Photo Reuters People from the retinue of President Bush admit that they did not expect such rapid progress from the Genoese meeting of the presidents. Moreover: at a press conference in the Palace of Doria-Spinol, Vladimir Putin admitted that he did not expect a quick agreement either from himself or from his counterpart. Nevertheless, according to Condolisian Rice, it was the President of Russia during a two -hour conversation that suggested announcing an agreement.

Episode of subbotic clashes in Genoa. Photo AP As expected, a demonstration of anti -globalists - this explosive mixture of a rally of kaestshniks with a "crystal night" - became the main event of the Genoese summit. Pogroms, fights with the police, the death of young Carlo Juliani - that was a picture in the reports of world television news and the main theme for newspaper reports. All the rest, including the meeting of the "eight", remained in the background.

The procession of the memory of the Martyr King Nicholas II in the Serafimo-Sarovsky monastery. Photo from the site www.rusk.ru The “Orthodox People’s Assembly”, which happened on July 17 on Slavyanskaya Square, in exactly the windows of the presidential administration looked picturesquely and touched by the passers -by those who watched him from afar. Around the icons, banners.

"We all scold the Jews, the Jews interfere with us endlessly, but it would be good to look back: what kind of Russians have we raised in the meantime? If you look back, you will be dumbfounded." This restrained statement by Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn on the Jewish question (in the story of 1966 "The Easter Procession" ) touched many domestic Jewish intellectuals for a long time and was cited as indisputable evidence of the absence of anti-Semitism in the revered Russian writer.

Photo from Health.kulichki.net At the G8 summit in Genoa, a decision was made: industrialized countries will create a World Fund for Combating Tuberculosis, AIDS and Malaria in Developing countries and will invest one and a half billion in it. It is these diseases that annually carry millions of lives that were called the main threat to the health of mankind. The discussion was attended by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan and President of South Africa Tabo Mbeeki.

The wedding of Emmanuel Mingingo. Photo from the site www.terra.es The Monk San Men Moon did not know such good luck, perhaps, since, having appeared in the USA in 1973, he organized the Church of the Association. For almost 30 years, the Monk has been fighting for strengthening the authority of the organization created by him: he has been conducting expensive numerous seminars and conferences and invites large religious figures and other celebrities to them.

Successful testing of anti -throat in California. Photo Reuters The accelerated funeral service for the agreement on the about 1972 in the Russian and world media is caused by the behavior of the Russian leader in Genoa - he was assigned and shook his hands, and almost with friendship was imposed on a colleague from the United States.

* Bibliophile passions Bookplate Museum Cannon, 7/5* There are few bookplates in the museum, but there are a lot of small, small books, there are so many devilish pieces, the whole corridor, rack after rack, from floor to ceiling, I could never understand - why, why do we need small books?

Division of Russia into seven federal districts. Map from the site http://russia.nakarte.ru/ The USSR was originally an Assimmetric federation. So he was designed by Joseph Stalin. He, Stalin, the "great statesman", laid in the foundation of the USSR those same mines of slow -minded, which were pulled immediately after the beginning of Gorbachev’s political liberalization. The RSFSR did not have the national-state status, which was possessed by the other fourteen republics.