Natalia Kalinichenko, Venera Karpinskaya To successfully fight corruption, the highest executive power must first get rid of preferences (Photo: Max Novikov ) The financial director of a small company from Vyatka recently became indignant in a conversation with an Itogi correspondent: they say that officials have completely lost their shame - they take bribes, but at the same time they do not guarantee anything. Whether it’s in St.

Boris Zhukov There will never be a high birth rate in Russia, but there will be many immigrants Today, 350-400 thousand more people a year enter Russia than exit. One can only guess about the number of illegal immigrants. (Photo: Rusla Yamalov ) Russian demography clearly demonstrates the relativity of any average indicators: having an indecently low average life expectancy for a developed country, Russia simultaneously suffers from the problem of population aging.

Lev Rubinstein (Photo: Ruslan Yamalov ) The era, later called perestroika, the era that ended with the Soviet government being covered with a copper basin, began not just with a ban, but with a ban of the most sacred of all possible, a ban below the belt. If Stalin's terror was spoken of as an experiment to decapitate the nation and disempower it, then the “anti-drunken” decree was an attempt (most likely unconscious) to castrate it.

A.M. Opera and Ballet Theater Samara (Photo: Archive of the Samara Opera and Ballet Theater ) The Samara Opera and Ballet Theater is known as one of the largest opera art centers in Russia, where there are singers with unique voices, where the only festival of Basov in Russia is held and where Mstislav Rostropovich put the sensational Ivan the Terrible. Samara ballet does not want to stay in the shadow of the opera.

Dmitry Khitarov Deputies believed that the new prime minister and the old government could provide us with a bright future Nonecha, as they say, is not the same as just now. In previous times, the State Duma's approval of the chairman of the government was perceived as an event of paramount importance.

Arkady Orlov Demographic processes are rapidly changing the face of America, which in the next 50 years may become completely unrecognizable The increasing flow of immigrants from Third World countries is leading to a redrawing of the demographic map of the United States. These former Mexicans are now full-fledged Americans. (Photo: AP ) "Sherlock Holmes?

Alexander Golts Presidential governors can turn into defenders of the interests of the governors under their control On May 18, Vladimir Putin appointed presidential plenipotentiary representatives to all seven federal districts: to the Volga - Sergei Kiriyenko, to the Siberian - Leonid Drachevsky, to the North Caucasus - Viktor Kazantsev, to the North-West - Viktor Cherkesov, to the Ural - Pyotr Latyshev, to the Central - Georgy Poltavchenko, in the Far East - Konstantin Pulikovsky.

Sergey Ivanov The ancients did not know soap - they rubbed themselves with oil with some unknown additives, and then scraped it off themselves. The famous Roman baths were completely devoid of washcloths and foam. Pliny the Elder writes with incredulous disgust that the “barbarians” Gauls make a strange foaming cleanser from ash to add shine to hair.

Alexander Podrabinek When Isalmagomed Nabiev came to the district election commission of the 13th electoral district of the city of Makhachkala with the aim of registering as a candidate for deputies of the city assembly, he was told that the district was Lezgin, and he could not be registered here as an Avar. The refusal to register was not the arbitrariness of local officials; their decision was based on the law!

Lilia Schittenburg Directed by Yury Butusov, Theater named after Lensovet, St. Petersburg (Photo: Edgar Zinatulin ) Winner of the Golden Mask and Golden Spotlight, director Yuri Butusov is doomed to the close attention of the public to his theatrical works. After Camus's Caligula, Butusov firmly intended to direct The Idiot. But towards the end of the season, it turned out that his plans had changed dramatically, and instead of “The Idiot” we would be shown “The Bedbug”.

Do you have a Dictionary of Russian Abbreviations at home? That's what I thought. To help those in need - the newly opened Sokr.Ru. website The number of dictionary entries on the server, despite its youth, has already reached almost 14 thousand units. True, this may not be enough for an inquisitive researcher. Well - in this case, share your knowledge with the site creators, the necessary interface is provided.

Dina Goder In the performances of Yuri Pogrebnichko, impoverished Soviet everyday life became the setting for the entire world drama. Two Yuri - Kononenko (left) and Pogrebnichko. (Photo: Victor Bazhenov ) Let's start briefly. First there was the Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute, where Yuri Pogrebnichko studied with his friend Yuri Kononenko. Then Rosa Sirota, a famous director-teacher from the BDT, came to Irkutsk to take a course for LGITMiK.

Nikolay Alexandrov April gave us a new work by Boris Akunin. Akunin's "The Seagull" was published by Novy Mir, which is an event in itself. To the author of the most popular detective stories about Inspector Fandorin (written under the pseudonym Boris Akunin) and the slightly less popular book “The Writer and Suicide” (published under the name of Georgiy Chkhartishvili), Treplev’s suicide, which ends the original “The Seagull,” seemed artistically unconvincing.

(Photo: Pavel Korbut ) At the “Gershwin - My Love!” evening, which opened the “This is Jazz” series of concerts at the Rossiya Concert Hall, the premiere of a new version of Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue” took place. Written at one time for piano and symphony orchestra, it was the first to introduce jazz into the society of serious musical genres. And now Oleg Lundstrem has returned “Rhapsody in Blue” to jazz performers.

Galina Kovalskaya So, the process of reforming the Federation has begun. A series of decrees by region (in the Amur and Smolensk regions, as well as in Ingushetia, decisions of local authorities concerning issues beyond their competence were canceled), a decree on seven federal districts, and then a legislative package establishing a new principle for staffing the Federation Council and the judicial procedure for removal from the positions of governors and mayors.