In the gallery of Israeli peacekeepers, the current Prime Minister Ehud Barak is occupied by the place that the general can only occupy. He is a pigeon, then one, from the cooing of which sometimes he lays his ears. Being the head of the General Staff of one of the most powerful armies of the world, he was very restrained to the Oslo- (1993) agreement, and being a minister in the Rabin government, he was abstained from the approval of the Oslo-2 agreement b 1995-m.

The story of Richard Branson He was called the most famous entrepreneur of Great Britain, and he even had his own working chair. Richard Branson, the owner of Virgin Corporation, controlled his empire from a small, ragged sofa, stuck in the corner of the main office of the company. And although Virgin won the whole world, Branson still felt like the last student in the classroom: hereditary illness continued to poison his life ...

"Slowly put the hose on the ground, raise your hands and move to two steps to the wall." The caricature with such a signature, mimicing the standard formula that the policeman pronounces during the arrest of an armed criminal, appeared last week in several American newspapers in connection with the introduction of dragon restrictions on the use of water in the suburbs of Washington. A significant part of the United States is seized with strong drought.

The first stage On August twenty -six, Vladimir Putin, opening a government meeting, announced a victory in Dagestan. No, he prudently did not say the word “victory”, but, having reported “the end of the first stage of the operation”, congratulated the Dagestan people on this, thanked the security forces and invited to honor the memory of the dead. So behave when the flag is already hoisted over the Reichstag.

An unsuccessful attempt to demolish the mausoleum of George Dimitrov can become a symbolic prologue to a more serious political failure of the Bulgarian authorities Baba Yanka, good -natured woman Yanka, our apartment mistress, was so upset that Saturday evening that she did not even go to the restaurant with us to celebrate the end of our vacation on the Bulgarian coast of the Black Sea.

Ron Pundak, the first Israeli, who sat at the negotiating table with the Palestinians, is convinced that the perfect moment for concluding peace in the Middle East has come There are no halftones to Dr. Pundaku in Israel. Since his name became known to the general public, in the left camp he is famous as an outstanding intellectual and the Savior of the Fatherland, in the right - stigmatized as a traitor. The scatter of opinions is explained simply.

Zia was not able to cope with an disappointing conclusion by the International Maritime Bureau in Kuala Lumpur, which said that out of 115 attacks made by pirates from January to June of this year, 68 occurred in the waters of South East Asia. However, the worlds of this re -Gion, mainly China, prefer to expel sea robbers, and not get sick with the NRA. Pirates attack, as a rule, but whose, it continues for no more than half an hour.

A person who has not yet lost the remnants of the original Russian spirituality.

The worse Minister of Finance, not the deputies voting for the relevant laws, is to blame for reducing social expenses. This is because of him there are not enough funds for the purchase of new weapons - it is not generals who do not want to reduce the army are to blame for the fact that the Ministry of Defense is not enough of the third part of the budget. Indeed, revealing speeches addressed to the chief financier is a seasonal phenomenon.

Two Parisian producers of documentary films, Michelle and Philip Relack, opened a restaurant in their hometown, more reminiscent of an exquisite art performance than a catering point. No windows. Not a single lamp. And blind waiters. The couple’s lovers who appeared to have dinner find each other in the dark to the touch. Food, presumably, too (beef? Baranina? Salad?). And blind ministers force visitors all the time to remember that many of us have been spent all our lives in the dark.

Hands off the vovka! Now that millions of approximately dressed people and video cameras roam in European cultural capitals, when the beaches of European resorts cover millions of equally stripped bodies, it is difficult to imagine that five hundred years ago, at the same time, there were no special movement of tourists in the continent. There were no tourists themselves. However, about everything in order.

Climate, air and water The Center for Historical and Technical Information about the FAU-1 and FAU-2 missiles has opened in the German city of Penemyund. Since 1940, German scientists have been developing in the field of rocket science and even made a two-stage design that theoretically could reach New York. In 1944, Germany for the first time carried the enemy cities by the new “FAU2” missiles called the weapon of retaliation.

Dinner not by candlelight A certain collector from the Middle East paid at one of the London auctions 105 750 pounds ($ 170,600) for the 1891 Diamond Frame bicycle. This happened largely thanks to the excitement of the collector: one buyer from the United States was desperately traded for the same bicycle, but, unable to withstand the intensity of the struggle, he got off the distance.

whether to build a camp themselves. That is, not quite themselves - the Germans from the town of Zolingen helped them, where, it turns out, not only make knives, but also help Russian children. With the Germans, it turned out like that. Vdovichenko, having planned to build a camp, began to look for partners. He calls partners those who help the Newzybakes.

in the place of the "chief artist of Russia." Including the book publishers, synchronously (!) Things in Vienna and Moscow - two volumes of Kabakov's works. The memoirs “60s-70s ... notes on unofficial life in Moscow” in “The results” were reviewed recently (see No. 32). Now let's talk about the "dialogs." Actually, it is better to read them along with the remembered memoirs. In this case, the sort of “memories and thoughts” of Marshal of Russian art is obtained.