Anna Abalkina is a research fellow at the Institute for East European Studies at the Free University of Berlin, Berlin, Germany.

"It's a bad time to buy a diamond," a Hatton Garden jeweller told The Guardian this weekend. "They'll probably be cheaper in a few weeks." The price of a one-carat natural diamond has dropped from ...

An installation view of “Picasso and Paper” at the Cleveland Museum of Art. David A. Brichford, courtesy Cleveland Museum of Art Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer’s roving art critic ...