The entire sports complex of Luzhnikov occupies a large area - 180 hectares. On three sides - Moscow -River. The place is low, marshy: one of the shores is very steep, the Vorobyovs mountains rise above it, and during the spring floods, when ice was melted on the river, and snow came from the mountain, water flooded this peninsula, huge puddles arose. From here, according to one version, the name of this area went.

The decade of August events of 1991 is approaching. We turn to our readers with a request to answer the questions: - What, in your opinion, happened to us over these ten years? - We have become smarter? - We have become more fair? - We have become more tolerant? - We have become freer? Guide your answers by e -mail to secretar@og.ru

The night after the election of the governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region gave two sensations. The first - the communist won. The second, which was found out in the morning - he is no longer a communist. After the first round, the authorities (envoy, regional administration) did not show much concern about the second round. The feeling was created that everything was a foregone conclusion and won Sklyarov.

The State Duma examined and adopted in the first reading a large package of bills to reform the judicial system. And the struggle for laws continues - in the form of a tough confrontation of the deputy head of the administration of the President Dmitry Kozak, who heads the working group on judicial legal reform, and departments and officials whose interests this reform directly affects. Each of the parties in this struggle has its own truth.

In the already difficult situation in the Middle East, in the last time, another unpredictable element “wedged” - sharply aggravated relations between the leadership of the Palestinian autonomy and the leaders of the Arab militarized groups. According to many analysts, the currently opposing radicals, Yasir Arafat, more than ever, needs the support of both the world community and the leadership of Israel, if it is interested in the continuation of the peace process.

The problem of football fans did not arise today. Many still recall the so -called “Death Train”: in 1981, after the Spartak match and CSKA Spartachi, they attacked the “Army” metro car at all stops from “Sports” to “Lermontovskaya”. Always imitated England and its crazy fans. No wonder many Russian fan groups use the British flag of Junion Jack in their symbolism.

The Nevinnomyssk-Stavropol bus was supposed to go on a regular flight on July 31 at 6.30 Moscow time. But a minute before he was departed, a man entered him, who, threatening passengers and a driver by AK-74 automatically, said that he would take them all in hostage and the bus would not go to Stavropol, but to mineral waters ... The first thing the terrorist, who called Aslan, demanded from the hostages was to give him all the radios.

In the Black Sea Fleet, not everything is as great as it is shown on TV The day of the Navy in Sevastopol was celebrated with brilliance. And although much was there, as last year, when the ships of the Black Sea Fleet of Russia and the Naval Forces of Ukraine took part in the anniversary of the 60th naval parade, the scope of the current celebration surpassed all expectations.

Gosha lies on the floor, neither alive nor dead, unable to rise or at least move his hand. In a condition, consider, clinical death. He will die completely if someone does not appear nearby, familiar at least with the simplest techniques of resuscitation. Gosha’s self -confident intervention will not suffer.

About non-ferrous metals, we heard that for some reason they are stealing and handed over to the utility. But we don’t say a word - what happens further with non -ferrous metals. However, we know from our own experience that you will not find cheap aluminum dishes: saucepan, gangs, pelvis, bowls. Everything, you know, has risen in price, even a bucket! ..

The first season of the Moscow Art Theater named after A.P. Chekhov with a new artistic director ended. Instead of a widely declared updated version of the legendary “Seagull”, the pre -premiere of “play from music and light” by Mikhail Bulgakov “Kabala Svyatosh (Moliere)” in the production of Adolf Shapiro with a Khudruk in the main role was held.

EURONEWS on the second television channel EURONEWS on the second television company EURONEWS will be the first Western media to begin to broadcast its news in Russian through Moscow television and television. According to the British newspaper The Financial Times, the corresponding agreement “Euronews” concluded with the Russian television channel RTR. About this project, Russian President V.

Semyon Levin is a cult figure in the world of mass media. As evidenced by the fact that Victor Pelevin in the cult work of Generation P brought him as one of the characters under the name Semyon Velin. This Semyon Velin came up with a green ball, in which he later rolled up and rolled out of the Ostankino television center.

On July 30, the owner of 75% of the shares of the TV TV 6 Boris Berezovsky announced the transfer of the Channel for the Channel group Media-Most, which the current CEO of TV 6 Evgeny Kiselev is represented by mutual agreement.

The flow of reports about all new "Eurasian" initiatives cannot be the result of a clean conjuncture. Of course, “Eurasianism”, more precisely, faith in a special - non -European - holistic civilizational essence of Russia, has always been fashionable after each breakdown of the next European -Democratic project. Uvarovschina with its three sources and three components - after the Decembrists.