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The head of the Presidential Human Rights Council, Valery Fadeev, has proposed introducing conduct marks in schools and barring pupils with a fail in conduct from the OGE and the EGE
The head of the Presidential Human Rights Council, Valery Fadeev, has proposed introducing conduct marks in schools and barring pupils with a fail in conduct from the OGE and the EGE (the state examinations taken at the end of basic and secondary school). The Minister of Education, Sergey Kravtsov, has
Moscow · Museums · Observations
Stalin in Hiding
The Tretyakov Gallery in Lavrushinsky Lane, round one of the corners of the main building
Aristocracy · Observations · Mores
A Reminder to All the Proud Descendants of Respected Men
A mere scrap of parchment is enough to confer nobility upon a deserving man, but that scrap of parchment possesses none of the virtue that bestows upon his descendants talent, conduct or wisdom
Archive · Art · Moscow · Museums · Observations
Garage Museum will show its own collection in open storage for the first time this autumn
For the first time in its entire history, the Garage Museum will acquire a collection of its own and a permanent display; more precisely, the collection will be shown as open storage in the museum's main building, the Four Seasons pavilion. The first works acquired by the museum
Aristocracy · Art · Observations · Mores · Humour
Portrait of Lord Byron and His Wife Annabella, Drawn by His Former Mistress Caroline Lamb
In whose place, of this trio, would one care to find oneself?
Archive · Books · London
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows
I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine: There sleeps Titania sometime of the night, Lull'd in these flowers with dances and delight; And there the snake
NB! · Archaeology · Architecture · Heritage
The City of Dreams: Athens in the Second Century
NB! · Architecture · Art · Observations
Two Eras Meet: A Cosmic Bas-Relief on the Wall of a Shopping Centre in Kaluga, Tsiolkovsky's Hometown
NB! · Geography · Observations · Mores
Map of Butter and Olive Oil Consumption Across European Regions
Olive or butter? Which fat is mainly used in the different countries of Europe? As you can see, butter wins, though neither palm oil nor sunflower oil took part in the sample
NB! · Faith · Art · Museums
The Tuscan town of Empoli is famous not only for its football club, but also for a quattrocento sculpture of Saint Sebastian by the Florentine Antonio Rossellino, regarded as one of the benchmark depictions of the nude male body of the fifteenth century
Archive · London · People
One of Winston Churchill's last public appearances was at the open window of his own home on his ninetieth birthday
One of Winston Churchill's last public appearances was at the open window of his own home on his ninetieth birthday. That was the gift he chose to make to the public: a lion, by then gravely unwell and enfeebled, showing himself one last time. Barely a couple of