Day: May 4, 2017

The Guggenheim Museum has posted a 200 free books with the world’s masterpieces

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The Guggenheim Museum has posted a 200 free books with the world’s masterpieces The Museum of modern art Solomon R. Guggenheim digitize 200 books with art masterpieces and have laid out them in open access. All volumes are presented on the Museum’s website in section “archive” formats PDFs and ePubs. The books contains information on such artists as Pablo Picasso, Gustav Klimt, Roy Lichtenstein and Kandinsky. The initiative for the publication of the extensive library of the Museum was launched in 2012. Then were released 65 directories. Currently, anyone can get access to thousands of digitized 375 masterpieces in high resolution. The Guggenheim Museum is one of the leading collections of contemporary art in the world. Its founder is a philanthropist Solomon Robert Guggenheim.

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Beautiful shy Tatiana Samoilova. What could be a career actress

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Beautiful shy Tatiana Samoilova. What could be a career actress Tatyana Samoylova loved Picasso, but he promised the picture, she did not wait. She was waiting for Hollywood, but the authorities are not allowed to leave for shooting. It was long ignored, and then suggested the “idiot’s role”. And yet Samoilova remained in the memory as one of the most beautiful Actresses of the XX century in the world. Tatiana Samoilova was born may 4, 1934 in Leningrad. When she was 3 years old, the family moved to Moscow. To dance or play In his youth, Tatiana wanted to be a dancer and with great enthusiasm went to the ballet Studio Theater. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko. I must say, hope she showed considerable. Once she Maya Plisetskaya, seeing Tatyana at the rehearsal, invited the girl to learn ballet skills in the Studio of the Bolshoi theatre. But by the time the

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“And Sergei, too.” Foreign brands in commercials of the 90s

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“And Sergei, too.” Foreign brands in commercials of the 90s May 4, 1988, the Corporation Pepsi the first Western companies placed a promotional video on the Soviet Central television. Video Pepsi in 1988 became the first foreign advertising product in the history of Soviet television, but also other brands not have to wait long. “And Sergei, too, Water was without taste, without taste, without color, without smell”, “This sweet name gives holiday and fun” — these and other slogans from the advertising of the 90s still smile at older people. Aephi remember the first commercials of foreign brands in the domestic TV. Pepsi No one brand can boast the same number of stars that have starred in ads like Pepsi. In different years non-alcoholic carbonated beverage sold Madonna, Britney Spears, Enrique Iglesias, Cindy Crawford, Ronaldinho, David Beckham and many others. And the first celebrity on a global scale that appeared

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Kadyrov has appointed a new head of administration and head of government of Chechnya

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Photo: RIA Novosti The new head of administration of head and government of Chechnya appointed Vakhit Usmaev, who held the post of head of the Secretariat of the President. This Ramzan Kadyrov said on his page on Instagram. “As the head of administration of head and government CHR has appointed the Hero of Russia of Vakhit Usmaev worked in the last time the head of Secretariat the head of the Chechen Republic. Vakhit Usmaev is a veteran team, founded by the first President of the Chechen Republic, Hero of Russia Akhmat-Hajji Kadyrov. He for ten years he commanded a regiment PPSM named after Hero of Russia Akhmat-Hajji Kadyrov, directed hundreds of special operations, was awarded the order of Kadyrov, three orders of Courage, is an honorary citizen of the Chechen Republic”, – Kadyrov wrote. Osmaev also has experience as Secretary of the Council of economic and social security and head

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Venezuela’s Parliament intends to stop the country’s withdrawal from the Organization of American States

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Venezuela’s Parliament intends to stop the country’s withdrawal from the Organization of American States The President of Venezuela at the end of April said that the country will never return to the regional bloc. WASHINGTON, may 4. /TASS/. The Venezuelan national Assembly, under the control of the opposition, will hamper the country’s exit from the Organization of American States (OAS). This was stated in the capital of the United States, the speaker of Parliament Julio Borges following the meeting with Secretary General of the regional bloc Luis Almagro. In late April, Venezuela sent Almagro signed by President Nicolas Maduro’s official statement that it was leaving the OAS. “We came here to slow down the exit of Venezuela from the OAS, we present the documents which suspend this process — quoted Borges electronic version of the newspaper El Nacional. — As you know, (President) Nicolas Maduro made the unilateral decision to

