Where did the fashion come from at the "Academy" The Academy of Safety, Defense and Law and Autonomous Office (ABOP) was called the "Color of the Nation" club: the first persons of the state were included there.

How is the third reality created? Why can its creators implant any versions of the economic crisis into the minds of viewers and make devils and bunnies out of us? Few of us realize that we have long been in a post-post-industrial virtual world. This means that we live in a "third" reality. What it is? Inside the TV The first reality is empirical, material, objective. The second is cultural worlds of various kinds: books, plays, films, television programs ...

Mikhail Kasyanov - Evgenia Albats and Dmitry Dokuchaev Former Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov once realized the idea of ​​creating a stabilization fund, which now allows you to go afloat the domestic financial system. He, being the Deputy Minister of Finance, negotiated the settlement of the country's external and internal debt on the eve of the 1998 default.

There is no crisis on television No matter how much the word “halva” say, it will not become sweeter in the mouth. This ancient wisdom is trying to refute the power that creates virtual reality, in which there is no financial crisis. She herself does not believe in a crisis, does not trust experts and people. The people are trying to understand who is right - a TV or "sundress radio" and remains completely disoriented. How to live in several realities at once?

Exhibition of erotic drawings of the famous artist An exhibition of recently found in the United States of Constantine Somov’s illustrations to the famous anthology of erotic literature “The Book of Marquise” will last in the Bakhrushinsky Museum only one day - October 29.

The conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra Vladimir Yurovsky - The New Times “There have always been problems with the level of hygiene in Russia - both personal and musical,” says Vladimir Yurovsky, the main conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra. The thirty -six -year -old musician performs with the leading orchestras of the world, he is invited by the best opera theaters: Metropolitan Opera, Royal Opera House, Covent Garden.

Has the crisis of migrant workers touched? According to unofficial data, in Moscow alone, about 5 million illegal workers, and throughout Russia there are even more - 20 million. Official data is more modest - only 12 million, of which only 1 million are legal. In October, the Ministry of Health and Social Development reported that this year this year to attract foreign workers increased from 1.8 million to 3.4 million people.

Parliamentarians sat in oil puddle The federal budget for 2009–11 was adopted by the State Duma in the second reading practically unchanged. The deputies did not notice the financial crisis. The budget is as if the "fat" years were ongoing. In reality, experts are convinced, not only will not be a surplus, but you will also have to recall the concept from the 1990s-sequestration, that is, cutting expenses The most obvious weak budget place is the forecast oil price.

The war for the Bashkir inheritance. Murtaza Rakhimov, how Two decades guarding the sovereignty of his power in the subordinate territory, surrendering the last borders “The throne under Murtaza Rakhimov was staggered” - almost all 18 years are talking about this, that the irreplaceable leader of Bashkiria is in power. But now, apparently, the situation is really serious.

Oscar Rabin - in the Tretyakov Gallery "I am not interested in drawing a French passport." The Oscar Rabin exhibition opens in the Tretyakov Gallery. Oddly enough, this is his first personal exhibition in Russia.

Report from exchangers and trading halls Private Russian believes the Prime Minister, Sberbank, but hesitates between the ruble and the dollar. And sometimes euro stored Members of the club of regional journalism collect private and domestic manifestations of the crisis throughout the country. The information sent by them is published on the blog of journalist Irina Yasina (see her article on page 18).

Talking with a long -standing acquaintance - the owner of a large grocery company. It is lamented: the crop this year is good, but the peasants cannot sell it: buyers have no funds. And they can’t sow either - banks do not give loans to purchase seeds, fertilizer, etc. And at the shops that are small, that hypermarkets, the problem is the same - money.

Russian investors are trying to save their assets, depending on the bankrupt banks of Iceland. The New Times studied which of the Russians and what the distant northern island fell in love with so much Yon works in the Taxfree Refund department at the main airport of Iceland Keflavik. Here, flying tourists return 15% of the cost of all goods purchased in the country. 1 With the collapse of the national economy, he encountered, one might say, face to face.

This time they will almost coincide: on October 30, the day of the Soviet political prisoner, and the 27th, 100th anniversary of the birth of Andrei Aldan-Semenov, the stubborn and persistent Kolyma prisoner, who gave the world a powerful anti-Stalinsky chord “Cherry on the Rock”.

Life again imitates artistic fiction. The betrayal, due to the ideological error or the need to survive with totalitarianism, is one of the main topics of Milan Kunder. The writer of an unconditionally outstanding, long -term nominee of the Nobel Prize. The writer, who for many years setting not only the highest creative, but also the moral bar: a participant in the Prague events of 1968, forced the emigrant, the pride of his historical homeland.