Why hockey player Alexei Cherepanov died On October 13, at 22.55 minutes, the heart of one of the most talented young hockey players in Russia Alexei Cherepanov stopped in the Czech city hospital. He lost consciousness on the bench during the match in which his Omsk Vanguard fought with the Chekhov Vityaz. The New Times sorted out the causes and consequences of this tragic story In the morning on Tuesday, you understand that there was none of this fifteen hours ago. The guy was alive.

The crisis, which has been going on in the world for more than a year, finally resulted in the pages of newspapers and TV screens. The population, acting in the usual way in 1998, reached out to banks behind deposits, and from there a direct stroke in exchange points. Those who had managed to be in dollars in the last years and did not learn how to believe in the euro began to buy flour, salt and sugar.

What happened on the sidelines of the Frankfurt Fair The Frankfurt Book Fair, due to the crisis, did not wait for almost a third of its usual participants this year, but still became the largest in the world, represented 7,400 publishers and occupied even a large area than last year. Four huge five -story pavilions. Not a single free place in the hotels of the city. Endless running around the hervolators connecting the pavilions with each other.

The country is unlikely to find out the names of the heroes of the case of "discount" The Investigative Committee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Vienna Supreme Court continue the investigation of the case of laundering large amounts of money through Discontan banks and Austrian Raiffeisenbank.

A letter came to the Echo of Moscow - in my name. Having read it, the first thing he specified the referent girls, whether the draw ... But it seems not to be a draw: the coat of arms on the letter, the press on the envelope is all the present. And the correspondent, therefore, is real (even, I would say, specific) - deputy of the State Duma Sergey Abeltsev This Falcon of Zhirinovsky in recent years has been one of my most reliable customers.

That Stalin and Tito did not share 60 years ago Sixty years ago, a long conflict lasted a decade between two socialist states - the USSR and Yugoslavia - and two once “fraternal” communist parties Ordinary Soviet people were struck by thunder published in Pravda on June 29, 1948 “Kommunik on a meeting of the information bureau of communist and workers' parties” (Cominform). It contained a sharp criticism of the leadership of the Communist Party of Yugoslavia 1 .

The Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) suddenly opposed the current intervention mechanism in the stock market. In a rather peaceful, long and outwardly boring document “proposals for maintaining financial stability in Russia” (the Bureau of the RSPP of 10/15/2008 was adopted) there is a fragment that has not entered the tape of key Russian agencies and a uniform rebel on the ship.

On the Bakhmina.ru website there is a collection of signatures under the appeal to the President of the Russian Federation. People from different cities and countries ask Dmitry Medvedev to have mercy on Svetlana Bakhmin “Dmitry Anatolyevich,” the appeal says, “we understand that you cannot put pressure on the court. But you have the right to pardon in the Russian Constitution. We, signed under this letter, ask you to use this right.

In search of the bottom. The RTS index stubbornly moves down. However, the situation in the financial market is already not interested in anyone. Will banks collapse? Will there be products in stores? How many people will lose their jobs? How seriously will you have to tighten your belts? The co-chair of the Club 2015 businessman Nikolai Kovarsky and the chairman of the board of directors of the MDM Bank Oleg Vyugin argued about this at The New Times. Have we reached the bottom in this crisis?

It has long been a good tone to scold television. Especially informational and information analytical programs. I, the right word, want to regret them. Well, tell me the mercy, make reporters who are collected in the premiere residence in Novo-Ogarev, hold for several hours in languid expectation, someone, they say, is already beginning to whisper to build unthinkable assumptions: what if Putin announces a resignation? And here is a surprise, a surprise!

Overheated art market requires cooling From October 16 to 19, Sotheby's auction house held in Moscow the largest and most significant exhibition of works of Russian and Western art. The paintings themselves will be sold in early November in New York. The New Times studied the problems of the world art market The Sotheby's top exhibition opened a new site on Gogolevsky Boulevard, 10 in the second half of the 19th century there was a Moscow specific office, 1 disposed of imperial property.

In a word, they got into! The total external debt of Russian banks and companies exceeded $ 510 billion. It is almost impossible to pay off such a debt. What are the consequences of this situation - the New Times was versed It seems that the Russian economy has become plunged. The data published by the Bank of Russia shout: the country is faced with the crisis of corporate external debt, and this problem will determine many macroeconomic trends in the near future.

On October 24, we will celebrate the 70th birthday of Venedikt Erofeev, who died of throat, from vodka, from loneliness, from need and despair back in 1990. He did not feel the fresh wind of Gorbachev changes. For him in 1988, little changed: the same flags, the same lie, the same Vodara. I will surprise you now: the broom was not a drunkenness, did not belong to the “lost generation” and did not drown the mind in wine.

Whose money is saved in Iceland Negotiations between Moscow and Reykjavik on the allocation of a loan are becoming more and more intriguing. First, information appeared that the Ministry of Finance and the Central Bank agreed to lend the Icelanders € 4 billion.

Valeria Guy Germanika tells about herself and his film The film “Everyone will die, and I will stay,” who won this summer at the festival in Cannes a special mention of the Golden Cam jury. The film about three nine -graders living in the sleeping area of ​​Moscow aroused admiration for the festival public and criticism.