In Slovenia, on Sunday, there are presidential elections, which, as expected, will lead to the re -election of Borut Pahora - a veteran of Slovenian policy, known for the active use of social networks. About 1.7 million voters should choose from nine candidates, including five women, the AP agency from Ljubljana reports. At the same time, the agency notes that Slovenia is a member of the European Union and the birthplace of the First Lady of the United States Melania Trump.

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Former US President Jimmy Carter said he was ready to go to North Korea on behalf of the Trump administration to help relieve the growing tension between the two countries. It is reported by The New York Times on his website on Sunday.

The theater in Stuttgart during the premiere of the opera in the production of Kirill Serebrennikov. At the banner, the call "Freedom to Cyril" (#freekirill) At the Opera Stuttgart Theater this Sunday, October 22, the premiere of the children's opera Genzel and Gretel in the production of Kirill Serebrennikov took place.

Sociologist Lev Gudkov and political scientist Leonid Gozman about the phenomenon Homo Soveticus Sergey Medvedev: Today we celebrate the anniversary of our old good acquaintance - Soviet man. A simple Soviet man, Homo Soveticus - in fact, his anniversary coincides with the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, one of the goals of which was the construction of a new type of personality. About this in the plot of Anton Smirnov .

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDS), with the support of the United States, captured the al-Omar oil field in Deir ez-Zor. Previously, the deposit was controlled by the Islamic State terrorist group. The Associated Press agency calls this deposit the largest in Syria. The capture of al-Omara reported the command of the International Coalition led by the United States.

The Isaacievsky Cathedral has pickets every week The scandals around the St. Isaac's Cathedral with the advent of the new director Yuri Mudrov were subsided, but opponents of the transfer of the State Museum-Reserve "Isaac's Cathedral" Church believe that silence is deceiving: dismissal in the museum is ongoing, its departments are gradually turning the work.

When the Kursk submarine fell to the bottom and a duceting countdown for the crew began, President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin played tennis in Sochi. No precedents from his previous track record, which included residency in Dresden and leadership in the KGB, could tell him how to behave in such a situation at a high political post.

Alexey Navalny and Ksenia Sobchak in the studio of the Rain TV channel (archive photo) Oppositionist Alexei Navalny refused to comment on the decision of the TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak to nominate his candidacy in the elections of the President of Russia in 2018. “I’m not commenting on yet. Maybe then,” Interfax quotes the opposition. On Sunday, Navalny was released after 20 days of administrative arrest on charges of organizing an unauthorized rally in Nizhny Novgorod.

Leonid Univer in the Radio Liberty studio, Prague Conversation with publisher Leonid Univer Ivan Tolstoy: Our guest is a book historian, an essayist, publisher Leonid Univer, a former Muscovite who has been living in Jerusalem for almost 30 years. A graduate of the Moscow Polygraphic Institute, defended his thesis on the topic "History of the publishing and book -trade activities of Joseph Knebel" (after 15 years he published it in Jerusalem with a separate very beautiful monograph).

The Georgian Dream party won the local elections. According to Radio Liberty, according to preliminary data from the Central Election Commission (CEC) of Georgia, during the municipal elections held last Saturday, the ruling party of the billionaire Bidzina Ivanishvili "Georgian Dream" won a convincing victory both in the capital and the whole country. The opposition, including the "Unified National Movement" by Mikhail Saakashvili, could not compile a "party in power" to serious competition.

In Russia, Clezmer is performed a long time ago. Archive photo of 1900 Hedliners of the thirty -ninth issue of the program "Music at Free" - performers working in the style of Clezmer, are traditional music of Eastern European Jews. Rock Critic Artemy Troitsky is studying the Jewish musical heritage. "Clezmer" - a Jewish word, from one of the Jewish languages, Yiddish, is translated literally as "musical instruments." Clezmer was performed mainly at weddings and dances.

The October Revolution proclaimed an unprecedented anthropological experiment: the creation of a new person, a homunculus from a test tube of communist ideology. Over the decades of the existence of the USSR, a new human type has really developed - Homo Soveticus, but was it really new, different from the traditional Russian? And is it preserved in the post -Soviet period?

The Trans -Baikal pensioner Anatoly Vertrakhov wrote a letter to President Putin, in which he asked him to dig a grave and buy a coffin. The bailiffs arrested his account and withdrew all the money from him.