WHEN THE TRAIN ENDED, THERE IS NOTHING TO EXPECT Hippies are the waiting room of a station that has lost its timetable The Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul attracts tourists with its swamp. It's called pantanal. There is a ti-yu-yu bird in it. And a capybara...

He was awakened by Putin's failures The fact that the March presidential elections in Russia were rigged was announced by the independent press and the opposition almost on the evening of voting. Everything aroused suspicions: both the voter lists and the official...

The General Staff publicly accused the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB of inefficiency. The reasons presented by Kvashnin were formal: attacks on military convoys in Chechnya, terrorist attacks and sabotage in the rear of the army, which, according to the generals, had already completed its main mission ....

Mikhail LEVITIN, director of the Hermitage Theater In September 1982, all of Moscow was excited by the production of the Moscow Hermitage Theater Kharms! Charms! Shardam! Or School of Clowns" by Daniil Kharms. From the Garden Ring to the Hermitage Theater (then...

Naive Russians are convinced that our ruble is exactly the same - both in Vladivostok and in Mytishchi. In vain they think so. The subterfuge is obvious. If you take a person who has just received a salary in Moscow and transfer him to the outback ...

WHERE YOU HAVE THE NORTH, WE HAVE DUKE The musical compass determined the direction of his life. And music. And love The apartment was completely redone by the owner himself. From the three-room "vest" it turned out stylish, with separate passages. Twenty five years...

The search for those responsible for the explosion on Pushkinskaya has narrowed. Up to the size of eyes on August 31 in the capital on suspicion of organizing an explosion on Pushkin Square were arrested: Turpal-Ali Dzhabrailov, Muscovite, businessman, 36 years old. His elder brother Turpal...

Severe male. Enveloping feminine. Growling "Evening on ORRRT!" and the rustle “On the En channel. Te. Fee! The voice of the TV channel is no longer mumbling behind the scenes: “Don't forget to turn off the TV!”. The voice of the TV channel is its second "I",...

Mutual responsibility with a criminal odor flourishes on the Russian securities market The Russian government has repeatedly assured the population that the repetition of the mistakes of privatizations of previous years is excluded: now, they say, the rules of the game are under ...

For several months now, newspapers and television have been buzzing about a failed assassination attempt on the Kemerovo governor Aman Tuleev. We were the first to inform our readers that this attempt had taken place, and that the killer had been arrested and...

For citizens who regard art as a religion, and who also consider it possible to combine the purification of the spirit with religion and art at the same time, the Central House of Artists on Krymsky Val opened two exhibitions at once. One of them is part of an extensive series...

The story of one fake The leadership of the Federal Security Service does not like to remember their own failures. Especially when the ugly affairs of the Chekists become the subject of journalistic investigations. And if such material is put forward on ...

The government's interest in fascist political technologies awakened At the beginning of the second Chechen campaign, we were shown generals distributing humanitarian aid and military men opening schools. Then these scenes almost disappeared from the TV screens ....

Interestingly, the language barrier is not a hindrance to the mysterious power over the reader's minds. So, the translated Hemingway certainly was the master of the thoughts of the Soviet youth of the 60s. And in the late 70s - early 80s, Gabriel Garcia confidently took this place ...

At a meeting on September 19, 2000, the Public Council of NTV considered the situation around the television company in the light of the details of the negotiations between Gazprom-Media and Media-Most that became known. The Board believes that this issue is directly related to...