Soviet time. Tuapse. Summer. Heat. In the only kiosk in the entire coastal city, an impressive aunt sits, akimbo. And on a white sheet it says: “No ice cream !!!” That's right: with three exclamations. Evil expression...

Alexey VENEDIKTOV is not looking for an alternative airfield Negotiations between representatives of the Ekho Moskvy radio station and Gazprom on the acquisition of a controlling stake by journalists are surprisingly calm - no nightly seizures, no general layoffs ....

MOSCOW GIVED A CHANCE TO BUILD ANOTHER POTEMKIN VILLAGE AND CONTINUE THE WAR IN THE SAME SPIRIT The past week has presented the clearest proof of how deeply we were carried away by the restoration of the Brezhnev era. Once an influential...

Memory is like a woman: capricious and fickle. And always ready to change. To keep her, you need to give her all sorts of cute little things. Perhaps in many years they will not cause the same sentimentality, but nostalgia - for sure. Isn't that necessary...

Without the investment attractiveness of RAO UES, Russia may become an energy-deficient country Much depends on the decision of the government and its consistent implementation, in particular, whether we will find ourselves in a situation of an energy crisis....

The beginning of May was marked by an aggravation of relations between the two titans - the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant and Krasnoyarskenergo. A lot has happened in the last two weeks. It all started with the fact that on May 4, the media of the city of Krasnoyarsk raised ...

SAKHAROV TRIED TO DISSURE ME 25 years ago, the writer Gladilin left his homeland The name of the prose writer Anatoly Gladilin became widely known in the first "thaw" years, along with the names of Vasily Aksenov, Evgeny Yevtushenko, Bulat Okudzhava, ...

How to dismantle old manuscripts that do not burn or smolder The director of the Pskov Regional Puppet Theater, Ms. Aab, was extremely specific: “Leshenka, dear, we work quickly, with four hands. See how much is there!” And Tatyana...

Oleg YANKOVSKY: Let's somehow rise from the whole world From "Til" and "Munchausen" - to "Swift", the play "A Plague on Both Your Houses!", "The Three-Ruble Opera". Almost every new play by the romantic wit Grigory Gorin seemed to be the most...

THE MAN WHO WAS NOT A play for younger schoolchildren with tricks, but without deceit 1975, SD DOVLATOV. Len-d, F-2 (most likely "F" - the seal is very illegible, about the fifth copy of the carbon paper. - Approx. A. Maslova), st. Rubinstein, d...

How referees are appointed for football matches. And why they are then beaten Last week was marked by the beating of judges. In Chita, the team players beat the referee on the field, in Perm - someone unknown after the match, Bezzubyak - in St. Petersburg at home. More...

Bad managers say goodbye, but do not leave On May 24, the next meeting of shareholders of one of the largest metallurgical companies in Russia, NOSTA, will take place. The special attention of the domestic media to this ordinary, in general, event was manifested in ...

The Duma is sequestering its own permission for governors to run for a third term. Can you count to two? Ridiculous question, you say, you were taught this for three years ... But do not rush to be categorical. Here are our legislative and...

Personal exhibition of Maria Vladimirova in the Israeli Cultural Center The Moscow group "Third Millennium" and the Museum of Modern Russian Art near New York organized a personal exhibition in the premises of the Israeli Cultural Center...

The school has always been in the center of attention of the progressive public. We all left school. Incidentally, the social relations that we have today are also a product of our school. It is important. The question is: when will we actually...