On Friday evening to urgently agree on a plan to resolve the situation in the southeast. The final results of the negotiations will be announced on Sunday. This was announced by the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. For now, we know that the discussion was constructive. Ways out of the Ukrainian crisis will be reflected in the text of a possible joint document on the practical implementation of the Minsk agreements. According to the presidential aide, all proposals formulated and added will be taken into account.
Debaltsevo boiler boiled over
The encirclement of 8 thousand Ukrainian military personnel in the Debaltsevo region became a powerful impetus for intensifying political processes. At the highest level, European heads of state have again resorted to the policy of shuttle diplomacy. At the level of the masses, several rallies took place in Kyiv demanding that they begin to deal with issues of peace and economics. One of these rallies almost ended with the capture of the presidential administration building. The assault was stopped already on the territory of the complex.
The Polish Foreign Ministry has completely disgraced itself
The President of Poland was in favor of the statements of his Foreign Minister. Grzegorz Schetyna, whose name quickly became a household name on the Internet, added a fair amount of stupidity and ignorance of history to his uncontained Russophobia when he declared that Moscow is the place where the Second World War began. world war, so its end should be celebrated in Berlin or London. However, the Russian Foreign Ministry believes that Schetyna made a clumsy attempt to revise the results of the war. The Federation Council of Russia suggested that Schetyna “not get puffed up” by trying to rewrite history, and residents of a number of Russian cities even started an absentee dispute among themselves over the right to admit the Polish minister to local psychiatric hospitals.
Greco-European conflict
Greece last week came under unprecedented pressure from both the political and monetary authorities of the European Union. Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis, with a charismatic appearance more suitable for a defense minister, is holding the line alone. The Greeks get it for their reluctance to be independent, as well as for supporting Russia and criticizing Brussels' sanctions policy towards Moscow. All last days The Greeks are frightened by the imminent default and bankruptcy of the country, they are disconnected from the ECB credit system and promised political isolation. . The course towards independence, primarily from enslaving loans, will continue. If necessary, the Greeks are ready to leave the euro zone, declare bankruptcy due to international obligations and start living with a clean slate. On the issue of sanctions against Russia, the Greeks are also adamant - no one consulted with Athens, sanctions are harmful and counterproductive, Greece stands for the speedy establishment of relations with Russia.
"Islamic State" goes berserk
Following the demonstrative murder of two Japanese citizens, Islamic State militants burned a Jordanian pilot alive. Footage of the horrific massacre was posted on the Internet. The King of Jordan, who has the skill, promised to personally destroy the terrorists. Funds are again being allocated to fight IS. The US announced the provision of $8.8 billion. The European Union will allocate an additional 1 billion euros.
For 3 sticks of butter
Last Tuesday, 81-year-old pensioner Rauza Galimova, who survived the blockade, died of a heart attack at the duty station of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Kronstadt district of St. Petersburg. The woman was suspected of trying to sell 3 packs to the Magnit retail chain butter. The store management acted according to instructions and called the police. Those, within the framework of their powers, brought Galimova to the department. The woman felt bad from excitement. The arriving doctors could no longer help. The story received great public attention. The Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg stated that a strict inspection of all security workers at commercial enterprises will be launched. The Magnit company noted that they deeply mourn and convey their condolences to the family of the deceased.
Nobody wanted to go crazy
sharply criticized the actions of federal and regional officials, as well as Russian Railways, who allowed the massive cancellation of commuter train routes in various regions of Russia. “You proposed a set of measures, but what was the government doing before? Electric trains stopped running to the regions - what are you saying?” — the president reacted emotionally at the meeting on February 4. The very next day there are 40 routes. A day later, there were already 200 restored routes, the Ministry of Transport reported, and in total about 300 routes will be restored in the near future, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Dvorkovich promised.
