Galina Kovalskaya Our fellow citizens want a president who is not like either Yeltsin or themselves People of all ages and professions, rich and poor, are going to vote for Putin, including those who supported the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in the Duma elections and supporters of the Union of Right Forces.

Dmitry Sabov (Photo: O. Korolev ) What Russian doesn't like fast food? Having asked this incredibly offensive question for any Frenchman, 27 chefs representing the best (and, perhaps, most leisurely) cuisine in the world in Moscow restaurants, offered a purely Gallic answer to it. They created the French Chefs Club, which declared its goal to be gastronomic education for the Russian consumer. Last week the Club undertook its first action - a demonstration dinner at the French Embassy.

Sergey Avdeenko The only concern of the authorities on the eve of March 26 is to ensure that voters come to the ballot boxes They appear to us in orderly rows and entire blocks - popular actors, soulfully instilling from the television screen that the Fatherland, its citizens, young people and old people are in danger.

Alexander Ryklin Civilized lobbying is not only the protection of corporate interests, but also an important element of the system of interaction between society and government (Photo: Nikolay Galkin ) The term "lobbying" comes from the English lobby, which translated means lobby, hall. That is, a room where a mere mortal can catch a statesman leaving the meeting room and try to convince him to support this or that project.

Dmitry Pinsker The federal government adopted the experience of local administrations, which emasculated the procedure of expression of the people's will into the Soviet "approval" (Photo: Pavel Gorshkov ) Nobody expected such a gray, faceless and boring federal election campaign. It looks dull against the backdrop of the recent stormy parliamentary elections. And if you remember the passions of four years ago, the meaninglessness of the current one is simply striking.

Sergey Ivanov Putin as a gray product of a gray era Rather than tearing your hair out over Vladimir Putin’s illiberal statements in his interview with Kommersant journalists, it is much more fruitful to analyze this text at a deep level. There are a number of interesting differences between the version of it, which was published in the book “From the First Person”, and the one that was published earlier in “Kommersant”. Let's say, depicting his feelings about leaving the KGB, acting.

Konstantin Kapitonov Ehud Barak promised to withdraw troops from Lebanon by July 2000. Will he take a "historic step" despite Damascus' resistance? By speaking out in support of Israel's fight against Hezbollah, French Prime Minister Lionel Jospin incurred the wrath of Palestinians in the West Bank (Photo: AP ) Ehud Barak does not want to repeat the mistakes of his predecessor Benjamin Netanyahu.

Dmitry Khitarov A week before the elections, Chairman of the Central Election Commission Alexander Veshnyakov answered questions from an Itogi observer. (Photo: Yuri Feklistov ) - Alexander Albertovich, the last election week has begun. I think you can already appreciate the past campaign. How, in your opinion, was it different from all the previous ones? - Normal campaign, no big surprises. A little “cleaner” than the parliamentary one. Peculiarities?

Egor Bykovsky The vast majority of images published on the WWW, also known as the World Wide Web, are in three file formats: .gif, .jpeg, or, less commonly, .png. Why, one might ask, do you need to know this? But why - the days of packages with printed photographs of a family trip to the Black Sea, showing which you torment your friends during a party, are becoming a thing of the past.

Dmitry Sabov; Dmitry Polikarpov The victory of the Spanish liberals in the parliamentary elections by such a margin was a surprise for the winners themselves Left : Catholic Spain is unrecognizable - a participant in a carnival procession dressed as a woman came in to fulfill his civic duty. Right : ETA emerges from the shadows - after a 14-month truce, the Basque terrorist organization kills again.

(Photo: Vladimir Lupovskoy ) Director Vladimir Ageev Penza Regional Drama Theater named after A.V. Lunacharsky Ibsen, the favorite of Russian symbolists, is rarely staged in Russia these days, and his “Woman from the Sea” is even less often staged.

Konstantin Kapitonov March 2000. The flag of the Hezbollah movement is surrounded by the flags of 22 Arab states. At a conference in the Lebanese city of Sidon, countries of the Arab world expressed support for Israel's withdrawal from Lebanon (Photo: AP ) The Shiite Muslim organization Hezbollah (Party of Allah) operating in Lebanon originated in the early 80s as a circle for studying the experience of the Iranian revolution.

“Undoubtedly, now the humanitarian aspect is becoming a priority” Vladimir Kalamanov , Special Presidential Representative for Human Rights in Chechnya ( Vyacheslav Shilov ) "The resistance of the militants dropped sharply. For various reasons.

Egor Bykovsky Election campaign in RuNet - much ado about nothing On the eve of the elections, “online” has noticeably become more active: for example, on the website Anekdot.Ru, among the usual “new” and “retro” jokes, a new section has appeared - “on the topic of the day.” Now on the Internet, a visitor to a gaming or entertainment site is simply doomed to see the faces and busts of most contenders for the throne flashing on advertising banners.