt’s signature has a lot of company among Towles’s books. A signed copy of Bob Dylan’s Nobel Prize lecture — a small book nestled inside a larger case — was a gift from his wife. Towles is a longtime fan of Dylan’s and mentioned him in the same sentence as Rimbaud and T.S. Eliot, so when the singer received the Nobel in literature in 2016 to divided opinion, Towles was ecstatic. “It was not controversial for me at all .”

Going back a century further, Towles took down a copy of Proust signed by its translator, C.K. Scott Moncrieff, to Joseph Conrad in 1922.

On a shelf across the room, Towles has another edition of Proust’s work, as well as several books about what he calls “Proust-y stuff” — “different things about Proust — Proust’s letters, paintings in Proust, the music of Proust …”

A long-running book club

Proust also holds a place of honor in an intense book club that Towles has been in with three close friends for just over two decades. “We basically read a novel a month, and we do projects. And we do almost explicitly dead authors; occasionally we veer from that, but mostly it’s dead. We started with Proust. Twenty years ago, we read it as a team. That took longer. We didn’t do it over seven dinners [one per book], more like 14 — over a year and a half.”

The club’s creation was inspired by Harold Bloom’s “Where Shall Wisdom Be Found?,” in which the literary scholar and critic pondered which writers he’d learned more from about the human condition: Plato or Homer? Freud or Proust?

“I was turning 40 in like two months,” Towles said, recalling when he read Bloom’s book. “I thought, if I live to 80 and read a book carefully a month, that means I have 480 books left. And if that’s true, I better focus on books that you could reread at 20, 40 and 60 and learn something new. I was ranting about this to my friend Ann Brashares at a cocktail party, and she said, ‘I’m in.’ And we’ve been going ever since.”

Given the size and ambitions of the books they normally choose, one of the friends recently suggested a “palate cleanser,” which led to “a dinner we called the Fitzgerald-Salinger Death Match. We realized that we’d all read ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘The Catcher in the Rye’ as children . So the question was: Which was better? We would reread both in a week and then come back and debate.” I later realized I had left Towles’s home without asking who won.

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Editing by John Williams. Photography by Jeenah Moon for The Washington Post. Design and development by Beth Broadwater. Photo editing by Annaliese Nurnberg. Copy editing by Jennifer Morehead.

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A Gentleman In Moscow Cast & Character Guide

Ewan mcgregor's historical drama weirdly copies his 2022 star wars show, the deeper meaning behind a gentleman in moscow episode 3's bees.

Warning: Spoilers ahead for the finale of A Gentleman in Moscow.

• Count Rostov finds family, love, and purpose in his confinement at the Metropol Hotel, despite his initial imprisonment.
• The ending of A Gentleman in Moscow remains ambiguous, leaving Alexander's fate open to interpretation.
• Love and sacrifice are the central themes of the show, as Alexander risks everything to ensure the safety and happiness of his found family.

The ending of A Gentleman in Moscow brings with it the conclusion of Alexander Rostov's story, with his 35-year stretch of imprisonment inside Moscow's Metropol Hotel coming to a halt. After returning home from Paris in 1918 to save his grandmother from the violence of Russia's Bolshevik revolution , Count Rostov is sentenced to life imprisonment for his status as a member of the nation's ruling class. However, instead of being locked in a prison cell, Ewan McGregor's character is confined to the walls of a luxury hotel in the nation's capital.

Alexander's is spared execution, unlike so many of his other social peers. The reason for the leniency is Alexander being incorrectly credited with a poem titled "Where is our Purpose Now?" The literary work, actually written in 1913 by Alexander's old friend, Mishka, was partially credited as inciting the Revolution. The count manages to carve out some level of existence for himself at the Metropol , with the novelty of his situation quickly wearing off. Along the way, Alexander Rostov finds the family he'd never had before, giving a man who'd lost everything something else to lose.

The Paramount/Showtime limited series A Gentleman in Moscow is led by Golden Globe and Emmy winner Ewan McGregor and his wife Mary Elizabeth Winstead.

What Happens To Alexander Rostov After He Leaves The Metropol Hotel Explained

The post-escape fate of mcgregor's character is unknown.

At the end of A Gentleman in Moscow episode 8, "Adieu," Alexander dons his hat and strolls through the doors of the Metropol Hotel. After all the phones in the building ring at once as Richard Vanderwhile's signal that Sofia is safe, Alexander can depart while knowing his surrogate daughter is in trusted hands. While Alexander is shown successfully leaving the building , the other side of the door isn't shown, so it's impossible to confirm what happens to the Count after this scene. Even the show's narrator, an older Sofia, confirms that she never knew what her father did next.

