Imperial folding bed and romance in Paris Suriya Kommersant-Vaksberg talks about the Osenat auction The Osenat auction house is located on the outskirts of Paris - in the prestigious town of Fontainebleau. Slight isolation from the capital does not prevent it from being one of the leading auction houses in the country, which is known for its high-profile sales of historical souvenirs and art of the Empire era.

At the age of 14, Sandra Ann Lauer from Saarbrücken, Germany, won a children's singing competition and received the right to record a record as a prize. But the real career of the pop diva began two years later, when a slender, pretty brown-eyed girl with lush eyelashes passed the casting and became one of the soloists of the Arabesque group. In the 80s, this female disco trio, in which Sandra performed almost all the leading parts, enjoyed unprecedented popularity.

Today, November 30, it became known that the State Automobile Inspectorate has created a special traffic accidents department in the Kyiv region. The head of the traffic police, Alexey Kalensky, said this on the air of the TV company "TRK Ukraine". “We have now created a special unit for registration of road accidents, which we (the traffic police) did not have at all,” said Mr. Kalensky.

In the Aeroflot case, he was sentenced to six years in prison The Savelovsky Court of Moscow yesterday sentenced political emigrant Boris Berezovsky. Mr. Berezovsky was found guilty of organizing the theft of 214.9 million rubles. at Aeroflot OJSC and was sentenced in absentia to six years in a general regime colony (Russian television channels showed increased interest in this event - see the “Access to TV” section, page 4).

Severstal suffered from the cessation of production of minicars at ZMA 150 3 min. ... OJSC Severstal (Cherepovets) intends to sue its former “granddaughter”, OJSC Minicar Plant, for 99 million rubles. Severstal believes that the plant caused it losses by abandoning the production of Oka because it stopped purchasing steel intended for minicars. The car plant does not admit the claims, claiming that it gave advance notice of the termination of the contract.

New work by Yuri Norshtein and the project "Winter Days" Maya Stravinskaya comments At the 35 mm cinema, the festival of experimental animation and media arts Linoleum and the Coolconnections association present the project "Winter Days". This unique animated film was created in 2003, but has not yet been shown in Russia, although it was within the framework of this project that one of the most famous Russian animators, Yuri Norshtein, made a new cartoon. And this is a truly big event.

Today, November 30, the head of the department for emergency situations and protection of the population from the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster in the Kherson region, Valery Afanasyev, reported that 2,018 subscribers (61.5% of the population) were left without gas supply in Genichesk, Kherson region. According to Mr.

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Gucci men's collection "Autumn-Winter 2007/08" assessed by Olga Kommersant-Sushko This Gucci men's collection is the second from the brand's creative director Frida Giannini. So, using her example, we can definitely talk not only about the Gucci style, but also about the designer’s personal style. Frida Giannini's clothes are devoid of the extremism and arrogance that we remember from Tom Ford's collections for Gucci.

Two of them want to team up to gain control Ten potential investors immediately became interested in the additional issue of TGK-2. The power plants of the generating company have already been visited by several Western strategists, including the German concern RWE and the Japanese Mitsui. However, market participants consider Fortum to be the most likely contender, which could become a partner of the Prosperity Capital Management fund, which owns a blocking stake in TGK-2.

Elena Kamburova - both in the manner of performing songs and in her repertoire - has always stood apart on the stage. For this proud difference from others, her loyal fans loved her and continue to honor her. The people of Kiev, where the singer toured more than once, treat her with special warmth - after spending her childhood in Khmelnitsky, after school Mrs. Kamburova came to the Ukrainian capital and even studied for two years at the Kiev Institute of Light Industry.

Verdict handed down in case of murder of police colonel In the Stavropol Regional Court yesterday, the verdict was announced to Vyacheslav Vodovskikh, a resident of the city of Mikhailovsk. He was accused of the murder in February of this year of the deputy head of the department for combating offenses in the consumer market of the Stavropol Central Internal Affairs Directorate, Alexander Belokopyt.

The defense of Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak, arrested on charges of attempted theft of budget funds, is awaiting a response on December 3 to a petition to change his preventive measure. RIA Novosti reported this on November 30. “We submitted a petition to change the preventive measure for Sergei Storchak to any other one not related to deprivation of liberty on Wednesday, but it most likely arrived at the investigator’s desk on Thursday (November 29).

Media business The Prof-Media holding will be purchased by Vladimir Potanin's Interros group for cash, the board of directors of the KM Invest fund, which manages the joint investments of Vladimir Potanin and Mikhail Prokhorov, decided yesterday. Prof-Media is valued at $1.8 billion, but Interros will pay KM Invest a little less, since part of the shares (according to Kommersant information, 10%) will be allocated for the implementation of an option program for top management.

The European Commission is preparing rules for investments by government agencies of third countries European Commissioner for Economic Affairs Joaquín Almunia announced yesterday about possible EU restrictions on investments in European assets by “sovereign funds” - structures of the Russian Stabilization Fund may be among them. In the coming weeks, amendments to the European directives will be submitted to the EU governments and the European Parliament.