Pikulenko Alexander

Gasoline from sharks
People around the world are struggling with alternative fuels. The Chinese, who have countless piles of rice straw, have done something more interesting than many - they have learned to make quite suitable fuel for cars from it.

Lysenko Anatoly

The enemies of "House-2" play to the public
I'll start from afar. I'm on vacation now. I am outside our country, watching foreign television, and this is what I noticed.

Bykov Dmitry

Count and mania
The reader waits for each new book by Pelevin in the hope of approaching it like a mirror and discovering our true current appearance there. The novel “T,” just published in Eksmo, is no exception.

Yasin Evgeniy

Hunger for ideas
President Medvedev appointed Mikhail Fridman responsible for preparing the “business version” of the strategy for exiting the crisis into the development stage, taking into account proposals that should come from representatives of big business

Burda Boris

Fish in Volga style
October 28 is a big date for Russian cinema. It was on this day exactly 101 years ago that the first ever Russian feature film, “Ponizovaya Volnitsa,” about Stepan Razin, was shot.

Skvortsova Elena

A contract is worth more than money!
A sign of the crisis: now many people, when selling apartments and houses, first receive the amount specified in the contract, and then suddenly change their minds. And they ask buyers to pay extra.