Barack Obama US President Barack Obama began a trip to Southeast Asia, and on Monday will come to Myanmar. This is the first visit of the current American president to this country. British media still call it a burma - in connection with which an active discussion is conducted about what name Obama should use: 23 years ago, the military junta, which was in power, without any discussion with the people changed the name of the country, showing a typical self-will for such regimes.

Warren Buffett A good Sunday theme is wealth. The Blog of Schumpeter on the Economist website (there are brilliant headlines invented for all blogs) completes a series of collections of famous business to the business to all. For the resurrection, the most appropriate: “Whoever loves silver is not saturated with silver, and who loves wealth, there is no benefit from that. And this is vanity! " (Ecclesiaste 5: 9).

Despite the ongoing conflict around the gas sector, the main international event of the PND is the first US President’s visit to Myanmum (aka Burma). Bark Obama is found both with the current president of this "country of arising democracy", and with the leader of the opposition, the Nobel laureate Aun San Su Zi. This will tell you a colleague Alexander GOSTEV in the evening air - I am in the PND on duty on the heading of the "agenda", so look at the first page of the site.

Lectures, seminars, discussions - without borders and in the public domain. Font size - + Olya Kuracheva Published 12.11.2012 11:49 In this section, you can find videos of lectures, seminars and discussions. Spheres are very different: science, literature, design, history, politics, etc. Also, video broadcast announcements regularly appear here that you can watch online. Sometimes during such broadcasts there is even the opportunity to ask the lecturer questions in real time.

DS: Wherever you are: in Saratov or Penza, St. Petersburg or Tomsk, near or far abroad, welcome to the Jazz Time Club and to our site svoboda.org. “Dzhaz Time” is the history of American musical culture: from Ragtaym, Blues, Strayda, Swing, Bopa, Hard-I-Neo Bopa to the Vanguard, Fuzhn and Folklore Jazz. The microphone in Paris is the author and the host of the weekly jazz show - Dmitry Savitsky. The fact is almost unknown: the wives of the great jazzmen influenced their creative development.

An open lesson in the "Divine Comedy" of Dante Aligieri when the funny becomes terrible? What gives a synthesis of times and arts?

Ivan Tolstoy: These days, two books are published from the press - in co -authorship. Oleg Vitalievich, is there something that unites them? Oleg Budnitsky: Firstly, one of the authors and compilers is probably the most important thing. The second is the history of the long -suffering twentieth century.

The great pianist Teddy Wilson, the one who came with Benny Gudman to Moscow, in a new one with a laser needle & laquo; jazz time & raquo;. But not one, but in a decent company: with Billy Holide, who loved to sing under his clever & laquo; fingertips & raquo;, as Boris Pasternak wrote .. also in their company is a completely different person & ndash; with a pocket pipe and love for Ornett Colemen & Ndash; Trumpet Don Cherry, cherry jazz.

With a hollow in the book corner: two news of Oleg Budnitsky. In Moscow, two books of our permanent author - historian Oleg Vitalievich Budnitnikigo - the collection "Completed! The Germans came" (notes of Soviet collaborators) and "Russian -Jewish Berlin". The first transfer. The conversation is conducted by Ivan Tolstoy.

"Iron Dome" 18 November 2012 Fresh from above 20:30 11/18/2012 We will adjust the figure of the day: 800 . On Sunday, the number of missiles and shells released according to Israel from the territory of the gas sector in 5 days reached on Sunday. If about numbers, then here is an interesting schedule. It shows how many missiles (blue) and mortar shells (blue) were released according to Israel for each year, starting from 2001. 2008 is the year of the Operation "cast lead" .

Radio Liberty forms the agenda of the coming week: the largest events of Russian and international life, commemorative dates, sports and cultural panoramas. The plan for the week is your reliable compass. The program is alternately conducted by editors of information programs in Moscow and Prague.

I was lucky: I first saw the collection of Sergei Grigoryan in 1987, when Sergey Ivanovich left the camp in the Gorbachev amnesty for political prisoners and founded “publicity” - the largest independent magazine in those days. The crumbs remained from the huge collection, most of the KGB was confiscated, but these crumbs collected in an ordinary Soviet apartment at the Babushkinskaya metro station struck the imagination.