The dollar remains. Recently, it has become fashionable to predict that the dollar would fall from the pedestal of the international reserve currency. Everyone is engaged in this - from bloggers to the former chairman of the Federal Reserve System (Fed) Alan Grinspin.

Russian electric power between two lights ## Monopoly died, long live a monopoly! On October 26, an extraordinary meeting of shareholders of the UES RAO will be held, at which a decision will be made to eliminate the Russian energy monopoly and election of the board of directors of new companies on the site of RAO companies.

Naive art of a village artist ## October 26 in the Moscow Gallery "House of Nashchokin" opens an exhibition of Vladimir Lyubarov "Physical Cultural Science!" A famous artist who abandoned life in the capital and moved to the village told the New Times correspondent about himself Fighters Volleyball Charger Life goes on as usual, and I do not participate in it. I have always been just an artist. Once I worked in the magazine Chemistry and Life.

The television meeting of Vladimir Putin with the people should be the last in his current mortgage - the President of the Russian Federation. Putin said so: “In 2007-2008, we will have elections to the parliament and the president. And here, in the Kremlin, there will be another person. ” However, all 3 hours 2 minutes that this meeting continued, Putin seemed to emphasize: he does not go anywhere, everything was as it was, he will not intend to say goodbye.

The phone call came late at night. A familiar young director, we have been friends since the days of GITIS. The voice is agitated - obviously something happened. It turned out that he had just arrived from a festival held in one of the cities of Russia. There he realized that the latest theatrical currents had finally “flowed” to the provinces and covered the whole country.

Chairman of the Supreme Arbitration Court Anton Ivanov - The New Times ## The blonde and dinosaur - this joke describes some situations from the life of the Russian judicial system well, which follows from an interview with Anton Ivanov, chairman of the Supreme Arbitration Court (you), which he gave The New Times.

She saves those who are abandoned by relatives and the state ## Doctor on the Internet. Her profession is called a "doctor of palliative medicine." Dr. Lisa has been working with doomed patients for 15 years. The New Times correspondents observed for several days the work of "fair assistance" Ilya Vasyunin, Maxim Avdeev (photo) A palliative medicine doctor works with patients in the last (terminal) stage of the disease.

How does the country managed by the Communist Party manage without the use of mass repressions and slave labor to achieve serious economic successes? The answers to this question are looking for pooliem scientists in many countries of the world. From now on, they are not indifferent to us, given that in Russia, state-monopoly capitalism is being built in full swing and rather China than Europe is chosen as a model of further development.

Still, it is good that Hus Hiddink does not know the language of the country where he has been working for the second year and will now work at least three more. And then, perhaps, I would have pushed into the neck from the locker room of an unfamiliar man in a red half -sports jacket over a strict costume. The man went into the Holy of Holy before the game - Hiddinka explained that it has still been accepted with us. From the Soviet times. The prime minister of Russia turned out to be a man.

The horror is that this nameless grandmother, about whom only the lazy did not write, was sincere: “Oh, God, thank you very much ... Thank you so much for everything!” Or also staging? If so, then it's brilliant. Why "everything"? For a pension of three thousand rubles? For more expensive vegetable oil? Of course not. For something more important. Probably for peace of mind.

Vladimir Ashkenazi - an outstanding conductor and one of the greatest pianists of the present time - visited a concert in Moscow. The New Times correspondent managed to take an interview from the maestro in which he first shared his thoughts about the life of modern Russia Vladimir Ashkenazi - Oleg Dusaev Vladimir Ashkenazi was born in 1937 in Gorky. He studied at the Central Music School, then since 1960 - at the Moscow Conservatory in the class of L.N. Overland.

Ex-heads of Sberbank became the main postman of Russia ## March of disagreed managers. The decision that it is the retired Minister of Economic Development and Trade of German Gref that will lead the “folk state” Sberbank.

It's not a dream. This is a sleek pamphlet with a familiar state portrait face on the cover and with a dazibao from United Russia. Pure mature totalitarianism: "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Fu ..hrer". And the Reich is one, and the leader is one, and the people are one and must vote for United Russia.

Exactly 5 years ago, on October 23, 2002, Nord-Ost happened. The terrorists captured the theater center on Dubrovka Street, located eight kilometers from the Kremlin, right during the performance. There was a superpopular then in Moscow the musical “Nord-Ost”-the production of Veniamin Kaverin “Two Captains” on the novel by Veniamin Kaverin. Several dozen terrorists burst into the hall. 912 people - spectators and troupe were hostage. Five militants shot.

The sixth “direct line” of the president broke several records at once: both in terms of its duration and the number of cities with the Kremlin in touch with the Kremlin For three with a small hour of television, Putin promised to raise pensions (Surprise, Surprise: Pensions will be lifted from December 1, exactly on the eve of the main day of the parliamentary campaign), commented on the reduction in the service life of the army up to 1 year, congratulated all Russians on the victory of the