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Austria gathered to strengthen border controls despite the Schengen rules

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Austria gathered to strengthen border controls despite the Schengen rules Moscow. May 4. INTERFAX.RU — the Austrian Government intends to amend the rules of movement within the Schengen area and extend the borders of the country. Earlier this week the European Commission recommended that Austria, Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway in the next six months to gradually cancel temporarily put some control on the internal borders of the Schengen area. In addition, the European Commission advised the member States to resort to “other measures that could provide the same level of security, in particular, to a proportional police control in border areas and along important transportation corridors”. “If the European Commission now says that the strengthening of control measures at borders after November, it is impossible for legal reasons, so we have to adapt the law and thus provide for additional control measures,” — said on Thursday to journalists the

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Artist Peter Pavlensky received political asylum in France

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Artist Peter Pavlensky received political asylum in France MOSCOW, may 4. /TASS/. A Russian artist-actionist Peter Pavlensky received political asylum in France. This was reported by AFP, citing his lawyer. Pavlensky has become known after several high-profile actions. So, in October 2014, Nude, the artist cut off his earlobe on the rooftop of the Serbsky Institute in Moscow, in the summer of 2012, sewing up his mouth, came to the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg with a poster in support of the band Pussy Riot, in November 2015 Pavlensky torched the front door of the main FSB building on Myasnitskaya street in Moscow. In Russia against Pavlensky, a criminal case under article “Beating”.

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Advisor to Erdogan hinted on a random rocket attack on the Americans in Syria

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Ilnur Cevik Advisor to the President of Turkey, Ilnur Cevik, said the possibility of accidental blow to the American forces that interact with the Kurdish people’s protection Units (YPG, a wing of the PKK) in Northern Syria. This was announced by the publication Foreign Policy. “We do not expect that there is military equipment. Suddenly, by pure chance, several of them can get to them,” said Cevik. The last time U.S. special forces have increased presence in the Kurdish areas in Northern Syria, including in the city of Manbij, recently placed under the protection of the international coalition. As noted by RIA Novosti with reference to the American media, the military began patrolling the Syrian-Turkish border to prevent possible incidents. The statement of Cevik sounded on may 3, the day when Sochi hosted a meeting of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan with the Russian leader Vladimir Putin. The politicians discussed

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The lower house of Congress approved the replacement of the new Obamacare program

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The house of representatives Thursday, may 4, approved a bill that struck down key provisions of health reform Obamacare and replace it with the program developed by Republicans. About it reports Reuters. The decision was taken by majority of votes, 217 to 213. For the amendments voted for no one Democrat. The document is submitted to the Senate for consideration. As noted, this is currently the main victory of the new President of Donald trump in the legislative field. The project of Obamacare (Affordable Care Act) was enacted in 2010 with 44th US President Barack Obama. He allowed more than 25 million not previously insured individuals to provide a medical service. However, for those who do not receive subsidies from the state, the cost of insurance has increased. Republicans have repeatedly said that Obamacare is too costly for the budget. The cancellation of this project was one of the campaign

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USA commented on the achieved in Astana agreements on Syria

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The United States expresses gratitude to Turkey and Russia for the efforts to reach an agreement on the settlement of the conflict in Syria reached at the meeting in Astana. This is stated in a statement released by the state Department comments of the representative offices of Heather Nauert. In Washington calling for the Syrian opposition to participate actively in the discussions, despite the difficult conditions on the ground. It must fulfill its obligations and to distance themselves from the terrorists, he added Naert. Also, according to the representative of the state Department, the U.S. hopes that Russia will ensure the fulfillment of agreements by Damascus. At the same time, the United States expressed concern about the participation of Iran in Astana agreements as, in their opinion, his actions “contributed to the violence” and “unconditional support for Iran’s” regime of President Bashar al-Assad “only prolonged the suffering of ordinary Syrians”.

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