В Пушкинский музей привезли Пикассо и провесит он там до 23 мая. А карточка про секьюрити и The Village Dance, 1922. Картина классического периода Пикассо, с брутально-монументальными фигурами, но с трогательно-печальным сюжетом. «Кто грустен, тот искренен», - говорил автор.
Я Байкал видел ! ….но пост не про озеро, точнее, не только про него. Пост в котором я скажу СПАСИБО (чуть ниже). Так получилось, что мне удалось напроситься полететь в Иркутск и не на каких-нибудь там один-два дня, а целых на четыре. Целлюлозно-бумажный комбинат решили там запускать снова, закрытие которого полтора года назад защитники природы считали своей победой. Митинг Против и митинг За, помноженные на возможность посетить сам комбинат, уже явились хорошим поводом туда полететь. Я взял с собой книжку, рассчитывая читать ее по вечерам, поскольку, мне не так просто найти кого то в незнакомом городе, способного увлечь меня больше чем чьи то фантазии, уместившиеся в 200 страниц текста. Но не тут то было…. начинаю благодарить :) Спасибо вам, Лена и Ксения, показавшие закрытую для многих часть города. А именно, китайскую кафешку “чухоньку” (если я правильно запомнил), рынок с китайскими торговцами, улицу со сгоревшими частными домами в центре города, с ее обитателями в еще Не, или в Еще не до конца - сгоревших домах, вынужденных дежурить ночами, защищая свое недвижимое имущество. Спасибо Тата и Антон за дополнительные знания о регионе, за Масленицу в Тальцах, за замечательно-интересного человека, к сожалению, уже умершего, архитектора и художника. Один из столбов, что он сделал, как раз, изображает Отца народа, по вине которого, был по 58-й статье приговорен десятилетним сроком. Спасибо за славных студентов, кстати. А еще спасибо Тата, за твой чудесный пост
The Nenets tribespeople of Russia’s frozen Yamal peninsula have survived the age of the Tsars, the Bolshevik revolution and the chaotic 1990s, but now confront their biggest challenge — under their fur-bundled feet is enough gas to heat the world for five years. Numbering around 42,000, the Nenets are entirely dependent on reindeer, which appear on the Yamal region’s crest, and are animists. Their strict code of superstitions and gender divisions has been virtually untouched for at least a millennium. Nenets migrate north to south over 150 km every year, spending only a few days in one place, living off reindeer and fish and lugging their “chums”, or tents, kerosene lamps and wood-fired stoves on reindeer-pulled sleighs.
Experts and the Nenets say industry will damage and pollute the tundra, whose flat marshy terrain switches from marigold russets in summer to thick winter snow and is peppered with disc-like thermokarst lakes and crystal blue waterways.
Story by Amie Ferris-Rotman/REUTERS
‘Single photos’ cathegory contains photographs of my best choice.
Held every four years since 1969, this is the 11th International Moscow Ballet Competition and about 120 of the top aspiring dancers from across the world were in competition for the gold medals. Bolshoi Theatre. June 2009. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov
Thousands of people spent four nights in the open air, sometimes under heavy rain storm, to enjoy alternative arts and music during “Pustiye Holmi” (Empty Hills) hippie-style festival . Five years ago (in 2003) a successful open-air gathering of 300 people gave birth to the event which later turned into a festival and finally into a movement demonstrating an advanced alternative to the “main stream” approach to music and art in general. Bulgakovo settlement, 250 km southwest of Moscow. June 2009. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov
The new multimedia category has been created. South Ossetian slideshow ‘Survivors’ is the first one.
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After weeks of low-level hostilities, the conflict in South Ossetia, a breakaway region of Georgia backed by Moscow, escalated dramatically in the early morning of August 8, 2008. Georgia declared that it intended to restore constitutional order and launched a large-scale military offensive. Russia sent additional troops to South Ossetia, saying they were reinforcements to Russian peacekeepers who are in the area to monitor a 1992 ceasefire between Georgian and South Ossetian forces. REUTERS/Denis Sinyakov
august 2008
This is a short Christmas story about people who respect their traditions. During a celebrating of Orthodox Christmas in the Carpathian villages adults and children in traditional dress walk door-to-door to perform Christmas carols, known locally as “Kolyadki”, attend church services and mourn their deseased relatives. Ukraine, january 2008-2009
The 2006 “Second Lebanon War” began on July 12, 2006 and concluded on August 14 with a UN brokered cease fire. The conflict began when Hezbollah terrorists opened fire with rockets on mortars on the Israeli border towns of Zar’it and Shtula, wounding several civilians. During the war, about 1,200 Lebanese were killed, of whom about 500 - 700 were estimated by Israel or the UN to have been Hezbollah guerillas. About 149 Israeli soldiers and 44 civilians were killed. Upward of 4,000 civilians on each side were injured, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced from their homes temporarily or permanently. United Nations Security Council Resolution 1701 terminated the hostilities by securing Lebanese agreement to take control of Southern Lebanon from the Hezbollah with the help of an enlarged United nations emergency force. Pictures by AFP/Denis Sinyakov
July-August 2006
