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….
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….
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…
In our days when again as it was in Lesya Ukrainka’s life time (1871-1913), tsar Alexander ruling it was illegal even to print anything in the Ukrainian language except historical documents, the Ukrainian people try to be a nation as a whole. At that time they united against the tsarist oppression of Ukrainian schools, theatres,…
News One. Russian actor of theatre and cinema Zeldin Vladimir Mikhailovich is celebrating his 100-th Birthday on February 12, 2015. Many times decorated with the national awards and Russian Academy of Cinematography Arts, he is performing at the Army Theatre in Moscow in the show “100 Years of Dancing with the Time” on that special…
“Kafka on the Shore” is classic Murakami. The story is rich in references to music and Western culture, dreamy sceneries that expose the spooky underbelly of ordinary life, utterly unadorned language, and elements of magical realism that challenge the reader’s grasp of reality. Murakami’s intention was to write a story about a boy who escapes…
After summer trip to Japan, I was smashed by the incomparable Japanese author Haruki Murakami. Murakami’s world is one of imagination. In his world, he can make mundane seem surreal and the surreal seem mundane. But I think there is an echo of longing and loneliness in his work. “The year of Spaghetti” is in…
One. Take our best congrats, my dear cherished readers, on the New 2015 Year, wishing you as much happiness as the sheep has curls on the skin. By Chinese Horoscope 2015 – Year of the Sheep (Goat) 2015. “I am a passive onlooker, I let bygones be bygones, Goodness brings me fortune, I believe in…
One. Calgary Stampede 2014 is closing to-night. The peculiarity of Calgary Stampede this year can be considered horses who are regarded as as high-performance athletes. So, it follows that there is a lot of specialized support available for them behind the scenes – help that wasn’t always there before. Treatments these days include massage, horse yoga,…
One. Oh so Canada! Sidney Crosby scores his first goal of the tournament to help Canada defend its Olympic men’s hockey title with a 3-0 victory over Sweden in the gold-medal game. Jonathan Toews and Chris Kunitz also score and Carey Price makes 24 saves for the Canadians, who confirm their dominance in their beloved sport…