On April 2, John Paul II died. Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Pope Benedict XVI, was elected to the Vatican throne. Alexander Baunov, "The Crusader" (No. 13): "They said that it was time for the sick old Pope to retire. But the Pope did not want to rest. He remembered the example of Pope Celestian V. He voluntarily abandoned the higher church ministry in order to pray for his sins as a simple monk.

Summing up the results of the domestic kinnoye, it is difficult to fold the whole "picture of the world." It is more appropriate to talk not about trends, but about impulses, insights, momentary errors, and sometimes crafty games such as “thimbles”. Therefore, it is more appropriate to depict the results of the kinnoda simply as a number of facts and vectors. Speak them with signs (+), ( -) and (=). We use the latter if it is difficult to evaluate the consequences.

January 1 (one session in the Moscow “Pushkinsky” will be held on New Year's Eve) starts the “daytime patrol” directed by Timur Bekmambetov - a recreation for the native aspen with a circulation of 597 copies (300 seemed to science fiction yesterday).

If the whole world is boring over the love of the American army for comfort, then the soldiers themselves are proud of this. “We have everything here: from military equipment to toilet paper,” Sergeant Andrei Sivers boasts at the base in the central Iraq. “And we pay for all this not at all in dollars. Here he washed his jacket - now he was left without a little thing. " He takes a handful of sticky cardboard from his pocket.

On July 7, London was covered by the bloodiest wave of terrorist attacks in its history. Mikhail Fishman, English Outrage (No. 25): “Due to the fact that the day before London celebrated its victory in the fight for the 2012 Olympics, the terrorist attacks turned out to be especially contrasting, if not symbolic. Such a fireworks display with corpses at the end of the common holiday: the subway cars burst one after another, like a pyrotechnic garland on a fickford cord ...

On March 8, Aslan Maskhadov was killed in the village of Tolstoy Yurt. The FSB hastened to record this as an asset, but later it turned out that the Chechen leader was shot dead by his own bodyguard. Cleansing operations in Dagestan went on throughout the year with no less intensity than in Chechnya.

“For my parents, the“ Time ”program is sacred, for me an important part of my life, because since childhood I remember this ritual of watching news with the whole family. And for my son that the program is “time”, that the Air Force news - he does not look at either one.

The editor-in-chief of the Internet publication Dot.ru and the author of the famous website vladimir.vladimirovich.ru Maxim Kononenko (Mr.Parker) does not watch TV and does not listen to the radio. But he is always aware of the news that is forced to be interested in at least in order to monitor what is happening around the prototype of his main character - Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin (TM). Kononenko can draw news from his publication or in other Internet media.

Mikhail Kasyanov February 24, 2005, exactly one year after his resignation, said: "The country is going in the wrong direction." Then, from time to time, the tone of statements became sharper, although the ex-premier was sometimes reproached for indecision. Kasyanov does not rule out his participation in the 2008 presidential election, and apparently wanted to run for the Duma elections at the head of the Democratic Party of Russia, but a party split was inspired in the DPR.

Employees of Naftogaz Ukrainy go to the Russian Gazprom as if they were going to work. For more than three months they have been negotiating here and cannot come to an agreement. The further you go, the worse it gets. They came to ask to continue selling gas at $50 per thousand cubic meters instead of the requested $160 - and negotiated further: by the end of December, Gazprom raised the price to $230.

A new large -scale crisis is brewing in the Middle East. It all started with the fact that with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon there was a striking change. He was rightly considered the extreme “hawk”, who did not want to yield to the enemy-Palestinians not a paw, but now he suddenly became almost a left-wing radical-how to perceive his plan for the withdrawal of Israeli settlements and troops from Gaza and from the western bank of the Jordan River?

Leonid Tyagachev took the word, and, as always, it was a very strange word. The President of the Russian Olympic Committee (OKR), although he read a piece of paper, still confused cases and birth.

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko was one of Russia's leading political newsmakers throughout 2005. Having assumed the post of head of state, he set a course for the accelerated integration of Ukraine with the European Union and NATO, which invariably irritated official Moscow. The appointment of Yulia Tymoshenko as prime minister and her resignation also became sensational, and in December another Ukrainian-Russian gas war began.

Dear reader, Happy New Year! The year that will now be called the old one, we lived together and doubled: the increase in sales of the magazine exceeded 100 percent. We tried to be where the main events of 2005 took place, and listing them in this issue, we publish some of the best photos and lines of the best reports again. "Vladimirsky Central" , the first of the review articles, is about how the vertical of power was centralized, completed from Vladimir Putin to the very outskirts.

The marine law is, it turns out, not about nodes, meridians and ships. And not even about the fact that who was the last to get up from the table, he washes the dishes. The marine law is that on weekends you can not take a mistress in a yacht club. Because on weekends they go to yacht clubs with their wives. And the best gift for the 15th anniversary of the life together of this very wife is the mechanes in the car, car discs with diamonds and the Graff diamond earrings.