At the largest metallurgical enterprise in Kazakhstan, a commotion: an independent environmental audit came. While environmentalists are conducting their measurements, the free shift of workers is asking for a physical examination - data on the state of health of the factory workers will be included in the audit. A woman in a white robe asks the patient to sit down to the table and substitute ... an ear. Electrodes from a small tidy quickly run along the auricle.

Last week, Boris Berezovsky decided to organize his own deputy group. The leaders of the Duma fractions were panic. Watching how Boris Abramovich shuts their people, they called the recruiter with the last words, threatened the prosecutor, but their curses were powerless, because you could not kill the price with words. According to Culuar Information, each baptist deputy received 100 thousand dollars at a time - there are no arguments against that kind of money.

The General Director of the State Scientific Center for virology and biotechnology "Vector", where they work with especially dangerous viruses, academician Lev Sandakhchiev is tired of the attacks of the press.

They looked at the “unity” as one -day company, which was established for the most modest need - so that there was someone to register the parliamentary mandates due to Vladimir Putin. More precisely, the nonexistent party of Putin. Further, the movement was supposed to cringe to the deputy faction and move into oblivion. Therefore, the decision to build on the basis of a hastily knocked -up electoral bloc was met with a fair skepticism. What party, from what?

Last Monday Vladimir Putin went to the Eight summit ahead of time, dedicating his visits to China and North Korea to him. In China, Vladimir Putin was expected for a long time. Boris Yeltsin at the end of last year promised, being in Beijing, that in January 2000, Prime Minister Putin, who would ensure a breakthrough in the Russian-Chinese direction. But, becoming the president, Vladimir Putin preferred to first demonstrate commitment to European values.

During his stay in the office of the authorities, Alexei Leonidovich acquired a reputation as a “technocrat”, a supporter of moderately liberal body movements in the economy and an intelligent person. It is not clear how this last quality is compatible with its long stay in the circle of senior government officials. It is also not clear how these characterological characteristics get along in it with a clear tendency to save the treasury from unrighteous encroachments.

The second Ural exhibition of weapons and military equipment "Ural Expo Arms 2000" ended on a high note. On the penultimate day, the President of Russia visited it himself that local provincial officials and regional creators of weapons perceived with special optimism. The second Ural exhibition of weapons and military equipment "Ural Expo Arms 2000" ended on a high note.

Yuri Burtin wrote an excellent article (“New Putin and New Opposition”, “OG”, No. 26). I agree with him by 90 percent and I only want to supplement his theses a little, as well as say about the remaining 10 percent. Burtin correctly says that the contradictions between the presidential authority and the “ruling class”, which potentially existed under Yeltsin, sharply intensified with the coming to Putin’s power and reach the severity of the political crisis.

With whom should the Kremlin negotiate in Chechnya? With Kadyrov and other loyal Moscow people With Maskhadov and militants' leaders With no one The president will not have to wait for merits from Western creditors The slow -witness of the Moscow guest was compensated by the multiplicity of the retinue. Six federal ministers, governors, deputies, and employees of the presidential administration accompanied Putin on Beijing with a motorcade of 37 limousines.

The head of the FSNP Vyacheslav Soltaganov seems to hold us for idiots. His words that criminal cases against AvtoVAZ and LUKOIL can be terminated if enterprises pay with the budget - outside the legal field. If there is a violation of the law, a criminal case must be instituted if it is not - the initiation of the case is illegal. Everything else is racketeering. The Lukoil is awarded the prize of a “bona fide taxpayer”, and then they are accused of concealing tens of millions of dollars.

When Artem Khadzhibekov successfully debuted in large competitions, experts spoke about the “sports genes” inherited from his parents. And there is probably a share of truth in this. When Artem Khadzhibekov successfully debuted in large competitions, experts spoke about the “sports genes” inherited from his parents. And there is probably a share of truth in this. - I was born in a family of engineers.

Baron Falz -Fein is a Russian aristocrat living in Liechtenstein, a famous philanthropist. He does not spare money for Russian culture, buying out objects of art taken to a revolution from Russia and returning it to their homeland. He recently opened a monument to Suvorov in the Alps, today is finances the restoration of the Amber Room, the Suvorov School (former Page Corps), where his grandfather N.A. was once the director. Epanchin. He remembers journalists and readily agrees to meet again.

In July, Baikonur has a lot of mirages. At least, they arose not only before my eyes, but also everyone with whom it happened to fly here at the zenith of the summer ... The heat is terrible, the air is filled with fine dust, from which it is impossible to get rid of. Even then, a week after returning, you feel it on your teeth. Or is it another illusion, Mirage? In July, Baikonur has a lot of mirages.

- It cannot be! - Specialists are surprised. - A child with a severe form of Dowun’s disease cannot find in the picture of Rembrandt's old father and a prodigal son, and even try to retell the biblical story. Theoretically, he should not distinguish a circle from the square ... Fortunately, not everyone is fond of theories. Otherwise, the beautiful amateurs that I am going to talk about could never be able, like Pygmalion, to sculpt a person from a silent piece of matter.

Once I received a notebook by mail with the memoirs of pensioner Ivan Platonov Platonov, who lived in Borovichi. He turned out to be from the soldiers guarding Tsar Nicholas II with his family after their arrest. I hurried to the author of the notes. In the conversation, we complemented and clarified a lot. For thirty years, the manuscript lay in the box of my table, because it was impossible to think about its publication. Such an opportunity introduced itself only now.