Merry Christmas to All My Loyal Readers!

This year we started the holidays season celebrating on the 3-rd of December upon the invitation of our friends Lyudmila, Wojtek,Joseph to take pictures with Santa Clause on the Promenade Avenue Bonavista to the South West of Calgary. The picture is here. Our next step of the Christmas celebrations took place at the Heritage Park…

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“Tolstoy’s False Disciple” (The Untold Story of Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Chertkov), by Alexandra Popoff, Pegasus Books, New York, London, 2014 (My review)

To-day the Russian 62 years old Ambassador to Turkey Andrey Gennadyevich Karlov was shot dead in Ankara Art Gallery when I thought about what to write in my review about my latest reading of the book “Tolstoy’s False Disciple” (the Untold Story of Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Chertkov) by Alexandra Popoff, published in 2014, it…

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BADEK NEWS 76

One. On December 11, 2016 the Canadian Pacific Holiday Train is back for the 18th year in an effort to raise money, food and awareness for local food banks and food shelves. In Calgary it stops on this day with the concert performance and socialising events. Every year the donations increased by 30% compared to the…

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BADEK NEWS 75

One. Total Surveillance. As well as the other elements of anti-utopia of George Orwell “1984” do not surprise us today. In 2009 the number of surveillance cameras consisted of one for 14 British people. Bots and cookies of internet sites allow to collect the information about your habits and interests. News shows is one more proof…

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Omar Khayyam and My Attitude to Life

When I was fourteen, in my Summer School Reading List was Chernyshevsky “Aesthetic Relations to the Reality”. I had read it, so for the first time in my life I started to think about what the beauty meant for us, ordinary people. The famous Persian Philosopher and poet Omar Khayyam also shared his meditations on…

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BADEK NEWS 74

One. This is a girl band, but it should really be called a granny band because the average age of its members is 84, the oldest member is 97. The Band, KBG84, is from Kohama Island, in Okinawa, Japan, and is gaining popularity after its first single, “Come On and Dance, Kohama Island”, hit the top…

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