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Retablos and ex-votos are the votive paintings offered to a saint in gratitude for miraculous help, healing or escape from dangerous situations. The art of retablo was rediscovered by modern artists in the 20th century. Pseudo-folk retablos became a form of postmodern art. During last years, there has been growing popularity for retablos among tourists and collectors. Retablos.ru is the biggest collection of modern Mexican retablos translated into English and Russian.

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Karl Marx in a shirt in the inscription Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Karlovy Vary, Czechia, 2021 Proudhon, who was born in Besançon, was a printer who taught himself Latin in order to better print books in the language. His best-known assertion is that "property is theft!", contained in his first major work, What Is Property? Or, an Inquiry into the Principle of Right and Government (Qu'est-ce que la propriété? Recherche sur le principe du droit et du gouvernement), published in 1840. The book's publication attracted the attention of the French authorities. It also attracted the scrutiny of Karl Marx, who started a correspondence with its author. The two influenced each other and they met in Paris while Marx was exiled there. Their friendship finally ended when Marx responded to Proudhon's The System of Economic Contradictions, or The Philosophy of Poverty with the provocatively titled The Poverty of Philosophy. The dispute became one of the sources of the split between the anarchist and Marxist wings of the International Working Men's Association. Some such as Edmund Wilson have contended that Marx's attack on Proudhon had its origin in the latter's defense of Karl Grün, whom Marx bitterly disliked, but who had been preparing translations of Proudhon's work.

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Supermarket in Omsk

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Ivan tea or fireweed in Yakutia, Siberia Fireweed is made into a tea known as Ivan Chai. In the Yukon, the flowers from fireweed are made into jelly.

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Bust of Anton Sorokin “King of Siberian Writers” (1884—1928) by Dima Verzhe in Left leg in Omsk

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Karel Gott and Avdey Ter-Oganian

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A number of Muscovites and online users were profoundly shocked at a new downtown art installation: ‘Big Clay N.4’ - a 12-meter sculpture by famous Swiss visual artist Urs Fischer, has been likened to “a pile of sh*t”. But, as it turns out, it also has its fair share of supporters.

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Sakha, 2021 One of Sakha’s forest fires this year could have become the largest fire in documented human history. NASA, Polar Science

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Sculpture 'Big clay No. 4' by Swiss artist Urs Fischer in Moscow, August 2021

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The Altai Mountains are a mountain range in Central and East Asia, where Russia, China, Mongolia, and Kazakhstan converge, and where the rivers Irtysh and Ob have their headwaters. The Altai Mountains have been identified as being the point of origin of a cultural enigma termed the Seima-Turbino Phenomenon which arose during the Bronze Age around the start of the 2nd millennium BC and led to a rapid and massive migration of peoples from the region into distant parts of Europe and Asia.

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Cannabis is used for hemp fibre, hemp seeds and their oils, hemp leaves for use as vegetables and as juice, medicinal purposes, and as a recreational drug.

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Hello, Avdey Ter-Oganyan

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The nickel deposits of Norilsk are the largest-known nickel-copper-palladium deposits in the world

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