Vakhtang Kikabidze and Nani Bregvadze are told and singing about their hometown

“From afar, as if through cotton wool, Bach, Babach, Bababakh, Babah are heard ... The dog on the roof freezes like that, gobbling the eyes at us. Time also freezes. The rumor captures this terrible rustling flight. At first, very quietly, then louder, louder ... The brain refuses to fly here, that it is already impossible to change anything from you and from you. There is no one around, the neighbors also evaporated, and you want to turn into a worm, a snail, an anthogether ...

Ukrainian artist Alexander Roitburd died in the 60th year of his life, the director Oleg Sentsov and Kiev journalist Ekaterina Sergaskova wrote on Facebook. He was the head of the Odessa Art Museum and an activist of Euromaidan in 2014. The cause of death was complications after a new type of coronaviral infection. Roitburd was born and worked in Odessa, in 1993 he acted as a co -founder of the New Art Association, and worked as the director of the gallery of Marat Gelman in Kyiv.

Roman Polyakov and several of his colleagues responsible for the content of Tville Tville, after the company deleted an advertising article with the participation of a lesbian couple, apologizing for its appearance. It is noted that they quit of their own free will, because "they were disgusted." In June, the company "Tvillel" came up with an advertising material that tells about buyers. A same -sex couple responded to the invitation to take part in the publication.

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The authorities of Cuba, which are under the control of the Communist Party, expanded the list of sectors of the economy in which a private business can work, the official newspaper Granma’s official newspaper reports . Now businessmen will be able to engage in more than two thousand activities instead of 127. The decision is made against the backdrop of the economy of American sanctions and the crisis that intensified due to the pandemic of coronavirus.

The Iraqi Civil Aviation Department banned the national airlines flights to Minsk. The decision was made by order of the government of the country, according to Facebook by the department. The flights are closed against the background of the migration crisis on the Belarusian-Lithuanian border, where dozens of Iraq citizens are delayed daily. In the summer, the Lithuanian authorities declared an emergency regime on the Belarusian border.

Continuation: the summer Olympic Games closed in Tokyo. How to count the medals of Russia? Russian gymnasts Anastasia Bliznyuk, Anastasia Maksimova, Angelina Kazetova, Anastasia Tatareva and Alisa Tishchenko took second place in the final of the team all -around the Olympic Games in Tokyo. They lost to the team of Bulgaria, gaining 87,700 points against 92,100 from the winners. The rhythmic gymnastics team for the first time since 1996 could not win gold in this discipline.

Program about history and memory. Living in the present and studying the past, we look into the future.

Ten years of economic stagnation and the fall in the incomes of the population, sanctions and coronavirus - all this leads to a rapid reduction in the middle class. According to some estimates, less than 10% of the population remained in Russia. Who can be attributed to this category of people today?

Biblical stories and motives in modern culture. Archive of the program "Freedom in clubs" 2005

In the first part - "Doomed: mugs and salons of the Soviet era." The writer and researcher of the literary life of 1920-30, Natalya Gromova, talks about the attractiveness of the writer's pre-war circles and their fatality for the participants in these salons. In the second part - "Mysterious Mr. Soloviev." The conversation about Mikhail Golubovsky-Bobrov-Soloviev, the writer of the second wave of emigration, whose biography is as opaque as intriguing.

The editor -in -chief of the investigative publication "Project" Roman Badanin on Saturday reported that his minor son and his ex -wife tried to shoot in Moscow against their desire. The author of the shooting said that he was preparing an investigation about the connections of a journalist with Western intelligence services. “I didn’t think that everything would reach this,” Badanin said on Facebook. According to the journalist, the shooting was led by the pro -Kremlin activist Vitaly Borodin.

From the Belarusian school program for Russian -speaking literature for high school, the Nobel Prize winners Alexander Solzhenitsyn and Svetlana Aleksievich are excluded. From the list of additional reading were removed by Varlam Shalamov and Evgeny Ginzburg. The teacher Sergei Dubelevich paid attention to this, the Belarusian Radio Liberty Service reports .

In Tokyo, the closing ceremony of the Summer Olympic Games took place. She passed without spectators at the 68th National Stadium. The banner of the Russian team was a two -time Olympic freestyle wrestling champion Abdulrashid Sadulaev. In past games, he won gold in the weight category up to 97 kg. The competition was held from July 23 to August 8. 339 sets of awards in 33 sports were played.