Музыкант и политик Раймонд Паулс рассуждает о Советском Союзе, новой Латвии и новой России.

Композитор Александр Журбин рассуждает о музыке ‘мелкой буржуазии’.

Модельная карьера Ольги Родионовой начала стремительно развиваться, когда той было двадцать семь лет, что свидетельствует о том, что никогда не поздно пробовать нечто новое. Особенно если такого рода пробы подкреплены надежным тылом в виде мужа — издателя и банкира Сергея Родионова.

The Soviet film Queen of the Gypsies by Emil Loteanu is a Mosfilm production from 1976. Based on a novel by Maxim Gorki, the film tells the romantic story of a group of gipsies in the end of the 19th century in the Austrian-Hungarian occupied province of Basarabia.

Интернет – это помойка вселенских масштабов. Привилегией более высокого интеллектуально организованных людей становится эту информацию не видеть, не слышать, не воспринимать. Игнорировать. Зреть в корень. Ведь для интеллектуального познания мира нужно думать о природе вещей, а не о вещах.

For millennia, priests and prophets, philosophers and theologians, politicians and artists have tried to craft a perfect prognosis of the future that would give them power over people’s minds. Even today, we live with a constant desire to know what tomorrow will bring. But to catch a glimpse of the future, we have to step back into the past.

The magisterial Daphne Guinness, whose famous sci-fi/Edwardian mixes are considered de rigueur for glamazon up-starts on both sides of the Atlantic, has lent a tremendous assortment of truly one-of-a-kind pieces to the Museum at FIT, where director and chief curator Valerie Steele has led, with much care, the creation of a gourmet feast for the appetite of the eye.

It is impossible to talk about pornography without falling for double entendres. Big talent. Hard work. Deep prospects. Yet these statements best describe the life and times of Michael Lucas. A Jewish boy born gay in the Soviet Union is an unlikely candidate to become world’s leading adult entertainer and entrepreneur.

Exclusive interview and never-before-seen photographs of Ukraine’s extraordinary export worth six million youtube views – KAZAKY.

Although critics have traditionally held most conflicting opinions on the work of Igor Stravinsky, his legacy as one of the greatest influences on the evolution of 20th century music is undisputed. Not bad for a person who insisted that ‘music is, by its very nature, essentially powerless to express anything at all.’

В СССР, где никогда не существовало развитой культуры «глянца», кинематограф в силу своей мобильности и доступности служил своеобразным рупором моды. Мы представляем десять самых запоминающихся кинофильмов и модных образов появившихся на экранах под неусыпным контролем со стороны власти.

There is a photograph showing a fourteen year-old Mikhail Baryshnikov dancing his first solo tarantella. Even in this early picture, one can see an odd grace, a type of bliss on the face of a boy, who already knew that his calling, the dance, was both suffering and happiness.

She is one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. The second best-selling book of all time is a 1957 novel Atlas Shrugged by the Russian-American writer Ayn Rand. To grasp the magnitude of this achievement one should consider its only competitor. The Bible.