Oil does not want to lie at the bottom
Quotes are rising for the second week in a row. The March price for Brent is already close to $60 per barrel. The American oil industry could not withstand the fall in prices at the end of last year. Following the January bankruptcy of WBH Energy, which was a pioneer in the shale oil market, production is being curtailed at an accelerated pace, including at traditional drilling sites. Without an increase in oil prices in the near future, the US energy sector will face a wave of bankruptcies, which could also shake the industry’s bank lending sector, which to this day supports all shale energy production in the US.
Both engines failed
On Wednesday, a TransAsia turboprop plane crashed near Taipei in Taiwan. Both engines of the plane failed. 37 seconds after takeoff - at an altitude of 400 meters - problems were recorded in the operation of the right engine. The moment of the accident was recorded by car navigators of cars driving along the overpass, which was hit by the plane when it fell. Despite 15 passengers, they managed to survive. They were taken to hospitals from the scene of the fall in serious condition. Rescuers discovered 35 bodies of the dead, the fate of three more people remains unknown. The accident happened quickly. 35 seconds after detecting problems with the engine, the pilot issued a distress signal. A minute later, the flight recorders stopped recording data.
Poltava was first mentioned in the Ipatiev Chronicle, under the name Ltava. The name Poltava appeared in 1430.
The construction of the Intercession Cathedral on Red Square in Moscow (St. Basil's Cathedral) has been completed. The temple was built in honor of the capture of Kazan and the victory over the Kazan Khanate during the reign of Ivan the Terrible.
According to the design of the Italian architect Bartolomeo Francesco (or Bartholomew Varfolomeevich, as he was called in Russia) Rastrelli, construction began on the Winter Palace in St. Petersburg, which was completed in 1762.
In Mitava (now Jelgava), a new educational institution was inaugurated - the Mitava Academic Gymnasium, which soon became known as the Peter's Academy in honor of the last Duke of Courland, Peter Biron.
The Sudanese preacher Muhammad Ahmed proclaimed himself a mahdi (translated from Arabic as “led by the true path”), that is, a messiah, a savior, and led an uprising of peasants and nomads in Sudan against the arbitrariness of European governors.
One of the oldest surviving sound recordings was made. Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt, performed by a 4,000-voice choir at the Handel Festival at London's Crystal Palace, was recorded on Edison's improved phonograph. This sound recording, made by Edison's representative in England, Colonel George Gouraud, is considered the oldest surviving recording of music made for the purpose of subsequent reproduction. It was also considered the oldest surviving recording of music in general, until the digital restoration of phonautograms by the French inventor Leon Scott.
The beginning of the first airplane flights in the Arctic. In search of the expedition of G. Ya. Sedov, Ya. I. Nagursky and E. V. Kuznetsov make it.
Pope Pius XI condemned the forcing of Italian children to take the fascist oath.
In Germany, the U-1 submarine, the first German submarine built after the First World War, was secretly launched at the Deutsche Werke shipyard in Kiel.
The transition of German and Finnish troops to the offensive on Murmansk. The defense of the Arctic began (continued until October 1944).
In South Africa, the apartheid policy began to be implemented: a ban on mixed marriages was introduced.
After physicist Julius Robert Oppenheimer refused to participate in the creation of the hydrogen bomb, he was denied access to secret developments.
Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock" rose to number one on the American charts and remained there for eight weeks. This date can be considered the birthday of rock and roll.
Marilyn Monroe married American writer Arthur Miller (divorced in 1961).
Opening of a monument to V.V. Mayakovsky in Moscow. The patch near the monument became a place for spontaneous meetings and performances of young poets.
In the United States, in the case of Ferman v. State of Georgia, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty is unconstitutional.
Imagine - every day in Russia another holiday, event, date is celebrated, and as a rule, more than one. Personal experience tells us that remembering all the holidays of the year is incredibly difficult, but common sense whispers - no need. And indeed, why remember church holidays, state holidays, professional holidays, and to them it is also worth adding personal dates, such as the birthdays of relatives and a couple of dozen friends, wedding anniversaries, and others. Therefore, the daily calendar created by the SuperTosty website will solve for you the problem of remembering dates and events and will remind you of Orthodox holidays, holidays in Russia, celebrated professional dates and other equally significant holidays. With personal events, what can you do, you will have to deal with them yourself; fortunately, it’s enough to write them down in a notebook, or better yet mobile phone, where you can turn on a reminder - the twenty-first century is after all!
