486 2 minutes. ... Russia - the country of pyramids WE ARE SITTING AND THE MONEY IS GOING... Leva Konstantinov had a difficult childhood. Then, on the eve of the trial, his mother Liya Konstantinova told the investigator how difficult it was for her to raise her son alone, how she suffered and worried that she could not buy him a bicycle or good toys that most of his peers had... A mother’s heart, as we know, is not a stone, so she decided to give her son a comfortable, good life at all costs.

393 9 min. ... Nina SHAPOVALOVA's predictions continue to come true I SAID THIS, I WARNED THIS When your predictions come true, you always feel a little awkward. Especially when these predictions are not pleasant. In the last issue we wrote that, according to the theory developed by Nina Sergeevna Shapovalova, candidate of physical and mathematical sciences, in the near future, more precisely on March 8th, serious disasters await us. Unfortunately, this forecast came true in full.

818 11 min. ... The last love of the poet Yuri Levitansky in his letters and memoirs of his wife Irina “AND THERE BE WHAT WILL HAPPEN...” “Early this morning I read your letter. I fly, I flutter... I love you so much that I think I’ll suffocate with happiness!..” It seems that this was written by a young man at the time of his first love, at the very beginning of his life.

147 1 5 minutes. ... Together with the television company "VID" The TV program “Looking for You” is still broadcast on ORT. We made this selection on the eve of March 8th. And it included, of course, mainly letters about love. After all, not only people whose separation was caused by some tragedy are looking for each other. Thank God there are other letters. He and She dream of meeting each other. They carefully store in their memory every detail of even a chance meeting... And that’s great.

8K 11 min. ... She died in January '97. Only a few came to her funeral. That day they saw off the great strong woman Tamara Makarova. And even “friends” still don’t know about the death of Lyudmila Marchenko, who has long since fallen from her pedestal. GIRL AT PYRYEV’S A young , pretty face with a slightly upturned nose. This is how moviegoers saw her in 1959. VGIK sophomore Lyudmila Marchenko was only 19. Grigory Kozintsev and Ivan Pyryev found and lit this star of the classics of our cinema.

8 1 min. ... It is necessary to sing about sanna carbon copy! My generation treated her tenderly. At the age of 16 in Krasnoyarsk I started publishing a magazine. I don’t even remember what it was called now - it was a completely stupid name, we made eight copies of it, not knowing that it was prohibited. So before Metropol, I already had some experience in samizdat.

20 5 minutes. ... The reason for our bad life is that we consume too much. In any case, this is what employees of the Rocky Mountain Institute, located in Colorado, think. To confirm this, the institute manages to consume only 3 (three!) percent of the energy resources required for such buildings and still feels good. The Americans managed to achieve such truly fantastic results due to the fact that everything in this building is aimed at saving these same resources.

218 3 min. ... The first episode of “Deadly Force” demonstrates that neither Kazantsev-Lykov nor Kuznetsov-Mukhomor are in the credits. It's a pity. Kuznetsov is the only experienced actor in this gang, and his work significantly set off the cheerful mediocrity of the others NASTY COPS AND COOL COPS Everything that we (and not we) will write about cinema in the new TV week will still be drowned from Monday in the nationwide attention of the public to the ORT action called “Deadly Force” .

147 9 min. ... THE UNIVERSE IN THE FORM OF A FICUS Slowly and firmly walking, swaying, Trufelev carried home half of the stolen beef carcass. At that moment, it resembled the American Challenger spacecraft, but in which the launch vehicle and the spacecraft itself seemed to have swapped places.

WEDNESDAY 296 7 min. ... In a provincial town, where everything that is not vodka is called wine, a completely new recipe for a provincial career has been created: not according to Chekhov, but according to Spielberg GOOSEBERRY OF THE PERMian PERIOD WEDNESDAY The city of Kotelnich, Kirov region, is a typical Chekhov city, may its forty thousand inhabitants forgive me.

PREFACE VLADIMIR PUTIN IN THE FIRST PERSON We spoke with Vladimir Putin six times. For several hours. Both he and we were patient and tolerant. He was when we asked uncomfortable questions or simply got into our souls. We - when he was late or asked to turn off the recorder: “this is very personal.” We came to him with essentially the same question that American journalist Trudy Rubin asked in January at the Davos forum: “Who is he, Mr. Putin?” We talked with Putin about life.

83 3 min. ... The author of the new column is a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, cultural scientist, literary critic, historian, author of more than 20 books and hundreds of articles. But for those who know and love Gachev, his name is already an occupation.

Leonid YARMOLNIK: 65 6 min. ... “YAVLINSKY IS ENDLESSLY SIMPLE TO ME” Leonid YARMOLNIK: We met Leonid Yarmolnik at Sheremetyevo-2 international airport, from where he was supposed to take a flight to Prague in half an hour. In this regard, my first question was: — Leonid, why are you flying to Prague? — Then, to star in Alexei German’s new film “It’s Hard to Be a God” based on the story by the Strugatsky brothers. I play the main role of Rumata. — Have you ever filmed with Herman before?

13 1 min. ... MASLENIC TRUTH Maslenitsa week in the middle of the bitter winter - you have to fry and eat pancakes, and always in buckets, with caviar and herring, and at the risk of health and even life, and with unbridled joy and immoderate fun. Why? For what? This is our truth, and no Brazilian rumba-samba and no Venetian carnivals dictate us in this sense. This is a holiday. Despite all the circumstances, despite the weather, even all the misfortunes and insults.

512 13 min. ... Brazilian actress Susanna Alvetz, nicknamed Tiatsinha (Auntie), danced a fiery Latin American samba on the roof of her limousine at a noisy carnival in the Portuguese city of Alcobaca. There the Portuguese celebrated the 500th anniversary of the discovery of Brazil.