“IT BEGAN to snow... lightly at first, but then in large flakes. The wind started to howl; it was a snowstorm. In an instant the dark sky merged into an ocean of snow. Everything disappeared. “We’re done for now, sir,” shouted the coachman. “It’s a blizzard!”
Mikhail Bulgakov chose these lines from Pushkin’s story “The Captain’s Daughter” as an epig...
DURING a recent live broadcast from Kiev on Russian state television, a protester pushed his way onto camera. As the Russian reporter, standing in the middle of Independence Square, the stage of the latest protest in Kiev, tried to describe the scene, the protester handed him a little statue, resembling an Oscar. “Pass this Oscar to the R...
Spain will open their defence of the World Cup next year with a repeat of the
2010 final
with Netherlands.
Vicente del Bosque's side will also face South American opponents Chile and Australia, who progressed from the Asia qualification competition, in Group B.
