Tea, scarves, incense, sari: India in LenExpo The eastern bazaar in LenExpo: Indian merchants from 60 states brought tea and spices, leather and pearl goods, jewelry and jewelry, clothes and shawls, shawls, scarves, incense, fashionable bags - in a word, all the most necessary for those who dream of buying a ticket to India , not forgetting, however, about the body. The photo editor "Papers" Alexei Shishkin visited the opening of the Indian goods exhibition.

“... from my youth - I left Russia at the age of 19 - my political credo remains as colorless and unchanged as the old gray rock. It is traditionally to banality. Freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of art. The public or economic system of the ideal state cares little to me. My desires are modest. Portraits of the head of state should not exceed the size of the postage stamp. No torture and executions. No music except the one that sounds in headphones or in theaters.

They went to observers: eleven portraits Why did they decide not only to vote on March 4, but also make sure that the elections are honest? Observers in the elections of the President of Russia answer this question with one phrase written on a sheet of paper.

Who wants to know more Today you can study for free and efficiently, it is enough to find an organization of like -minded people or create one yourself. The correspondent of Papers found out how young people create intellectual sites in St. Petersburg. Photo: Ekaterina Gavrilo / "Paper" Insight in Borges “A project for those who have something to say, for those who want to know more” is the motto of the InSight educational project, which has existed in our city for the second year.

In the marble palace The smell of Russia In the marble palace, a branch of the Russian Museum, two completely different personal exhibitions were opened: the “Father's House” of Solomon Rossina and the “Russian North” Vyacheslav Mikhailov . Both artists - recognized masters both in Russia and abroad, traveled a lot and lived abroad, but “I am Russian” pronounce confidently and with pride.

For Chuck Norris The Paper correspondent visited the championship of the north-west of kickboxing and talked with the followers of the legendary star of militants about why women could not look at the fights of their sons and why newcomers are risky to go into the ring. The scene, the hall in the twilight, only two ring in a circle of light and six figures behind ropes, two referee and four fighters.

Ex-advice of the Pentagon- About Russian elections George Hudson, a professor of political science in Wittenberg University and the ex-adviser of the Pentagon on USSR issues, talked with “paper” before the presidential election. He told how the Russians were perceived in the highest echelons of the American authorities, which is why Putin has no competitors, why the results of the parliamentary elections were falsified, and why he has long loved Russia.

Second-hand: business, not business The young owners of fashionable St. Petersburg second-handed told the “paper” about how to launch their job from scratch and open a clothing store. How much money he can bring to the owners and how the current second-hand differs from the business on the cot, Vika Mokratsova found out. Today, the concept of “second-hand” no longer causes associations with basements, to capacity littered with mint clothes with a characteristic smell.