Any oligarch in kiosk At the beginning of the past year, the then head of government, Yevgeny Primakov, went to the war to freedom. The prime minister, who himself began his career as a Soviet journalist, could not understand why every scribbler could now speak of him everything that would like, and he cannot be chosen for it. In the fight against offenders, Primakov managed to win a serious victory: in February, Sergey Dorenko was removed from the air.

The science of the post-socialist countries has not been going on to solve any world problem in one fell swoop. Last year, the greatest noise was caused by the appearance of the Armenicum of the miracle tool from AIDS, hepatitis C and cancer. However, today, more than six months after winning messages from Armenia, leading virologists have any reliable information about its effectiveness.

The main picture of the year, which was expected by the whole world, was the next, fourth in a row, a series of "Star Wars" "Episode Hidden Threat." What is the “Film of the Year” - fans of the War and director George Lucas declared a “threat” to the most important movie production of the last twenty years!

C from the "Mira" is not difficult to predict. It was not possible to scrape the money to continue its operation (and this, according to the most modest estimates, could not be scrapped. For more than three and a half thousand days, astronauts worked at the “world”. And on August 27, 1999, at 18:12 Moscow time, the last crew left the thirteen -year -old Mir. He left, leaving the old woman-station not the best condition from the complex slowly leaves the air.

You can reproach the chess king Harry Kasparov for the fact that he is running around with his champion duties and in every possible way avoids full -time meetings with the strongest chess players of the planet, and with the world champions in other versions (there were already two of them - Anatoly Karpov and Alexander Khalifman) rarely sits at one chess table. But the fact remains Faktom better than no one plays chess yet.

Last year, Boris Yeltsin was sick no more or less than before. The head of state was rarely chosen outside the capital. Foreign warriors, although they were made with the previous frequency, attracted increased attention also because each trip was perceived as the latter. “Let's go if the grandfather“ starts ”, the author of these lines happened to be heard by such a cynical replica last summer in the Kremlin.

The scale of the popularity of Viktor Pelevin today looks quite impressive. The novel “Generation“ P ”, published last year, became a champion in circulation and sales. Critics do not favor him, he is bypassed by the jury of literary awards. But they read it. Even those who have long read nothing but glossy magazines and Internet sites for a long time. He is not a participant in any sluggish “literary process” there. He can even be unconscious of a certain cultural role.

They In January, activists of the “Russian national unity” staged a “Sunday walk” along the Beskudnikovsky Boulevard. We walked in construction, with swastikas on the sleeves, stopping from time to time and throwing up the right hand. The police dragged there were several dozen fellows into Kutuzka, but after checking the documents all released.

Hero of new times In December, the Assocuet agency conducted a worldwide survey among its 74 subscribers (that is, the media) in 36 countries: it was necessary to name the 10 most important events of 1999 and the 20th century and evaluate them in points according to a special system. The results are given on this turn (the number of points is given in brackets). Let's look at the structure of the "event field" of both lists.

NATO began the war, ignoring the warnings of Russia. Moscow reacted with hysteria: Prime Minister Primakov launched his plane over the Atlantic. Russian representatives were revoked from NATO headquarters. Almost then, the United States announced the intention to “modernize” the 1972 missile defense agreement, which was regarded in Russia as an attempt to get a military advantage. As a result, at the time of the acute military-political crisis, direct contacts with the West were interrupted.

Cursed by the enemies, who called him the detonant, idolates of the associates who called him the sun, the inspirer of the 27th uprising of the Kurds against the Turkish Republic of Abdullah Ojalan will most likely go down in history as the last of the partisans of the twentieth century.

The statement of the classic of Marxism that humanity is parting with its past laughing, you can’t attribute to the three most loud trials last year. They discussed the events of many years ago the Second World War, the reign of the military junta in Chile in the 70-80s. The accused - everything is like the selection of deep old people of a noble appearance - no one caused a smile. The former Chilean dictator Pinochet was tried in London.

The French National Association of Prevention of Alcoholism, guided by data on sales volumes, tried to find out which European countries leading the number of alcohol consumption (in liters of pure alcohol per person per year). The three leaders look like a blind suspension - this is dignity, ”thanks to which Yaris went around in the final part of the Fiat Multiple contest, Opel Safir, Skoda Fabia and Rover 75.

All Christian humanity in a single impulse and in paroxysm is not clear on what is based on enthusiasm with the annual advice of the schedule enters the next century under the motto “The millennium in 999 years”. In general, he is in a hurry to live and in a hurry to feel. However, the past year was never similar to the milestone year as a year. Ordinary achievements. Ordinary nonsense. Ordinary meanness. Ordinary lies. Ordinary life. Something was in his native literature. It could not be.

The Indonesian province of East Timor voted at a referendum for independence, a small island in the Pacific Ocean was in the spotlight of the whole world. This former Portuguese colony was annexed by Indonesia in 1975, and since then the liberation movement has not stopped here. After the “presidential reformer” Khabibi, Indonesia agreed to hold a referendum on the department on the island of the “presidential reformer”. The Timor residents made their choice. But a peaceful divorce did not work.