Leonid Parfenov - memory of Mikhail Zhvanetsky Cavan / Alamy / Vida Press On November 6, the satirist Mikhail Zhvanetsky died , he was 86 years old.

On the moral of the criminal article On the moral of the criminal article Illustration: Alexey Kurbatov for TD The Help Fund publishes: here is a person, here is his photograph, here he is five or 50 years old, he has a serious illness, it is not treated in Russia. Or treated, but for a lot of money. Or is treated in Germany for even larger. At this moment, everyone who sees this becomes a potential criminal.

Leonid Parfenov about the moral of a criminal article We help Advita help Recorded: Andrey Loshak The Help Fund publishes: here is a person, here is his photograph, here he is five or 50 years old, he has a serious illness, it is not treated in Russia. Or treated, but for a lot of money. Or is treated in Germany for even larger. At this moment, everyone who sees this becomes a potential criminal.

Leonid Parfenov The brightest—in every sense—object from childhood is the Christmas tree decorations that flicker in my memory. Probably the point is that these New Year's glass pieces are unlike anything in the rest of life. And of course, in the ritual of hanging them. My father always chopped the Christmas tree (that is, cut it down, of course) himself. In a nearby forest, three meters were cut off from the top of a hefty tree - certainly with many reddish-green cones.

Leonid Parfenov about photographs of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky To mark the 150th anniversary of the great photographer Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky, the Museum of Moscow will host the exhibition “Russia in Color”, and the film “The Color of the Nation” will be shown on Channel One. The author of the film, Leonid Parfenov, talks about his hero and what is so clearly visible in his photographs of Russia in 1913. Previous photo Three generations. A.P.

Voice “The difference between Russia and the USSR is that today a non-Soviet career is possible: it is not necessary to first be a deputy department head, then a department head... You can just sit at home and write books” TV presenter Leonid Parfenov, who turned 50 last week (Channel One)

Monologists Lilianna Lungina, recorded by director Oleg Dorman, and now leaving the book*, have become one of the largest cultural events of the year. *The book is completely “Setter. Life Lilianna Lungina, told by her for the film by Oleg Dorman,” will be published at Corpus in September 2009. "Settail" does not need the settings. In the preface, interpretations and notes. But he is a “oral book”, a decoding of a story on a television camera for the film of the same name.

Dear reader! As always, the last issue of the magazine in the outgoing year, it is also the first in the coming year - about what was and what will be. "Putin of Miracles" - the president's political surprises for the season are being inventoried by Mikhail Fishman . One of the miracles is Putin's cult, but Nikita Mikhalkov in an interview with us refuses to co-author.

Alexander Filippov's manual "Modern history of Russia 1945-2006" was presented at the All-Russian Conference of Teachers of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Receiving the participants of this forum, President Putin delivered a heated tirade about the historical responsibility for the Soviet period; I especially remember his exclamation “You never know what happened!”.

According to Russian Newsweek, in 2007, 12 films were released with the participation of Mikhail Efremov and at least 6 more were filmed, coming out in 2008. It seems that not a single significant picture of the season could do without Efremov: “12”, “Election Day”, “Irony of Fate. Continuation”, “Leningrad”, “Indigo” – as usual, this actor has all the roles of the second plan, but very memorable.

Dear reader! The elections have only just begun - and it's not even the point that after the Duma elections the presidential ones are coming. The selection of candidates for successors is being completed this week, and Four Hands is fighting for the chair of the “technical president”. Compromising evidence on Kudrin's team, then on Sechin's "power block" are thrown out to the public, and the prosecutor's office competes with the Investigation Department.

Dear reader! The issue is signed for printing on Friday, comes out on Monday, and elections on Sunday. But no one is sure that the "Putin Plank" is both high and taken. At what mark it is - 60%, 65%, 70% or even more - it does not matter: the indicator will still be announced as the result of a triumphant popular referendum in support of the national leader. To the question "Why was an electoral record needed?" harder to answer.

The presidential campaign started in Georgia last week. The first public gesture of Mikheil Saakashvili, who has retired but is sure of his victory, is an interview with the star of the closed Imedi TV channel, Inga Grigolia, shown on the pro-government Rustavi-2. Were asked. It seems that all the uncomfortable questions, most of the conversation, the interlocutors conducted in raised tones (it was in the program of Ms.

Dear reader! “Digging under Orthodoxy” is being carried out from the village of Poganovka in the Penza province by former exemplary parishioners of the Russian Church. They are sure that they finally “Dug to the truth” , and decided to leave this world - underground. got to the bottom of them There, Pavel Sedakov , and now, it seems, it is clear, “Which road leads from the temple” of the new hermits and where.

Dear reader! “Tomorrow of a Tourist” is an organized trip without the help of a travel agency. As one of the meanings and one of the goals in life. It is clear that this is not for ten days and not for two weeks - but a break in "production activities" for wandering as a necessary experience. They say it even helps in a career.