Today it turns 60 years of flying a dog like in space. She became the first living creature bred into the orbit of the Earth. The dog went into space on November 3, 1957 - a month after the launch of the first artificial satellite. Like did not return back - she suffocated from overheating six hours after the start. Before flying, the dog was operated on; She was installed by breathing sensors and a pulse sensor.

Transfer from the cycle "Writers and Music". The author of the cycle Vladimir Abarinov: Mayakovsky, of course, knew opera hits, some of the chamber vocals, hummed on occasion, visited the opera, at least in Paris: In the tuxedo stroke, will shave what you need. On the grand by opera I walk with a grand. But he did not like the opera, he considered her outdated art.

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The Governor of the Vladimir Region did not give instructions to strengthen the control over students on protest promotions, the press service of the regional administration says. The official letter received by Radio Liberty says that the document with the text of the order, published by the lawyer of the headquarters of Navalny in the Vladimir region, does not contain the issue of the protocol and other necessary data.

Benjamin Netanyahu and Teresa May (archive photo) The authorities of the Palestinian autonomy intend to sue the UK for the Balfur declaration , which 100 years ago laid the foundation for the creation of the future state of Israel. This was reported by the official news agency WAFA.

The St. Petersburg historian, candidate of historical sciences, an employee of the memorial and educational historical and cultural center "White Affairs" Kirill Alexandrov is deprived of the degree of Doctor of Sciences. His dissertation, defended on March 1, 2016, is dedicated to the personnel composition of the Vlasov army .

Director Anatoly Vasiliev refused the nomination for the Golden Mask Award due to the arrest of the artistic director of the Gogol Center Kirill Serebrennikov. According to Vasiliev, "Serebrennikov needs not a" golden mask ", but freedom." In his open letter, Vasiliev asked to remove his name and the play "Old Man and the Sea" from among the applicants for the prize.

The accomplices is a new book-Brodylite in the Moscow Theater.doc about those who have served their deadline for the “swamp business” and were released. This is the second episode, the first was about those who were waiting for "prisoners on May 6" from prison. The former political prisoners Alexei Polikhovich and Andrei Barabanov participate in a new performance.

US President Donald Trump (Archival photo) US President Donald Trump on November 3 goes on a tour of Asia . The visit will last until November 14th. This will be the longest trip of the American president over the past 25 years. On Friday, Trump will stop at Hawaii, after which he will go to Japan. He will arrive there on Sunday. The US President will also visit South Korea, China, Vietnam and the Philippines. Visits to South Korea and China have the status of the highest state.

Nikolai Statkevich The Belarusian oppositionist Nikolai Statkevich was arrested for another 10 days. Currently, the politician is already in custody - at the end of October, the court in Minsk sentenced him to five days of arrest. Statkevich was detained for participating in the action against joint teachings of Russia and Belarus "West-2017". Now, by this time, the court added another 10 days of arrest for a picket at the walls of the Center for Distribution of offenders in Minsk on October 7.

At the upcoming All-Russian Internet lesson for HIV prevention, high school students will not hear the word “condom”: officials of the Ministry of Education proposed to use euphemisms instead, considering it “unacceptable”.

Residents of the Kemerovo region held a protest in the center of Novosibirsk. They demanded to stop the illegal production of coal in the region and resign Governor Tuleyev. This was reported by the Internet project "Siberia. Reals." To hold a picket, 14 participants had to come to another region, since in Kuzbass, under various pretexts, officials refused them to agree on the event. Public Cure Maxim STROSTAS said that before the start of the picket, provocateurs appeared in the square.

What problems prompted Russian officials to look for exits to left youth in the world and what came of it. “The guys who were here are not random,” the head of the Russian Organizing Committee of the VFMS 2017 , First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Sergey Kiriyenko, summed up the results of the Youth and Student Festival in Sochi.

How are Russian events of 1917 in American historiography interpreted? Is the page of the Soviet experiment upside down? Was the October Revolution an incentive for the United States? Can Putin consider Putin a remote heir to October? We are discussing these and other issues with American historians: Mark von Hagen, professor at the University of Arizona and Nathaniel Knight, Professor of Seton-Hall University in New Jersey.

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