How did the recession affect the everyday life of the inhabitants of the EU and what has changed since the economic crisis began?

Fragment of the picture of the American artist Mark Ryden "Angel of Meat" After the holidays, which are accompanied by abundant overeating and libation, European newspapers turn to the topic of losing weight every year. In the UK, the end of the festive feast was marked by the publication of the proposals of one of the research centers studying the lives of people in cities: local authorities should join the fight against obesity.

Georgian politician Timur Shashiashvili - about the need to resign the president

Vasily Chekrygin, "Kyiv landscape" In June 1922, the art world of Moscow was shocked by the sudden death of a 25-year-old painter and graphics by Vasily Chekrygin. He fell under the train. "The work of V. N. Chekrygin is an unexpected and exceptional phenomenon. It is striking in brightness, strength, internal tension, which has long been seen by organic face," wrote art critic Anatoly Bakushinsky.

The New Year in American politics came 23 hours later than the calendar - shortly before midnight on Tuesday, on January 1, when the House of Representatives of the US Congress adopted a bill approved by the Senate, which avoids a sharp increase in income tax for most Americans. Thus, the problem was finally resolved, known as “fiscal cliff” - the expiration of tax benefits by January 1, the disappearance of which would noticeably affect the pockets of voters.

Public speech is regulated by many conventions and unspoken prohibitions - to say something bright in their framework rarely succeeds. Here are five successes of 2012

January 04, 2013 , the news of today is followed by Yaroslav Shimov Fresh from above 19:03 4.1.2013 Russian nationalists will teach Chechens how to behave. Summing up the preliminary results on January 4, I note that this day this truly shocks the imagination of the number of news, designed in the genre of comic absurd.

At the end of December, the American folk, singer Joan Bay, presented in Prague the translation of her autobiographical book "My Voice - Gift".

January 7 at 9 pm in the program of Alexander Genis - who forgives the killers; music at Tarantino; Dima Yakovlev through the eyes of the Americans; Aleksandrov and Eisenstein in the USA. The tragedy in the Connecttician school finally shifted the US public opinion from a dead point. Nothing, except perhaps the problem of abortion, does not share the country as the attitude to its private arsenal. Half of the Americans holds weapons in the house and is not going to part with it.

In June 1922, the art world of Moscow was shocked by the sudden death of a 25-year-old painter and graphics by Vasily Chekrygin. He fell under the train. "The work of V. N. Chekrygin is an unexpected and exceptional phenomenon. It is striking in brightness, strength, internal tension, which has long been seen by organic face," wrote art critic Anatoly Bakushinsky.

In the program, we are talking about relevant topics of public discussion in the United States - control over weapons, the problem of a fiscal cliff and marijuana legalization.

"Chaliapin village". Transfer of the Vyatka roots of Fedor Chaliapin Maidery Choir named after Avdotya Chaliapina "Radio anthology of modern Russian poetry" Poems of Fyodor Swarovsky Director-Documentary Arman Yeritsyan and the Heroes of his films "Red dry" conversation about Bulgarian wines

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Opponents of Mikhail Saakashvili demand his resignation: 800,000 signatures were collected by Republican John Beiner re -elected by the speaker of the Chamber of Representatives of the memories of the author of the History of Russian Futurism. Professor Vladimir Markov died in California