The tradition of the "nativity scene", the folk Christmas puppet mystery, was completely destroyed in the 20s and 30s. Since 1993, the nativity scene has been resurrected, it is played at Christmas time all over Russia. And this is a miracle. We owe a miracle to the director Victor ...

Was the terrorist act in the Armenian parliament ordered by those who carried it out? Usually themes, losing their scandalousness and sensationalism, acquire depth, a background. However, it turned out differently with the capture of the National Assembly and the murder of eight deputies on October 27 ...

The New Year is over, the millennium has begun... With a good hangover, country! What a Frenchman - he drinks one wine and not a glass, but half, enjoying - a daffodil - rather a movement of his hand. Just as a wine ceremony is a gesture for a European, so for a Russian...

Many historical buildings in St. Petersburg will have private owners. Badly? A scandal is brewing again between the private and the public! Each meeting with a city "familiar to tears" is fraught with tears of pity. If Moscow is a full-breasted, cheerful merchant's wife...

The Soviet public tolerated Suvorov as an experiment. And then she grimaced. Give me a room in a hostel, provide a personal secretary, print books in Braille. And I could collect publicly useful sockets, plugs and extension cords. During the years...

One of the many versions of the main event of all recent times, Yeltsin's resignation, reached our observer Samson. Not too quick animal chewed information for several days, until the cabinet purges added to everything ...