In the architectural environment, modern for architecture is actually in the architectural main ladies' applied art, increased to gigantic sizes. Bright flowers (usually irises), whimsical wriggling lines, jewelry parts. Beautiful, of course, but only painfully cloying. Igor Palmin managed to photograph the modernity so that he gave all this purely architectural monumentality.

Category A Film Festival in Locarno, unlike Moscow, gave Kinoad two real sensations Of the main festals of the world, the Film Festival in Locarno is the most unwilling in Russia. Although ours, starting from the mid-80s, was awarded regularly there: German for Lapshin and Sokurov for the “lonely voice of a person”, took for the “cloud-ray” and Ogorodnikov for “Barak”, Proskurina for “Random Waltz” (the main prize-“Golden Leopard”), Abdrashitova for the “dancer time”.

The former paratrooper, and now the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez (left) loves to appear in public in the army beret and repeat that he is "always ready to fight." Today he is fighting for high oil prices.

International Festival "Interfoto-2000" Professionals and lovers of photography gathered at the Interfoto-2000 festival, which opened last week in the New Manege Gallery. Professionals attended seminars, discussing at the “round table” the problems of photojournalism, and amateurs went to exhibitions “Classics of Russian photography of the late XIX first half of the XX century”, “Revived photography”, whether a slide program. In addition, Interfoto handed prizes to the winners of this year.

Will the reader of the Buker jury of this year will surprise the reader?

A few days ago, at the famous online auction Ebay.com, the voice of an American voter with a starting price of 10 thousand dollars was put up for auction. Naturally, the starting price was so high in order to draw maximum attention to this political action (the accompanying text to the lot read: “Why should American citizens remain aside? Congresses and senators regularly sell their votes to the one who asks for more. Democracy, for sale!”).

The CIS Summit, ending last weekend in Crimea, once again confirmed that the Caspian issue still did not move off the ground. As it became known to the “results”, the audience only briefly remembered this problem and preferred to bypass the Caspian theme. Rules of rubles in the economy.

In Crimea, every summer forms a temporary beach-musical state cazantip It is better to come to the Crimea by a time machine. In the Sudak cafe "Cool" near the embankment of an elderly, energetic artist sings: "No beer and wine/devastate the glass to the bottom." In the Lavender cafe, which is closing daily an hour earlier than the declared, the waitress looks at the clients disapprovingly. “There is no chopping gift. There are goulash.

The status of the Caspian is still determined by agreements between the USSR and Iran of the 1921th and 1940s, in accordance with which the Caspian Sea is in the general use of Russia and Iran. This means that only two of these states can swim and fish for it, the seafood between countries occurs along the midline.

The reasons for popular love for the "new chronology" are in the wrong area where they are usually looking Finally, scientists joined forces and threw the heads of the Hydra Pseudonauki in the person of academician A.T. Fomenko and his friends.

It is generally accepted that the rapid increase in oil prices (some analysts prophesies their rise to $ 40 per barrel) is very good for exporting countries such as Russia, and bad for energy importers of America and Europe. However, you should not seduce ahead of time. On the one hand, the flow of currency in the country increases. Already this year, the share of energy carriers in the total volume of Russian exports will reach 60%, which is more than 50 billion dollars.

To strengthen it, at the Olympics, the coaches of Russian teams will have to work hard The ten -year era of selfish morality, universal disconnection and triumph of the principle “everyone survives (dies) alone” in Russian sports was marked by an avalanche of defeats in command species. “The sense of the team has been lost” is a general diagnosis made by the commentators of most tournaments, where ours could not get to the pedestal.

The famous “red-haired monk” Vivaldi had not only many students in the exemplary orphaned orphan “Hospital of Sorrow” in Venice, but also many serious competitors in its composer craft.

The death of the Kursk underwater native of the Kursk was very useful to President Putin in his difficult work to reform the vertical of power Vladimir Putin for nothing remained silent almost a week after the death of the Kursk underwater nuclear power plant in the Barents Sea. He did not investigate the causes of the accident and the failure of rescue work. He was looking for "genuine" perpetrators of the tragedy. And found them.

On the Internet, you can earn not only with e -commerce and site design. The German journalist Helena Nickdich recently won 10 thousand dollars in the electronic game Realityrun (www.realityrun.com). The game itself takes place both on the network and in the real world: the “driver” must hide within 24 days, performing a certain task every day, the execution of which is documented. If the “driver” is not found before the expiration of the term, he receives 100 thousand dollars.