полнолуние

А вы когда на луну смотрите, что видите? А когда она на вас? Смотрит, смотрит. В пять часов ночи, никакие шторы не помогают.

Нет, она не глупая, это Онегин сказал сгоряча, не подумав. Она печальная и тревожная. Будит, манит, зовет куда-то.

Лучше всего было бы сесть на снег столбиком, как наш кот любит сидеть, поставив передние лапы вместе, свободно откинув хвост, поднять голову к небу, вытянуть шею и … Но не принято это у нас почему-то. Ну почему-у-у-у-у-у?!

Ну вот, началось!

Russia has expelled a US journalist living in Moscow for the first time since the cold war, in a move that is likely to strain relations with Washington on the eve of the Sochi Winter Olympics.

David Satter – a distinguished former correspondent with the Financial Times and the author of three well-received books on Russia and the Soviet Union – was told on Christmas Day that he had been banned from the country.

Satter had been based in the Russian capital since September. Last month, he travelled to the Ukrainian capital Kiev to renew his visa where Alexy Gruby, a diplomat at the Russian embassy, read him a prepared statement that said: "The competent organs have decided that your presence on the territory of the Russian Federation is not desirable. You are banned from entering Russia."

телепузиками - по тоталитаризму

US basketball star Dennis Rodman has been criticised for his visits to North Korea. But it appears that the next high-profile visitors to the authoritarian state might be sanctioned by the UK government, with the Teletubbies in the front line. The Sunday Times reported that the UK is hoping to soften North Korea's hardline stance by offering TV shows to the the state-run television channel. A source at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office told the paper that BBC Worldwide was in talks on a deal:."I have always believed that what brought down the Berlin Wall was not highbrow diplomacy but Dallas and Dynasty. Programmes sent to North Korea would have to be something that isn't offensive, like Mr Bean, EastEnders, Miss Marple or Poirot. You couldn't send Dad's Army as it is about war. But Teletubbies could be an option, or The Good Life, with a bit of gardening and squabbling in the kitchen."

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Передвижение олимпийского огня по городам и весям местное население встречает с энтузиазмом и, не побоюсь этого слова, восторгом.

Дары волхвов пользуются не меньшей популярностью.

Почему было не совместить?