The sun is shining, and an amazing realisation dawns on you: after months or rain and cold, it is finally barbecue season! As you head out to the garden to dust off your barbecue, your natural reflex may be to grab a chilled beer. But don’t automatically banish wine to […]

The parliamentary elections of sixth convocation of South Ossetia are set on Sunday, June 8. The nine parties who were included in the voting list are “Fydybasta,” “Nykhas,” “United Ossetia,” “Motherland,” “Unity of the People,” “People’s Party,” “New Ossetia,” “Unity” and the Communist Party of the Republic of South Ossetia. […]

Making a will is a big endeavour, but it is also extremely important. It is not a process that should be left to the last minute, as an unfortunate circumstance could mean that your loved ones are without instruction. While it’s true that a simple document written out and notarized […]

The Dialogue Forum on the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States of America and the European Union that took part in Berlin on May 5 ahead of the next round of talks planned on May 19 stimulated the foreign mass media to resume the debate on […]

Thai massage and Ayurvedic massage; they both fall into the category of ‘massage therapy’, but how do they differ in terms of the experience they create and the benefits they generate? Until recent years I tended to think of massage as being a one-size-fits-all approach, merely for the purpose of […]

The Internet mass surveillance program implemented by the National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States has once more become the focus of interest of experts and the global community after the speech made by Edward Snowden, former NSA contractor, on PACE session on 8 April via videolink. In his […]

Sometimes, it seems that if somebody stuck a frock coat or a bodice on a dried-up dog turd, any gullible American tourist might buy it. There’s something of that when it comes to some of our TV programmes. Throw in one of the classics – a Dickens or a Shakespeare or a Bronte – and old Uncle […]

Like a good scotch or whisky, Khaled Hosseini gets better with age. With the publication of And The Mountains Echoed, Hosseini has now published three books. His first book, The Kite Runner was adapted both into a film and a graphic novel (the latter by Hosseini himself), It follows the […]