Text : Sergey Zhdanov Illustrations : Bojemoi! July 19, 2016 As our attentive reader has already noted, we love and respect William Seward Burrose. In the heading “Book Regiment of Theo” you have already read his advice to the writer , a story about a car to make desires and instructions for the correct reading of books. Today, the day finally came when he will take his rightful place among the dictators of the week. “As a child, I wanted to be a writer because the writers were rich and famous.

The former journalist of the old Lenta.ru, and now the editor -in -chief of the Spectrum publication Anton Lysenkov, at the request of the editorial office of Batenka, spoke about the capture of hostages at the Theater Center at Dubrovka in 2002, which he became a direct witness.

Text and photos : Vitaly Kozlenkov / July 19, 2016 Our reader Vitaly Kozlenkov was in the thick of the events during the failed military coup in Turkey and wrote to us the text about what he saw and heard, and how he chose from Istanbul. Unknown, communication with the consulate is lost, Aeroflot aircraft do not fly, tanks on the streets, fighters in the sky, and people from all over the world offer help. This city is back in fire .

Text : Peter Manyakhin photography : Vladislav Nekrasov July 19, 2016 When the country's economy goes to a dead loop, the funeral business usually goes uphill, and it becomes somehow more attractive and tempting to die. But this is usually. Today, in fact, death is no safer than life, no one knows for sure how to bury people and what to do with a corpse, everything loses a romantic flalter and rot.