Russia is increasingly compared with China, addressing his experience of successful, as it seems, economic development. It seems to me - and this is not at all original - that such a comparison is inaccessible, since in historical dynamics, synchronous, but located on the same phase of development, symphasial are not comparable in historical dynamics.

On November 7, in Moscow, at the seventy-first year of his life, Mikhail Leonovich Gasparov, a full member of the Department of Literature and Language of the Russian Academy of Sciences, died. World-renowned researcher, author, translator and editor of dozens of books and hundreds of articles.

The new nationwide holiday, the name of which I could not remember, I met in Veliky Novgorod. On the central square of this small, but very proud city, fresh tricolors fluttered, and several dozen policemen with batons created the festive atmosphere. There were no other signs of popular celebrations. Local residents tried to get into the institution closed on the occasion of the holiday: it seems that information about the latest political initiatives does not apply here too quickly.

The hero of the story L. Preobychina "Shurkin’s relatives" dreams of getting to Samara: "There, right, not what here. There was even his own state." In Samara, there really was its state , but not for long, from the beginning of June to the beginning of October 1918, when the city was ruled by Komuch (committee of members of the Constituent Assembly), which spread its power to a number of provinces.

I often hear people say: "I love Minsk." Truck by endless repetition, this phrase, turning into a kind of mantra, causes me an internal protest - primarily because of its "potion". What is Minsk for me? I was born here, like thousands of its other inhabitants, and therefore I have already attributed my hometown to the category of those foundations that, along with ideas and events of the same level, predetermined my existence.

St. Petersburg "ABC-Classics" together with the publishing house "Avalon" has been plowing the ocean of the reader's soul for several years now with the series "Russian Literature", bringing to stream a well-known range of authors and topics. Mokienko and Kolesov - the third edition, Taxpayers - the fourth. Popularization is a good thing. In addition to those from St.

The European, for the first time visiting Minsk, the city cannot but fecel with its strange, but absolutely irresistible charm. First of all, a tourist is amazed at the aesthetics of the imperial city - a very rare phenomenon for Europe. Wide streets and avenues, many palaces with somewhat ridiculous, but abundant decorations and numerous vast parks in the city center - a real luxury for European cities; Only the richest and aristocratic of them can afford something similar.

To establish peace, as for the start of the war, there is nothing more important than preliminary negotiations. Long before the creation of the world, the ancestor of the tribe of true Aryans, the great mana noted: " The world and its opposite depend on the ambassadors, for only they create and quarrel allies. In their power are those things because of which peace or war occur between kings " 1 .