Our calendar reflects all the holidays of winter, spring, summer and autumn. To everyone holiday we have selected congratulations, toasts, greeting cards and SMS. Now not a single holiday of the year will pass you by, you will be aware of events in Russia, its dates, you will be able to congratulate colleagues and friends on their workers in time, professional holidays. After all all year round, hundreds of events and dates dedicated to teachers, doctors, and other professions are celebrated every day, church holidays, city days, military glory and other equally interesting holidays.
Holidays, dates and events of the year
Holiday calendar for January
January- (lat. Januarius), according to legend, received his name from the Roman king Numa Pompilius in honor of the Roman god Janus, personifying the beginning of a two-faced god, who looks with one face into the past, with the other into the future. The first day of January was also dedicated to Janus. January was introduced as one of the months in Ancient Rome around 700 BC. e., in 46 BC. e. Julius Caesar established the beginning of the year as January 1.The Slavic name prosinets - apparently from the increase in daylight, the addition of heavenly blue.
January is the beginning of the year, winter is the middle, and spring is the grandfather.
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Holiday calendar for February
February- (lat. Februarius), named after the ancient Greek god of the underworld Februus or Febru.
There is another version - in ancient times, February was the last of the year. IN ancient Rome For example, in February we tried to cleanse ourselves of all the bad things that had accumulated over the year. Hence, its name - after the name of the rite of cult cleansing from sins, repentance in Dr. Rome - februarius (Latin - cleansing), in those days February was the last month of the year.
In addition to the official one, there are a number of folk names: “snow”, “kruten”, “zimobor”, “bokogrey”, “krivodorog”, “kazibrod”, “kazidorog”.
Slavic names - sechen (cf. Ukrainian sichen - January) (according to the text of the Vologda Gospel), snezhen (according to the text of the Polotsk Gospel). Other Slavic names for the month: fierce, velcha, svechnik, druinik (that is, the second, svechkovy). Bokogray - the cattle comes out to bask in the sun. It was also called “low water” (the time between winter and spring). In the chronicles it was called a wedding, from winter weddings held from the day of Epiphany to Maslenitsa.
Holiday calendar for March
March- (lat. Martius). In the ancient Roman calendar, the year began with the month in which the day fell spring equinox. It was called primidilis - according to its serial number.
After the reform of this calendar, the first month of the year and spring became Martus (Latin Mars), in honor of the ancient Roman god Mars, the father of Romulus. Mars was the god of war, but, at the same time, and in its more ancient meaning, he was the god of farmers, rural workers.
The modern name for March came to us from Byzantium. And before that in Ancient Rus' they called him “brezen” - evil for birches, flowing like this month they burned birches on coals.
In Russian folk calendar March is called the protalnik. Melt water - "snowflake" popular belief, healing. They washed the floors in the house with it, watered flowers, and washed clothes taken from sick people in it. And the walls of the house were renewed, house plants gained strength, and the sick person was left thin and ill. Other names for this month are also known, associated with natural phenomena: winter forest, kaplyuzhnik, dry (from the winds drying up moisture), berezol or berezozol, proletny - from this month spring began, the harbinger of summer. Although March itself is not spring, but the pre-spring.
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Holiday calendar for April
April- (lat. Aprilis), named after the goddess Venus, or more precisely, her Greek counterpart Aphrodite. Other options: from Lat. apricus - “warmed by the sun, located in the sun” or aperio - “to open”, i.e. month, when shoots appear, buds open.
The Slavic name berezol, another - pollen, coincides with the Ukrainian. kviten.
Common people Russian name- play the ravines, talks about streams of melting snow.
Other names: snowgon, berezozol, pollen, light the snow.
