The pictures of famous Pablo Picasso are the most expensive art works in the world. For example, one of his pictures, that was created in 1932 was sold by auction several days ago… This unknown connoisseur of art paid 106, 5 million of dollars! Do you understand the people who pay such huge sums of
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The law of paid education was enacted by our State Duma by the third reading of a bill. So, what's the essence of this new law? According to it, schools will get very little money (the amount depends on the number of pupils). And this money won't be enough even to pay salary to teachers. That
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You know, our summer exams are at hand. Someone may have already started to prepare for it, someone doesn’t care at all. By the way, all of us will take them. Here are 10 revision tips for preparing to the exams. 1) Make a plan Look at your work, realise what you need to learn and divi
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Dmitriy Medvedev and Viktor Yanukovich congratulated each other on a simultaneous ratification of the Black Sea Fleet Agreement by the Russian State Duma and the Ukranian Rada. According to the agreement, The Black Sea Fleet will be "stayed” in the Crimea after 2017 for 25 years, and then this ag
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It was 24 years ago on the 26th of April when the explosion on Chernobyl nuclear power plant happened. The Chernobyl Disaster is the greatest in the world. About 190 tonnes of nuclear weapons were thrown out in the atmosphere. The fire lasted 2 weeks. 160 thousands square kilome
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I suppose it would be interesting for every one to know how we study and rest on May holidays. For those ones who haven't heard it yet: only 1, 2, 3, 9, 10 are days off.
European airports have reopened for business, almost a week after a cloud of ash from an Icelandic volcano paralyzed the air travel industry. About 80% of European flights were expected to operate on Wednesday. Thousands of air passengers have returned to the many countries after a six-day flight ba
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Today the exhibition of Russian dolls "Matreshka” was opened in the Kremlin. You can visit it till the 15th of June. There are 124 exhibits, they are made of lime tree and reflect both firy-tale and religious motifs. The biggest Matreshka group consists of 35 elements. All the dolls belong to the
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