9 1 min. ... Victor LOSHAK When all my daughter's friends had their first children, I realized that I would soon become a grandfather. And then in the winter at the dacha they say: everyone came out with sleds, only ours were empty... In a word, children contributed to the increase in the birth rate in the country.

237 3 min. ... Over lunch we argued whether it was worth taking on complex recipes when there was no time for simple ones. I was the first to argue that most often the beauty of a dish lies in the fact that the product is fresh, local and does not require any preparation. There are many more readers who ask for simpler recipes, I said Helia DELERINS I drove home through the market. Now is the season for quince. Even the straw in which the carriers wrap it seems to smell of it.

On October 5, Russian tennis player Dmitry Tursunov won the ATP tournament with a prize fund of €370 thousand in Metz, France, ITAR-TASS reports. In the final, the Russian, seeded fifth, beat the “host of the court” Paul-Henri Mathieu (4) with a score of 7:6, 1:6, 6:4. For Dmitry Tursunov, this is the fifth title in his career. For victory in Metz he will receive €51 thousand and 175 rating points.

35 2 minutes. ... Channel One received almost half of the total number of prizes at the TEFI ceremony Yulia LARINA It seems that this was not the closing ceremony for TEFI. Many feared that TEFI would be held for the last time. They joked about this topic from the stage.

Turkish army aircraft bombed positions of Kurdish militants in Northern Iraq in response to an attack by separatists on a Turkish gendarmerie guard, RIA Novosti reported on October 5. As the General Staff of the Turkish Armed Forces said in a statement, as a result of shelling of a guard with heavy weapons and grenade launchers in the Hakkari province bordering Iraq, 15 Turkish soldiers were killed and more than 20 were injured.

Burglary is the most popular type of crime. In Moscow and St. Petersburg alone there are up to 30 of them per day 3K 7 min. ... However, police officers say confidentially that sometimes this amount falls on two officers on duty at one district office, of which there are hundreds in megacities. In hot pursuit, no more than 5 percent are revealed. Apparently, my case is not one of them Natalia SHERGINA, St.

Children should be taught to enjoy knowledge, not drilled in subjects eleven 3 min. ... It would seem that specialized schools should help a child with a profession. But aren't they simply leaving him without a choice? Anna ANDRONOVA, writer, Nizhny Novgorod There is an opinion that a child should be taken to primary school “to become a teacher”, and then transferred to a higher level. To a school that will provide some specific, in-depth knowledge.

On October 5, as part of the 24th round of the Premier League, FC Zenit hosted Luch-Energia. The match ended with a crushing score of 8:1 in favor of Zenit. The hosts scored goals: Danni, 6th minute, 41st minute; Andrey Arshavin, 20th minute; Roman Shirokov, 35th minute; Fatih Tekke, 47th minute, 60th minute, 89th minute; Alejandro Dominguez, 71st minute. The guests' only goal against the St. Petersburg club was scored by Vitaly Bulyga in the 75th minute.

On October 5, Russian tennis player Nadezhda Petrova failed to win the WTA tournament in Stuttgart (Germany), the prize fund of which is $650 thousand. The Russian woman lost in the final to Serbian Jelena Jankovic with a score of 4:6, 3:6, who next week will again become the first racket of the world. Nadezhda Petrova already won in Stuttgart in 2006.

162 9 min. ... Nine participants of the show shared $1 million in the dungeon. Now the TNT channel will show how they did it. Which will remind some TV viewers how they themselves did roughly the same thing in the 1990s and early 2000s Yulia LARINA This is the case when the agreement is not more expensive than money, but equal to money: the participants in the new TNT reality show, which airs on October 4, only had to agree which of them would receive $1 million.

108 1 min. ... years ago, Ogonyok took an active part in the most hypocritical act of the Soviet intelligentsia, publishing the first chapters from the book “36 Writers about the White Sea-Baltic Canal named after Stalin.” The initiator of this propaganda work was Maxim Gorky, who organized an “excursion” of writers to a construction site where more than 200 thousand political prisoners worked in slave conditions.

7 1 min. ... Compromise won After a difficult and lengthy struggle, the winner of the second, pre-television, stage in the “Name of Russia” competition was determined. The first to finish was the noble prince Alexander Nevsky, who became the favorite literally at the last stage. Joseph Stalin, who does not regard his dear Fatherland as a historical landmark, quickly retreated to 12th place.

Today, October 5, it became known that the Georgian transport administration places responsibility for the sinking of the Ukrainian ship Skadovski near the port of Kulevi on its captain, who did not take into account the warning about rough seas. “The ship's captain was warned of a possible storm on September 30th.

19 1 min. ... The Federal Competition Commission for Television and Radio Broadcasting recommended extending the license of the 2×2 channel. Our poetry columnist loudly rejoices at another triumph of freedom Dmitry BYKOV The protesting army achieved the long-awaited finale of teenagers: they did not take away the license from “Twice Two”, their favorite channel!

15 1 min. ... I really wanted to go fishing. I wanted to go to sea. It wasn’t that easy, if only because we didn’t have anything to start fishing with. Moreover, we had nothing to show how it continues, let alone ends. Andrey KOLESNIKOV, journalist (Kommersant Publishing House) And then my friend and I found Uncle Pasha. We were told that for 250 rubles an hour he fishes with people like us on his boat. Uncle Pasha was as dry as dried horse mackerel: — My next fishing trip is on Monday.