In 2025 the names most often given to girls were Sofia, Eva, Anna, Maria and Varvara.
For boys: Mikhail, Alexander, Artyom, Matvey and Timofey.
One would like to believe this bright tale, but the statistics are a little unexpected: I cannot make out where the names of, shall we say, Arabic origin have gone?
At the close of the Strugatskys' "Roadside Picnic" the Golden Sphere is asked for this: "Happiness for everybody, free, and let nobody go away unsatisfied!" I do not promise to leave no one aggrieved, but the digest really does come free. So, here is the
Frederic Leighton. “Daedalus and Icarus”, 1869 Daedalus warns his son not to climb too high: the heat of the sun may melt the wax, but Icarus is already gazing into the distance, and the lamentations of a foolish old man interest him not in the least
