Elena Grueva Refusal from meat-eating is not just a fruit and vegetable diet, but a way of life To prepare a vegetarian sandwich 268.5 m long, students from the Hungarian city of Tata took: 330 kg of black bread, 600 heads of lettuce, 500 bunches of radishes, 320 kg of cucumbers, 150 kg of tomatoes and 150 bunches of wild garlic (Photo: AP ) “Vegetarianism is the path to the highest goal” is one of the slogans of the Russian Vegetarian Society. And a very correct slogan.

Igor Tarutin The black authorities of Zimbabwe celebrated 20 years of independence by hunting for the half-dead white colonialists The whites call their comrade at the Linton farm near Harare: while preparing the attack, the rioters cut it off from the outside world. (Photo: AP ) If holidays are cancelled, it means someone needs it.

Alexander Golts The likelihood that a diplomatic breakthrough will occur at the Russian-American summit in Moscow is growing every day Igor Ivanov’s meetings with Madeleine Albright and Bill Clinton were clearly constructive in nature, which did not prevent the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry from making a very sharp statement on missile defense at a press conference (Photo: AP ) The overwhelming majority of Americans did not even pay attention to the fact that the Russian Duma ratified the

Sergei Strokan UN Secretary General Kofi Annan “played along” with Russia by opposing new US defense initiatives. Nevertheless, the UN Human Rights Commission, chaired by Nepalese Shambu Ram Simkhada (pictured), issued a tough resolution on Chechnya (Photo: AP ) The ball is in your court. The ball is in your court. This English expression, which can also be translated as “Your pitch,” comes to mind time after time in connection with the latest stories from Russian-American relations.

Sergei Strokan The countries of South-Eastern Europe decided that the best way to reconcile their national interests was to create a Black Sea Trade and Development Bank (Photo: AP ) The cradle of European civilization, today's Greece is trying to prove that it is not at all an outsider to civilized Europe. Until recently, the country was forced to put up with the fact that when mentioning the impressive successes of EU members, the offensive “except Greece” was often written about it.

The million-dollar investment received by Yandex (yandex.ru) (“Itogi” No. 16) has already been converted into a significant public share - for the first time, a network resource is buying such a number of advertising “spots” on television (in this case, NTV). The fifteen-second video made a deep impression on the online community - the creative impetus for its creators was the long-standing work of designer Artemy Lebedev (tema.ru/skazk/rozha.html).

Leonid Velekhov The story of Elian Gonzalez: there is no peace between Fidel Castro's Cuba and the almost two million Cuban emigration settled in the United States (Photo: Fotobank/SIPA ) So, perhaps, for six-year-old Cuban Elian Gonzalez, his not-so-wonderful adventures in the United States have ended.

(Photo: Vladimir Lupovskoy ) The Center for Drama and Directing, under the direction of Alexey Kazantsev and Mikhail Roshchin, presented the play “Moscow - an open city” for the third time in the premises of the Vladimir Vysotsky Center.

Boris Zhukov (Photo: YUMINA-PRESS ) As you know, the annual pan-European gathering of evil spirits takes place on the night of April 30 to May 1 - that is, exactly on the eve of the main holiday of the proletariat. Once upon a time, the realization of this coincidence brought a lot of pleasure to our student group. However, we did not take this as evidence of the hellish nature of socialist movements - we never took them so seriously - but rather as another of their blunders.

Galina Kovalskaya Valentina Matvienko is much more interesting than her TV image (Photo: Dmitry Korobeinikov ) For two weeks, Valentina Matvienko refused to talk to journalists. Then the meetings resumed, but the interviews were subject to strict conditions: not a word about the St. Petersburg elections. In essence, this is very clear.