www.Rwbw.com/~yoopro/yoyooarchive A few years ago, I participated in the project of the Kestonian Institute for the Study of the Religious Landscape of Russia. We traveled around the country, met with representatives of various religious movements, talked with them, and then described them. In total, we traveled about 60 cities and spent at least a week in each.

Communal apartments in the historical center of Moscow, as well as in other cities with historical buildings, are a special matter. On the one hand: "horror, horror, horror!", or sixty souls in the apartment, morning queues for the toilet and the neighbor Vedma Ivanovna, always ready to pour crushed glass into your soup.

www.artpiter.spb.ru/projects/baskin/index.shtml Yesterday you are Igor Vladimirovich ZPT in the bathroom again experienced an engine for a motor boat Tchk and a rabbit without rabbits Tchk = This is a telegram of my neighbor in a communal apartment, the ballerina Zoe, mine and her neighbor, hunter Igor Vladimirovich. His answer: Take a cage with mice from the corridor of the Tchk is the house of the old revolutionaries Tchk =. The ballerina is what he wants to say.

The crew of the 'Union' is Talgat Musabaev, Yuri Baturin and Dennis Tito. Photo AP Dennis Tito lives in Los Angeles. In his house with an area of ​​3 thousand square meters there is a room where a collection of models of aircraft with gas engines is stored. He made these models with his own hands. He loves yachts, opera and fast cars. Once he had a family - a wife and three children. Now he lives alone. 60-year-old Tito was born in the working family of Italian immigrants.

Photo AP On April 25, George Bush stirred the world, saying that America was ready to fulfill its duty against Taiwan. Before the scandal around the spy aircraft had time to subside, and the president had already gone to the next aggravation of relations with Beijing. Since 1949, communist China dreams of returning Taiwan to its wing, which proclaimed itself an independent state.

Anton Shandor La Way. Photo from the site www.churchofsatan.org On April 30, 1966, 36-year-old amateur occultist Anton Shandor La Vay, in his words, a former tamer of predators and a police photographer, founded the Satan Church in San Francisco. In the United States, a counter -cultural revolution was gaining strength, and a shabby lan from a piercing gaze and a hand -handed leopard quickly entered the cohort of popular guru among rebels against bourgeois conventions.

Photo from the site www.vremya.ru A communal apartment is a symbol of the Soviet system, one of the main cultural achievements of socialism and one of the main horrors of Soviet reality. It is not for nothing that Ilya Kabakov , the only artist from the USSR, who is part of the minimum cultural set of the Middle Euro -American - made a world career, plunging the educated viewer into the underworld of the communal unconscious.

Photosite The last time the Moscow communal services were counted in the spring of 1998. Then it turned out that in Moscow, after all the settlements of the beginning of the 90s, when the communal services were successful with people who had just earned money and all their lives dreamed of living "on the boulevards", there were 118,444 communal apartments, that is, 3.5 % of all Moscow apartments.