The number of pacts between Labour local authority groups and their Tory counterparts has prompted fears that the views of local voters are being ignored in favour of deals aimed at locking out the S...

On 21 October 2013, I purchased a VAIO laptop from the official Sony shop in St Petersburg. The model was either SVF152A29V (if you looked at the bottom of the computer) or SVF1521J1RB (if you looked...

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I was greatly impressed by the first work that I saw by Sergei Sergeyev. This was his portrait Vika (1977), a small oil painting on canvas). Its powerful mastery and close kinship to the old masters ...

Picasso My first encounter with modern art came in the third grade, in 1971, when my eyes fell on an issue of the UNESCO Courier that was entirely devoted to a sociological survey and called “Public ...