Zoya’s Humorines

Let’s smile a little with Zoya and her jokes around: 1.What is the strong health? 2. When all body is aching, but there are still forces to go to the doctor’s. 1. “Nowadays all people are fighting for their national language.” said one Jew to the other Jew.”But what is our fight for?” 2.”For our…

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BADEK NEWS 68

One. Prague-The Canadian Press Published, Sunday, May 17, 2015. Canada wins gold at World Ice Hockey Championship. Team Canada was perfect in Prague, capping an outstanding run at the world hockey championship with a dominant win over its arch-rival. The Russian team took silver. The USA one took bronze. Our congratulations to all honorable athletes! Two….

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Old Photograph, What does it Mean to You?

It happens sometimes that you hold an old photograph in your hands and admire it. We hold it with awe  as if it is an antique thing, being afraid to damage it by accident, carefully gaze at it, some while with a magnifying lens. Ah, this old photograph-“vignette of the old gist”, how dear you…

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Listen to Your Body, to Your Soul, Love them and Live Accordingly (About the Book “Life without Limits” by Nick Vujicic and the Book “In the Dark of the Night” (Women’s Voices in Ukrainian Literature, 1998)

When Nick Vujicic was asked in Moscow: “What would you have given to have your arms and legs?”, he answered: “What for do I need them?” His quotations from the book “life without Limits”: 1.”I don’t believe I’m disabled. Yes, I have no arms and no legs, but big deal. Doesn’t matter how I look….

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Spinoza’s Rule: Do not Weep, Do not Laugh but Understand (About the Book “A People’s Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924” by Orlando Figes, The Bodley Head, 2014, 923 pages

The renown Russian historian, historiographer, writer and poet Nikolay Mikhailovich Karamzin (1766-1826) in his preface to the 12-volume book The History of the Rossiysky State” wrote: “The history in a sense is the holy book of peoples: the main, necessary; the mirror of their entity and activities; book of revelations and standards;behest of ancestors to…

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Together Again! Celebrating the Birthday with the Friends and the Family, what can be more joyful than this?

Our annual “Babulkas” meeting on March 17, 2015 took place on Skype in Emma’s apartment: Emma, Zoya, Nellya, Valya, Rimma, Lara, Lyusya and me chit-chatting for an hour or so, wishing each other good things. Rimma as always is reciting her verses (in my translation): “Canadian friend Valyusha Filina Is celebrating her Birthday today, Bringing…

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