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Holiday calendar for May
May- (lat. Majus), named after the Roman goddess Maya, the mother of Mercury, who personified blossoming nature and fertility. There is also a version that the name is based on the name not of the Roman, but of the Greek Maya - the goddess of the mountains, which at this time are covered with greenery. The Anglo-Saxons called May "trimilk" - from May, cows began to be milked three times a day. The Danes call it "blumaandom".
Slavic and Ukrainian name - grass. The Slavs also called it proletny. Other names: herbalist, herbal, light bloomer, pink flower, rose flower, pollen, daylight, bird whistling, nightingale moon, kveten, rose flower, roznyak, great traven, sheva or shwiban, May. There was another name - Yarets (in honor of the Slavic sun god Yarila).
May is popularly considered unlucky. This is a bad month for weddings. “To get married in May is to suffer forever.” “I would be glad to get married, but May doesn’t say so.”
Most often, cold weather occurs during the flowering period of bird cherry (from May 4). They say: “When the bird cherry blossoms, there is always cold.” The cold in May is called “cheremkhovaya”.
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Holiday calendar for June
June- (lat. Junius), named after the goddess Juno, wife of Jupiter, goddess of fertility, mistress of rain and guardian of marriage. According to another version, the name of the month goes back to the word “junior”, which means “young”, “younger”.
June is the month of radiant sun, the most long days and white nights, the brightest month of the year is Milk. And June is also a songful and fertile month, grain-growing and hoarding, grain-bearing, it accumulates harvest for the whole year, enriches our home. June and the blush of the year, and the first grass, and the anthill. The time of tall grasses and haymaking, bright colors also called multi-colored, roznik, strawberry.
If the nights are warm in June, there will be an abundance of fruits.
Like June, so is the hay.
Heavy dew is a sign of fertility, and frequent fogs promise a mushroom harvest.
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Holiday calendar for July
July- (lat. Julius, named after Julius Caesar. Before that - Quintilis). Slavic names - lipets (Ukrainian name - lipen), from the time of flowering of the linden tree; the hay barn (“hay” and “to ripen”) and the hay barn reflected the ripening of hay and its placement in stacks; The Russian name "cherven" comes from the old Russian word "chervleny", i.e. red, beautiful. July is called the beauty of summer, its hope, the middle of color. They call it the green feast of the year, the month of fragrant berries, honey herbs, generous sweet tooth, lush, lush and colorful.
July is popularly called senostav, zharnik, senozarnik, sickle, pribirikha and sufferer. Due to frequent rain showers and thunderstorms, July was called a month of thunderstorms and thunderstorms. It’s not without reason that people say that July throws lightning and cripples oak trees. July is also mowing and mowing, hay-growing and hay-growing, green suffering and the darling of sudden and fleeting rains. July is the central month of summer, the zenith of heat, radiant beauty. People talked about July: since July came into the yard, it’s time to cram sickles; The harvest is an expensive time, there is no peace for anyone here. With the most intense heat, the harvest began and the first, nightly sheaf was knitted.
If July is hot, December will be frosty. In July, clouds stretch across the sky in stripes - it will rain. The greenish color of a puddle is a sign of the onset of severe drought. In the morning the fog spreads across the grass - there will be good weather. If the grass is dry in the morning, expect rain by night.
Holiday calendar for August
August- (lat. Augustus). Named after the Roman Emperor Augustus. Eighth month of the year. The name is not Russian; it came to our fathers from Byzantium. The indigenous, Slavic names of this month were different.
Other names: serpen (from the word “sickle”, harvest time), glow (from the lightning lightning), gustar (they eat everything abundantly, thickly), zhench, zhneyska, prashnik, velikserpen, osemnik (eighth), mistress, velikomesnyak, kimovets, kolovets, morning watcher.
Depending on the customs, many different rituals are held on Zarev (including all three Spas - apple, honey, nut).
