What is the “traffic light” now? Or is Jamaica after all? Or maybe it's too early to discount the “Wedding of Elephants”? Especially if you exchange the “groom” and “bride” on the Glinic bridge? Nothing funny - all these are extremely serious issues: the future of Germany literally depends on them.

No matter what the owners of pawnshops sing about the respectability of their business, it is still a shame to be in their establishments. I’m stomping around at the appraiser’s window with my wife’s jewelry and silverware, which my great-grandfather ate, and I feel that I’m dishonoring the family. And in the back, an asthenic peasant in jeans with sagging knees, breathing fumes in his ear, worried: “What are you thinking, bro, ten minutes before closing!” I skip ahead.

For several days in a row, I have been calling the Administration for Coordination and Liaison, the organization that, after the Israeli withdrawal from Gaza, is responsible for cooperation with the Palestinians. “Let me go to Gaza,” I ask without much hope. My voice is already recognized there. “Israeli citizens are prohibited from entering Gaza,” they answer me. “Gaza is now a foreign country. We only lacked a special operation to evacuate you from Gaza!

“Tired of being like a woman,” says Maxim Konovalov confidently, a 22 -year -old student of a private Moscow university. With one hand he carelessly fluttered the gate of the old T -shirt, and the other rubs his jeans rubbed in places. "Damn, I even shaved my legs in the summer!" he recalls ironically and frowns.

Punishment TWO PRESIDENTIAL TERMS Correctional colonies of the Central Federal District may quarrel in the near future. In any case, as Newsweek has learned, the Ministry of Justice's Federal Service for the Execution of Punishments (FSIN) will unleash a serious struggle this week between the heads of regional departments for the right to host prisoner Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

Last Thursday, the world celebrated Car Free Day. For Russia, where the idea of ​​Western environmentalists has not yet taken root, this year the name of the action has acquired a symbolic meaning. Not only are gasoline prices skyrocketing, but gas stations also promise to sell surrogates instead of fuel. The consequences for the car are known - up to engine failure.

Condoleezza Rice, accompanied by General Raymond Odierno, met with the editors of Newsweek and discussed with them the Iranian issue, Hurricane Katrina, the war in Iraq and much more... On September 17, in her first speech at the session of the UN General Assembly, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called on diplomats to put pressure on Iran and force it to abandon its nuclear program.

Fedor Bondarchuk, advertised all year, is advertised on September 29. For the first time, a situation arises, which can provoke a war of producers: this film can be attacked by two others that appeared a month and half a month ago - “Mirror Wars: Reflection The First” and “Male Season: Velvet Revolution”. Both were advertised as super -blockbusters. Both are patriotic films. The first, like "9 company", is also about the military.

Discreet shirts, pressed trousers, short haircuts, neat beards—these three young men of Slavic appearance do not particularly stand out from the everyday Moscow crowd. However, they make an appointment with a Newsweek correspondent at an oriental restaurant. Sitting at the table, they order tea with thyme, baklava and introduce themselves: Harun ar-Rusi, Iskander Yafisi and Abdallah ar-Rustuvi.

Dear reader! "The ghost is being caught in Europe" - of course, the ghost of communism, which first wandered there, and then won. Now they want to condemn him: the first time they failed, they are preparing for the second. "How long can one engage in communism?" - for quite some time. They are trying to condemn the criminal practice of the regimes, and the ideology that gave rise to the Gulag, collectivization, one-party system - the dictatorship of the proletariat, for example.

The last time a human foot set foot on the moon was back in 1972. A third of a century later, US President George W. Bush decided that it was time to take the next step: no later than 2020, America would return to the moon. To do this, NASA will build a new reusable spacecraft. On it, the Americans will first master the moon, and then fly to Mars and further throughout the solar system. And the ship will be relatively cheap.

The film “The First on the Moon” by the director from Yekaterinburg Alexei Fedorchenko received a prize of Russian criticism at the Kinotavra and literally just a reward for the best documentary tape in the horizon section at the Venice Festival. Now he goes out, and you can make sure if this is really a miracle. The wording of the Venetian prize was amazed. Has the jury believed that the “first on the moon” is an honest newsreel? Apparently, the jury was still joked.