with the site www.anekdot.ru Last week, visitors to the site Anekdot.Ru were not very active in voting, so the editors of Itogi took over their “responsibilities”, deciding to focus solely on their own taste. Here are the two jokes we liked the most: 1. Over the past week, prostitutes in Moscow responded to calls 458 times, of which 402 times to residential premises, 50 times to enterprises and organizations, 6 times on false calls. 2. One man found a bottle.

Anna Rozanova “Itogi” asked the ex-chairman of the Constitutional Court, former judge of the Strasbourg Court of Human Rights, Professor Vladimir Tumanov, to express his opinion on the presidential amendments to the law on the Constitutional Court. (Photo: Max Novikov ) - Vladimir Aleksandrovich, you are not an outsider to the Constitutional Court, and at the same time you are not interested in adopting these amendments, since your powers as a constitutional judge expired four years ago.

Evgeniy Pakhomov So two democracies met: the largest in population and the largest in territory (Photo: AP ) The route of foreign guests visiting India on official visits has long been known: negotiations in New Delhi, a visit to the “Red Fort” - a kind of Delhi Kremlin, and an obligatory trip to Agra, where guests and hosts are photographed together against the backdrop of the Taj Mahal.

Kira Remneva The old system of tourist services in the capital does not justify itself. The new one has not yet formed Once upon a time, excursions around Moscow were the most important state matter, because they introduced the citizens of the Soviet country to the capital of their great Motherland.

Egor Bykovsky The authorities, with the tenacity of a mole, are trying to introduce total wiretapping of all communication networks.

Natalya Ilyina Violations committed at previous stages of privatization are still affecting us today. They prevent shareholders from living peacefully, agitate public opinion, scare away new potential investors, and often become the cause of new possible abuses. A case in point: the situation with one of the largest Russian enterprises - RAO Norilsk Nickel. The share of this enterprise in the country's total industrial output was 2.58% last year.

Dmitry Khitarov The approval of the state budget this year will not be the highlight of the political season The deputies are scolding the 2001 budget and the Minister of Economy German Gref, but they do not allow themselves a single word of criticism towards the president or the prime minister (Photo: AP ) During the reign of Boris Yeltsin, the budget was one of the most terrible weapons of the proletariat.

Ilya Kukin, Sergey Avdeenko At every Olympics there are people thanks to whom it will be remembered for a long time Crusher (Photo: ERA ) In Sydney, Russian Olympians had to win at least three crushing victories.

Yuri Gladilshchikov The Toronto Film Festival (#1 in North America) is best suited to compile something of a short film dictionary of the year 2000 The Toronto Film Festival, the most ambitious of young film forums, managed to celebrate its quarter-century anniversary in 2000.

Iraqi ministers have said they no longer want to use dollars and, apparently, pounds in commercial transactions. In return, Iraq is ready to contribute to the unification of Europe and put the euro or some other European currency into circulation. At the very beginning of the Kuwaiti adventure, Iraq banned the sale of any goods with American symbols - from cigarettes to children's toys. Now the Iraqi authorities have reached the last bastion of “Americanism” in their dying economy.

Alexander Ryklin It is not enough for Krasnodar Governor Nikolai Kondratenko to simply win the elections. The all-Kuban “father” needs people on their knees to beg him to stay in office (Photo: Ruslan Yamalov ) The exact name of the socio-political movement that brought together supporters of the head of the Krasnodar region under its banner is “Fatherland” (Kondratenko). The movement absorbed dozens of left-wing parties with little different platforms.