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Richard Stites, Historian of Russian Culture, Dies at 78

Richard Stites, who opened up new territory for historians with a landmark work on the Russian women’s movement and in numerous articles and books on Russian and Soviet mass culture, died on Sunday in Helsinki, where he was doing research. He was 78 and lived in Washington.

The cause was complications from cancer, his son Andrei said.

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British DJ and music historian Charlie Gillett, who helped popularize world music, died yesterday. He was 68.

Among the artists Gillett helped popularize was Dire Straits.
 



Samurai Champloo Composer Jun 'Nujabes' Seba Passes Away

The official website of hydeout productions has announced on Thursday that Jun Seba, the hip-hop producer better known as Nujabes, passed away due to an automobile accident in Tokyo late in the evening of February 26. He was 36 years old. An ambulance had rushed Nujabes to a hospital in Tokyo's Shibuya ward, but the live-saving efforts of the medical staff were ultimately unsuccessful.

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H.M. Koutoukas, a prolific playwright who helped create Off Off Broadway with wildly surreal plays such as Medea in the Laundromat, died March 6 of diabetes. He was 72.
 

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