On December 2, 1986, two not very young and not very healthy people - a man and a woman - got on a train. Such a wonderful event occurred in their life: they entered the wagon together. Andrei Dmitrievich was so amazed at this ordinary human opportunity that he described her in the diary. Seven years, without a month, he escorted Elena Georgievna to the station to the carriage and returned to Gorkovskaya his audited and visible apartment to worry and wait.

The idea of combating separatism, with the threat of the "collapse of Russia" is one of a few really felt ideas of our president. “Dagestan would swept - and that’s it,” he says in his book, in my opinion, somewhat exaggerating the desire of different peoples to escape from the state he head. "The Caucasus would have gone all ... and then up the Volga - Bashkortostan, Tatarstan." What leads, according to Putin, to separatism?

For more than a year, a court decision has been prepared to conclude the Main Military Prosecutor's Office on the refusal to rehabilitate Lavrenty Beria and six of its closest associates. It took place last Tuesday.

Last week, a small skirmish occurred between the Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and the head of the Central Bank, Viktor Gerashchenko, which threatens, however, to turn into great troubles for the country's economy. The prime minister, speaking in the State Duma, said that the high ruble’s high exchange rate does not meet the interests of the Russian economy.

The Central Bank of Russia continues to shake loud scandals. Last week, a plot was promoted with might and main, related to the arrest of foreign property of the Central Bank in the lawsuit of the Swiss company "Noga" in the amount of $ 62 million. Before that, there was an epic with money laundering in Bony, even earlier - with Fimako.

When you hear how dear NTV observers are touched by the public resonance that caused the “collision” of the special services to the company Media-Most, you begin to doubt their competence. But do they know how the press outside the Moscow Koltseva has lived all these years? Linking the pressure on independent media with the advent of the new owner in the Kremlin and noting, in their opinion, the only merit of Yeltsin is freedom of speech, do they give themselves to what they say?!

In mid -June, President Vladimir Putin must present his first annual message to the Federal Assembly. By tradition, instructed under Yeltsin, the report of the head of state is considered to be a program of presidential actions for the current year. True, people who prepared messages for Yeltsin attribute these works to the genre of intra -decoration. In previous years, these were a kind of explanation for one near -presidential group with another.

Water is one of the largest mysteries of the capital. In the city, for example, more than a hundred various centers to control its quality. But the townspeople really do not know what flows from under the crane. But they regularly believe in advertising, buying filters and "super -cleaned water" in bottles from underground wells and from mountain peaks. " The capital is actually, from what Moscow water is, and with what "water" difficulties the capital faces, we are going to tell.

Recently, two pages from the zone appeared on the Internet. One is from the distant Altai city of Rubtsovsk (www.rubtsovsk.ru/~zona/), the other from Ivanovo (www.uin.ivanovo.ru). An attempt to fight electronic reality and prison reality promises freedom to the Russian prisoner. But so far only virtual. Recently, two pages from the zone appeared on the Internet. One is from the distant Altai city of Rubtsovsk (www.rubtsovsk.ru/~zona/), the other from Ivanovo (www.uin.ivanovo.ru).

Photo by Sergei KHVOROSTOV In the photo: Vladimir Kadannikov’s office has been taken! Moscow Margarita VODYANOVA CONTRARY to expectations, we freely entered the building of the Central House of Actors, where AvtoVAZ rents premises for its representative office. The door to the office we were interested in was open, and in an unnatural way: two heavy-duty sledgehammers of different sizes were leaning against it, and an electric saw rested next to it.

At the summit in Moscow, the Clinton administration seems to be the tactics of salvation of the face. And both sides, most likely, politely postpone the solution to the main problems before the new administration came to power in Washington. But given that both leaders want to get their "Navar", in Moscow, apparently, they will converge at some memorandum.

Three years ago, on the eve of the seventieth anniversary of Oleg, I was cut in the editorial office: “Can you really agree with Efremov about an interview for a“ common newspaper ”... I am dialing a number.“ Yegor? ” - he learns from the very first words, although I have not called back for several years. I begin to convince: they say, you have a round date, and you pay off the correspondent with our correspondent.

Of the events of 1954, 8 out of 15 experts and readers chose the colonial wars of France in Indochina and Algeria. The first of them ended in May 1954 with a defeat of the metropolis at Dianbenf. The second began in November of the same year. White against yellow Vadim Erlichman White against yellow Vadim Erlichman Indochina was a colony of France since the 19th century. But against the French, the Communists, led by Ho Shi mine, raised an uprising.

I came across this story that really happened to one of my friends, four years ago and I wanted to write it down at the same time. But employment by other cases in 1996 did not allow me to do this. However, recently, the young producer Roman Borisevich invited me to write a movie scene on her basis, and I, with the kind permission of the widow M.I. Varzumov, I propose a “general newspaper” a brief report on what I did.

Who should Russia be friends with? USA Belarus Papua - New Guinea Australia With all humanity With no one And so I wanted to talk more Parting with Efremov - farewell with most of his own life Each of us is forced to live in his time. And to comprehend it, thereby breaking out for decades ahead, is given a few. Oleg possessed this gift, and this is primarily an amazing talent of a citizen. After decades of humiliation of a person, his frank extermination of Efremov raised an uprising for a man!