Dmitry Volchek Portrait The results of the week. December 8th The director of the film "Term" came with a search US Congress approved the Magnitsky List An art was awarded in Moscow, for which they are imprisoned

Toshiko Akoyoshi Toshiko Akooshi was born on December 12, 1929 in the regions completely incredible for jazzmen, in the port city of Dyren in Manchuria, which was in the era of a puppet Japanese state. From the age of seven, Toshiko studied the classic piano. She told Lena Lyons that her “the first teacher was very mediocre, but it did not matter, because at the very beginning you still play exercises and sketches of Karl Carl or Charles Louis Anon. The most important thing is early to start.

December 8, 2012 The author of the next letter catches on double standards of the Euro -Atlantic public. She continues to brand Putin and Patriarch Kirill for mocking three young women who said from now on the famous prayer: “The Virgin, Putin, the run and Patriarch Kirill”, but the people who offended Muslims with the film about the Prophet Muhammad ... Their West also condemns, but not so, they say loudly. “My comment is like that,” the letter says. - Neither one nor the other is impossible.

The difference in time (from the cycle "Like Dumas ..."). Participate E. Zubkova and V. Nevezhin Vladimir Tolts: December - the time of Christmas and New Year's balls and evenings, the “agenda” and many rituals, which in modern Russia are still noticeably connected with the Soviet tradition of state -owned “large techniques”.

Justice for Sergey Magnitsky

The weekend promises to be quiet, at least according to the calendar of events. Not at all the same as a year ago, when, as it seemed, Russia has stuck. Whether it was overwhelmed by itself - it turns out, in particular, a week later, in connection with the "march of freedom." The outgoing week was devoted to summing up the results and memories, the future will be devoted to the preparation of the event. Dmitry Volchek and Andrey Sharogradsky work in the information broadcast of the weekend.

Gaza Palestinians celebrated the 25th anniversary of the Islamic movement Hamas 08 December 2012 Fresh from above 22:26 12.12.2012 Saturday came to an end. Somehow, the statement of the Investigative Committee of Russia to Dmitry Medvedev did not meet the interest and support, which is “not goats” . In Samara, a "march march" was held, which gathered an equal number of protests and the police.

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A living correspondence with the audience, which has been led by the writer and publicist Anatoly Shot, for many years. He is written by mail - ordinary and electronic - from the most diverse places of Russia and other republics that once constituted the Soviet Union: about the fate of their countries and, most importantly, about their human destinies.

The Soviet tradition of large Kremlin techniques (from the cycle "Like Dumas ..."), E. Zubkov and V. Nevezhin participate

Pantheon of the Motherland and Freedom, created by the Brazilian architect Oscar Nimayer Freedom is one of the main values of the European. For her sake, revolutions were committed so many times, people went to demonstrations and organized protests. However, freedom is very often the intersection of personal and public, the pain point and the cause of crises. At such moments, a complex, fatal choice sometimes faces a person: to continue or break the earthly existence.