47 5 minutes. ... By star sign Neil Jordan , the director of Michael Collins, will not direct the film from a script written by 53-year-old illiterate London taxi driver Colin Hayday. The taxi driver told the passenger, a friend of Jordan's, the story of how he was trying to do business but was stopped by terrorists. Jordan was interested in the story retold to him, he wrote a script, which he notified the illiterate taxi driver about in a letter.

14 3 min. ... in the language of radio editors, this means that the song is listened to well on commercial airwaves Good evening Kinchev and I sang from apartment to apartment for a year. You see, Kinchev and I sang around the apartments! You were sitting in a dingy room in your communal apartment, and a hole in the torn wallpaper was covered by a poster of David Bowie or Mick Jagger. And one of these two stood in front of the Cadillac.

41 1 min. ... Exhibition at the Museum of Personal Collections Culture There are outstanding artists whose talent is avant-garde and classical at the same time. This fully applies to Tatyana Mavrina. Her creative path is impressive in its length over time and amazing ability for artistic plasticity. Back at the dawn of the twenties, she was part of the “13” group. She was fascinated by the search for new forms of expression.

34 1 min. ... New newspaper clippings from Igor Timoshin “My young wife, a Komsomol member, began to demand that her husband quit his job in the union.

26 5 minutes. ... Insured for $130 million, the unique exhibition “Treasures of Russia” caused a sensation in the United States. It took place in Washington from January 29 and ended on April 12. After that, she had to go to Houston, and at that moment a sensation broke out again, but of a completely different kind...

9 3 min. ... The current generation of Russian children is also not against studying, studying and studying again... But increasingly abroad Sport Photographs of cheerful boys and diligent girls look at me from the walls of the spacious corridor. The April Easter sun splashed through the window directly onto the freshly washed floor. “Oh, this is a miracle,” I thought. About the principles of sex education This is Edfi. It's just a school. More precisely, a boarding school.

6K 17 min. ... From his cell in Manhattan, Ivankov continues to run his “empire” Topic of the issue Yacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov (aka Yaponchik, aka Slava the Japanese, aka Assyrian Son-in-law, aka Grandfather). According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FBI, he is one of the five most influential Russian thieves in law. Suspected of smuggling weapons, drugs, numerous cases of extortion and murder.

28 1 min. ... Fedor VASILIEV. "Before the rain." 1870 Golden mean Ivan Kramskoy called Vasiliev a “ genius boy.” The story of his life is so dramatic that the somewhat far-fetched melodrama of his landscapes pales in comparison. An illegitimate child who spent his childhood in poverty, Vasiliev died at twenty-three. Contemporaries mourned the genius who died early, and descendants are still perplexed as to how he managed to do so much.

24 4 min. ... AND SYPHILITICS IN PRISON, AND AIDS CARRIERS... Letters to Ogonyok There is no limit to the perfection of our legislators! I'm talking about the fact that “A drug addict should be in prison!” (see No. 15). So, everyone who is registered at the dispensary is proposed to be sent to hospitals (which do not exist) for compulsory treatment. I think this is the scheme. I, a narcologist, or rather my chief physician, will be obliged to give the lists to the police.

318 9 min. ... A sensational message came from Germany. The popular magazine "Geo" reported that part of the Amber Room panel, considered irretrievably lost, ended up on the "black market" of antiques. We are talking about a world-class work of art, gifted to Peter I by the Prussian King William in 1716. Sensation The fascists took away my treasure room at the end of the war.

Imperial dinner for 6 marks 50 4 min. ... In honor of the wedding of the heir to the German throne, paid receptions were held in all restaurants in the country, everyone could go there Leisure TASTY STORIES BY WILLIAM POKHLEBKIN Imperial dinner for 6 marks The 1905 revolution in Russia did not particularly frighten the West. It was believed that this was a purely Russian phenomenon, which also weakened Russia, and therefore useful for the West.

231 10 min. ... Michelangelo suffered so much from depression that he did not complete half of his sculptures. Subsequent generations perceived this incompleteness as the originality of his creative style.

8 1 min. ... Point of view I recently wanted to appear on a morning television program. And the hour was not so early, but the emptiness of the city struck me - so, individual passers-by, burdened mostly with huge bags on wheels. And this is at a time when the bulk of the working people should be heading to work. Is this conceivable in any of the world's capitals? However, such a regime is not new; a significant decline in production began several years ago, which so far has only been stopped.

6 2 minutes. ... Svetlana NEMOLYAEVA, actress: Domestic notes I do n’t know why, but I have played and am playing my life in all the roles. And it's amazing. The story of my life, regardless of desire, seemed to pass through roles. And it happened differently. Either I suddenly began to play what was already happening in my life, or, on the contrary, some new role seemed to be preparing me for the upcoming life situation. That is, either the role overtook fate, or fate overtook the role.

73 3 min. ... Personal items It all started with Yegor. We are sitting at his home, in an apartment with almost no furniture, drinking tea and talking about things that have special meaning for him. “ I don’t have random things,” says Yegor. - This old set - a sofa and two armchairs - was assembled over the course of two and a half years. First I found one chair. I liked it, I asked for it to be restored and brought it home.