The United Russia deputy Mikhail Kuzmin was the first to take the floor. Apparently, from embarrassment in front of the governor: United Russia has been at war with him for more than a year, and the last time Kuzmin said clearly two weeks ago that he would not support Chernogorov's candidacy, even if the president did propose it.

Gloomy policemen with machine guns walk along a gray building in the center of Krasnodar. “How to get to the center of psychological relief for policemen?” I stop one of them. He looks at me dumbfounded, then at the sign of the “GUVD of the Krasnodar Territory” and bursts out with laughter: “That’s what they came up with. Why do we need a center? I drank in the evening - that's all the unloading.

For a meeting with Italian designers, we have properly prepared: in the underpass at the Pushkinskaya metro station, counterfeit products with D&G logos - a scarf, belt and a jacket were bought. So that Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbano, who arrived on the occasion of the opening of a new store of their brand, could evaluate what D&G style is in Moscow. They shared their impressions with the Newsweek correspondent Nari Ovsepyan. You know, I have something to present to you.

PATRIOT GAMES THERE IS A COLD WAR Last week, for the first time in post-Soviet times, the Russian military publicly announced that it had successfully tested a new nuclear warhead. On November 1, the Topol intercontinental ballistic missile launched from the Kapustin Yar test site in the Astrakhan region and safely reached its target near Balkhash. The General Staff is celebrating.

The Hollywood thriller “Illusion of Flight”, shot by little-known German director Robert Schwentke, will be released on November 10. Starring Jodie Foster, who has been appearing less and less in recent years. This is only her fourth appearance on screen since the late 90s and only her second (along with “Panic Room”) serious work, since the film “Anna and the King” cannot be considered a film buff, and Jodie Foster only has a cameo in “The Long Engagement” by Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

More than a third of graduates of the 2005 school-lyceum No. 103 of the city of Zheleznogorsk, Krasnoyarsk Territory, became medalists-despite the fact that in general, only every twentieth received the medal among the Russian 11-graders. Of the young -lyceum students, 96% were recognized as suitable for military service - in the country, according to the Ministry of Defense, this figure does not exceed 67%.

Dear reader! Weekends this time turned out to be longer due to the fact that they were celebrating the "Feast with gray hair in beards." From the celebrations in honor of the date of 1612 in Nizhny Novgorod, at the site of the events of 1611, which the holiday seems to be intended to perpetuate, - Andrey Rudakov's photo report . And in Moscow on November 4, "The Russians passed" : about the march of the radical - nationalists - another photo report.

A quiet autumn night in a suburb in the northeast of Paris. The narrow street is so tired of machines that a person will be squeezed between them with difficulty. Four young people dressed in shapeless tracksuits with hoods - do not disassemble - they were unacceptable for one of them. The fragments of the glass did not have time to fall on the asphalt, as a canister with gasoline had already flew into the salon. Not engaged in. They set fire to the second time - the procedure took 20 seconds.

Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin casually announced the end of a whole stage in the history of Russia—according to the Ministry of Finance, the ruble is actually worth the same today as it was before the 1998 crisis, which means that the source of economic well-being for the past 6 years has been exhausted. The crisis began with a too expensive ruble, and it was after its devaluation that rapid growth began at times.