"I discovered that Papa had escaped the hotel, but what happened after remains a mystery. I like to imagine [Alexander and Anna] finally free, living out the rest of their lives together. They gave me the greatest gift of life. I'll keep them in my heart. Always. "

The sequence that's shown of Alexander's reunion with Anna in "Adieu" is shot in the same 4:3 aspect ratio as A Gentleman in Moscow 's flashbacks sequences, which were often from Count Rostov's point of view. However, as Sofia confirms that she never saw her parents again , this particular scene can't be a memory. Instead, what's being shown is Sofia's imaginings, dreaming of the two people who risked so much to save her enjoying a well-deserved, peaceful life.

Alexander does still have his stolen Finnish passport when he leaves the hotel, so it is possible he was able to flee the country and reunite with Anna.

The black apples shown during this scene are another sign that it's nothing more than Sofia's fantasy . Earlier in the same episode, Alexander tells the Metropol staff of an old legend from when he was growing up. The story tells of a tree hidden deep in the woods, bearing " Apples as black as coal ." If a person found and ate the apples, they would have the chance to live their life anew. Alexander immediately adds that he wouldn't eat the apples if he were to find them today, as despite his tumultuous life, it's a journey he doesn't regret.

Alexander is never shown telling Sofia this same story, but the presence of the black apples in the story's closing sequence suggests that he did share the tale with her at some point.

How & Why Sofia Flees Russia At The End Of A Gentleman In Moscow

Sofia's one-way trip to america took careful planning.

Despite being a staunch patriot, Alexander is still of the opinion that Sofia would have a better life in America than she would if she were to stay in Russia. Thankfully, Alexander's spying on the country's top brass in A Gentleman in Moscow episode 7 , "An Assembly," also presents an opportunity for McGregor's character to send his daughter to safety. The scheme is carried out in collaboration with Alexander's American ally , Richard Vanderwhile, who plans the operation for them.

Only Sofia is granted asylum by the Americans, with Alexander telling his daughter that the request for himself and Anna to receive the same treatment was simply too much to ask.

With the recordings from the meeting in her possession, Sofia heads to Paris as part of a musical tour. After performing, she cuts her hair short and changes her clothes to blend in with the crowd and leaves without being spotted. The powers that be grow wise to her scheme, as they move her performance slot from before the interval to the penultimate position in the running order. Thankfully, Sofia still has just enough time and barely manages to avoid being detected. After arriving at the American embassy in Paris, Vanderwhile arranges for Sofia to be flown to the USA .

Where Alexander Rostov Stands With Osip Glebnikov At The End Of A Gentleman In Moscow

Alexander & osip exchange declarations of friendship.

Alexander's relationship with Osip Glebnikov is intentionally unclear throughout A Gentleman in Moscow . Although Osip is essentially responsible for making sure Alexander doesn't break the terms of his sentence by leaving the Metropol, Alexander's jailer chooses to spend more time with his prisoner than is necessary for him to perform his duties. They engage in etiquette lessons, debates about literature, and even start to watch movies together. However, it mostly seems as though Osip is forcing the interactions to take place. Despite the ambiguity of their arrangement, Osip admits in the finale that he values their relationship .

The story of Ewan McGregor's Alexander Rostov from A Gentleman in Moscow shares some strong parallels to that of the actor's Star Wars character.

While warning McGregor's character of the danger Sofia is in - and by extension, Alexander himself - Osip says, " I like you, Alexander. I think of you as a friend ." The count replies in his signature guarded style: " As do I you, in a manner of speaking ." Osip may not have been the most valued figure to Alexander in his day-to-day life, but their friendship offered both men a different perspective. In addition, Osip also assisted Alexander return to the Metropol undetected following Sofia's trip to the hospital - an act that could have had both characters severely punished, if not killed.

Osip is also instrumental in making sure Anna departs for Finland without Alexander. By the time of "Adieu," Osip's wife and daughter are dead. So, Osip wants to make sure Alexander's family doesn't suffer the same fate.

Did Alexander Leave Manager Leplevsky To Die?

Alexander finally takes the revenge he's been trying to avoid.

