Evgeny Kiselev about the 15th anniversary of NTV The results specifically for The New Times are summarized by the famous TV presenter, who was the face of the former, old NTV - Evgeny Kiselev Eh, it was not as difficult for me for a long time as now, when I seemed to volunteer to compose something by the semicircular date-the 15th anniversary of the NTV television company, and then suddenly thought: what to talk about?! There is such an old joke.

Why are the biographies of state husbands popular Biographies never go out of fashion, but recently they are especially popular. Even political biographies that look among the brothers of the fifth column: do not say superfluous, and do not lose their feelings. Characteristic - and very different - samples of the genre studied The New Times The symbol of the thaw is not geologists and not Gagarin, but Fidel Castro.

How Orenburg Belyaevka buried dead schoolgirls On October 7, the children of the district center of Belyaevka of the Orenburg region again went to study. After the collapse of the school, deaths, funeral. From Belyaevka - reporting The New Times On that Wednesday, October 1, in Belyaevka there was to be a holiday: a pensioner's day was celebrated in the House of Culture. The recent school graduate Artem sat in the club for equipment and established a sound.

The New Times correspondent studied the Russian-Kazakh border zone And found out that this border is a zone of special favor for smugglers and drug dealers The city of Gornyak stands on the border of the Altai Territory with Kazakhstan. If you climb the hill, a beautiful view of the endless Kazakh steppe opens. To be in this steppe, outside the Russian Federation, is not so difficult.

The turn came to France. Who is next The white door with gold plates rose, the secretary of the Swedish Nobel Committee slipped out of it and called the name of the new laureate in several languages. The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2008 was 68-year-old Frenchman Jean-Mari Gustav Leclazio The Vesti channel, broadcasting a report from the scene, called the writer: “Bishop”.

Viktor Pelevin and the “Sugar Kremlin” by Vladimir Sorokin - the books in essence and in a certain sense opposition - occupy the first lines of book ratings. Where did freedom of speech in fiction come from - The New Times understood Respondents of sociological studies belonging to the category of “reading” are not so many - a little more than 60 percent.

Georgy Satarov - The New Times The State Duma planned on October 17 to consider in the first reading a package of anti -corruption bills. They were directed from the Kremlin marked "urgently". However, the deputies are in no hurry: the discussion is postponed to the first decade of December.

Stephen Silber, newspaper Gaarets, Tel Aviv-especially for The New Times Israel: The time of women. On November 3, Cipi Livni should form a new government.

Where the national projects disappeared National projects that solemnly started in January 2006 will become state programs since 2009. About this, as a solved case, recently announced the Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov. Will the New Times change after the form and content Within a month, the development of three state programs will be completed, into which the national projects “Education”, “Healthcare” and “Available Housing” will transform.

Experts predict how deep the market can fall Knocked again from below The bearded anecdote, whose hero, having reached the bottom, suddenly heard another knock from below, perfectly describes the situation that has developed in the Russian financial market. The catastrophic collapse of stock indices continued last week, despite the next cash infusions. Only by October 9, the market "changed its mind" and began to show signs of growth.

It happens. The respectable, outwardly loyal Soviet screenwriter and playwright suddenly leaves the genre, from the role, from the row. What happened in the late 50s with Alexander Galich, the former Ginzburg, whose 90th anniversary we celebrate on October 19? After the XX Congress, he learned everything about the camps, and it shocked him so much that he scored his talent with a fountain, and Galich himself became a seer.

Nobel in medicine was awarded "for the benefit of humanity" On October 6, the names of the Nobel Prize of 2008 in medicine were announced.

Igor Vinogradov's magazine continues the traditions of Vladimir Maksimov The Magazine "Continent" for many decades since its founding in 1974 remained one of the most significant phenomena of Russian culture. The writer Vladimir Maksimov conceived him as "the body of free Russian thought, Russian and pan -European anti -communist liberation movement." The magazine was published in Paris for 17 years.

Why does Yushchenko go out parliament One phase of political instability in Ukraine has changed another. How will events develop against the background of the prospects of early parliamentary elections - explored The New Times The fact that Viktor Yushchenko last Wednesday announced the dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada does not mean at all that the deputies were ready to obediently leave the parliament building. And the point is not that Yushchenko turned to the people in the recording.

“Admiral” by Andrei Kravchuk is a project of the Channel Channel One Directorate, telling the story of Alexander Kolchak and his lover Anna Timirva. The main roles in the picture were played by Konstantin Khabensky and Elizabeth Boyarskaya, a recent romantic duet from the "Irony of Fate" by Timur Bekmambetov.