Crisis of confidence - banking and financial crises - slowdown in economic growth. The chain is obvious, although today no one will undertake to predict how the crisis processes will develop and how big the fall will be. Scenarios - from apocalyptic to quite moderate.

The psychology of the Soviet line has formed the strategies of the behavior of Russians The Soviet man spent in line from 3 to 8 hours daily. In line stood behind everything - to buy soaps, bread, boiled sausage or a ticket to the theater. What did the queue mean then and what role it plays today - studied The New Times The line in the Soviet Union was one of the most important elements of the daily life of citizens along with work and sleep.

They began to change the constitution Continuation of the topic - on page 4

Evgeny Yasin - The New Times The government published a package of anti -crisis measures. A large -scale document entitled “The action plan aimed at recovering the situation in the financial sector and individual sectors of the economy” contains 55 points divided into 10 blocks. The New Times proposed evaluating the quality of the document to the scientific director of the Higher School of Economics Evgeny Yasin Evgeny Grigoryevich, what are your impressions of the anti -crisis government plan?

World leaders come into a fight with a recession The leaders of the twenty powers on November 14-15 in Washington discussed the ways of the world's exit from the financial crisis. The summit went against the background of two news: two days before it, adjustments were made to the American anti -crisis program - “Paul Polson”, and the German economy, the largest in Europe, entered into the stage of technical recession.

Money for the purchase of loyalty ends The main instrument of managing Soviet power was fear. The basis of the power of the current is money. But not only they. How loyalty is bought today - investigated The New Times Duumvirate lives and rules in transactions. Moreover, with different groups and social layers - different transactions. Some, as under the Soviet regime, hold on fear, others on money, others - on both together.

Tver Boulevard was absolutely empty. At six in the evening, on Monday! On the roadway near the "female" Moscow Art Theater could be played in Polo. The oncoming stream stood muffledly: a traffic light at the Nikitsky Gate burned with a non -mighty communist light. Waiting for the authorities. Exactly six towards Tverskaya finally whistled the cavalcade of foreign cars with flashing lights. The police “Ford” left the lane and rolled at a respectful distance.

China Russian with the Chinese brothers forever again? “The Chinese-Russian relations of strategic interaction and partnerships are the most original, important and durable character,” said the chairman of the State Council of China, Wen Jiabao, speaking at the end of October at the opening of the third Sino-Russian Economic Forum. What does this "originality" mean for Russia in relations with China - versed The New Times.

Than our time looks like Brezhnevskoye We returned to Brezhnev times: imitation of power, imitation of humility, imitation of management, imitation of unanimity, imitation of propaganda and imitation of trust. Together, this turns into an imitation of not only the state, but also the country. The vertical of power hung in the air. Her debugged levers are not applied to anything.

Vladimir Kobekin - Anna Urmantseva. Shakespeare's heroes sang good obscenities You are a fool, Hamlet. In the theater of Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko, the premiere of the opera of the modern Russian composer Vladimir Kobekin “Hamlet (Danish) (Russian) comedy” took place. At first, the Shakespearean text was retold with the help of slang by the writer Arkadius as a bastard, and then redesigned to the libretto by Vladimir Kobekin.

Life and death of right -wing parties in Russia At the extraordinary congress of the Union of Right Forces, on November 15, the dissolution of this party was announced, and the next day a new thing was established - the “right business”. Attempts of disagreements to defend the ATP were unsuccessful.

It is 80 years old to the most famous animated character of all time. The New Times was versed in the details of the biography of Mickey Mouse “All this was started by one mouse,” said the Empire he created in the last years of his life. This is not an exaggeration: Mickey Mouse made the name and condition to his creator and his heirs. Now it is the most expensive-in the literal sense of the word-the image in the world cinema: it is estimated at more than $ 3 billion.

“Sucker” is fate. While in the Far East they mourned and buried the dead on the “seal” in the Sea of ​​Japan, the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor General’s Office found “extreme”: Moscow investigators called Dmitry Grobov’s shift in the tragedy, Moscow investigators. But his colleagues are sure that the sailors were either substituted or found a way to make him give testimony against himself.

Schlendorf Folker - Nadezhda Starovoitenko The legendary director Volker Schlendorf, one of the most noticeable figures of the new German cinema, received the Cannes “Golden Palm Branch” and “Oscars” for the famous film “Tin drum” based on the novel by Gunter Grasse, came to Moscow. In the capital, as part of the Rozamira'08 cultural intersections, the film “Ulzhan - Forgotten Light”, which takes place in Kazakhstan, was shown.

President and Prime Minister are measured Printed. There was hope: having canceled the elections of governors, blocking the electoral legislation, putting under the control of NPOs and the party, the authorities nevertheless will not dare to touch the letter of the Basic Law of the country. There was hope: they understand that the constitution is an institutional foundation for all Russian statehood, start to supervise the entire building.