Getting on the bus at Sheremetyevo-2, the champion of the Los Angeles Olympics-84 Moroccan Nawal El-Mutawakel looked at her watch. The walkie-talkies of those who met us immediately began to play rapidly: the check had begun, they wanted to calculate how long it would take to get from the airport to the center of Moscow. Well, you are welcome!

In the lingering song of the akyn, a familiar word is heard - “deputy”. Pensioner Farida slowly translates from Kyrgyz into Russian, her mouth full of gold teeth shining: "I'm tired of this life, I want to live calmly and well, so as not to stand in the square, to protect the deputy, but to be with my beloved." A good song, oppositional and about love, sums up Farida.

Suddenly I became the owner of a fortune. Exactly, “a fortune”, the parents called $15,000, proceeds from the sale of family real estate - grandma’s three-room apartment and a house in the city of Kovrov, there is one in the Vladimir region. They gave me the money with an indispensable condition: to buy an apartment in Moscow with it. I didn’t disappoint my parents by telling them what exactly could be bought in the capital with this money.

Marin Kharaba, a technologist at the Acorex winery, has his own recipe for good wine: “When you knead yeast, you have to hum the melody from the movie “9 ½ weeks”, then they multiply better.” Marin and I are going to the south of Moldova, to the village of Gaidar, where Acorex has 400 hectares of vineyards and its own factory. No one here doubts that Moldovan wine is the best in the world. And that is why Moldovans do not believe that Russia will ever stop drinking it.

In February, the leader of the new pro-Putin Nashi movement, Vasily Yakimenko, fell out with the leader of the new anti-Putin movement, Oborona, Ilya Yashin. “Take hold of his arms and legs and throw him out of here. Stick your head in a snowdrift, ”Yakimenko commanded his comrades who had gathered in the Senezh sanatorium and unexpectedly stumbled upon a political opponent - at least that’s what Yashin himself says. But last week, ideological rivals briefly united against a common enemy.

“Listen, Lun, stop writing in Chinese - you betrayed your Chinese ancestors. When we capture Taiwan, I will kill your whole family, no one will escape this fate. You are a traitor! " Signature - engineer Van Zhensha from Shanghai. This is one of dozens of reader letters that the famous Taiwanese writer Lun Intay, Columnist of the largest newspapers in China and Taiwan, receives.

Dear reader! March 24 marks five years since we live in the Putin era. The liberal dream never comes true when the head of state is not a hero whose name is given to the homeland during his reign - whether it be "Stalin's USSR" or "Yeltsin's Russia." And it turns out, depending on the regime, we live in different countries. Which one now?

Sentence GOOD PAY BUT LITTLE For the first time in Russian judicial practice, a sentence was passed for refusing to perform alternative civilian service (ACS). The opportunity to choose between the army and the ACS appeared among conscripts in January 2004. And in November last year, the Nizhny Novgorod conscript Maxim Zavrazhnov was sent to undergo the ACS in a nursing home for the elderly and disabled. Position - ward orderly, salary - 750 rubles.

About Jan Anderson all over the world they know that this is the person who jumps through the stage on the same leg with a flute in his hands. To experiment, mixing Scottish and English folklore motifs with blues and rock, Anderson's group Jethrotull began back in 1967. The experiment was already clearly in 1971, when the legendary Aqualang album appeared, from which the songs from which are still sounded in every concert. From March 22 to 24, Jethro Tull plays in Moscow and St. Petersburg.

In the match for the title of European football champion, the national teams of England and Spain met. It was in Hanover, half a half in the evening. Fans gathered hundreds of three. The English attackers Wayne Runi and Michael Owen shone - the final whistle of the judge made them champions. The Germans rejoiced. This is their compatriot led the English team to victory. And the Russians were most upset - the playing for the Spaniards Viktor Gusev got only “silver”.

Sports competitions, according to researchers, are now watched by 80% of all male viewers and almost half of the fair sex. Their tastes differ: men prefer football, boxing, hockey, Formula 1 and other auto racing. And the ladies - figure skating, gymnastics and, oddly enough, also football. Here, of course, the great merit of David Beckham, Francesco Totti and other handsome men and showmen from the sport. The picture of audience preferences is changing.

About the fact that there is nothing more important than sex, some spectators guessed themselves. The advanced fiberd directors learned this - secondly after the era of the sexual revolution - seven years ago. On March 24, in our rental, only at midnight sessions, the “9 songs” of the fashionable British Michael Winterbottom come out.

Anatoly Chubais : “I understand quite clearly who could have organized the assassination attempt ... Frankly, we had reason to assume something like that lately. In this regard, the day before, I gave the order to strengthen the security. The version about the "people's avenger" - a saboteur-pensioner, who allegedly staged an attempt on Anatoly Chubais on March 17, failed almost immediately. The remaining versions are as predictable as they are unfounded.

Bang-boom!—volleys burst from somewhere nearby, and the cows, pale chocolate cows, looked up from their chewing in surprise. Bang!—the calf gave way and collapsed from fright into the mud. But tanks are not afraid of dirt. And there wasn't much dirt either. In the morning, the sun blazing over Batumi dried up the earth, fresh grass made its way through it and, crushing this grass with caterpillars, the mighty T-62s slowly moved towards the sea.