The event of Moscow architectural life was the restoration of the House of Narkomfin, who had been in disrepair for many years. It is inscribed in the history of Soviet and world architecture. Unlike many other monuments of Moscow constructivism, the Narkomfin’s house was incredibly lucky - it was not just not demolished, but perfectly restored. Everything is old as new, everything is new as old, everything is freshly painted and shines, but there was no sensation.

For the past few decades in the already exotic and mysterious Japan, the services of imitation of various social relations are gaining popularity. In addition to the popular service of surrogate relatives , about which the media wrote a lot, there are agencies that help residents of the country to break relations (not only in the romantic sense of the word).

In the mass consciousness of the colonization of Africa, it is associated with the names of Livingston and Stanley, geographical expeditions, savages and slave traders ( “No, I am not in Neat. I am Sebastian Pereira!” ). The colonial wars in Africa is very rare: they say, Africa is not India, there were simply no states that could provide organized resistance to Europeans. To some extent, this stereotype is true.

Open a luxurious album. Greetings to the Russian avant -garde are a black square on a red, pressing background. Everything is no coincidence: there will be a lot of blood and a lot of outright denigration. But the author begins with a joke. It is later (sixty years later) a black square will become a symbol of total rejection of figurativeness in art, “the first step of pure creativity as a whole”, zero form, a reference point for new art.

According to the retired FSB officer Alexander Kuznetsov (the surname and first name were changed at the request of the interlocutor), the vodete and rubber bullets were used during the confrontation of supporters and opponents of Boris Yeltsin in Moscow in 1993. And they showed themselves in an ineffective tool. “Applying“ elastic bands ”is usually either too early or too late,” says Alexander. - While the audience is not a danger, it makes no sense to shoot.