Past From the school course of history, it is known that with the discovery of Christopher Columbus America, a new page of history begins: the era of colonial wars and the initial accumulation of capital. With wars, it is more or less clear: well, humanity cannot live without them! It is not clear with capital? Who prevented him from accumulating in the previous millennia? Or were the people then made from another test? No, we are the same, the same ...

Now it is customary to talk a lot about Putin. They say a lot, but to state what they say differently is unlikely to be possible. Of course, there are hateers, but it is significant that hatred itself means in this case only powerless anger, respondent and decline. Having hated in one fell swoop send themselves to the camp of the former, who gathered for a raid of broken. This does not mean that Putin should cause some special love and hatred for him is impossible in principle.

On May 18, the whole world celebrates International Museum Day. Once a year they open their doors to everyone who wants it absolutely free. The only educational art museum named after I.V. Flyataeva, working in a domestic university - the Russian State Humanitarian University (though a ticket there costs inexpensively - only five rubles). June 30 will be 10 years since its founding (at the same time it is the department of the Museum of Fine Arts named after A.S. Pushkin).

According to information agencies, before the match of the Greece Championship in the Women's Volleyball between Olympiacos and Panatinaikos, several dozens of fans came together in a fight using stones and incendiary mixtures. The police detained about 18 hooligans, 5 of which were hospitalized . One person died.

The magnificent liturgy in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, which, as usual, was very difficult to get to the average Russian lad out, but which, without problems on the lists approved by the FSO, let the citizens of the USA, Canada and Germany have already become the property of history.

The "national-cultural revival", which was talked about in Russia at the turn of the 1980-1990s, externally very much resembled "Ethnic Revival", which became the subject of public discussions in the countries of North America a decade earlier. Between these processes, however, there is one fundamental difference.

The election of the mayor of Volgograd is the latter before the federal campaign to the State Duma. Therefore, large parties pay a lot of attention to them. And the record number of candidates is involved in the elections themselves - for comparison: 6 candidates participated in the mayor's elections -1999, and 9 candidates in the mayor's elections. Moreover, from parties such as United Russia (EP) and “Fair Russia” (SR), they tried to nominate several candidates at once.

Recently, on the pages of Times Literary Supplement there was an exchange of views about the presence - and the relevance - culinary recipes in novels, and I intend to solve the issue raised there, purely in American, right now and to universal benefits.