The path from Europe to Asia takes exactly one and a half minutes in Istanbul. During this time, the yellow taxi manages to cross the bridge over the Bosphorus Strait, on the other side the car meets the sign “Welcome. You just drove into Asia. ” The long bridge, completed in 1973, of course, was named in honor of the founder of the Turkish Republic of Kemal Ataturk.

The painting “Life of others” with an incredible surname Florian Henkel von Donnersmark finally comes out with us on July 19, and even on a fairly wide rental. Honestly, I did not count. They don’t believe in German cinema too much. The film - compared to the rest of the world - got to us last. But I might not have reached at all - then it would become one of the most scandalous punctures of our already wonderful rental.

Vlad sustained everyone: the 25-year-old Kiev gynecologist could not charm parents of a successful business woman-mom and dad were very worried about the lack of a young man’s daughter. From Vlad was only required to talk with his mother “about the high” and convince dad that the daughter was in good hands. Instead, Vlad ruined his mother's appetite with stories of infected homeless people and alerted his pope, admitting that he wanted to become an actor.

With an interval of a few days (we have two in two) Potterines, two shocks await. The film adaptation of the fifth book “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” (on July 19), filmed by the little -sown David Yates, and the seventh final (as long as yet announced) book Joan Rowling Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, which will put the dots over I (July 21), are released. Pharmacies around the world, apparently, are already experiencing a shortage of validol and valerian drops.

Opposition | Maximum Democracy The anti-Putin “Other Russia” split exactly a year after the unification conference, where Eduard Limonov embraced Mikhail Kasyanov, who then finally admitted that during his tenure as prime minister he “partially” deserved a public egg-beating from the Limonovites. Kasyanov did not come to the second conference - he announced that he was parting ways with Limonov and Garry Kasparov and let them now have "another" Other Russia "".

Dear reader! About "Miracles in a sieve" who didn’t just ask this week: they say, this is kitsch, a tourist mass culture, but you should, like the Egyptians, consider that the pyramids are already a miracle, and not participate in the vote. The question “Why were we weeded out of the Big Seven?” we asked ourselves not because of resentment for St. Basil's Cathedral and the Kremlin, which were among the contenders, but did not become winners.

The AABPARA area 10 days ago was one of the very lively and certainly the most noisy in Islamabad: shops, benches, and on weekends - also a huge market. Now the streets and even small lanes around are blocked by rings of barbed wire, empty on the streets. Soldiers on checkpoints seem to be the only inhabitants of the Pakistani capital.