If you need to paint the ceiling, you go and buy a stepladder. There is a more primitive option - first to buy a ladder, and then think about how to use it in his national economy. The president decided to acquire a vertical of power. But, apparently, he does not yet know why. The primaryness of matter is a thing, of course, entertaining, but it seems that we have already passed it. So why do we need a vertical of power: paint the ceiling or maintain a “roof”?

September 29 - Jubilee concert of Isaac Schwartz Warm the old test? Answer without hesitation. Poet? Pushkin. River? Volga. Composer? Bach. Cinema composer? That's right, Isaac Schwartz. We remember him in the performance of the inimitable Luppyeva - “Your Blagority, Madam Luck”, “Drops of the Danish King” performed by the young Oleg Dal, “The straw hat” with the verses of Andrei Mironov, Zinovia Gerdt and Lyudmila Gurchenko, “The Star of Plenent Happiness” with the Cavalier Guard ...

Drawing S. Arukhanov Happy summer to Madame Forbes Ending. Start in No. 49 Mr. Ospozha Forbs sailed on the last Saturday of June on a steamer, regularly going to Pantellery from Palermo, and as soon as we saw her, we realized that the holiday was over. In an unbearable heat on her legs, she had soldier's boots, she was dressed in a double-breasted suit, and her hair under a felt hat was tonsured briefly, like a man. She smelled of monkey urine.

Drawing S. Arukhanov The story of one attempt Personnel specialists in the protection of state ideology, tired of idleness, can begin their direct duties. After a long search, Russia finally found a national idea. Her name is the fight against terrorism. And a terrorist, like a hero, can become everyone It’s once a day, and sometimes more often, the noisy Kutuzovsky Prospekt freezes.

A woman is more willing to lose her mind than love - Irina Ivanovna, before meeting with you, I diligently studied the folder in the library of the Union of Theater Workers of Russia ... - It is good that the folder is in the Union of Theater Workers, and not in another place. And what are they writing there? - Over the past fifteen to twenty years in each publication about you or interviews with you, concepts such as lack of demand and unrealization were necessarily present.

From dubious goods, advertising turned to the promotion of dubious norms of life While the New Gazeta exposed all sorts of different acts of high-ranking Russian officials, corruption finally became the norm of our life. Congratulations! It is only strange that such a natural and humanly understanding is designated by a closed foreign word. But everything is so simple: - The coffee shop is on shares! - And with whom on the shares? - Strictly asks Peter I, striving to become great.

In a country where even banks do not need money, Sberbank tries to effectively use it They somehow got used to that everything is absurd here, we no longer notice. Recently, I had a chance to dash with a fairly famous German investment banker who, for dessert, amused those gathered with his thoughts regarding the phenomenon of the Russian soul.

Drawing S. Arukhanov The first laureate of telepremia TEFI-2000 is political correctness, especially when you have to choose between NTV and ORT At the next meeting of the Russian Academy of Television, its chairman Vladimir Pozner announced the three leaders, of which, in a month, academics will choose the most and most-sung television people of the year. This year, the jury is as political correctly - carefully bypasses the corners flavored with politics.

Gennady Khazanov The Estra of the stage, which Khazanov has been led for three years, was born in the premiere. About her and about the pressing problems of the theater - Gennady Viktorovich Khazanov. The new project is designed to radically change the attitude to the theater, which in recent years has been able to interest the public only with scandalous friction in the team. At the end of May, we closed with a sense of anxiety: can we open the season in the repaired at least partially theater?

Island of St. Elena Because they are in the whole country - one Mr. OD I went to the bumps. The district center is four hours from Novosibirsk. Without reaching a bump, I saw a sign: "New Station." There is no railway in the district. Why the station, and even new? If the new, then was the old one? -Ah! Yes, this is twelve drunken yards and one teacher. Their president. She reigns there for twenty years, no less. The longest rulers. That's the whole station, ”said the driver.

Drawing S. Arukhanov Seryozha Semivolos in smell distinguishes fake dollars from real I have the opportunity to embroider a cross, but there is no such desire. I have a desire to see people through and through, but there is no way. It may be good that our capabilities do not always coincide with our desires - the structure of the world would be different. For example, Sergey Semivolos, a phenomenal guy from Saratov, would be useful to the state.

How the world of sound technology was blown up Today in Russian business, brothers with strong necks or ties with a famous administration succeed. (Everyone was equated to aim better). But in the history of the famous company there are episodes filled with amazing nobility in relation to consumers. And to competitors. Strange, but this is what led to wealth and good glory. A risky anniversary May 23, 1941 turned out to be one of the most amazing days in my life.

Photos from the archives "Snings" In memory of D. S. Likhachev And Kademik Sakharov devoted his life to the struggle for human rights. Academician Likhachev - the struggle for the rights of culture. Because he knew: there is neither a person nor a society outside of culture.

Industrialist and deputy Boris Zubitsky believes that the arrival of business to the State Duma is not scary In No. 48, “New Gazeta” published an investigation by Oleg Lurie “The Coxing use”, which described the activities of enterprises related to the State Duma deputy from the Unity faction Boris Zubitsky. Zubitsky did not like the contents of the article, since he does not consider himself the oligarch.

Photo by Artem Geodakyan Dolls invented by TV states for a charity auction are elusively similar to their creators At first there was a blank: clay pens-legs-heads, a rag body, closed eyes, a colorless wig-a doll germ. One hundred and forty -seven people, whose names are heard by everyone, turned a standard blank into a doll - into a beauty, harpium or a near -artistic “object”.