Literary teachers of the writer Zinovy Zinik “To write a real book about your own country, you must first leave it,” said Jean-Jacques Rousseau. I read this aphorism of the French thinker from James Joyce’s letters: he armed himself with this phrase, leaving Dublin. I read Joyce's letters in English, having left Moscow and ending up on the hills of Jerusalem.

Archival problems are like moral. Conversation with Marietta Chudakova In Moscow, on November 21, at the 85th year of life, a philologist, writer and public figure Marietta Chudakova, a writer and public figure, died. This was reported in Facebook by her daughter. The cause of death was a coronavirus infection, Chudakova was hospitalized in a hospital in the Moscow community.

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June 23 marks the 130th anniversary of the birth of Anna Akhmatova, and the St. Petersburg Museum Akhmatova celebrates his thirty years in a fountain house. Suddenly, the holiday was overshadowed: the leadership of the Museum of Musical Instruments and officials from the Committee on the state use and protection of monuments believe that the holding of cultural events is harmful to the garden of a fountain house. As a result, anniversary events will be trotted.

On June 23, the mayor of Istanbul is held in Turkey on June 23, which in fact should become another public referendum about the trust of the people to power and personally to President Recep Erdogan. Millions of Turkish inhabitants who believe that they were deceived, actively reaching protest demonstrations, enter into clashes with law enforcement, demand justice, defend their rights.

The volume of debts expired by citizens of Russia on mortgage loans by May of this year reached 80 billion rubles. Such data are published by the Equifax credit bureau. It is noted that over the year, the amount of expired debts increased by 35%, while only in April 2019 - by 5.4%. Earlier, the Central Bank said that over the year, credit organizations issued loans worth more than 7 trillion rubles. From April 2018 to April 2019, this figure increased by 23%.

Prague, June 23, 2019. Mass demonstration for the resignation of Prime Minister Andrei Babish In the capital of the Czech Republic of Prague, a mass protest was held against Prime Minister Andrei Babish. The rally was held in the flight of Letnaya - in the same place, where large -scale protests were organized against the board of the Communist Party in the days of the 1989 velvet revolution. Then about half a million people participated in them.

Since June 19, single pickets have been held in Moscow in support of the Khachaturian sisters. Three girls are accused of a planned cold -blooded murder of their own father. Participants in the action do not agree with such a qualification of a crime - it was defense, they believe and demand justice for all victims of domestic violence. The article was prepared based on the materials of the program "Man has the right." More than 30 stabs in the chest and neck.

Laureates and finalists of the Russian Alternative Music Prize Jäger Music Awards, which are awarded to representatives of the young, with permission to say, rock and pop collections. Rock Critic Artemy Troitsky with visible interest studies the work of those who replaced.

Teachers Zinovy Zinika-prose writer, essayist, veteran of the Russian BBC service. The conversation about the Moscow of the 1960s, theatrical and artistic figures of that era, emigration and the "sense" of London.

This picture was taken in January 2018: Boris Johnson and, after him, Jeremy Hunt leave the premiere’s residence on Dauning Street, 10 The main contender for the post of British Prime Minister Boris Johnson in the last two days not only lost the advantage in the ranking of his main rival Jeremy Hunt, but he also lagged him behind him. The reason for this, apparently, was the troubles in Johnson's personal life.

Early in the morning of June 23, a margin of equality was held in Kyiv - an action in support of LGBT rights, which takes place for the sixth time. On the banners of the participants, "Our tradition is freedom" and "human rights above all else." The organizers reported by isolated cases of provocations, in particular, the opponents tried to tear out the flags and other symbols from the participants of the march, but there were no more serious clashes.

The writer and literary critic Mariett Chudakova about the responsibility of the scientist, about the need to tell truthfully and full of cruel Soviet history, about the disappearance of Alfred Bema, about Arkady Belinkov and the diaries of Mikhail Bulgakov. The author and presenter Ivan Tolstoy. Air June 22, 1999. Archival project "Radio Freedom 20 years ago".

Ekrem Imamoglu, candidate for mayors of Istanbul on the voting day In Turkey, a candidate from the ruling party of justice and development in the elections of the mayor of Istanbul Binali Yildyrym congratulated his opponent from the opposition of Ekrem Imamoglu on the victory. Yyldyrym expressed the hope that the new mayor will adequately serve the interests of the inhabitants of Istanbul.

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