Leplevsky is the biggest villain throughout the story of A Gentleman in Moscow , with Alexander's life at the Metropol Hotel becoming more difficult as his nemesis rises through the ranks. With Alexander's planned departure from the hotel imminent, it initially seems as though he's willing to let bygones be bygones and spare Leplevsky any acts of revenge. Unfortunately for the hotel manager, his last-minute discovery of Alexander's plan to escape results in McGregor needing to take action .

After arming himself with the dueling pistols from the manager's office, Alexander chains up Leplevsky in the bowels of the Metropol Hotel.

After arming himself with the dueling pistols from the manager's office, Alexander chains up Leplevsky in the bowels of the Metropol Hotel. At the same time, he incinerates the files the manager had been collating about the hotel's staff - Alexander and Sofia included. Leplevsky begs to be set free as Alexander departs , with the exchange between the two adversaries suggesting it would be a while before anyone finds the trapped hotel boss. So, while Alexander doesn't directly murder Manager Leplevsky, he could still be responsible for his death.

How Alexander's Imprisonment In The Metropol Hotel Was The Beginning Of His Life (Not The End)

Alexander rostov's personal life somehow flourished at the metropol.

When Alexander was sentenced to life imprisonment, he was in his early thirties. His only surviving family member was his grandmother, whom he had helped escape the country four years previously. In addition, he was estranged from Mishka - his oldest friend. Alexander had never married, nor fathered any children. Despite his life of wealth and privilege that had preceded his incarceration, he was deeply alone. Somewhat surprisingly, Alexander's decades trapped in the Metropol led to some of the most important relationships in his life .

Despite the early trauma of seeing Prince Nikolai being dragged out of the hotel to be shot in the street in A Gentleman in Moscow episode 1 , Alexander went on to hit a rich vein of social bonds. His friendship with Nina was vital during the early stages of his sentence, and although the pair struggled to stay on the same political wavelengths at times, their special relationship weathered the storm. Alexander also eventually managed to build bridges with Mishka .

Eventually, Alexander's on-and-off romantic dynamic with Anna Urbanova solidified into a solid foundation of love and trust, with the pair essentially becoming joint parents to Sofia.

If Alexander was a father figure to Nina, then he was essentially a grandfather in his role as generational caretaker when Sofia was left in the count's care. Alexander raised Sofia as his own , while making sure she never forgot her birth mother. Eventually, Alexander's on-and-off romantic dynamic with Anna Urbanova solidified into a solid foundation of love and trust, with the pair essentially becoming joint parents to Sofia. As a result, Alexander hit several milestones during his imprisonment that he either neglected or failed to achieve while he was a free man.

The Real Meaning Of A Gentleman In Moscow's Ending

Alexander's unconfirmed destiny compounds the story of love and loss.

A Gentleman in Moscow , like so many other stories, is about love. However, the show's theme of love is also tied into the concept of loss, and how the two interact with one another. The love that Alexander Rostov has for Anna and Sofia results in him putting their safety first , ensuring they are away from the Metropol Hotel and safely on their respective ways to their new homes at the time of him making his escape attempt.

Alexander Rostov's journey in A Gentleman in Moscow has been full of twists and turns, but the bees in episode 3 serve as a brilliant metaphor.

Alexander is fully aware of the risks to himself, Anna, and Sofia that their plan presents. Still, the love he has for his found family makes him willing to put himself in harm's way if it means there's a chance of a better tomorrow for the daughter he cherishes and the woman he loves. Osip acts in a similar vein by helping Alexander. Despite losing his wife and daughter, Osip chooses not to let his grief turn him bitter and instead makes sure Alexander doesn't suffer the same heartbreak.

Sofia's fantasy of her parents living out their days together is about as perfect an ending as the show can expect, with the unconfirmed nature of the scenario contributing to the dark beauty of the story's conclusion.

Sofia's fantasy of her parents living out their days together is about as perfect an ending as the show can expect , with the unconfirmed nature of the scenario contributing to the dark beauty of the story's conclusion. The trio would never have had the life they'd wanted in the building that brought the three of them together. Knowing this, they give their best effort to free themselves of the restrictions imposed upon them by Alexander's prison sentence. A Gentleman in Moscow 's final episode perfectly encapsulates the tale's message of sacrifice in the name of love.

All episodes of A Gentleman in Moscow are available to stream on Paramount+.

A Gentleman in Moscow

Based on the novel by Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow is a historical dramatic-thriller created by Ben Vanstone for Paramount+ and Showtime. Following the advent of the Russian Revolution, Count Alexander Ilyich Rostov is forced to spend several decades locked away in a hotel room and watch as the country around him transforms.

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