Vasily Golovnin (Photo: Alexander Sorin ) Mom’s launches the baby and tells him: "There are amazingly beautiful birds on the islands, cunning foxes run under the trees, and strong fish float in the sea. And this is all our earth, Japan." “Mom,” the baby asks, “and when will we go there?” And he receives an answer that so far, they say, not to get to the miracle-buildings, but the day of the return of these original territories to the bosom of his native country will certainly come.

Boris Zhukov (Photo: ar ) As expected five months ago, the “results”, the decision of the British government, which gave the green light to cloning human embryos for scientific and medical purposes, caused a storm of indignation. Naive British, however, hoped that during the preliminary discussion opponents of cloning would understand: we are not talking about replicating people.

Fedor Romer In the New Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art of Kyasma, you can join all the latest museum trends In Chiasm, art can be found and not very modern. For example, drawings to his lectures by the philosopher-anthroposopher of the beginning of the century Rudolf Steiner.

“As you know, orphans are distributed, I mean,” are distributed in a good sense of the word. Their provision is distributed by housing, the provision is distributed in the districts. ” Mikhail Nedidovodov , Head of the Department of Municipal Housing CAO Moscow (Vyacheslav Shilov) "Our people do not like to take loans in their thinking. Here they sometimes say: well, take a loan.

Sergey Ivanov Nowadays, the pique bayonet has again been replaced by the bayonet-knife, with which it all once began (Photo: CRO/NICA DE LA TE/CNICA ) The advent of handguns did not suddenly change the nature of war. Loading muskets was a very slow task, especially in the face of advancing cavalry, and besides, any, even the slightest, rain immediately led to dampening of the gunpowder.

Yaroslav Sedov The President of Russia put the main theater of the country in place (Photo: Pavel Gorshkov ) Rumors about the upcoming change of Bolshoi leadership did not appear yesterday.

Larisa Malyukova Russia Ukraine. Steamship "Fedor Chaliapin" The KROK-2000 competition featured works from the world's leading animation schools: the famous Belgian Royal Academy - KASK, the Krakow Academy of Fine Arts, the Edinburgh College of Art, the Bad Württemberg Film Academy, the Norwegian Volda College, the Kiev Institute of Theater Arts, and, of course, ours are VGIK and the Higher Courses for Directors and Scriptwriters.

Irina Rosenberg Domestic confectionery factories enlarge, but gradually lose the market to foreigners (Photo: Max Novikov ) A few years ago, the Russian confectionery market was divided into two parts: domestic and imported.

Natalia Skek State Museum of Fine Arts. Kazan (Photo: Yuri Molodkovets ) In Kazan, an exhibition "Treasures of the Golden Horde", organized by the State Hermitage, the State Historical Museum (Moscow), the Ministry of Culture of Tatarstan and the State Museum of Fine Arts of the Republic of Tatarstan, was opened.

(Photo: Vladimir Lupovskaya ) For the fourth year in a row, Russian and foreign performers, choreographers and teachers of the most exotic types of dance technology have been gathering to the international festival of modern dance in Yaroslavl. This year, one of the main characters of the holiday was American Steve Pacston, who invented a “contact improvisation” in the early 70s - a duet dance in which partners invent combinations and support for the course of execution

Anton Prishvin, Venus Karpinskaya Because he is not. The real economic integration of the two republics is almost as far as six months ago Products periodically disappear from the shelves of Belarusian stores. The country lives in debt, but due to the multiplicity of courses, retains the appearance of social well-being.

Galina Kovalskaya The organization of civilized fishing on the islands depends on the “human factor” Large capitalist fish processors appeared in the Yuzhno-Kuril region quite recently, a little more or a little less than a year ago. Sakhalin Governor Igor Farkhutdinov believes that the main problem of the region is precisely because the local leadership unforgivably delayed the process of privatization of bankrupt Soviet monsters.

Oleg Shamonaev Juan Antonio Samararanch did not seem to have chosen a place for the triumphal end of his career The Olympic fire relay race took place throughout Australia. (Photo: ERA ) The 2000 Olympics are crowned not only by the sports age, but also by the Juan Antonio Samaransha era. The elderly president of the International Olympic Committee gathered in peace and is considering games in Sydney as an apotheosis of his 20-year works.

Natalia Shkurenok The Antsiferov Prize was awarded for the third time in St. Petersburg The Antsiferov Prize, established in 1995 by the International Charitable Fund for the Rescue of St. Petersburg-Leningrad and the Baltic Humanitarian Fund to encourage the best works on the history of St. Petersburg, was awarded for the third time. The place was not chosen by chance. St. Petersburg-Petrograd is the birthplace of Russian local history.

Galina Kovalskaya The inhabitants of the southern smoking do not want "under Japan." They are used to their indefinite status, and he seems to be arranging them (Photo: Alexander Sorin ) The village of Yuzhno-Kurilsk is walking a ruddy peppy woman of about sixty, carries a bucket in her hand, from which it smells of manure. I saw us: “Correspondents, or what? (The colleague is on the neck, so it’s easy to guess. -“ Results ”.) Is it really from Moscow itself? And I am aunt Tonya.