FREEDOM AND THE BLUES ARE SYNONYMS My editorial assignment was to meet Alexey Vayt Belov and talk about music and life. I suspected that it would be impossible to separate one from the other. And I wasn't wrong. How can you divide into music and something ...

A.I. Denikin, The Way of a Russian Officer. Essays on the Russian Time of Troubles. - M .: "Vagrius", 2002 The autobiography of the Commander-in-Chief of the Southern Volunteer Army "The Way of the Russian Officer" (1942-1947) was published in Moscow in 1991 in a rapid-fire edition. "Essays ...

On September 3, 2002, in Rostov, in the hospital of the North Caucasian Military District, Private Shcherbakov, the 119th victim of the tragedy of the Mi-26 helicopter that burned down near Khankala, died of burns. This death exceeded the death toll in August 2000 by...

Translating English words into Russian is not necessary. The Russian language has its own possibilities... Novaya Gazeta and the famous Russian philologist, Professor of the University of Atlanta Mikhail EPShTEIN continue the project "Gift of the Word". Project idea: in Russian...

CM. Volkonsky "Motherland. Memories". - M.: Zakharov, 2002 In Vandal's excellent book "L'avenement de Napoleon" I remember ... he speaks of the mood of the last months of the revolution: "Apathy softened the indignation." Terrible educational...

A criminal case has been opened on the fact of the threat to kill Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya. But the suspect in this case and the person under investigation for the commission of other grave crimes is at large, since the prosecutor's office believes ...

Ten years ago in the history of the Black Sea Fleet, the countdown of "modern times" began. The fleet was divided Our information Admiral Kasatonov Igor Vladimirovich Born on February 10, 1939 in the city of Vladivostok, Primorsky Territory, in the family of a commander ...

This monastery was destroyed by a tank regiment. And it is the special forces who restore it. Our reference “Nikandr is a reverend hermit. Pskov miracle worker, born in 1507. He began to labor in his youth and was tonsured in the monastery of Savva Krypetsky. Having a strict...

Love Ze Great and Powerful Russian. Ivan Turgenev So soon Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev's lines about the great and mighty Russian language, familiar from childhood, will sound. And Ivan Sergeevich himself, turning over in his grave, will turn into Ivan, no relationship ...

The smog that filled the capital appeared due to forest fires and burning peat bogs in the Moscow region. The only serious way to deal with the cause of such fires is to swamp peatlands. Specialist of the All-Russian Research Institute of Nature of the Ministry of...

Alex ROSTOTSKY, the best jazz bass player in Russia, composer, art director of the first jazz festivals in the Hermitage Garden and a tireless inventor, turned out to be a gourmet as well. Inviting us to visit to listen to a new record, he cooked dinner for half a day ....

TO MY GRANDSON Ivan SAVIN was born on August 29, 1899. He spent his childhood and youth in a small town in Ukraine. In the summer of 1919, having barely passed the matriculation exams, he volunteered for Denikin's army. Ivan Savin served in the 12th Lancers...