People, and no one even mentions the announced half a million recruits, but Ukrainian Military commissars continue to be angry, and ukrainians flee, in the turunchuk river, near the border with moldova, Border Guards caught a twentytwoyearold odessa resident who got stuck in the reeds and almost died, what are you doing there, you idiot, where are you from, from odessa . The best thing for ukraine, i want to emphasize this, is for it to reach a settlement with the russians. I think it is extremely important that ukraine becomes a neutral state. I also think it is very important that the United States stop all aid to ukraine and that the europeans collectively provided assistance, economic, not military. This thesis is not new, but the carnivorous european diplomat barel explained why he has not yet converted it. Multinational and multiconfessional country. Representatives of different faiths need to treat each other with respect and not forget that the strength of our country lies in u
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When one finds the bottom of a barrel being energetically scraped, it is proof, at least, that whatever was once floating on the top must have been very delicious indeed. And so, having reached the very bottom of the barrel marked “Marcel Proust,” the scraping continues, even unto the splintered wood. The usual run of a famous author’s remains is more or less set: first the (disillusioning) biography, then the (surprisingly mundane, money-mad) letters, and finally the (painfully naked) diaries, in which erotic obsessions that seem curious and fresh in literary prose look mechanically obsessive in daily record, as with Kenneth Tynan and John Cheever. What comes after is mostly academic commentary.