The 8th stage of the World Cup for SUV Rally-Raids "Master-96" ended. For three weeks, racer conquered the off -road of Russia, Kazakhstan and Mongolia For the first time, the race on the Paris - Beijing route was held in 1992 at the initiative of Mitsubishi. This year, the “Chinese” segment was canceled: after the summer floods of the road and crossing were blurry. According to another version, the Chinese requested too expensive for travel.

The government has no money ... When he was the first deputy prime minister, Anatoly Chubais twice came to Washington to the IMF session and the World Bank. A few hours later, after landing at the Andrews air base, it was already accepted in the White House by US Vice President Albert Mountains. The replaced Chubais Vladimir Potanin of such signs of attention at the current session of the IMF and the WB. He is a dark horse for America so far.

Moscow Autumn Premieres recede before Rezo Gabriadze “Song of the Volga” who came from St. Petersburg. My season, as always, began together: the prepared in the summer was saved until this time and in September-October almost all theaters opened up the premieres, discovering amazing synchronism. As soon as the Satyricon showed the Brekhtovskaya “Trekhgroshovaya Opera” in the production of Mashkov (“Results” already wrote about her in No.

100 years since the birth of Francis Scott Fitzgerald And the contest of round dates and anniversaries, of course, pure convention, ritual, tribute to the protocol. But a good way to make us break away from business, pay attention to something, has nothing to do with us. Francis Scott Fitzgerald was born a hundred years ago, September 24, 1896, in the city of St. Paul, Minnesota, nine months after the Passos Dos, “ahead” for one year and one day of William Folkner and almost three Hemingway.

The parrot Speck for jail for fifteen months of the Englishman Cliva Macload. The police grabbed a 40-year-old Malyar just at the moment when he tried to sell the bird in a hundred pounds. And at the same time he claimed that he received her as a gift from his sister, who soon went abroad. The dexterous, it would seem, not succumbing to check, was soon exposed.

The musical program of the Nobel Week has always been pride and at the same time headache of the organizers. The performers and selection of works must correspond to the level of the celebration and at the same time not overshadow the main characters of the day of the Nobel laureates. Which, by the way, happened when the famous vocalist Birgit Nilsson was invited to the solemn presentation of prizes in the concert hall of Stockholm.

The adult chewing gum in Russia is almost completely divided between two famous companies: the American Wrigley (the largest manufacturer in the world) and the Danish Dandy RBD A/S (the main European manufacturer of chewing gum in the form of pillows, or, as professionals call them, dragees). According to Business Analytica Europe Ltd., these two companies are approximately equally owned by 95% of the Russian gum market.

Pass to eternity The age of Nobel began when the life of Nobel ended. It happened exactly a hundred years ago. Nobel died on his luxurious villa in San Remo all alone (servants do not count), for which it is customary to regret him. Although, in fact, this person has long been accustomed to loneliness, he always did everything alone.

Vazhanta Alexander Ivanovich! DEC, Chleksandrovich Service give me the right, Lieutenant Colonel Lut Oleg Petrovich, to contact you with this letter. I will not crucify in respect for you. I was enough for one fact from our joint service. This is when the commander of the Kostroma regiment Major Lebed A.I. He “convinced” the commander -in -law at a temperature of minus 26 degrees to draw a drill not at the parade ground, but a heated room.

On the ORT channel, the world television premiere of the film Jim Jarmusha took place The heroine of the films “New Light” and “Alien than Paradise” (or “Strange than Paradise”) comes from Hungary to New York, from where he goes on a trip to America. The tramps from another picture of Jarmush “down the law” (1986) flee prison. The characters of the “mysterious train” (1989) go to the unknown. The action of the novels “Nights on Earth” (1991) takes place in a taxi.

The existence of Leonid Ioffe in Russian poetry can illustrate the very concept of “literary fact” - its origin and its existence. For the latter, as it turns out, neither the wide fame of the works, nor even the author’s personal activity, are optional. Ioffe made for self -isolation as if everything was in his power: he left the country back in 1972 and even in the Israeli literary environment practices cool isolation.

For the entire five years, the Pentagon argued that it makes no sense to talk about any “bay war syndrome” as a phenomenon requiring a separate study. The testimonies of scientists have not yet contradicted this. However, now the Ministry of Defense admitted that thousands of US troops may have become involuntary victims of Iraqi chemical weapons.

Afghan Taliban force about the unknown shocks that threaten the world The access to the first roles in Afghanistan of the radical movement of Muslim students Taliban recalled the gloomy prophecy of Samuel Huntington. In the early 90s, the famous American political scientist predicted that after the disappearance of the two-pool world, the main battle will not unfold between capitalism and socialism, but between different types of civilization, primarily Christian and Islamic.

In Frankfurt, one of the largest fairs ended In one of the essays, Vissarion Belinsky wrote that not a single house in Moscow would amaze the Petersburger "neither enormous nor grace." Let's say right away: the Frankfurt Book Fair - the largest in the world - is no longer to grace. In order to quickly step, for example, from German pavilions to French, it takes forty minutes.

This year, the Nobel Prize in literature was received by the Polish poetess Vislava Shimborskaya Vali "Polish friends" - a pack of Kholuev, Evash with a hand at the Soviet embassy. Yes, and the poetess behaved obscenely in the PNR, so that the curators from the Central Committee, inflated by “friends”, were bugroval in her name, and the magazine “Foreign Literature”, publishing an embarrassment, accomplished almost a feat.