In the previous elections of the Pope almost 27 years ago in Rome, slogans were written on the walls: “We want the Pope to be Roman, at worst Italian.” This spring, the Romans reacted surprisingly calmly to the accession of a foreigner to the Holy See. “It is even beneficial for Italy that the Pope is not from here,” explains Stefano Serafini, head of the publishing house of the Pontifical University Anglicum, where Karol Wojtyla, the future John Paul II, studied.

Despite the efforts of WHO and humanitarian organizations, the world's largest epidemic of Marburg fever, which began in October 2004, continues in northern Angola. This disease - one of the most deadly in the world for which there is no vaccine or cure - has already claimed lives 239 people.

Epidemic MURDER DOCTORS Despite the efforts of WHO and humanitarian organizations, the world's largest epidemic of Marburg fever, which began in October 2004, continues in northern Angola. 239 people. WHO representative Maria Cheng believes that the epidemic situation in the country will only worsen, as local residents refuse to place the sick in special quarantine facilities and are afraid that doctors will infect them.

Before the new year, 1945, the Nazis still harbored hopes for a turning point. In the west, their last major counter-offensive began. In the east, for several months now, there has been an alarming lull - very handy after a disastrous summer for the Wehrmacht. But very soon it was all over. The mythology of the 90s, built on the overthrow of lacquered shrines, drew a completely different 45th year.

During the short holidays of the Russian Newsweek, several curious films will be released-like Hollywood militants, and our art projects. Since April 28, at the box office, for example, “Three Ixa-2: a new level” (but without the wine of a diesel engine) and “Pacchant” Tanya Detkina, who was awarded the selection in the “Forum of the Young Cinema” of the recent Berlin festival.

During the 2002 Iraqi campaign, an unfortunate story happened to the US military. For no reason at all, US attack aircraft bombed the positions of their own paratroopers. The hearing was short lived. Suppliers of satellite guidance systems admitted that a dead battery in the GPS receiver of the soldier who coordinated the fire was to blame. Similar incidents—thank God, not always so tragic—occur on a daily basis.

Tony Blair is sure that he will be the first leader of the Labor Party in history to last three premium deadlines. According to various polls, the gap between the laborers and conservatives is from 1 to 10 percent, and all serious observers predict the victory of the Blair party on May 5. Even the previous elections won in a row (in 1997 and 2001) were for the Labor to the achievement of the century.

Director of London Fashion Week Anna Orsini walked through Moscow boutiques and concluded that the Russian capital is the best place for shopping. “London is much more boring,” she says. This is probably due to the tastes of buyers: Muscovites, unlike conservative Englishmen, love bright, bold colors and extravagant styles.

The Moscow Mayor's Office gave veterans youth. On the train that left on April 14 for a flight from Moscow to Berlin and back, they flirted with students all the way. On the very first night, two old women told the organizers of the “Memory Train” to move their old people away from sin, into a compartment with young people. This was not the first “Memory Train”, but the first time the Moscow authorities bought all train tickets to Berlin.

The famous legend about how Vladimir Krasno Sunny made his choice in favor of Orthodoxy now seems completely implausible. After a thousand years, it is difficult to imagine that Rus' could go the other way. But in the 9th -centuries, when the Christianity of the eastern rite only penetrated into Rus', the choice was not obvious. Roman missionaries carried out fruitful work with the Western Slavs. In Turkic cities on the Volga, Arab merchants distributed Islam.

Dear reader! We have a special issue, and the next issue of the magazine will be released only on May 15th. Easter and Victory are holy holidays, somewhat close: after all, both are dedicated to the Resurrection. "Spring of 1945" - notes on the last days of the war with an exclusive cover photo of the first May 9th celebration in Germany. “We reached Berlin” - a report by Artem Vernidub , who made this trip on the “Memory Train” of veterans and youth.

The Kremlin revives the United Russia party. Organizes in it the right wing and the left wing. The right is for freedom, the left is for social policy. At a right-wing presentation, liberal party members were asked about the Yukos affair. It's just that "United Russia" did not notice this case before. “Ah, we got scared and ran away,” the activists retorted with irony.

In the entrance of house number 10 along Bolshaya Sadovaya, admirers of the novel “Master and Margarita” are again waiting for the admirers of the novel. After an almost five -year break, devastation and repair of the “bad” apartment No. 50, which became the museum - “Memorial Apartment of Mikhail Bulgakov”, opens its doors.

The appointment of Yuri Semin is unlikely to surprise anyone with the head coach of the Russian football team. The mentor of Lokomotiv has long been a candidate number one. The surprise was that the new president of the Russian Football Union Vitaly Mutko managed to convince Semin to abandon the “part -time” - he will leave his native club, who headed 15 years, for the sake of dubious pleasure to train the national team. All his predecessors suffered more than won.

A chicken leg, with a shiny golden brown crust, was slowly leaking fat, exuding smoke and the aroma of sweet wine, most likely Cahors. For some reason, pink shrimps and small octopuses squawked in the pan next to the chicken, squids curled up in rings and, it seems, there were also large New Zealand mussels. It remained to wait for sheer nonsense - the wine had almost boiled away, and it was possible to start the meal.