- 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.

Once she was the “body of the Communist Party of Italy”, and now on its title sheet it is only indicated that it was founded by a certain Antonio Gramsha. It is unlikely that any of her young readers has an idea of those times. Yes, and today they prefer not to remember about the gram itself. Be that as it may - the newspaper "Unita", the first in my journalistic career, is closing. And today I would like to recall the times when I worked in it: this is 1979-89.

The federal group in Chechnya almost half consists of regional units - riot police, Sobrov, consolidated police units. All Russian republics, regions, and regions participate in the war with Chechnya. They divided the trouble into everyone and left one on one with her. Each province wages its own expense and its own account. Heroes honor and mourn the dead. And throughout the country, only anonymous figures of losses are announced. Until the numbers are deciphered, we know little about this war.

Shabdurasulov has long filed an application for leaving the Kremlin administration. But he did not leave. He expected him to be offered another worthy post. And he was not offered. And then, according to information from very ironic sources, he decided ... to stay. And in response, according to the story of the same source, they laughed in the face and threw it in one minute. At another moment, a faithful friend appeared - Boris Berezovsky.

... Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was lying in the hills on the bed, similar to the sarcophagus, and looked at the Japanese TV. On the screen - Lenin, lying in bed, as if peering into the future and, it seems, was not too pleased with what he saw. - I'm lying right, Alexander Nikolaevich? - Lenin - Leonid Mozgova to the director Alexander Sokurov turned, finally tearing his eyes from the monitor. - Yes, Leonid Pavlovich, everything is fine. Just try to maintain this condition, do not be distracted ...

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.

Her official title sounds like this: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth Koroleva Mother. Since her Majesty is an honorary colonel of several guards units, as well as the cartridge of the Royal Air Force Academy, the celebrations in her honor took place in the square in front of the barracks of the Royal Horse Guard, where guards parade grounds usually take place. The Queen Mother took the guard parade, during which the squadron of the Aircraft of the era of World War II flew over her head.

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.