Explanatory note Dear colleagues! I became aware that as a result of my mild and short illness, we still suffered a serious loss. The fact is that, using my absence, you decided to remove my material from the room. The reason is that one of you said: "It seems we have already printed it ..." Well, I pay tribute to memorable professionals. Indeed, the text that I proposed was published in our newspaper on October 23, 1997. Notes were called the Bars Throw.

The thoroughness of a tightly tailored figure (evidence of peasant origin). A slow step (memory of a severe wound on the Volkhov Front). A leisurely speech, as if inviting the interlocutor to think (I always want him to say more). Such is Academician Alexander Nikolaevich Yakovlev. In Soviet times, he made a dizzying career - from the instructor of the provincial regional committee to a member of the Politburo.

Pavel Borodin, until the president’s omnipotent manager, is looking forward to Switzerland. At least, the order of his arrest, the Geneva judge Daniel Devo issued in December last year. The scandal that arose in Russia after the announcement of this news indicates a lot. First of all, the fact that the Mabetex case in Russia is prepared by a quiet death.

The World Economic Forum in Davos, which ended last week, will go down in history not only by the anniversary, thirtieth, serial number, but also an exceptionally scandalous atmosphere in which it took place. The forum, held under the sign of the worldwide globalization of economic processes, was faced with the visible rejection of this very globalization. However, the Russian participants, according to tradition, were far from world passions.

What is Putin's decree on the call of reservists is related to For two -month military training camps? With events in Chechnya with ordinary retraining practice To maintain a patriotic spirit of citizens Do not ask who they are bombing in the journalistic workshop January 31. A rally by the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in support of Alexander Khinshtein You will not envy a journalist who gets into a bad, unpleasant, dangerous situation today.

Recent shifts in the capital's leadership provoked a natural interest in the plans of the Moscow Mayor for a new term. “Og” asked Yuri Luzhkov to tell what was waiting for Muscovites in the next four years. Yuri Mikhailovich, to what extent the next four years will be a continuation of the begun for you, and in which one - a new stage? Can you name the tasks for which the metropolitan government is taken for the first time? It is difficult for me to separate one from the other.

Last week, the police of Beslan Gantemirov surrendered "for the mercy of the winners" of 250 militants. The Moscow Information Center immediately announced the decisive psychological fracture in the anti -terrorist operation and the imminent liberation of the entire Chechen capital. Last week, the police of Beslan Gantemirov surrendered "for the mercy of the winners" of 250 militants.

After Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin exchanged ratification letters last week, the Belarusian president (and from now on the chairman of the highest state council of Suuza) said that a new state would soon appear on the world map. However, will ordinary Russians and Belarusians win or lose from this?

Recently, an advisory meeting dedicated to international adoption was held in the small French town of Arras. Its participants were Western European families, adopting children from Russia at one time. These people selflessly help those compatriots who decide to repeat their path. All of them came to Arras to exchange experience and opinions. All at their own expense, for their own money, they also invited journalists - including from Russia, from the "common newspaper".

Of the events of 1940, 10 out of 15 experts and readers chose the murder of Leo Trotsky. He died at his villa in Mexico by the hands of the NKVD agent Ramon Mercader on August 20, 1940. Of the events of 1940, 10 out of 15 experts and readers chose the murder of Leo Trotsky. He died at his villa in Mexico by the hands of the NKVD agent Ramon Mercader on August 20, 1940.

From the war, any news is bad. Even those that are good. As soon as they transferred the successes of our army in the Caucasus, as acting The president warned the country about possible terrorist attacks in Russian cities. Moscow is one of the goals of terrorists. Since September 9, the day of the tragedy in printers, the metropolitan police work almost constantly on extraordinary schedule - seven days a week, twelve hours a day.

"Rabies is an acute infectious disease that affects the central nervous system" (BSE). Frantic are among people. They are imbued with the zoological instinct of hatred, a frantic desire to bite, poison, destroy, if another, according to their ideas, is “not pure faith” or “not pure nation”. "Rabies is an acute infectious disease that affects the central nervous system" (BSE). Frantic are among people.

The hopes that the current Chechen campaign would be more civilized than the previous one did not materialize. In any case, they lie to us, as before. The reports about the losses are increasingly contrary to unofficial data (according to our information, only last week and only in Moscow and the Moscow Region, about three hundred wounded were received. Half of them are heavy).

Photo by Artem ZHITENEV Now, in the years of human darkness, when people’s hearts are full of malice, hatred, when everyone complains about life, sometimes curses it, sometimes throws it into the mud, underfoot, trampling the God-given happiness of belonging to life, the fate of Anna Petrovna Ganyushkina from the Orenburg region seems to me enviably whole, rich and, I’m not afraid of a well-worn good word, courageous.

Already now we can safely say that the “Nikitin case”, in which an expressive point was recently set (although there are forces ready to turn it into an ellipsis), has become a turning phenomenon in the latest history of Russia. Perhaps this is the first and so far the only thing in our judicial practice, initiated by the special services, but contrary to it ended in the complete excuse of the accused. Moreover, in the hall of the City Court of St.