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White Christmas and Jingle Bells In the calendar of the Mayan civilization, an aircraft occurred, and the era of Jaguar smoothly passed into the era of the “jaguars” and other “Merc”. Our jazz calendar, and here without any misfire, is rapidly approaching Christmas. The head of the Vatican Observatory Jose Funes assured us in advance that he did not see reason to take the predictions about the end of the world on December 21, 2012 seriously.

The results of the week. December 22 In spite of America, the Duma took the orphans hostage. Journalists ceased to be afraid: bold voices at Putin’s press conference. They tried to take the Odessa city hall storm.

Sandip Parmar Poem from the collection Catechism. Poems for Pussy Riot , prepared by an English pen club Sandip Parmar PROPAGANDA Based on the painting of Boris Taslitsk “Report” [1] See how on the front plan The crowd locked in the dock post-de-book Gives a rebuff. Resurrecting from the dead Rushes into the mouth of the wolfhound: to hell with the state Shout workers throwing bricks Like the loaf of bread hot from eloquence of the dead. The woman falls back when the dog rushes into her face.

Toys at the State Duma #State Duma Twitter.com/svobodaradio/s ... Signs at the entrance to the State Duma - traces from eggs #State Duma Twitter.com/svobodaradio/s ... - Radio Liberty (@svobodaradio) December 22, 2012

Robert Chandler Robert Chandler is one of the most famous translators from Russian, thanks to which English-speaking readers again discovered Pushkin, met Platonov, and first learned a lot from the literature of the 20th century. Now he is working on the compilation of the anthology of Russian poetry for Penguin. In particular, the poems of Veliirah Khlebnikov, which was dedicated to the evening, arranged the other day in the London “Pushkin House”, will enter there.

1953: Execution at Christmas. (Beria's case in the light of recently declassified documents)