“This article was written by me as a result of work in the Winston Churchill archive at Churchill College, Cambridge. It does not purport to be a study of diplomatic or military history. Most likely, this is a cultural scientist’s view of a person who played a huge role in English political history and British-Soviet relations during the Second World War,” writes the famous aesthetic philosopher, student and co-author of A.F.

In China, on the eve of the 15th anniversary of the execution of a mass demonstration in the center of Beijing, a bill was adopted, in which it is forbidden to conduct demonstrations on Tiananmen Square. It was adopted by the Legislative Assembly of Beijing and will enter into force on Tuesday, according to the Chinese news agency Sinhua. On June 4, 1989, the largest anti -government demonstration in the history of the communist China Square was held on Tiananmen Square.

The head of the RAO "UES of Russia" Anatoly Chubais believes that in the letter "Crisis of Liberalism" the former head of the company "Yukos" Mikhail Khodorkovsky "repents" for his sins. "Khodorkovsky was never a liberal, he repents for me, for my sins. The question arises - what does he have not? He is not fair in relation to himself," Chubais said at a meeting with reporters in London, RIA Novosti reports.

The middle of last week was marked by a slight currency panic. The US dollar, which had been constantly falling against the euro for two years, suddenly changed its trajectory and began to win back. Global financial markets became agitated and, following the euro, securities prices began to fall. This wave also covered Russia, the dollar exchange rate against the ruble jumped by almost ten kopecks, and the rates of corporate bonds and shares simultaneously fell.

More than half of the Japanese - 65% - support the government’s decision not to withdraw a military contingent from Iraq. This is evidenced by the results of a telephone survey conducted by the Minity newspaper, RIA Novosti reports. Nevertheless, after the incident with hostages, the number of those who do not support the presence of Japanese troops in Iraq has increased significantly and amounted to 29%. On April 4, three Japanese citizens were taken hostage in Iraq.

The Arab television channel Al-Arabia reported last night the destruction of the foreign mercenary Abu Al-Valid in Chechnya. Information about this channel was provided by the brother of the militant Abdulla Aal Said al-Gamdi. However, he could not tell the details about the death of his brother. The father of Abu Al-Valid also confirmed on Monday the Saudi newspaper Al-Watan the fact of the death of his son in Chechnya.

From tomorrow, Moscow schoolchildren will go to 5-day military training camps . The corresponding decree was signed by the mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov. Training fees will be held from April 20 to June 20 according to a 40-hour training program. A special headquarters was created for their organization, which included representatives of the Department of Education, Military Commissariat and Prefector.

The supporting structures of the hostel building in the garden passage, 25, in which an explosion occurred on Sunday evening, was practically not injured. This was announced on Monday night by Igor Rikhanov, First Deputy Prefect of the North-Eastern Administrative District of the capital. Glasses flew out in the building, with fragments of which 20 inhabitants of the hostel were injured. There are no seriously injured. According to reports, it was still an explosion of gas.

Vitaly Nayshul (one of the authors of the 90s reforms), speaking on Thursday with a public lecture at Polit.ru, told an entertaining thing: in his opinion, one should give a million to those who can write for the president we are talking about the state in the country, so it would be meaningful and understandable to all the people. It means that the state of our political (social science) thought and the political language in Russia is prehistoric. You can neither say anything.

Vitaly Leibin Still poverty. TV channels and televisors are repeated about her. Another understandable Russian word will soon become rude chancellery. Incomprehensible and meaningless. But when the next campaign was invented, it was meant that the struggle with poverty was that the people and power can unite.

OJSC "Kostroma GRES" and the Power Machines concern signed an agreement on the modernization of steam turbines, the independent newspaper reports. The work will last four years, which will lead to an increase in the capacity of each turbine by 20 MW, as a result of which the specific fuel consumption will decrease and in general the cost -effectiveness of the station will increase, the Monitor reports. According to the general director of the Kostroma GRES N.

The stabilization fund will be formed in two years, said Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov, speaking on Monday at the seventh Russian Economic Forum in London. According to him. If oil prices are saved in the interval of $ 27-30 for the barrel of the Urals brand, then the formation of a stabilization fund, whose lower bar was planned at the amount of 500 billion rubles, will end until the end of 2005. The stabilization fund will be completely formed in two years.

The federal forces are in no hurry to confirm the fact of the death of Abu al-Valid so that the embarrassment does not work out. So believes the deputy chairman of the State Duma defense committee Gennady Gudkov. “The federal forces taught by past experience are in no hurry to declare al-Valid the killed, preferring to make sure that he was dead. There were more than once embarrassment when such statements were made, and then it turned out that the militants were alive and good.

The process of withdrawing the Spanish troops from Iraq has already begun. According to ITAR-TASS, this was stated by the Minister of Defense of the country Jose Bono.

Iraqi security forces will not be able to independently protect the country from militants by June 30, when the coalition plans to transfer authority to the national government. This statement was made today by the head of the temporary American administration in Iraq, Paul Bremer.