December 29, 2005, 10:19 Politics Iran will enrich itself in Russia Viktor Sumskoy Iran has backed down on the nuclear issue. Tehran is ready to “enthusiastically” think about Russia’s proposals for overcoming the crisis, although at the beginning of the week it stated the opposite. Iran intends to “seriously and enthusiastically” consider Russia's proposal for joint uranium enrichment.

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Fedor Lukyanov Valve's own pride Fedor Lukyanov Editor-in-Chief of the magazine “Russia in Global Affairs” According to many researchers, at historical moments, the awareness of its own greatness - real or imagined - played a critical role in the survival of France. It was precisely the revival of this feeling that the greatest of the French leaders of the 20th century, Charles de Gaulle, twice engaged in.

Results for every taste The end of the year is a time traditionally imbued with symbolism. Christmas decorations probably fascinate everyone so much that everything said or happened at the end of December is perceived as something with a special meaning. So, if you look at how the year ends for the Russian economy from this perspective, the picture will be very interesting. There is bad news, there is good news.

Heavy snowfall in eastern and northern Germany has caused many traffic jams and accidents. The disaster mainly affects the federal states of Saxony, Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt. The largest accident occurred on Highway 67 in the central part of the country, where more than 50 cars collided due to ice. Many motorists were caught off guard by bad weather on New Year's Eve on their way to the holidays.

Style “God gave us the taste to save” Galina Anni Many people think that people who make a fashion magazine start the day with champagne and black caviar. Evelina Khromchenko, permanent editor-in-chief of the Russian edition of L'Officiel magazine, claims that this is not so. On his desk, the editor-in-chief has a Macintosh computer, a box of candied violets, an orchid in a flower pot, and lots and lots of papers. — Evelina , tell us how a fashion magazine is made?

December 29, 2005, 13:34 Society Europe was buried all the way to Sussex Marina Lemutkina Britain and continental Europe were hit by unprecedented cold and snowfall. The movement of railway and road transport is disorganized, entire cities are cut off from the outside world by snow debris, thousands of people were left without electricity on New Year's Eve. It's been an unusually cold and snowy winter in the UK.

December 29, 2005, 21:24 Society The lieutenant resigned from the charge Andrey Novgorodtsev (Ulyanovsk) , German Prokhorov The first suspect has appeared in the case of the beating of Ulyanovsk schoolchildren. True, the prosecutor’s office was unable to arrest the policeman. If the senior lieutenant, who, according to Gazeta.Ru, managed to resign from the police, is not found before the morning, he will be put on the wanted list.

The brilliance and beauty of insects Text: Vadim Nesterov Illustration: ozon.ru The book “Romancing Butterflies,” dedicated to lepidopterans, turned out to be the best love story and the best non-fiction of the year at the same time. “Are there many benefits from butterflies? Less than you might think. In the matter of plant pollination, butterflies cannot compete with real masters - beetles and bees.

December 29, 2005, 21:34 Politics They took away the TV instead of the bottom of the sea Anton Brazhitsa Estonia has come up with something to block Russia: if the Gulf of Finland cannot be blocked, Tallinn has decided to close 25 canals. Russian-speaking television viewers will be deprived of the opportunity to watch Russian television programs, even for money - on cable television. In Estonia, broadcasting of Russian TV channels will cease from January 1.

December 29, 2005, 19:36 Business “Very bad,” the president said Mikhail Krasnov The next round of negotiations between Russia and Ukraine on tariffs for the supply and transit of gas again ended in nothing. Vladimir Putin expressed displeasure with the gas impasse and suggested that Ukraine take a $3.5 billion loan from Russia to pay for gas. “The economy has again been replaced by politics,” experts assessed the president’s contribution to the negotiations.

10:25 Prohibition on the ISS may be canceled The “prohibition” for astronauts on the International Space Station (ISS) may soon be abolished, an informed source in the field of space medicine said. “For five years now since the ISS became habitable, there has been a strict ban on alcohol on it. Anyone who tries to transfer alcoholic beverages to the station will face immediate dismissal. However, recently some experts have advocated relaxations in this area,” - the source said.

Italian millionaire Flavio Briatore, who owns the Renault Formula 1 team, is also known as a big lover of women. The 54-year-old supermacho's track record includes hundreds of names. Now Briatore, who is vacationing in Kenya on his plot of land in Malindi, is holding a kind of casting among beauties, the best of which will soon become his new girlfriend. At one time, Briatore dated the dark-skinned beauty Naomi Campbell for two years.

department The traffic police for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region warns motorists about worsening weather conditions, which will lead to icy conditions and drifts on the roads. The day before the New Year, on December 30, heavy wet snow is expected in the city and region. Due to this, there will be heavy ice on the roads and snow drifts are possible.

December 29, 2005, 17:26 Cars "Koreans" will catch up with "Japanese" Maria Tsybulskaya Customs officers, having completed the development of an evaluation mini-catalogue for Japanese cars, began to work on Korean ones. Car dealers consider this to be a continuation of unreasonably inflated prices for popular models. The Far Eastern Customs Administration continues to create new assessment mini-catalogues, from which the amount of customs duty is calculated.