Glenn Cowen and Zhuan Zedong during the visit of the Chinese athlete in the United States in 1972 Everything came together here - a large sporting event, oriental hospitality, Western openness, political connotation and ... accident. On April 4, 1971, a member of the US Table Tennis team Glenn Cowen during the World Cup in the Japanese city of Nagoy was late for his bus, and the Chinese were brought up, one of whom was presented by Cowen Souvenir - a picture on silk.

Astaroid 2012da14: 27700 kilometers from the ground

Repair of windows broken by an explosive wave from a meteorite fall, in the hospital number nine Chelyabinsk, February 2013 Housing and communal services of Chelyabinsk by night, when minus 17 degrees are expected, intend to close the broken windows of all residential buildings that have suffered from an explosive wave today as a result of a meteorite fall. This was announced by Interfax in the city administration. It is not possible to glaze all these windows again in such a short time.

The cover of the textbook "Native Speech" On top of barriers with Igor Pomerantsev After the collapse of the British Empire, the English language only strengthened his position in the world, but he had a strong rear: highly developed English -speaking countries. The Austro-Hungarian Empire broke up in 1918, and the outskirts of the former empire gradually forgot German. How did the collapse of the USSR affect the attitude to the Russian language abroad?

In St. Petersburg, a car racing “against a police lawlessness” was held. He started from Danube Prospekt and passed for about an hour and a half along the highways of the Moscow region. The rally of the Volya party recently arising in the city was organized.

For the Krasnoyarsk Economic Forum that opened on Friday, the subject of special pride of the city and the tenth in a row, the topic was determined to match the anniversary: “Russia is a map of change”. And the main participant in the event was Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. The first thing that caught my eye on the day of his arrival was clean streets.

Russia - Pavlova Svetlana, Rferl Employee, Moscow Bureau, undated In the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow, the process of Mikhail Kosenko, a disabled person of the second group, who was charged with participation in the riots and the use of force against police officers during the unrest that occurred in Moscow last May 6, continued. Irina Khalip received a temporary permit to travel to Russia and the UK in Belarus.

On the website of the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region, data were published on the victims as a result of the fall of the meteorite: "According to the latest information of the operational headquarters, created on behalf of the governor Mikhail Yurevich, a meteorite that passed over the territory of the Chelyabinsk region fell into a pond 1 km from the city of Chebarkul.

On #Cosenko, the state prosecutor finished the announcement of the written dockwalls. On the trail. The meeting asks to call the victims Lawyer #Kosenko Aivazyan asks to start a protocol for the case in the case file there were no honey conclusions. examinations read by the state prosecutor. - Nataly dzhanpolaradova (@dzhan_nataly) February 15, 2013

He found in the archive his interview with Elena Georgievna Bonner - in 2003 she came to Prague in connection with the 50th anniversary of the RS, and then we recorded a great conversation in the studio. Now I’m listening: the specific details of which we spoke, left, and the public context, problems - everything remains, and even worsened. Interesting and instructive.

After half an hour, an action against the state Duma of the Russian Federation will begin against the building of the State Duma in the first reading of the bill tightening the rules of registration. Activists of the “Reading. Non” movement intend to conduct a series of single pickets under the slogan: “Freedom of movement?

RFERL Regional Experts, Andrey Shary, New The trials in the case of the riots on May 6 continue. Moscow celebrates the 90th birthday of the human rights activist Elena Bonner. A meteorite exploded over the Chelyabinsk region. Andrey Shary I.O. Regional Director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty for Russian -Sound Content Andrey Shary on Facebook Sharya@rferl.org