Why everyone fell in love with Uruguay In recent weeks, at the door of the consulates of Uruguay in different parts of the land, the queues are crowding: thousands of people suddenly wanted to move forever to this Latin American country. Why such a stir - The New Times sorted out the intricacies of Uruguaysky Eldorado Demonstration in support of marijuana legalization.

The life and fate of Vasily Grossman is the premiere on the channel "Culture" January 29 on the Culture television channel - the premiere of Elena Yakovich’s documentary “Vasily Grossman:“ I realized that I was dead ” Vasily Grossman. The end of 1940s In the summer of last year, a significant event took place, which almost no one paid attention-the liberation of the manuscript of the famous novel by Vasily Grossman “Life and Fate” from the arrest of the manuscript.

Valeria Novodvorskaya continues Russian history lessons* Lesson No. 3 *The beginning of the cycle-in No. 41 and 43-44 for 2013 The waves of nomadic conquerors rolled out of the Asian steppe. Republic of Tuva Rus' was open to all winds. Neither Alp, no Pyrene, no safety, no guarantees. The Volga was considered distant abroad. Don is neighbor. The Russian land ended behind the hill closest from Chernigov. The civilians had no chance to survive.

In Paris, a photo exhibition was opened for the 70th anniversary of the departure of the blockade The Soviet troops managed to break through the blockade of the besieged city back in January 1943, but the date of the final liberation of Leningrad is considered January 27, 1944. On this day, a salute was produced in honor of the victory in the city. The blockade, which lasted 872 days, took away the lives of more than 600 thousand people*.

I was born in a country where the idea of ​​freedom, the concept of law, the custom of human kindness were coldly despised and rudely rejected by law.

Another political process of Putin's era is coming to an end On Monday January 27, 2014, the Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow was like the Moscow City Court of the mid-80s of the last century, when the processes of dissidents took place there. Just like thirty years ago, the press was not allowed to the meeting, explaining this by the fact that there is no place in the hall. True, 30 years ago, the courtrooms specially filled the KGB operatives or students of law universities.

Court of Ivan Belousov: to find evidence of guilt, which are not On January 23, the Moscow City Court extended the arrest to student Ivan Belousov until May, sentenced to 6 years to undermine a lamppost on Manezhnaya Square in Moscow in December 2007.

The world chess champion beat the billionaire in nine moves A friendly chess game between 58-year-old Microsoft founder Bill Gates and 23-year-old world chess champion Magnus Carlsen took place during the Scandinavian television talk show Skavlan on January 24. Gates had two minutes to make his moves, Carlsen only 30 seconds, but it took him eleven to checkmate one of the richest men in the world. The total duration of the game is 1 minute 19 seconds.