Photo by Zeitzug Milena In old dictionaries, they write about Babi summer as a mysterious phenomenon: the beginning of autumn. When white threads are rushed through the air, the origin of which is unknown. Maybe this is a web of small spiders. In new dictionaries, everything is much more prosaic: Babier Summer is associated with a stable anticyclone.

Galina Starovoitov and Boris Yeltsin. 1991 14 years ago, Galina Starovoitova was killed in St. Petersburg. A fragment of her entry into the book of Masha Hessen The Man with Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin is first published in Russian I woke up from the fact that someone was shaking me. On the face of Kate is horror: “On the radio they say something about Galina,” she almost whispered in English. “And about weapons, it seems ....

The map of Europe, at least the Western one, often seems to the third-party view of something obvious, long-established and practically unchanged. What is Europe without France, Germany, Great Britain, Spain? Although in the eastern part of the Old World over the past 20 years, these changes, with all their drama, have seriously “met” in public consciousness. The existence of Croatia, Slovakia or Ukraine now does not seem strange and unnatural to anyone but relatively small marginal groups.

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In mid -November, I was going to Burma and even came up with the plot of the trip: I decided to take the novel by George Orwell Burmes Days and use it as a guide. Burma now is the most interesting country in the world. Standing for so many years in military uniform, she undressed and sailed along the Koka-Cola River to the sour shores. To be there is like going to the GDR or Czechoslovakia in 1989.

The other day a message came: the Chelyabinsk Ministry of Health graciously agreed not to sue the parents of children suffering from mucopolysaccharidosis - a rare genetic disease, in which a skeleton, connective tissue and almost all internal organs are affected from a very young age. Even at the beginning of this year, this pathology was included in the list of rare diseases, the treatment of which is paid by the state.

Radio Liberty publishes the diaries of the inhabitants of the south of Israel, located under missile shelling from Gaza. One day - through the eyes of one person: My name is Vera Sabina, I live in Ber-Shev, the capital of the south of Israel. Monday, November 19. 11:24 On the eve of Beer-Shev, it got many times less than Ashdod and Ashkelon, and we were even given to sleep. And in the morning there was forty -first siren.

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