10 1 min. ... Russia and France are my favorite countries. Because of a bunch of boors I won't stop loving them Pierre NARCISS, popular singer My cousin studied in Russia and praised the education here. I myself dreamed of becoming a pilot, but not a singer at all. I found out about a good flight school in Yegoryevsk near Moscow and went there. But there I endured everything for a few days and escaped: after the Cameroonian heat, your winter almost killed me.

4 2 minutes. ... Georgians have become almost the most optimistic people in Europe "We have received the faith of the people" Mikheil SAAKASHVILI President of Georgia Without any exaggeration, in two years we did something that will forever remain in the history of Georgia. The budget has grown at least five times over the years. Together with the local budget - up to six times. This is the corruption reduction index.

3 1 min. ... Victor LOSHAK Last Wednesday, the country learned that we were beginning a brutal struggle for order on the roads. The President spoke, the country's chief traffic cop nodded in delight: violators have no place on our fair highways. An ordinary disobedient driver was the recipient of this angry speech. The capital marked the morning of the next day with unimaginable traffic jams, plus twenty minutes of standing on Kutuzovsky waiting for the next motorcade.

The presenter of news programs of the REN-TV channel, Olga Romanova, who was removed from the air, intends to contact the prosecutor's office on the fact of physical violence used against her when she tried to get to the studio. “All further work related to the investigation of this conflict must be in accordance with the law,” lawyer Mikhail Fedotov said in an interview with the Ekho Moskvy radio station.

27 2 minutes. ... Some say “espionage,” others say “information collection,” and others say “security.” Today, technology allows you to look after a colleague, neighbor, lover or business partner. Just don't violate other people's constitutional rights. Alexander SHUMSKY FOLLOW PIR Camera and Receiver is a wireless digital camera that can receive and broadcast video or audio signals over a distance of up to 75 m. The device is equipped with a motion and sound sensor.

Photographer Andres Serrano: “There is nothing demonic about me” 425 2 minutes. ... One of the most famous photographers in the world, Andres Serrano, came to work in Russia. Usually he charges tens of thousands of dollars for a portrait, but in Russia he is willing to pay extra.

43 5 minutes. ... Channel One decided to tell the whole story of the atomic bomb. Marina TOPAZ The time of physicists and lyricists is long gone. You don’t see lyricists on today’s television at all, but physicists appear. Channel One shows the epoch-making series “Brotherhood of the Bomb” on Monday nights, produced by the television company “Civilizations”. It is headed by Lev Nikolaev, a physicist by training.

THE FLEECE WAS STOLEN A LONG TIME AGO 24 10 min. ... On November 23, Georgia celebrates the second anniversary of the Rose Revolution. Georgian “velvet” is perceived in Russia very differently: for some it is a dangerous virus, an “orange” breeding ground; for others, it’s a fresh start in the post-Soviet swamp.

On November 27, sources in Iran's Supreme National Security Council reported that Great Britain, France and Germany had accepted Tehran's proposal to resume nuclear negotiations. According to Reuters , the ambassadors of these countries sent a letter to the Security Council saying that the foreign ministers are ready for a meeting in December. Let us recall that the initiator of the resumption of dialogue was Iran.

MEAT 1K 4 min. ... And so they lived - one might say, closing the last page of the volume “Everyday Moscow”. The book by historians Vladimir Ruga and Andrei Kokorev, published by the OLMA publishing house, is an amazing sketch of the life of pre-Soviet Moscow with its trade, advertising, New Year and Maslenitsa, police officers and entertainment. We have selected several excerpts from the book about Moscow trade, little known to us today.

On November 27, four aid workers, including two Canadian citizens, were kidnapped in Baghdad. A spokesman for Canada's Foreign Minister Dan McTeague told the AP that, according to preliminary information, the other two hostages are citizens of the United States and Great Britain. However, he did not disclose the names of the hostages or the name of the humanitarian organization in which they work.

10 1 min. ... It is cheaper to develop your own player than to buy a foreign player. But much more difficult Ilya SHELOGUROV Russian clubs have introduced a limit on foreign players. From now on, “only” 8 foreign players will be able to play on the field for one team. And in the 2008/09 season there will be 5 or 6 of them. It is expected that this measure will allow more Russian football players to take to the playing fields, but for now our teams are more reminiscent of African or Balkan teams.

21 5 minutes. ... Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated 10 years ago, was remembered in mid-November at his grave on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem and in the Knesset at a funeral meeting. His granddaughters lit funeral candles (pictured). Former US President Clinton recalled how he and Rabin built peace in the Middle East.

10 1 min. ... Lawyers no longer need their own brains And their arguments are ironclad It is rare that a law firm now does not have its own website on the Internet and does not provide online consultations. But South African law firm Buys Inc. intends to go further. On her page, visitors will soon be advised by three virtual clerks - Stacy, Dave and Nathan (in the picture). Currently, these three characters are being developed with the help of experts in artificial intelligence systems.

4K 3 min. ... In St. Petersburg they breathed a sigh of relief. A herd of monkeys that lived for six months on Elagin Island in the middle of the Neva have finally been returned to the nursery Tatiana ROMASHENKOVA, St. Petersburg At the beginning of summer, scientists landed them on a “deserted” island to continue a long-term experiment to study the impact of the metropolis on the psychology of monkeys, and therefore humans.