Georgia. Talking about wine

On top of barriers with Igor Pomerantsev

Playwright, director, artist Rezo Gabriadze :

What is the charm of Georgian wine? Odysseus, perhaps, drank him, because the old technology has been preserved in Georgia. The wine is especially good for Christmas and Easter. In the paintings of Pirosmani - valuable silence, and she is in Kakhetian wines. This is noble silence. Good wines do not argue with each other ... Loza is a decadent, without a person, without a stick, it falls. The French liberated wine, there is no violence against him. They hear wine, they know how to sit with a glass. Why should the glass have a high leg? Very simple: in order not to hear the smell of his hand, he can run through the road to the wine smell.

True love

Says Vyatka pensioner Maya Mikhailovna:

I was 72 years old, and he was 80. He called me, then he invited me to the theater, then he invited me to take a walk ... I, from this man who, in fact, had many problems, I got more affection than from a 47-year life with my first husband.

Maps and players : Russian and American card experience

Card games in the USA are common. Among the most popular, three games can be distinguished-Bridge, Black Jack and Poker. The Bridge is considered an intellectual game, they mainly play a casino in Black Jack, and poker is Americans' favorite card game. This, one might say, is almost a national sport. Success in poker is the same as to succeed in life. Companies gather - mainly men - for beer, cigars and simply play cards at small bets. This is a pastime. When it comes to games at a more serious level, then, of course, money plays the most important role. And without money, poker, in particular, the game is meaningless. After all, it itself is very simple, but the fact that poker is playing with money gives the game a lot of subtleties and nuances ...

The voices of the night Istanbul

Report from the streets and Square Istanbul