"Golden Valley" - that's how the Soviet press called the Ferghana oasis, which included the Andijan, Namangan and Fergana regions of Uzbekistan and Osh - Kyrgyzstan. She was a symbol of the triumph of the agro-industrial and national politics of the party. It really was a flourishing and well-groomed region with a friendly and hospitable population - as, indeed, other oases of Uzbekistan.

The works of Pyotr Konchalovsky are highly valued by connoisseurs of painting. In 1999, one of his paintings was sold at Sotheby's for $500,000. Since then, almost all major auctions have offered to buy something from Konchalovsky. The audience was surprised: why would it be the artist's grandchildren, far from being poor and indifferent to art directors Nikita Mikhalkov and Andron Mikhalkov-Konchalovsky, started selling off the inheritance.

For them, it was a big deal. Internet forums were full of reviews. “Really tired and aaaaaaaaaaaaaly burnt))) We didn’t lose anyone!!! They quickly found the bus ;-))))) We were even fed a little.” Or: “We were satisfied. We went to Moscow for free. They rode, they laughed, they yelled. They also provided T-shirts. Or: “Everything is noble, sober and cool))) We drove with cops, with flashing lights. Tired of crackers. Muskvichi - Fareva!!!" And, of course, I left a residue.

Army DIE AT THE CAMP Another high school student died at a military training camp. A tenth-grader of secondary school No. 23 in the city of Yelets, Lipetsk Region, Alexander Novoselov, died at a city training camp on the basics of life safety (OBZH), passing sports standards for running.

“Rare in the ash dawn sky, stars were erased. The wind pulled from under the clouds. A fog went over the Don on the hips and, planning along the slopes of the Cretaceous Mountain, crawled into Yara with a gray, headless viper. Sands, yendovs, reed -shaped impassable, forest in dew - blazed with an ejected cold glow. Behind the line, not going in, the sun was languishing. ” (Mikhail Sholokhov. "Quiet Don.") And what are you, whitish, in such an instruction? - was heard invisible from the canopy.

The main anecdote of the past week: Khodorkovsky was sentenced to a life sentence reading. But no matter how the rope twists, the “Curtain” command is given, and it slowly but inevitably closes. Although the next action awaits us - the "Khodorkovsky-2 case", already promised by the Prosecutor General's Office, and the main topic will remain the main one - "The camera is looking at the camera" .

The crowd of thousands rushed from side to side, expecting that the soldiers jumping out of the armored personnel carrier would begin to shoot again. But they simply surrounded the area around the perimeter. The crowd pressed me first to the burned wall of the Chulpon cinema meters from the square. Then she threw it right on the cordon. “Do not be afraid, we don’t shoot at unarmed,” one of the fighters said quietly. They looked at this joker with horror.

Last Thursday, Russian, American and pr. The premieres of the last, the sixth series of Star Wars - “Episode III: Revenge of the Sith” were held. Your film faces watched this “episode” at the premiere of the global, which took place four days earlier in Cannes. So he was able to compare his impressions with the reaction of the most professional film audience in the world, which is Cannes. And about the controversial moments - to personally ask George Lucas himself.

CSKA is the owner of the UEFA Cup. Behind the unprecedented triumph of our football in Lisbon, he was observed by the unthinkable joy of our fans by the Newsweek correspondent. In the middle of the first half of the final match for the UEFA Cup, the English judge Graham Polle, according to the unanimous opinion of the 2000 CSKA fans, present at the Jose Alvalada stadium, became increasingly whistling in favor of Sporting.

Survery of the parties The Russian leadership underestimated the protest potential accumulated after the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev. In the morning, before the reading of the sentence, only the traffic cops guarded the building of the Meshchansky court, and the bus with riot police and the fire truck stood in the yard.

Ukrainians are happy to find new confirmations that their country has become fashionable - this is a very pleasant and unfamiliar feeling, they say. Most of all signs are noticeable in Lviv, in the west of the country and in Kyiv-the capital of Eurovision-2005. Previously, only nostalging Poles met there, and now students and bosom tourists from all over Europe - Germans, Scandinavians, French in stretched T -shirts and with huge backpacks behind their backs settled the city.