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“Sterpitsya — slyubitsya”. How evolved the institution of marriage in Russia The powerlessness of women in the issue of marriage bothered even Yaroslav the Wise. To solve the problem, it took a whole Millennium. When in 1967 on the Soviet screens released film “prisoner of the Caucasus”, viewers in Central Russia not only laughed at the jokes, but sadly shook their heads, somewhere still have some friends ready to steal their favourite girls. Half a century later, it is known that today the Caucasus republics have a tradition as kidnapping girls to join her in marriage, to get rid completely fails. Be appalled at the manners of the highlanders, however, is still just Caucasian friends were much more traditionalists than the inhabitants of the plains. Steal! In an extreme case — buy In pagan era in Russia, the kidnapping of the bride groom without her consent was considered quite a

The history of the Russians about prices, poverty, and “the nines” eggs In order not to increase the cost of the product, manufacturers have to reduce weight or packing. Citizens the accumulated shame. However, many consumers marketing gimmicks don’t notice. They are expensive to buy is not something that is “nines”, but even two eggs. Readers Of “Tape.”ru talk about how they survive. In the first working week of the new year Russians discussed appearance on the shelves of boxes with “nine” eggs instead of the usual dozen. In order not to increase the cost of the product, manufacturers reduce the weight or packing. “Lost” package and other products, the price remained the same. From a legal point of view, everything is clean, but the citizens the accumulated shame. However, many consumers marketing gimmicks don’t notice. They are expensive to buy is not something that is “nines”, but even two

Russia acquired a consecrated battalion of T-34 In the 4th guards Kantemirovskaya division formed a battalion of 30 tanks T-34 were transferred to Russia from Laos. This was announced by the division commander Colonel Vladimir Zavadsky, reports RIA Novosti. Combined battalion will be based in Naro-Fominsk. The arrival of the T-34 in the Moscow region became known on January 20. There they were consecrated. Deputy defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov, as reported by “Interfax”, said that the tank crews will soon begin preparations for the Victory day Parade on red square. In addition, the vehicles will take part in the historic TV projects and shooting new films about the great Patriotic war. Laos returned to Russia 30 T-34 in early January. Tanks are fully operational, they were armed with the Lao army.

Soviet architecture is back in fashion. Young people are crazy about her The old walls. The USSR existed from 1922 to 1991, leaving to remember her by, among other things, cultural heritage, the extent of which will not challenge any supporter, nor the opponent of the system. But there is a specific genre that hardly regarded seriously by contemporaries, at least at the end of the Union — monumentalista. Rare Soviet citizen from the 80’s would stand a mosaic or a mural depicting ardent of the builders of communism. Now, at the end of the second decade of the XXI century, the Soviet decor is nostalgic even for those who have never lived in that time. Eva Rukhin, journalist and curator of exhibitions, maintains a blog, “concrete and pieces”, which can be called a real gift to fans of the genre. In his Instagram Rukhin collects photographs of Soviet buildings

Fast, cheap, dangerous. Scientists suggest the Earth cooling aerosols MOSCOW, January 20 — RIA Novosti, Tatiana Pichugina. To prevent global warming, one can reject from the Earth part of the solar radiation. There are other ideas — the cosmic mirror, creating a bright sea of clouds, aerosol protection in the stratosphere. All these projects are still on paper or in the stage of laboratory experiments, but it is possible that the worst-case scenario of climate change by the end of the century they will have to implement. The example shown volcanoes Special report of the intergovernmental panel on climate change (IPCC) that predict atmospheric warming by half a degree by the end of century, held in November in Katowice the Polish climate talks under the UN auspices has again aroused interest in the topic of global warming. In the media there is news about geoengineering projects to reduce the temperature.

Russia to build lunar Soyuz at his own expense, the source said MOSCOW, January 20 — RIA Novosti. Russia will develop modifications of the spacecraft Soyuz for missions to the moon for its own account, any payment from NASA is not expected, reported RIA Novosti senior source in the space industry. Earlier the General Director of “Rosatom” Dmitry Rogozin, the TV channel “Russia 24” said that NASA asked Roskosmos to create a version of the Soyuz spacecraft as a backup to the manned space transportation system for missions to the moon. “NASA will not pay, all the work was to establish at their own expense”, — said the Agency interlocutor. At the request of RIA Novosti, whether NASA has turned to Russia with a proposal to create a duplicate of a manned space system, the American space Agency did not answer. “Roskosmos” also failed to respond promptly to the request