Another soldier of fortune is sent to Chechnya on behalf of the President of Russia. is going to Gudermes as chairman of the unborn cabinet of ministers of the republic Stanislav Ilyasov . Press releases report that the candidacy was presented by the head of Chechnya himself. Formally, this may be so. But in fact, Akhmad Kadyrov has not seen or heard of Ilyasov until now, because he did not serve either in the Muftiate of Chechnya or in the headquarters of Aslan Maskhadov.

The territorial dispute of Moscow and Tokyo can be compared with the Japanese struggle of the sumo : two heavyweights, clutching each other, stomp on the spot. In this devoid of external dynamics, but complete inner drama of the competition, you need to push the opponent beyond the borders of a rigidly defined circle. On December 31, 2000, the next round of this more than half a century of duel ended to no avail.

The problem of the digital gap (abyss, inequality), as usual, is translated into Russian, the expression "digital divide" is formulated simply: inequality in access to information technologies entails a deepening of other types of inequality - economic, social and cultural. The United States in the United States has the problem of "digital gap" in the center of public attention after the publication of the results of researching telecommunication technologies in the United States in July 1999.

Czechs are good: they have their own television. Own - in the sense of folk, public, Czech. True, we also have Russian, but it is not our state. We also have a public RT, but - by name: 49 % - Berezovsky, the rest seems to be state -owned, but also someone who we do not know. We do not have folk television, because our people are composite: it is divided into red and white, then into the rich and poor, then into supporters and opponents, then to the bosses and the rest ...

Vladivostok takes the road. The second day, residents of the city overlap the highway , including the federal highway Vladivostok-Khabarovsk. Drivers who have to stand for hours in traffic jams are treated by citizens with understanding - they also sit for hours without light. The main requirement is to stop turning off the light in the apartments. Electricity in Vladivostok is disconnected for 12-16 hours a day, in other cities and areas of light there are no 20 hours.

The problem of mercenaries fighting in Chechnya, by the Russian media, is usually interpreted one -sidedly - they say, the "wild geese" reached for a long dollar. And nothing. Meanwhile, such a simplified idea of ​​the motives of mercenaries prevents the compilation of who and why today goes to the war with secret paths. Money, of course, plays their role, but the emphasis is still made on the idea. How, for example, does Khattab fights the fighters?

The third year in Sweden there is a law on the criminalization of the purchase of sexual services. According to the application, you can sell your body. It is impossible to buy it. The Swedish parliamentarians, voting for the law, were guided by the most noble motives: the woman, in their opinion, is almost never to blame for the fact that life sent her to the panel. The one who comes to this same panel with dirty intentions is to blame.

Photo by Guy Webster from the site www.317x.com The term "Easy Listening" originally arose in the 50s - this is the name of unobtrusive, mainly instrumental music, the main purpose of which was a mild, optional background. To fly into one ear and immediately fly out of another.

Together with the second millennium, the promise of President Yeltsin until the end of 2000 was also gone to conclude a peace treaty with Japan, and therefore, to solve the Kuril problem, since the Japanese do not want to put up without it. Our power - both Moscow and the Far Eastern - holds with manic persistence by the southern Kurils . And the point here is not that these islands, whose population lives in poverty, allegedly represent some special economic value.

in the cell of the pre-trial detention center of the Kaluga Regional Directorate of the FSB For more than a year, a senior researcher at the Institute for the USA and Canada of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Candidate of Sciences Igor Sutyagin , who was accused by local Chekists of no less than treason or, in other words, espionage, has been sitting (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ).