At the end of last week, 35 embassies of the Western states in Moscow received an amazing document by the mail, scored by a harvesting font on the pages under the proud heading of the Charter of Dignity. Each package had two copies of the document in English and Russian. “We represent our“ charter ”in two languages, just as embassies should provide documents in two languages ​​in a requesting visa,” says Michael O'LIRI, one of the authors of the Charter.

Strengthening the administrative dependence of citizens on the executive branch. And this is very bad. The second point is a clear police orientation of the Code. The powers of law enforcement agencies, primarily police officers, especially the traffic police (this primarily concerns the notorious 12th chapter, which establishes the responsibility of drivers for road transport offenses).

Al Pacino, Helen Burstin and Harvey Keitel will replace director Arthur Penn as the head of the legendary theater workshop "Acting Studio". Penn will now become the executive producer of the television series Law and Order. The “acting studio”, created by Stanislavsky in 1947, raised almost all the famous American actors from Merilin Monroe and Marlon Brando to Paul Newman and Meryl Streep.

Urnalist from Moscow? From • Moscow itself? - Yes, what? - And what is the newspaper? - The magazine "Results". - Ah, Kiselev ... - Not really. Not a television program, but a magazine. A weekly illustrated magazine. Look. - Yes, a beautiful magazine. He has been coming out for a long time - for four years. - Whose is he? I admit that in this place I every time felt some awkwardness. No, no, I myself, of course, do not consider working in a private company something shameful.

Euro 2000 still has one pattern: harmony wins To recall another top -level tournament, where, as in the present, the outcome of most matches, and key ones, were determined by goalkeepers. More precisely, their egregious mistakes. “Half of the team”, as the goalkeepers have long been called, was too often nullified by the efforts of partners.

On the Mediterranean island of Corsica, where the great French emperor was born 231 ago, another Napoleon announced his intentions to fight for power. This is a certain Prince Charles Napoleon, a descendant of Jerome Bonapar, the younger brother of the emperor. In the municipal elections in the city of Ayaccio, next year, the 49-year-old prince-businessman intends to fend for the post of mayor. He will be able to go as an independent candidate.

The law of conservation of energy expended: it did not leave, day to enter. Humiliation in the party committees smoothly replaced humiliations in embassies Mr. The National Genius of our Fatherland was a disorder. This circumstance warms the soul, but not every time. Any restriction either powerfully stimulates the imagination, or even atrophores it. For my generation, the abroad was semi -mystical.

The experiment was convinced by a 25-year-old transsexual, which a year ago, with the help of doctors, turned from Mehran into Mariam. The obligation to wear long clothes, eat separately from men, perform the most troublesome work in the house and other rules of the conduct of women in the fundamentalist Islamic society quite quickly forced the newly made Mariam to repent of the deed. “I thought I was able to get used to all these restrictions.

The Duma somewhat softened the new Code of Administrative Offenses, but in general it still remains repressive Duma deputies removed the most severe sanctions against drivers from the Code of Administrative Offenses. The content of the notorious 12th “traffic police”, as well as the 15th concerning tax offenses, which the deputies have yet to accept, caused such serious disputes that parliamentarians were forced to postpone their discussion.

Vladimir Putin, traveling around Europe, persuaded the businessmen there to invest in Russia, promised them economic and political stability and all kinds of guarantees. It turned out to be wasted. After all, investors are cynical people who are accustomed to believe not to words, but to deeds.

In the project "Private collection" At the age of fourteen, Henri de Toulouse-Lontrek turned into a parody of man. The once beautiful and smart boy became a short -legged freak with a huge head and protruding lips. The outcast and ugly Toulouse-Lotrek devoted himself to painting. He seemed to challenge fate only in brothels frantically destroying the segha alcohol creativity, and on his canvases of the image of prostitutes clowness.

To the opening of the Olympic Games in Sydney, local restaurateurs are preparing new menus. Most of the 110 thousand people who go to the green continent in September will strive to taste something exotic. Therefore, the managers of the Sydney establishments realize their fantasies primarily on the basis of national recipes. That is, dishes from the local living creatures of ostriches of emu, crocodiles, all kinds of insects, etc.

Football championships have long ceased to be just sports competitions. Each tournament also becomes a review of the fans, and in the history of football there are not only scored goals, but also the statistics of fights, the number of wounded and dead, also fans arrested by police. Before the start of the Euro 2000, the police of Belgium and the Netherlands, the owners of the championship, most of all feared British fans.

On corporate pride of Great Russians The Romans had as many as two types of spoons (both, however, were used in special cases) and a separate ladle (for cooks). But what the ancients did not know at all was forks. The food was brought chopped and ate her hands, and even lying down. In such conditions, cutlery were not very needed. The tables were carried away and brought again covered with each change of dishes, so that the concept of the Kuvert could not properly develop.

Under the sweet songs of the authorities about the “favorable economic situation and political stability” began an advance on the country's business elite The state packages of shares of a number of largest Russian enterprises were transferred to private property as a result of the so -called collateral auctions held at the end of 1995. The essence of these auctions was that the government took loans from a private business - who would give more - secured by the state of stakes in enterprises.