179.5 is not Fahrenheit. The price of gas for Ukraine for 2008 seems to have been agreed upon: from January 1, the price of fuel will rise by 38% - from $130 to $179.5 per thousand cubic meters.

In search of lost pudding. Traveling in English cuisine in the same boat with a dog Montmorasey “Fish and fried meat are served for breakfast. Lunch happens at an hour and consists of four dishes. At six o’clock - lunch: soup, snack, hot, game, salad, sweet, cheese and fruits. And finally, at ten o’clock - a light dinner of several meat dishes. ” Jerome K. Jerome. "Three in the boat, not counting the dog" Published more than a hundred years ago, the story of Jerome K.

One hundred days of loneliness. SUP bought the entire LiveJournal from SixApart. What's next for bloggers? Egor Bykovsky editor-in-chief of Vokrugsveta.Ru It was a long time ago, a very long time ago. So long ago that only the most ancient old people remember it. This was when the Internet was still small and computers were big. It was February 2001, gloomy and chilly.

Moreover, if there were no corruption in Russia, building an “innovative” model of the vertical of power a la Putin would be impossible Corruption is the Archimedean "fulcrum" against which the vertical of power rests.

Handbook of time: "Dictionary of prison-camp thieves' jargon" (Publishing house "Edge of Moscow", 1992). And what you order to do - you need to master. Otherwise, how else to understand the current rules of the game without rules? And to understand what guides those who are at the top of the group hierarchy - "authorities", and those who are below - "muzhiks", "activists", "goats", reds?

How to retire the right way Yuriev day. Russian citizens who have not yet been deprived of the funded part of the pension have less than three weeks left to decide on the choice of a non-state pension fund or a management company that will manage their individual pension savings next year. The money of the “silent people” will still remain in VEB. The passivity of future pensioners makes us talk about the crisis of the pension reform.

Black Riders. Oleg Shvartsman, the head of Finansgroup financial and industrial group, was not the first, for the time being, unknown property collector in favor of the Kremlin business. Before him, there were Baikalfinancegroup, Prana and other mysterious people and firms In October 2004, a company with a beautiful geographical name "Baikalfinancegroup" (BFG) was registered in Tver at Novotorzhskaya, 12b.

Hugo Chavez lost. Considering the personal popularity of the President of Venezuela, who in advance declared the forthcoming vote "the most important in the history" of the country, plus the administrative resource, his victory in the December 2 referendum seemed to be predetermined. Did not happen. Why? And, most importantly, why did Chavez admit defeat?

The last year of Nikolai Yezhov Non-iron addict. In December 1937, 70 years ago, the Land of Soviets vigorously celebrated the twentieth anniversary of the Cheka-GPU-OGPU-NKVD. It was the peak of the fame of People's Commissar Nikolai Yezhov. However, there was not much time left before the disgrace of one of the most sinister figures in Soviet history. The ROSSPEN publishing house publishes a book by Nikita Petrov and Mark Jansen "Stalin's Pet" - Nikolai Yezhov.

One of the main collectors of assets in favor of the state is the owner of Basic Element, Oleg Deripaska. His likely victory in the dispute over Mikhail Prokhorov's blocking stake in MMC Norilsk Nickel will be another step towards the creation of Russia's largest mining and smelting company and the nationalization of another key sector of the national economy.

Self-portrait. 1961 Father. 1981 Passion for man. 1959-1960 On the eve of his 75th birthday, artist Boris Zhutovsky opened an exhibition of works created by him over the past half century at the Romanov Gallery. All are exhibited for the first time - with the exception of four, which were placed at the famous exhibition in the Manege in 1962. Those that provoked the wrath of Khrushchev.

Vadim Solovyov, head of the legal service of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation - on violations during the elections Over the past eight years, the methods of fraud have become much more sophisticated and thoughtful. If earlier we recorded the usual alteration of protocols plus the impact on voters through slander, today we can say that a state system has developed and a state policy is being pursued to obtain the result that the ruling party needs. This is the worst.

Awarded "Russian Booker". There was no sensation. As expected, the jury decided to reward the young but critically acclaimed author Alexander Ilichevsky for his novel Matisse. Andrey Rubanov: "A writer works for the future" No matter how they treat literary awards, they are still some kind of sign, a mark, at least relative, but an assessment of a literary year. It's like harvesting. What they are rich with, so they are happy, do not blame me, but only this has grown.

Gazprom may lose sales market Team Gaza! given to everyone. Russia believes that high oil prices are here to stay. And since the cost of gas depends on the cost of oil, Gazprom will sell "blue fuel" to the CIS countries at inflated prices.

Fedor Lukyanov Editor-in-Chief of Russia in Global Affairs magazine The stable abbreviation UDI (from the English Unilateral Declaration of Independence - unilateral declaration of independence) has enriched the world lexicon with the light hand of the Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia, Ian Smith. 42 years ago, he bypassed London and announced the sovereignty of this British colony.