An open, incendiary letter to those who have lost heart and are prostrated by their salaries. Dear workers - hostages of reforms! Our economy is going through difficult times: shutdowns of enterprises, forced vacations of workers, people’s fear of unemployment and bankruptcies. All social issues are related to the economy, especially labor relations in enterprises and the situation of the employees themselves.

The Azerbaijani parliament approved a presidential decree to extend the state of emergency in the capital for another 60 days. According to observers, this parliamentary decision indicates that Heydar Aliyev is not yet fully in control of the situation in the capital and in the republic in general.

Czech President Vaclav Havel called on the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe to begin sending peacekeeping forces to crisis zones. He told Czech Radio that the UN was overburdened with peacekeeping operations and that the CSCE could come to its aid.

REPORT FROM CHECHNYA There is no water, electricity, or gas in Urus-Martan. More than 80 percent of the population is left without work. Livestock farms have been dismantled (stolen). The cattle are eaten. Local residents, gathered around the correspondent, scold the dancing old men in the center of Grozny. In 1990, Chechnya collected money for the construction of a republican mosque (much like Russia did in its time for the Cathedral of Christ the Savior).

WELCOME HOME, JERRY Last week, at the age of 56, Jerry Rubin died after a heart attack, in the sixties - the “new leftist”, the founder of the Ilpi movement, a rebel and nonconformist, the author of the revolutionary manifesto “Before it!”, after - the “new rich”, the founder of the Ilpi movement, a careerist and conformist, shaking the American Express credit card at American universities with the cry: "Here is my revolution!" There were very few people like him among people like us.

If you imagine our planet as a small village with a population of 1000 people... Generation “Twenty-Nothing” Tom FRANK Kate WHITE In our village there are 5 soldiers, 7 teachers, 1 doctor and 3 refugees (from war and drought). One third (330) of all residents are children. Only 60 people are aged 65 and above. One in 1,000 is infected with the HIV virus (HIV), although it is possible that infection does not lead to the full form of acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).

BLOTTER. Part 2 It was he who “attacked” his historic flight; in any case, the symptoms are very similar. The cost of a dose is from forty thousand. Three young people were walking into the metro, where at that time representatives of the law were doing their duty. Three travelers passing by were asked to stop and follow them into the premises. When asked about the presence of prohibited items, they answered that there were none.

“Baker, why are you closing the bakery?” - “So there is no effective demand!” - “So thousands of people are starving.” - “But they don’t have money!” This parable is a rough model of the economic policies of the current government. Having drawn up a realistic budget that means "tightening the belts" for people, businesses and regions, it actively advertised it to industry last week.

Emissaries of Dzhokhar Dudayev are recruiting foreign mercenaries for possible sabotage and terrorist acts. The RIA Novosti correspondent was informed about this at the Temporary Information Center of Roskompechat, citing well-informed sources. Foreign armed groups arrive in Chechnya in violation of the rules for crossing the Russian state border. Members of the nationalist organization UNA-UNSO were transported to Grozny on a commercial flight.

The Grateful Dead plan to return to the studio soon to record a new album. The band's last album, Bilt To Last, was released in 1989. Also due in stores early in 1995 is a live album recorded by The Grateful Dead in Frankfurt in 1972.

I remember that at the very beginning of this strange concert, some of the spectators (I can’t speak for everyone) could not shake the feeling of a holiday that had not taken place in advance - in the dilapidated Petlyura Art Reserve, in an uncomfortable, crowded room with lousy sound. It had never been particularly cozy here, but that day everything seemed deliberately unsuited for people.

Letter five, sweeping aside mistrust LETTERS TO ALLA PUGACHEVA Hello, Alla Borisovna! Did you really doubt your abilities? Not for a second did the confidence leave my soul that your and Philip’s performance in Atlantic City would be successful. It was even strange to assume that the six-thousandth hall of the most expensive, as they say, in the world, the Taj Mahal hall, could only be mastered by our former compatriots.

Perhaps Maslyakov will notice if Marfin gives his blessing... On December 8, 1994, an interfaculty competition of KVN teams will take place at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering. This fact is noteworthy because Mikhail Marfin, the former leader of the KVN team of the Moscow Art Institute named after. Mendeleev, and later a popular TV presenter.

Van Morrison was so outraged that a correspondent for the Irish newspaper Press called him a "rock star" that he wrote to Melody journalist Mikey about it. For example, “My disease” is a moron, completely devoid of a sense of humor.”

Finally, the distributor of student travel cards at a Moscow university was approached by...