David Boaz, Vice President of the Libertarian Institute of Cato, that the state not only should not participate in financing art, but that the state and art are generally incompatible things. Vladimir Dubinsky talked with Boas. - States support and finance art since time immemorial. Egyptian pharaohs and European monarchs kept artists, ordered them work. With the support of those in power, masterpieces of world culture were created.

Fragment of the poster to the film "Frankenstein" So far, only at the level of an individual organ and only on rats, but scientists were able to breathe new life into non -living I well remember my medical institute teacher who taught us that artificial organs are utopia, which is unlikely to be able to realize during our lifetime.

Alexander Pyatigorsk. The second lecture on Taoism. December 28, 1974

NPO check card in Russia The Human Rights Council under the President of Russia today gathered for a special meeting in order to discuss the NGO campaign begun by the authorities. Twitter-portage is carried out by the correspondent of freedom Maria Shubina, which can be completely read here .

Athens: the municipality daily feeds the dinner of thousands of those who are left without means of existence In the 7th district of Prague (in total in the Czech capital, 22 municipal districts) began collecting donations to help children suffering from malnutrition. It is not surprising if these children were from the Congo, Afghanistan or Bangladesh. But we are talking about local, Prague children, whose parents, mainly single mothers, cannot afford to pay for school dinners.

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Official news about the victory in the election of the President of Venezuela, the heir to Charve, Nicholas Maduro, reassures the Kremlin: the result would question the contracts for the supply of Moscow to Karakas of Russian weapons, joint oil production projects and would generally threaten the financial interest of the Russian ruling class.

A. Podoporgora, Chelyabinsk According to my colleagues, almost the whole story with the Chelyabinsk sanatorium "Soyuz", which is now part of the sphere of business interests of the head of the Chelyabinsk S. Davydov, can be found on the website of the Supreme Arbitration Court (Judgment of A76-9423/2012 Judge Mulintsev). In the case, a rent was collected in favor of Kuiso for the use of a land plot on which the Sanatorium "Soyuz" stands.

Alexander Pyatigorsk. The second lecture on Socrates. January 11, 1975

The editor of the RS information service, international observer, author and editor of the heading and podcast "Atlas of the World" Gosteva@rferl.org

The group of National Patriots recently turned to the Governor of the Voronezh region and the rector of the University of Voronezh with a request to protect the population of the region from the professional and social activities of the famous Russian professor Joseph Sternin. The scientist see the enemy of the Russian language, the propagandist of the mother, and, possibly, in the light of inspections of NGOs - an agent of foreign funds.

The editor of the RS information service, international observer, author and editor of the heading and podcast "Atlas of the World" Gosteva@rferl.org

For the first time since the President of the United States, Barack Obama did not make a traditional weekly appeal to the nation himself and did not entrust this to Vice President Joe Biden. Last Saturday, instead of the president, the mother of one of the children who died at the end of last year at the hands of an armed maniac at the Sandy Hook school in Connecticut turned to the country. “My name is Francin Willer. Next to me, my husband David, we live in Sandy Hook in Connecticut.