Advanced TV viewers say that the current, afterlife channel NTV has dedicated its lyre to crime, "dismemberment" and fatal detectives and has won great people's love for it. And then I accidentally stumbled upon a program called "Honest Monday". The name evokes pleasant associations with Bunin's "Clean Monday". However, it was here that both crime and "dismemberment" on the topic "veterans and anti-Soviet" were discovered.

What are the Nobel and Booker Prizes for Literature awarded for? Women's misfortune. The two largest literary prizes - the Nobel Prize and the English Booker Prize - were received this year by women: German Herta Müller and Englishwoman Hilary Mantel.

Two major international film festivals are held in Italy with a monthly interval. The first, Venetian, is the oldest in the world (born in 1932), the second, Roman, is the youngest. The Rome International Film Festival (Festa internazionale del Cinema di Roma) is held for only the fourth time, with skeptics predicting the last each year. But he's holding on for now. Three years ago, the first Rome Festival was held with great fanfare and hit everyone with a fantastic budget of €15 million.

There are no fools. The game of billiards in not so old times was strongly associated with pillars of smoke, glasses, bills laid down in a lusa, a general atmosphere of excitement. The evolution of Russian billiards, who came out of the basement in the form of a classic pyramid and turned into a democratic pool, - followed the New Times Meanwhile, our game continued. The more often I sighed from my glass, the more brave.

Memory of the great mathematician of Israel Moiseevich Gelfand "He made everyone think." On October 5, 2009, the great scientist Israel Moiseevich Gelfand died in the United States He lived an amazing life, or rather, he surprisingly lived it. The actual member of almost all the academies of the world, the professor of leading universities of all developed countries did not even have a complete secondary education.

Over the course of a month, more than a hundred contemporary art exhibitions took place in Moscow. Art is in great debt. Over the course of a month, more than a hundred contemporary art exhibitions took place in Moscow: 39 special projects, 68 projects in a parallel program, and the main exhibition at the Garage exhibition center.