If the weak are crowded into the army - surrender, enemy, freeze and lie down... The degradation of a nation can be judged by various signs: by infant mortality, by the number of mentally retarded people per capita, by the spiritual impoverishment of the population and by the faces of politicians... Or, perhaps, by the state of the army.

Cutting and selling meat away from Moscow markets is safer and more profitable. An increasing number of farmers near Moscow who supply meat and dairy products from their own farms are coming to this conclusion. There is only one explanation - the missiles are coming. You have to think not about your wallet, but about life. But here another problem arises. You and I, the buyers, are already taking risks. Maso - without sanitary control. But Brucella, as you know, cannot be seen with the eye...

To the editor-in-chief of Novaya Daily Newspaper, Mr. Lepekhin V.A. “information” carried by one of your employees, according to which approximately a few months ago a certain bank “Favorit” “transferred... two million dollars to finance the “Democratic Choice of Russia”?

The culture of St. Petersburg can be understood and traced through the glorious history of this numerous and diversely gifted family. Every Russian intellectual has his own favorite in this family. A meeting with him and the entire Benois family was presented to the people of St. Petersburg by the Russian Museum, the Benois Family Museum in Peterhof and the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, opening a representative exhibition in the Manege at the end of November.

Russian generals are terribly feared in the wild West. A few days ago, talking in London with one of the prominent Conservative parliamentarians, G. Atkison, who oversees Tory contacts with the European Union and other pan-European organizations, when asked: “What problems does the Conservative of Britain have?” - I heard the answer: “I have one problem - the 14th Army in the Dniester region.” In all seriousness. Other British politicians expressed similar concerns.

Madonna's new disc "Bed Stories" was released in Europe at the end of October. Also recently released was an album of photographs of the singer, published by Wade Retro. Madonna's new image - Hollywood hair and makeup Damn reincarnation! What is she doing with the kind and wonderful Chinese emperors... Madonna's new disc "Bed Stories" was released in Europe at the end of October. Also recently released was an album of photographs of the singer, published by Wade Retro.

The reasons why Leonid Heifeu turned to Alexander Ostrovsky’s play “On a Lively Place” are quite transparent, almost banal. When the whole country has been turned into a huge royal reserve, all the valuable imkhali are not so much turned upside down, but discarded as unnecessary, the story of the suspicious courtyard seems to have been cut from life.

The Ministry of Railways announced a curfew, or Defector Andrey ISCHENKO This morning I woke up in the editorial chair and thought. Of course, this is my personal business - where to wake up and where to start the morning: with thinking or with washing. However, in the absence of tooth bristles, I inevitably began to think: why, for example, does the state - not some kind of Burhun state, but the most dear thing - not love me so much?

Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev began negotiations with the Chechen opposition led by Umar Avturkhanov. The minister's question about his readiness to lay down his arms was answered positively. The Russian minister is going to ask Dudayev the same question if he agrees to the meeting. According to the opposition, after the situation in Chechnya normalizes, free elections should be held.

ENTREPRENEURS WHO PLAY POLITICS Vadim MALAKHITOV We will immediately give a proactive answer to the question about the legality of including K. Borovoy in the list. Formally, he, now occupying the position of deputy general director of NPO Molniya, no longer belongs to the new business. But one cannot deny its significant role in the formation of the Russian Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange. Precisely as its president, i.e.

The agenda of the thirteenth meeting of the Federation Council included both “traditional” issues (approval of the presidential decree on the state of emergency in North Ossetia and Ingushetia; elections of judges of the Constitutional and Supreme Court; discussion of the issue of the Prosecutor General), and the “sore topic” of the day - the situation in the Chechen Republic.

Polish President Walesa gave Boris Yeltsin what used to be called an “angry rebuke” in Budapest. He said that the time had passed when someone could dictate their will to Poland and determine the political configuration of Europe. Yesterday, Polish President Walesa attended a banquet in which Yeltsin was supposed to participate, but the Russian president did not obey him.

To paraphrase the poet, we can say that the special services in Russia are more than special services. Well, where in the USA will you find an FBI that would recruit “soldiers of fortune in the armed forces, and all this for the war with the state of Connecticut? Can you imagine the White House security detail keeping one of the major Wall Street banks under siege for several hours? They have the plot for Hollywood. For us, this is a story for television and newspapers.

The magazine "Soviet Union" became the magazine "New Russia" "New Russia. Sunday". M 2, 1994. Quarterly literary and artistic-cublicistic journal. Published in Russian and English. “New Russia” publishes a short essay by Viktor Krivulin, three elegant and revealing texts by Viktor Tonorov: about Gaidar and Yalinsky, about Vail and Genis, about radicals in general (the last one is the most poignant...).

Nine State Duma deputies from the Yabloko faction, including Grigory Yavlinsky, flew to Nazran to then cross over to Grozny. They agreed with Dudayev that they would remain in Chechnya as hostages instead of Russian prisoners of war. The chairman of the Duma Defense Committee, Yushenkov, flew to Ingushetia on the same flight. He will receive liberated Russians in Nazran and accompany them to Moscow.