Proverbs and sayings about August: August does not tell you to walk. In August, the sickles are warm and the water is cold. Look at oats and flax in August, earlier they are unreliable. A peasant has three worries in August: mowing, plowing, and sowing. August destroys, but then amuses. August is hard labor, but after that there will be a riot. August cabbage, and March sturgeon. For women, there is a holiday in August, the harvest, and from September it is Indian summer. August of the gathering or supply.
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Holiday calendar for September
September(lat. September) - the first month of autumn. Leaf grower. Pensive. Howler. Fieldfare. Veresen. Zorevnik. Khmuren. Centemary. Ruen. Ruin. End of summer.
The name of the month reflects the autumn season: Revun - it is raining, bad weather; Gloomy - fading sunlight, gloomy sky; Ruen - yellow color of autumn; Ryuin - roar of deer.
It is customary to finish field work in September, and it is no coincidence that it was once the first month of the year: old year ended and the new harvest year began. In September, in the 2nd half, the color of the leaves of maple, linden, oak, and birch changes. From the end of the first ten days, linden, elm, and warty birch leaves fall; The crowns of hawthorn, maple, bird cherry, aspen, ash, red elderberry, and oak are thinning. Linden and poplar begin to fall leaves from below; elm, hazel and ash - on top.
Signs of September: Thunder in September portends warm autumn. Until the leaves fall from the cherries, no matter how much snow falls, the thaw will drive it away. If the cranes fly high, slowly and “talk,” it will be a good autumn. The web spreads over the plants - to the warmth.
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Holiday calendar for October
October- (lat. October). The ancient Russian name for the month October, October. Muddy. Leaf fall. Podzimnik. Pozimnik. Wedding party. Pazdernik. Zazimye. Freeze. Measured. Praise the month. The names of the month October are mainly borrowed from Central Greek. October is the late period of autumn. The norm of sunshine is 80 hours. The weather is very changeable. The day decreases by 2 hours 10 minutes.
The eighth month of the old Roman year, which began in March before Caesar's reform. Got its name from Lat. octo - eight. In connection with the transition to winter time is the longest month of the year (745 hours).
October will cover the earth, sometimes with leaves, sometimes with snow. In October, neither on wheels nor on sleds. It's October for everyone, but the guy has no choice. In October there are seven weather conditions: sowing, blowing, twisting, stirring, roaring, pouring from above, sweeping from below. Late leaf fall means a difficult year.
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Holiday calendar for November
November- English November - from lat. novem "nine", which is what the Romans considered it to be;
The Old Russian name is gruden, from “gruda” - frozen earth in piles, not covered with snow, in Old Russian, for example. Nestor the chronicler generally has a winter road. Ukrainian name for leaf fall. Other names for November: Leaves. Leafy. Leafy. Breast. Ice cream. Freezing over. Half-winter road. Zapka winter. Gate of winter. Wedding party. The last month of autumn.
The most foggy month of the year. November is the gate of winter. November - September's grandson, October's son, winter's dear father. November is the twilight of the year. In November, winter fights with autumn. In November, the man says goodbye to the cart and climbs into the sleigh. November nights are dark before the snow. In November there will be snow - bread will arrive. Everything in November is en masse - on the table, on the land, and on the water. November also gives generously, like autumn. But the road is full of potholes, and there is confusion between the villages. Don't pass, don't pass.
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Holiday calendar for December
December(Latin: December) - the twelfth month of the Gregorian calendar. The tenth month of the Old Roman year, which began in March before Caesar's reform. Got its name from Lat. decem - ten. After shifting the beginning of the year to January, it became the twelfth and last month of the year.
The ancient Russian name is winter road, studen, stuzhaylo, studenny. Ukrainian name for breast. December is popularly called the gates of winter. It’s time to protect the peasant’s goods from severe frosts, from scarcity, to see that the nourishing spirit in the grain bottoms does not run out, the grain does not dry out, and the grain does not freeze. In December they said: “warmth flows from the eyes,” i.e. the frost breaks through to tears.
Folk signs: If December is dry, spring and summer will be dry. If this month is cold, snowy, with frost and winds, there will be a harvest.
