The era of romantic relations between Russia and the West ended.

About Sip Mandelstam is years old. The date is not the most round, but it so happened that the last week was Mandelstam's week. His glory did not come from the newspaper or from the radio. It existed in the form of sheets of cocked paper, in the form of pronounced by someone: "I will tell you with the last directness." We felt like heroes of the underground.

The Moscow Political Bomonde has long established the idea of ​​the World Economic Forum in Davos as a unique place where Russian envoys can in an informal setting, between ski walking and cocktail, solve not only pressing economic, but even political problems. The most effectively healing properties of Davos air used in 1997 Tandem Chernomyrdin - Chubais.

I was struck by the fact that Brooks Brothers visited the clothing store in Washington and bought a bunch of shirts and ties for himself, his assistants and guards in this adored by the Republican Bastion, who adored by the Republicans. With the advent of the presidential conservative, even the fashion in the American capital became more conservative.

In the 70s, the Gogol Theater, I worked as the chief director, came on tour in Smolensk. I have not been to this beautiful city before, except for a few hours during the war, when we were brought to dig trenches and almost immediately were sent back from the bombing. Before the start of the tour, the city authorities gathered in the office of the theater. Ordinary secular conversation: "Have you been to us before?" “In fact, no.

The most ordinary potato, the most ordinary Fish and Chips dish (fried fish with potato chips) may soon be expensive for the British. And the rains that continue to be pouring from the fall, although half of winter are guilty. So many precipitation has not fallen here since 1766. As a result, most of the potato crop remained unclean. Farmers are waiting for the onset of spring, hoping in March to try to still extract potatoes from crazy ground.

Fragment from the book Davos and St. Petersburg belong to the most expensive and prestigious resorts of Switzerland. A peculiar idea of ​​the new Russian travelers here: Russians in the image of the world of the Davos Celner are those who give tea more than the cost of the order. It is funny that the winter alpine resorts owe their glory in many ways to great -grandmothers and great -grandfathers of the “new Russians”. The Russian discovery of Davos and the St.

Valery Gergiev - artistic director of Mariinka and the main invited conductor of the New York Metropolitan Opera - one of the most influential figures of today's musical theater.

Despite the undoubted value of fish as healthy foods with a high protein and low content of fat, scientists urge to urgently investigate industrialized salmon. It was found that the fish may contain dangerous chemicals, including pesticides and polychlorbiphenille (PHB) - compounds from among the most stable toxins known to humans. How toxins are integrated into the food chain of PHB accumulate zooplankton in fats eats plants and oils of a misfortune (crustacean) eat zooplankton

Romantic Swiss resorts attracted people of art. Before the First World War, Matilda Kshesinskaya, Andrei Bely, Sergey Rachmaninov in the sun was just hot here, the thermometer rose above 20 degrees Celsius, although at the same time there was a frost about 8 degrees below zero. This could be seen on two thermometers, one on the sunny side, and the other in the shadow.

Where is our Kim "Chen Ir is a big, big secret!" So you can rephrase the words of a famous song: the leader of North Korea Kim Jong Il prefers to do his visits in an atmosphere of deep secret. Last week, he made a five -day trip to neighboring China, but there was no official meeting: the train with Kim crossed the state border at night with extinguished lights and tightly drawn curtains. In a similar way, Kim Jong Ir has already visited China in May last year.

Our compatriots came to Davos long before he became the economic and political center of the world Davos, St. Moritz, and other Graubunden resorts since the middle of the 19th century become an attraction for the first for the Russian aristocracy, and then for everyone. Tchaikovsky, who was resting in November 1884 in Davos, writes Nadezhda von Meck: “Yesterday I finally arrived in Davos ... The place consists of a number of excellent and crowded hotels and several private villas.

Ideologues of this International Dissatisfied, the ranks of which are growing all the time. The crisis, due to attempts by liberal reformers, cancel social conquests in healthcare, panic due to “cow rabies”, mass protests on the resolution of transgenic products, an increase in fears about the appropriation of copyright firms for the use of newly decrypted human genes-the mass consumer feels the victim of generals from the business from the business who have talked with the business.

More recently, investors and owners of Internet companies drank champagne for mutual success (in the photo vice president of NASDAQ Brian Wilson and the head of Yahoo "Jerry Young). In the same year, apparently, there is nothing good to expect. Analysts predict a decrease in the income of the main companies that make up the NASDAQ nucleus. Myths ruled optimistic last year by the rune.

The decision of the organization of oil exporting countries will not allow Russia to insist on writing off debts to the Paris Club The past environment of oil and energy ministers of the organization of exporting countries (OPEC) held an extraordinary conference in Vienna. After conferring, the cartel decided to reduce the volume of its own oil production by 1.5 million barrels per day (about 214 thousand tons), that is, by 5.6% of the current volume of world production.