Philologist Oleg Lexmanov about thick novels, funny novels and novels about philologists I have two kinds of readings: one, endless, for work, and the other for pleasure. For pleasure, my wife and I read in the evenings out loud-most often some fat novel. This is convenient: you can argue, discuss, correct each other, we specially have a dictionary ready. The draw usually comes out. At work, I read the book of Andrei Zorin “The appearance of the hero” (see NT No. 37 (425) of November 14, 2016 ).

European University in St. Petersburg is deprived of an educational license Immediately after the court’s decision on the official website of the European University (EU), a message appeared: “The judge of the Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region RESovskaya decided to cancel the license of EU SPb. The university intends to appeal the decision in the appeal. The decision will enter into force only after the appeal is consideration.

The terrorist, who attacked March 22? People in the center of the British capital, was a citizen of Britain named Khalid? Masud. Fifty-two-year-old Masud was born in the county of Kent, told reporters? Representative of Scotland Yard. He lived in West Midlandz. Masud was known to the British special services, Prime Minister Teresa May said on March 23.

The largest bank of Germany, which issued Donald Trump for $ 300 million - Deutsche Bank - was involved in the money laundering from Russia, which is already called the Global Laundromat. There is another name - "Russian landromat" The investigation in which the Center for the study of corruption and organized crime (OCCRP), the newspapers The Guardian, Süddeutsche Zeitung, the New Gazeta and others took the scheme of the largest money laundering in Eastern Europe.

On March 24, the Konstantin Somov, the first retrospective of the works of Konstantin Somov, who entered the XXI century, has the most expensive Russian artist in the St. Petersburg KGallery. The current exhibition is a large event immediately for three interconnected reasons. Firstly, this is the first large retrospective of Somov in a very long time: the latest exhibitions of his works took place in the early 1970s and were timed to the artist’s centennial.

One of the largest technogenic disasters in the USSR - the Kurenev tragedy - carried away the lives of one and a half thousand people. Thus ended the attempt to “wash away” the place where tens of thousands of Kyiv Jews were shot - Babi Yar On November 6, 1943, the troops of the 1st Ukrainian Front entered Kyiv left by the Germans. The city lay in ruins. Before the war, the population of Kyiv was approaching a million, and at the end of 1943, only 180 thousand people amounted to.