“We shouldn’t hit a person’s consciousness with a stick every day.” Konstantin Titov (Igor Kiyko) “We have various initiatives and referendums ahead that are roaming around our country.” Alexander Veshnyakov "I want unlimited power in accordance with our Constitution." Konstantin Titov “When our people are ripe for this - and they have not yet matured and will not mature soon - mentally, I say. Therefore, we need four years of presidential rule. Direct presidential rule!

Pavel Los, Sergei Strokan The German concern BMW decided to get rid of the pride of the British automobile industry, the Rover company, when it realized that it was terminally ill. In 1994, when buying the English company Rover, the BMW concern hoped to expand the range of its cars with its help (above). However, Rover's largest plant in Longbridge, near Birmingham, has failed to turn a profit. (Photo: AP ) Each country has its own symbols of patriotism.

Dmitry Khitarov The roar of fireworks in honor of the newly elected president was drowned out by several shouts of “Hurray!” regarding the replenishment of the Duma In the subway, a hefty guy with a bushy patriotic beard, wearing a padded jacket with a vest visible underneath, custom striped trousers and worn-out Skorokhodov boots with different laces, was gloomily reading something post-election, it seems, Sovraska.

Leonid Velekhov The United States managed to bring down world oil prices. Russia assures that this will not make it worse (Photo: AP ) After long discussions, the countries included in OPEC (an association of oil exporting countries that includes Algeria, Venezuela, Indonesia, Iraq, Iran, Qatar, Kuwait, Libya, Nigeria, the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia) finally agreed on last Tuesday about increasing oil production.

Nikita Alekseev If modular furniture turns out to be popular in Russia, it will mean that we are finally going to live in a normal country (Photo: Pavel Gorshkov ) Let's remember what we sat and lay on, what we ate, and where we kept our things and books ten years ago.

Fyodor Uspensky SPb.: INAPRESS, 2000 Published in the St. Petersburg publishing house INAPRESS, the volume of “Memoirs” by Eduard Grigorievich Babaev may be accidentally missed by the reader for whom it is intended - the binding does not in any way suggest that this publication should be correlated with the memoirs of E.G., already published here and enjoying a certain popularity . Gershtein and B.S. Cousin. Meanwhile, the memories of E.G.

Yaroslav Sedov (Photo: Natalya Loginova ) In his youth, Vladimir Fedoseev conducted the premieres of new works by Shostakovich and Sviridov, classics of Russian music of the twentieth century. Now the conductor himself is called a living classic. Wanting to confirm his reputation, Fedoseev tries to turn each of his major Moscow concerts into a historical event.

A.G. (Photo: AP ) Chief of the General Staff Anatoly Kvashnin, known for his ability to report to the Kremlin about another victory of federal troops in Chechnya before other military leaders, showed up for a meeting with the president on March 29 with his head hung low. He appeared to report to the Supreme Commander-in-Chief about the monstrous crime committed in Chechnya by the commander of the 160th Tank Regiment, Yuri Budanov.

Irina Rosenberg A Western furniture company intends to revolutionize the Russian market The excitement around the first IKEA store in Russia can only be compared with the enthusiasm for the opening of our first McDonald's in 1989. In the first days of operation, the store was visited by more than 40 thousand people. Some goods, such as upholstered furniture, were completely sold out. Even the Swedes did not expect such an influx of buyers.

Fedor Romer Museum-gallery "New Hermitage" Moscow A rarity of the exhibition is the painting on wood “Bathhouse” (1910s) by Maria Sinyakova-Urechina, one of the notorious futurist Sinyakov sisters Judging by the name, the new Moscow gallery from the “rich” claims to be a museum, but still looks more like an antique salon.

Galina Kovalskaya Regional heads must remain loyal to the president. Then everything will be fine with them Wherever governors managed to combine their own elections with the presidential ones, they triumphantly won in the first round. All of them (even the Reds) energetically supported Vladimir Putin. Apparently, in the minds of voters, the current bosses are the governor and acting. president - combined into a single image of real power.

And R. Setting prices for kitchens is a complicated thing. The final cost of the set will depend not so much on the size of the kitchen, but on the complexity of the design: the number of drawers, shelves, decorations, accessories and other things. (Photo: Yuri Feklistov ) The Graf furniture factory is located about an hour’s drive from Voronezh.

I.K. There is little left of the sport in this form of figure skating. (Photo: EPA ) Such a statement is not the discovery of America. It has long been known about the judging games in the most subjective of figure skating disciplines, about the notorious “queue for the podium,” about the predictability of results and the division of spheres of influence between leading coaches.

Ivan Yezersky Residential complex "Malaya Zemlya". Kremenchugskaya street, 32-34 Residential complex on Kremenchugskaya street. Architect Andrey Chernikhov. The name "Malaya Zemlya" was given to the complex by realtors, and it has nothing to do with the architect's plan (Photo: Ivan Yezersky ) Having built St. Basil's Cathedral, Russian architecture considered the color task completed. Or even overfulfilled. And for four centuries she made do with gray, yellow, and red.

Irina Rosenberg To be revived, the Russian furniture industry needs to be born again (Photo: Max Novikov ) The economic crisis had a beneficial effect on the domestic furniture industry (as well as on other industries). Imports declined, and domestic goods filled the vacated space. And if since the beginning of the 90s, according to the Association of Furniture and Woodworking Industry Enterprises, furniture production has decreased by 3.5-7 times, then in 1999 alone it increased by 1.7 times.