Leonid Pronenko's work has been featured in more than twenty international exhibitions. He is the author of "Calligraphy for Everybody" (in Russian). Many of his students at the Kuban State University in Krasnodar have gone on to successful careers in design and calligraphy.

Imagine being held under water while your lungs are pounded with the air-expelling strikes...
picture yourself shoved face down to the bottom of the lake as the attacker tramples your back...
what if a blade is emerging out of the water ready to slice your throat...
This film will show you how to survive such dreadful adversities. and not just to survive - but to avoid panic, to stay in control and handle your opponent no matter how hopeless it gets.

Description:
Russian intensive training from Miron Kharchilava and Vladimir Anoschenko,
Part 1: Warm-up and training

Since the fall of communism, public opinion in Russia, including that of a now more diverse elite, has become a substantial factor in that country's policymaking process. What this opinion might be and how it responds to American actions is the subject of this study. William Zimmerman offers important and sometimes disturbing insight into the thinking of citizens in America's former Cold War adversary about such matters as NATO expansion. Drawing on nearly a decade of unprecedented surveys he conducted with a wide spectrum of the Russian public, he gauges the impact of Russia's opening on its foreign policy and how liberal democrats orient themselves to foreign policy. He also shows that insights from the study of American foreign policy are often "portable" to the study of Russian foreign policy attitudes. As Zimmerman shows, the general public, which had a modest but real role in foreign policy decision making, tended much more toward isolationism than did the predominant elites who steered Russia's foreign policy in the 1990s. Interspersing smooth prose with a wide array of richly informative tables, the book represents an invaluable opportunity to discern probable shifts in Russian foreign policy that domestic political changes would bring. And it powerfully suggests that the West, by forging its own policies toward Russia with more prudence, can have a say in the outcome of the great choice facing Russia--whether to forge ahead with democracy or slip back into authoritarianism.

This is a hugely enjoyable book to read, full of quick one-liners as well as expansive, slow moving ideas. Pettman wrestles with a big topic, what one might call the orgasmic movement in culture, where huge expectations give way to utter disappointment. It's a sophisiticated study not so much of a particular genre in culture but a certain kind of rhythm and arc that any cultural phenomena can have. This sets it apart from the fan-based approach to cultural studies. It's a study of a form, not a content, which is sure to intersect with many interests.

Three couples try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment.

Nina Hartley and 11 of her closest friends get together to teach you how to create the perfect orgy! Watch as Nina explains party pros and cons (and demonstrates the delicious decadence that results when everyone plays nice!), goes over the up-front ground rules and offers examples for holding a successful orgy of your own. Let Nina teach you how to be the host or hostess with the mostest!

Three couples try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment.

Three couples try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment.

A group of 30-year-olds who have been friends since high school attempt to throw an end-of-summer orgy.

A group of 30-year-olds who have been friends since high school attempt to throw an end-of-summer orgy.

A group of 30-year-olds who have been friends since high school attempt to throw an end-of-summer orgy.

Storyline: A group of 30-year-olds who have been friends since high school attempt to throw an end-of-summer orgy.

Three couples try group sex at a lakeside strawberry farm, naively hoping it will lead to enlightenment.

A group of 30-year-olds who have been friends since high school attempt to throw an end-of-summer orgy.

A group of 30-year-olds who have been friends since high school attempt to throw an end-of-summer orgy.