Last Friday, along with the thaw, an Indian submarine entered the fjord of the Norwegian polar port of Tromsø. Chocolate black-moustached sailors, breathing steam, fiddled with the ropes against the backdrop of snow-capped mountains, and the captain in a black tunic and white turban paced the deck with his hands behind his back. Together with the Indian submarine, it seems that half of the Norwegian navy entered Tromsø.

Caucasian prisoner of "Peshvis" A resident of North Ossetia, Vitaly Kaloev, who lost his wife and two children in a plane crash over Lake Constance, was sentenced to 8 years for the murder of the air traffic controller of the Swiss company SkyGuide Peter Nielsen, who was in charge of flights on the night of the tragedy. The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation is ready to seek the transfer of the convict to Russia. However, his lawyer Andrei Knyazev does not believe this.

Plenipotentiary Dmitry Kozak nominated Kirsan Ilyumzhinov. The deputies of the People's Khural took the floor. Deputy Dikalov spoke about the transition to a market economy. Deputy Reusov assured that Kirsan Nikolaevich was very well known in the republic. Deputy Karmashova said that the people of Kalmykia had already made their choice. And not only did he make a choice, but the deputy Shikeyev so bluntly clarified that the dream of a steppe-dweller is coming true.

The daily talk show “without complexes” on Channel One turned out to be a genre breakthrough, already supported by a stable rating and attention of the audience, among which not only housewives. The main opening of the program was its presenter - singer Lolita Milyavskaya. Having spoke unexpectedly sincerely and eagerly, she broke the stable stereotype of the daytime diva - the glamorous “talking head” pronouncing the text of the questionnaire written by the editor.

The manager of one of Moscow banks Anna buys clothes in the VASSA store, which is on New Arbat. She accidentally wandered here about a year ago on the way to the Muscovite, but she didn’t reach the shopping center: she found everything that was needed here. “Qualitatively, stylish, and prices are quite acceptable,” Anna explains. All this year, it did not even occur to her that she was buying Russian clothes.

In the spring of 2008, Russia will have not only a new president, but also a new doctor of sciences. They are likely to be the former head of Yukos, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Last week, he was accepted into the friendly male team of the 8th detachment of a general regime colony in the city of Krasnokamensk, Chita Region. And right there, according to his lawyer Anton Drel, he began to work on his doctoral thesis on the topic “How to equip Russia.

Sheikh Abdel Al was very busy that day: he worked hard in the Beirut office of the Association of Islamic Charitable Projects, which he heads. Of course, in detail he remembers the morning of February 14, 2005: after all, it was then that former Prime Minister Livan Rafik Hariri was killed on the Beirut embankment. Together with him 22 people died. In the place where the mined truck exploded, a multimeter funnel formed.

In America in 2005 there was a financial crisis: for the first time since the late 80s, there was not an increase, but a decrease in box office receipts. Hollywood is increasingly relying on the tried and true - long familiar to the public: remakes, sequels, film adaptations of comic books and computer games. Just after the States, we have released Doom, the first two parts of which even your humble servant, who is generally indifferent to such games, once played.

The chosen President of Poland Lech Kachinsky has two more months before the inauguration appointed on December 23. In the meantime, he tries to relax after a triumphal, but heavy and very long campaign. With his family - his wife, daughter, son -in -law and little granddaughter - he closed himself in his cozy apartment in the famous Polish resort, Sopot near Gdansk on the coast of the Baltic Sea.