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Culture has become richer and more powerful
Last week, the annual Moscow government awards in the field of literature and art were presented. Taking into account the teams, 44 people became laureates. Among them are the musicians of the quartet named after. Borodin led by Valentin Berlinsky, actor and director of the Maly Theater Vitaly Solomin, artistic director of the theater "At the Nikitsky Gates" Mark Rozovsky, film director Andrei Konchalovsky, director of the Moscow Circus on Vernadsky Avenue Leonid Kostyuk and others. In total, 12 awards of 80 thousand were awarded. rubles each.
Welcoming the laureates, Mayor Luzhkov said that, in his opinion, now “culture has become richer and more powerful.”

Irina Saltykova went to roll balls
The crisis is already beginning to interfere with the creative plans of Russian pop stars. Recently, as you know, the tours of Alla Pugacheva, Masha Rasputina, and Irina Saltykova were canceled. The latter was the fastest to understand the current situation and decided to go into commerce. Fortunately, there is a commercial vein: Saltykova once owned a chain of retail outlets on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. To start her career as a pop star, she sold her business, pawned her jewelry, and recorded her first album with the proceeds of $45,000.
Now, sensing something was wrong, the singer backed off. Last week she told the Intermedia agency that she had become one of the founders of a new bowling center with an area of about 3 thousand square meters. m near the Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station.
According to Saltykova, she decided to make money from bowling because she loves this sport and is going to “promote it in every possible way.”
She had the most unfavorable impression of show business. “The stage is not a business, it’s a nightmare,” she said.

Former Spice Girls singer strips off
Former member of the British group Spice Girls Geri Halliwell, known as Ginger Spice, is selling some of her belongings at Sotheby's auction. On September 16, the 26-year-old singer plans to put her old stage costumes, music awards and sports car up for sale. Among the items will also be the Union Jack dress she wore to the 1997 Brit Awards (for which she expects to fetch at least $19.8 thousand). Also up for auction is a red satin dress (starting price $4,500) that Geri wore during her meeting with South African President Nelson Mandela in 1997. Geri Halliwell plans to donate all the proceeds to charities that finance the treatment of children with cancer.

Dodi will be avenged dearly
Egyptian billionaire Mohamed al-Fayed is ready to pay £12.5 million to a man who can provide evidence that the accident that killed his son and Princess Diana was staged by the intelligence services. He stated this in an interview with one of the Swiss newspapers.
“I am 99.9% convinced that there was a murder plot,” said al-Fayed. “And I will not rest until I find out the truth.”
The leadership of the operation to find the real culprits of the tragedy was entrusted in London to al-Fayed's security chief John McNamara, and in France to the former Paris police chief Pierre Ottavioli.

DM costs $200 thousand.
Last week, the founders of the electronic “new wave” Depeche Mode came to Russia for the first time. The concert was organized by Evgeniy Boldin’s company SAV Entertainment. According to some reports, the group's fee for the concert at the Olimpiyskiy ranged from $150 thousand to $200 thousand.
DM originated in the late seventies, when synthesizers began to become fashionable. The group's first success was a contract with the recording company Mute Records, with which they still work.
In the eighties, Depeche Mode was the only British group to successfully compete with the American ones: sixteen of the group’s singles were in the world top 20, and eight Depeche Mode albums were in the top 10. Among the most famous hits are “See You” (1982), “Everything Counts” " (1983), "People are People" and "Master and Servant" (both 1984). Four DM albums released in the eighties went gold in the United States.
1988 was a milestone in the history of the group: Depeche Mode conducted an eight-month world tour, which brought huge profits: DM earned more than $1 million from the sale of T-shirts and other paraphernalia alone.
The 1997 album “Ultra” became the most sold-out album in Russia in terms of sales volumes, for which it even received the “Record” award, established by the Intermedia agency.
Depeche Mode are staging a world tour five years after their previous tour. The tour is associated with the release of the album "Singles 86-98". We opened the DM tour with a concert in Tartu on September 2, and played in Riga the next day. From Moscow DM will travel to Helsinki and further across Europe, on September 29 and 30 they will perform at Wembley Stadium, and the tour will end in San Sebastian on October 17.

Franjo Tudjman provided for his family for a long time
During the eight years of rule of Croatia, Franjo Tudjman and his close relatives became the owners of a fortune estimated at approximately $1 billion. This information was reported by the Feral Tribune newspaper published in the city of Split.
According to the newspaper, in addition to several luxurious villas in Zagreb and on the islands of the Adriatic Sea, the head of state has three jet aircraft, a fleet of armored vehicles and sea yachts. The youngest son of a former major general of the Yugoslav People's Army, Stepan, is the owner of a monopoly company that supplies the Croatian army and all student canteens in the country with food. He also owns several hotels in resort areas, as well as the Zagreb film studio Patria Film. The president's daughter Nevenka runs a number of commercial structures, and his grandson Deyan successfully conducts business in the banking field, being the owner of Capitol Bank. Only Franjo Tudjman’s eldest son, Miroslav, is not involved in business. He teaches computer science at the Faculty of Philosophy at the University of Zagreb. As the Feral Tribune emphasizes, the fortune of the presidential family cannot be assessed more accurately, since it is increasing day by day.

Magazine "Kommersant Money" No. 34 dated 09.09.1998, p. 60

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