13:28 Feeling the pulse at bean restaurant
Fasol, with its low large windows, allowing those passing by to peep in and see those eating, has been attracting our attention since ealier this summer when it opened on Gorokhovaya Ulitsa.

13:21 Shostakovich: dissident or loyalist?
Leon Trotsky once wrote that anyone with a hankering for the quiet life had made a mistake to be born in the 20th century. For some public figures who made that mistake, the 21st century has been no more tranquil.