Welcome, Welcome, Happy New 2011 Year!

All preparations for New Year are over: it is already on the threshold.Welcome, welcome, our little darling dove! Someone has shopped, someone has done crafts, and everybody is ready to celebrate the most cheerful holiday of the year: meeting New 2011 Year. The table is lain, Champaign is poured into the Champaign glasses and it is…

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New 2011 Year to All! (“A Christmas Tree” by Charles Dickens, illustrated by Robert Ingpen, Blue Herton Books, Canada, 2008)

Everybody knows “A Christmas Carol” by Charles Dickens, a story about greedy ans miserly Ebenezer Scrooge, who is taught the true meaning of Christmas by a series of ghostly visitors. Dickens created a vivid Christmas fable about the message of goodwill towards mankind. To the left is this book at our presentation. On page 153…

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Badek’s News 40

First. On December 13, 1871 Emily Carr was born, the Mother of Modern Arts. She found her muse: native culture-totem poles from Ucluelet to Skidegate-and the dark and slightly dangerous beauty of the dense forest. After she visited France, Carr’s literal depictions of native art and life developed into passion-swept modernist masterpieces of the West….

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When You Were There For Us…

Mama! Our beloved mama, how many beautiful sounds in this simple word”mama”! How these sounds caress you, wrap you up in warmth, tenderness and happiness. This is ” A Letter to Mother” by Sergey Esenin performed by one Russian artist. Listen to this video:“You are still alive, my old little lady” “Are you still alive,…

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BADEK’S NEWS 39

First. Russia. On December 3, 2010 the hottest news arrived from Zurich: The Russian Federation won the bid for hosting 2018 World Football Championship. Watch video to yourselves:Viataly Mutko Second. Calgary. A Canadian Tenors Christmas returned on December 8, 2010 at 8-00 p.m. It is an exciting blend of classical and contemporary pop that is…

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BADEK’S NEWS 38

First. Russia, Moscow. Bella Akhmadulina, one of the most daring poets of the Soviet era, died aged 73, on Monday. Writer Yevgeny Popov said she died in her home ouside Moscow, in Peredelkino, of heart condition. President Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin have expressed their condolences to the poet’s relatives. During the thaw…

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BADEK’S NEWS 37

First. Russia’s parliament on Friday declared Stalin responsible for ordering the Katyn massacre of Polish officers in Second World War, a crime Moscow spent decades blaming on the Nazis to the fury of Poland. The resolution came amid reports that President Dmitry Medvedev intended to launch a major new “deStalinization” drive that reminded Russians of…

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