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Realist has collected the most important and interesting news over the past 24 hours.
Not a day without a scandal! This time Law enforcement and anti-corruption agencies exchanged mutual accusations. The National Anti-Corruption Bureau (NABU) accused the Prosecutor General's Office and the SBU of interfering in the special operation. Allegedly, an undercover NABU agent handed over a bribe to the first deputy chairman of the State Migration Service. For official purposes, of course. To document and then arrest the corrupt official. But then colleagues from the GPU and the SBU intervened - they detained a NABU employee and disrupted the operation. . But Prosecutor General Yuri provoked a migration service official to commit a crime.
Then a whole wave of news and statements followed. First, information appeared that the SBU was conducting searches at NABU. Further - more. Allegedly, the bureau employee working undercover could be arrested. He met with Lutsenko and explained: no one would be arrested, no searches were carried out, and such “friction between law enforcement officers” is normal practice.
By the way, the deputy chairman of the migration service was offered a bribe of $15 thousand. According to the current interbank exchange rate, this is UAH 406.3 thousand. Just yesterday, such an amount of currency could be exchanged for 406.2 thousand UAH. That is The weakening of the hryvnia was commented on by Deputy Head of the National Bank Oleg Churiy. “We have a floating rate,” he said.
It’s not just the hryvnia exchange rate that “floats”. Might be over happy days Bitcoin owners. After steady growth . As much as $2 thousand. From $11 thousand to $9 thousand for one bitcoin. But there is no need to be upset. No one can say exactly what will happen in a week and, perhaps, the Bitcoin rate will soar again.
7. Pedro Rodriguez: “The Premier League is different from La Liga”
Rodriguez: “The Premier League is a championship where there is strong competition between teams. Compared to La Liga, Barcelona can win most matches in Spain, which cannot be said about England. The leading clubs here can lose to outsiders as the competition is very high.”
6. Ana Ivanovic ends her sports career
The Serbian tennis player decided to end her sports career. The reason is injuries that have been bothering Ivanovich lately and not allowing her to return to her previous form.
5. Philippe Coutinho will not help Liverpool
in opposition The Brazilian midfielder needs extra time to recover from an injury received in the game against Sunderland (2:0), which took place in the 13th round of the Premier League. Coutinho had previously been expected to feature in the upcoming crucial match against Manchester City on December 31, but Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp said it was too early to talk about his return to the pitch. The footballer may also not take part in the first meeting of 2017, in which the Merseysiders will meet Sunderland.
4. Juventus has new additions
Genoa midfielder Tomas Rincón has undergone a medical examination at the Juventus camp. According to Italian media reports, the Turin club will be able to rent the 28-year-old football player for 2 million euros, and in the summer they will be able to get him for 7-8 million euros. It is possible that Juventus will also continue to fight for the transfer of Zenit midfielder Axel Witsel.
3. Xavi: “Real Madrid deserve the heights they have achieved”
Javier Hernandez: Real Madrid never stop believing in themselves. It has won every title in its history and continues to win trophies because it is a great club. Real Madrid always puts pressure on Barcelona. Madrid had a resounding success in 2016. They were worthy of the heights they achieved.”
2. What is Memphis Depay doing in Rotterdam?
The Manchester United midfielder was spotted smoking a hookah in a Rotterdam bar. This was reported by The Sun, publishing the corresponding photo. The Dutch footballer met with a friend with whom he watched the broadcast of the Ajax game. According to an anonymous source, Depay is not the first to visit this club and smoke hookah. Recently, the media have been writing that Jose Mourinho has no hope for Memphis Depay and has allowed him to leave the club.
1. The best playmakers have become known The International Federation of Football History and Statistics has published a list of the best playmakers of 2016. In first place is Barcelona's leading football player Lionel Messi (172 points). The Argentine is followed by his teammate Andres Iniesta (66 points), and the top three is completed by Real Madrid midfielder Toni Kroos (45 points).
