From a personal diary. Continuation Photo: Kim Smirnov August 14, 2016 Sunday. "So said Zarathustra." In the history of the Russian provincial theater there was a strange-paradoxical period, which fell on the times of great shocks of a hundred years ago. When county Russia suddenly “fell ill” with the passion for high, universal philosophy and the high, the Euripido-hachspir tragedy (of course, not forgetting its own-Gogol, Ostrovsky, Sukhovo-Kobylin).

Anomalous cold came to Moscow. What to do at minus 35: the advice of the doctor and the Ministry of Emergencies Photo: RIA Novosti On January sixth, Muscovites woke up at a temperature outside the window at minus 25. On the night of Christmas, the thermometer will show minus 35. The Ministry of Emergencies warns about the danger of being in the cold for a long time and asks not to leave the house if you do not have urgent affairs.

The anniversary of the EU entry into Bulgaria and Romania met without celebrations: in both countries an acute government crisis Photo: EPA Exactly 10 years ago - in January 2007 - Bulgaria and Romania became full members of the European Union. In both Balkan states, this date did without any anniversary celebrations, meetings and speeches. It so happened that the Bulgarian and Romanian politicians are not up to the holiday now - it is urgent to solve urgent problems of political everyday life.

A new regulation stood on the way of the Russian team - and we gave a fairy tale to American students Photo: RIA Novosti The Russian youth team in Montreal fought for the awards of the World Hockey Championship. She was worthy of any, even gold - not being a favorite in the semifinals with the US national team, or in a match for third place with the Swedish national team. “Bronze” suffered, but the main match was the previous one - with future champions.

The shooter in the center of Moscow turned out to be a 28-year-old native of Makhachkala. He came to Moscow in search of work and lived in a hostel. This was announced by the official representative of the Russian Interior Ministry Irina Volk, reports TASS. According to her, the police detained the man. Volk clarified that the young man was found by studying the corresponding video on the Internet.

Dzhango Edwards monologue, one of the most famous and explosive clowns in the world Photo: jangoedwards.fr He is a clown without brakes: stripping on stage, shocking, going joking. They say about him: fearless and tasteless. Django held the international festival of fools, and now he teaches to be fools of others - for example, Slava Polunin - at his Clown Institute. I asked Django to tell how to stay free, even if nothing has this. To whom, if not a clown, to know about it.

In Moscow in the coming days, the temperature will drop to minus 35 degrees. This was reported in the press service of the capital's department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. “According to the Central UGMS, from 22:00 January 07 to 10:00 January 08, 2017 and from 22:00 January 08 to 10:00 January 09, 2017, severe frost is predicted in Moscow with temperatures dropping to minus 35 degrees, ” the Moscow agency quotes a message from the department.

Veronica Valley selected her newest poems and gave them out for publication in Novaya Gazeta Photo: TASS Veronica Valley poet - My dear listeners .... Chiters. On New Year's Eve with the New Gazeta! And I want to involve you in poems, again and again. These are written in the fall, day after day, with rare passes. In everyday life there is a lot of poetry - I have long opened it. Roughness, corners that are difficult to go around. How to include them in the lines?

In Belarus, on the night of January 6, the abbess of the St. Xenia Monastery, mother Vasilissa, was killed. This was announced by the press secretary of the Belarusian Orthodox Church Sergei Lepin. “I can confirm the fact that Mother Vasilissa was killed. Most likely, it was an attack by one of the sick novices, of whom there are many in the monastery, ” quotes him as saying. Sputnik The archpriest added that he did not have any additional information.

Moscow police are checking a video of what appears to be automatic weapons being fired in the center of the capital. This was reported in the press service of the capital's Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, reports . Interfax “Moscow police are conducting an investigation based on a video posted on the Internet, where an unknown man fires several shots from an object similar to an automatic weapon,” the department said.

US intelligence agencies have identified the intermediaries who gave the Wikileaks project stolen emails from representatives of the Democratic Party, according to a report on Russian cyberattacks that intelligence agencies presented to US President Barack Obama. This is reported by CNN and The Washington Post , citing their sources. At the same time, the publications do not specify which individuals they can talk about and whether the special services plan to publish their names.