- And what, Ramzan is not right? Certainly right. It is necessary to shoot them, these judges, - said the fan Sharip Yusupov, turning to his friends. And three middle-aged residents of Kislovodsk, who came to the empty stands of the Army Reserve Training Center at this noon hour, happily nodded their heads.

It turns out that we have a new fashion - to present the upcoming Russian film projects. Over the past week, I have been at three such presentations: the New Cinema companies Sergei Selvanov, Paradise and Central Partnership (which represented not only the projects of its producer center, but also the RTR channel, which gave it its films for rental; RTR went to film production after the first). A week earlier, I had a chance to visit another presentation - the national team, different companies.

IRAQ HOW TO GET OUT OF HERE As it became known to Newsweek, US military intelligence analysts began to study scenarios in the event of a reduction in the American contingent in Iraq or even a complete withdrawal of troops. The source of the journal, who wished to remain anonymous, declined to provide details, especially since research has just begun.

On the eve of the UN anniversary, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg posted an apology on the subway: “We are sorry for the possible delays in connection with the 60th UN General Assembly. Perhaps, thanks to her, it will be possible to eliminate the political blockage.” Failed. True, the city was not particularly affected: there was only a small part of the East Side in the area of ​​40th streets.

The hostess of the mirror salon Elena bought an apartment in a new building on Nikitinskaya Street in Moscow, when there was only a pit on the site of the house. This was back in 2001. Stroyindustria, which built a monolithic -brick building on an individual project, promised Elena Novoselia at the end of 2002 by compensation for expectation and courage was the price of a transaction - $ 670 per sq. meter.

Souvenir merchants on Andreevsky Spusk in Kyiv quickly got their bearings in the new political alignment. “This is the last series of matryoshka dolls with Tymoshenko, now their production has been temporarily discontinued, and what kind of nesting dolls will be next has not yet been decided,” one of the saleswomen convinces passers-by.

I'll lead you to the museum So far, they mounted “Russia!”, The Guggenheim Museum, so as not to lose money, opened the exposition in parts. And random spectators - basically tourists who planned their museum schedule in advance - were down almost with tears of tenderness in their eyes: “Oh, God, how beautiful, is grandiose!” If it is true that the muse is silent when the guns say, then it is true, apparently, the opposite that the Muse is the guns, either their harbinger, or the substitute.

All summer long, a man in a wheelchair sat at the Duma entrance on Okhotny Ryad. He went to the State Duma every day, as if to work. I drove up to the security post, put a sign in front of me “Collecting signatures for the early dissolution of parliament”, read books. Many passers-by stopped, left their signatures in his journal. And with the onset of autumn, the man disappeared. But his work lives on. The deputies believed the rumors and began to prepare for early elections.

Dear reader! “How to sell Russia” - until now, advertising and marketing, if any, have not yielded results: according to the data we cite in the topic of the issue, Russia is in the penultimate place in terms of popularity among foreigners. “ Love us as Russians” - in the sense of “formatted” under the European standard, everyone will love us. And I want our sometimes awkward uniqueness to be appreciated too.

The last invasion of foreigners on Kostroma happened in the XVII century. They finished badly - these were the Poles, led by Ivan Susanin in the forest. Since then, for more than one day, foreigners in Kostroma, as a rule, have not been delayed: they will take a picture of the Ipatiev monastery, from where they called to reign Mikhail Romanov, look at the wide Volga, buy a panama from the local Kostroma flax - and back.