Each of the countries that claimed leadership at the Olympics had their own impressions that were not enough for the rest of the world. The Germans enjoyed the fact that for the first time overtook everyone in the number of medals. The Norwegians were heavily experienced by their grand failure - and especially the great biathlete Ole -Einar Bjorndalen. Surrounders of the American fans from a crazy snowboarder who won Haffpipa for an obvious advantage.

In the building of the mayor's office of Makhachkala, in the reception room of Shamil Aliyev, an academician, a famous designer of torpedoes and a brother of the newly appointed president of Dagestan, Mukhu Aliyev, is more crowded than ever. “People have been coming for a week now, congratulating me. And so many people called, how many years for ten did not call, smiles Shamil Gimbatovich. And all sincerely ask to tell Mukha that they believe in him. And they are waiting for change.

Until recently, every morning in an ordinary construction regiment, located in the suburbs, it began traditionally: the “Rota, rise!” Divinely shouted, the sleepy soldiers reluctantly dressed and wandered breakfast. A month ago, everything changed in the unit. Recruits and old -timers frantically jump up in underwear and stretch out in a string in front of the commander, nervously pacing along the barracks - he was here an infrequent guest.

In India last week, two high -profile railway events were waiting. A crowd gathered in the glorified artillery conjunum, the conjunum, to mark a new speed record. The express flew 204 km from Delhi in 1 hour 56 minutes, accelerating in straight sections to 150 km/h. But, to the disappointment of the public, the 1988 record stood - the train was only 1 minute late.

Thirteen years ago, Cherus, a company that built computer and engineering systems for business, bought a company car for management—it was Moscow's first SAAB 9000 Aero. The car often broke down, it was repaired, they even tried to do self-made tuning—slightly improve driving performance. But in Russian operating conditions, the car still had a hard time, and the co-owners of the Cherus liked to drive a lot and quickly.

On Thursday, March 2, the “Swindlers Dick and Jane” are released - a Rima Model Rome in the USSR, rare in the Soviet box office of the 70-80s of the Hollywood film “The Fun Adventures of Dick and Jane” (1977): about the married couple, which lived serene and bourgeois, until it was fired from a high position. In fact, as it is easy to guess, in the original both films are called the same - Fun with Dick and Jane.

Overdone | Day of Defenders of a Foreign Fatherland Last week, Defender of the Fatherland Day was celebrated in Moscow as scandalously as ever. On the eve of the holiday, on the billboards of the capital's streets, congratulatory billboards were “drawn” with the image of ... the American battleship Missouri. The mistake was so clearly evident even to people far from naval affairs that the shields had to be dismantled urgently.

Almost everyone loves dachas, especially good dachas in a good location. Such as Troitse-Lykovo, where 11.5 hectares in the middle of a pine forest within Moscow is occupied by the former dacha of Mikhail Suslov, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

Dear reader! Nationalization , under the pseudonym of which nationalization stands, is today, as they say, a trend. The government-statesman, and the majority of the population professing the same ideals, believe that a reliable state government is certainly better than a dubious private one. “How is the Kremlin in the bosom?” lives the former private shops that have passed into the sovereign bosom?

Exactly two years after the tragedy in the Transvaal Park, a new man-made disaster struck Moscow. At about 5 am on February 23, the massive round roof of Basmanny Market, unable to withstand the loads, rapidly collapsed down. Despite the early hour, there were hundreds of people in the building - at this time the market itself is preparing to open, and small wholesalers from the surrounding shops come there to stock up on goods for the day.