People in black Until the middle of our century, rickshaw, running with their wagons along the streets of Chinese cities, were as familiar sight as the taxis today. So it was, while the Communists, who came to power in China in 1949, did not ban this type of transport, declaring it with a “bourgeois relic”. But this year, light wheel carts reappeared in Beijing. The authorities allowed RIKSh in those areas that foreign tourists visit.

According to the Prigov sentence, "the people, he divides into the people and the people literally into the people." Twenty summer seasons spent in the village convinced me that my family is definitely not a people and will never become them. From the batons of sausage, brought over the years from Moscow as a gift, you can add a small bathhouse, brew all the water in the local pond with tea.

If the state is not able to manage its debts, sooner or later debts begin to control the state Two years ago, Russia managed to finally agree with foreign creditors on the procedure for repaying debts inherited from the former USSR. Then it seemed that this cargo would no longer slow down the economic growth, the reforms were about to bear fruit, we will get out of the financial hole and heal calmly and happily.

There were three unwritten rules in Italy for decades: a corrupt politician cannot be imprisoned in prison, Mafioso must be silent, there is no government without Andreotti. The "seven-time" Prime Minister of Italy, the Christian democrat Julio Andreotti, who remains today, at the age of 80, the most popular politician on the Apennines, ended up at the epicenter of the scandal. For a lifelong senator, prosecutors require life imprisonment.

"The government is not responsible for the activities of the APN." This crafty principle was proclaimed by the Soviet state in 1961 at the moment. In 1970, the agency was headed by Ivan Udaltsov, a former adviser to the Soviet Embassy and one education of the Swinformburo in the agentiz of the main ideologists of the News Press. Propaganda to combine.

A miniature novel “Now the independence of our country is just a matter of time,” said Alex Salmond, the head of the Scottish National Party, last week. This statement sounded on the eve of the first elections over the past three centuries to the legislative bodies of the two countries of the United Kingdom last Thursday of Scotland Choh its parliament, and Wales - an assembly.

The exhibition "Power" takes place in Germany The very name of the exhibition of the translator is in wait for trouble. Das alter in German is both “age” and “old age”. You can, of course, accept the first option, but in general, the exhibition is primarily about old age and death. At the end of the century, 40 artists, united by the curator of Bazon Brock, are talking about the “authorities”. The reason for the exhibition was by no means existential, but in German pragmatic.

Ivan Vasilievich Klun (1873-1943)-a figure for the history of the Russian avant-garde is quite strange. One of the most consistent Suprematists, he never decided on male radical experiments and, as a result, remained on the second roles.

Pitonov’s Tarik, which “Roy died, you know? He asked a dull voice in the darkness. - So we go to him. Two moved along the cemetery, to the depths. The sun was already coming. " This quiet, almost bucolic picture concerts the “Road to the Abyss”, one of the 46 stories included in the new book of Yuri Mamleev, once an underground writer and philosopher, whose work became “widely known in narrow circles” back in the early 70s thanks to publications in the West.

The main film festival of the Cannons world will last this year from May 12 to May 23. In the battle for the Golden Palm Branch, twenty -two paintings will converge, including four from France and the USA.

Victor Chernomyrdin is actually not engaged in Yugoslavsky, but by Russian-American settlement The last week of active intermediary troubles of the special representative of the Russian president in the Yugoslav settlement of Viktor Chernomyrdin confirmed only one simple truth: in this matter they will cost without intermediaries.

We can offer to pay off part of the debts with goods. Some Western creditors are interested in, for example, by our mineral fertilizers. There are other goods that may be of interest to them. And for Russia, it is also stimulating exports, production, and direct savings in the sense that the state will pay with manufacturers of rubles, not currency. - How can a change in the alignment of forces in the London Club of creditors affect the results of negotiations?

In the spring of 1991, Serbian militarized formations began operations in Croatia, which later began to be called ethnic cleaning. At that time, Yugoslavia was the most multinational state in Europe, and I, being a liberal -thinking Serb, believed that the new cynical concept of an ethnically pure mono -national state has no future. However, as the four bloody wars that happened since then, I was tragically mistaken.

If you need a wonderful house of the middle of the 19th century (10 bedrooms, 9 bathrooms, a meter pool, a garage for 8 cars, etc.) and you are ready to pay $ 56 million, but by installments - 99 years old, write down the address: London, Kensington Player Garden, 15a (not far from the place where Princess Diana lived). Richard Crospect, whose real estate agency is selling this house belonging to the queen

In the capital of Cambodia, Pnuppen in the presence of numerous guests, diplomats and journalists, the opening ceremony of the sowing season was held. According to a long tradition, a herd of royal cows was brought to the square in front of the palace. Here he prepared various treats. Animals ate everything cleaned. This fact was perceived as a very good omen. “This has not happened since 1979. This is a sign that there will be a good harvest, ”concluded a court priest.