Friendship | Noga was attacked by all Kogan Who now owes money to Russia Nessim Gaon Russia's litigation with Swiss businessman Nessim Gaon seems to have come to an end. Last week, the head of the American company IPD Capital Inc. Alex Kogan, unexpectedly for everyone, announced that he had bought the Russian debts of the Swiss company Noga. About how and why he did it, Mr. Kogan told in an interview with Newsweek. How did you come up with this idea?

“I found a treasure, it costs a million - this was the first thought. The second: the problem of working capital seems to be solved in full accordance with the teachings of Marx on the initial accumulation of capital during the collapse of the state. And the third: they will put it down. ” So in his prison diary, Boris Gorelov described the first impressions of acquaintance in 1994 with closed funds of the unique library of the former Institute of Marxism-Leninism.

In Iran, it is very easy to remain without money. When in Tehran the cash was over for the first time, it turned out that local ATMs would not give out money from my cards. None of the international payment systems, no Visa MasterCard transfer money to Iran. Giants of money transfers like Westernunion Iran do not work either. Saved the medieval system of the channel-saraphs, which is still operating in the Islamic world.

On the eve of March 8, a male council was held in the large Shishkin family.

“I wanted to show you special bananas for frying, but again the foreigners sold everything out,” laments Andrey Yakovlev, general director of the Capital Trading Company, which opened the Globus Gourmet deli in Moscow. “You know, these bananas do not look very appetizing, as if they are already spoiling started, but if fried, they are very tasty.

Competition | No chance to win Dima Bilan will represent Russia at the annual Eurovision Song Contest. In the national qualifying round, he beat the singers Jasmine, Varvara and Polina Griffis, several former "manufacturers" and numerous little-known performers from various cities of Russia. “I was the only one on the selection committee who didn't vote for Bilan,” Maxim Kononenko (Mr.Parker), a music critic and TV presenter, told Newsweek.

A wonderful gift for women on International Women's Day was made in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper. On the front page of the holiday issue there are two images of Vladislav Yuryevich Surkov, the first deputy head of the Kremlin administration: the first is a pensive portrait, the second is in a passionate dance with a sultry brunette. True, upon closer examination, the dancer turned out to be not Surkov, but some kind of Makarsky from Dancing with the Stars, but still very similar.

Things in Transnistria are now such that it is just right to seriously rely on the heavenly forces. On Wednesday, the bishop of Tiraspol and Dubossar Justinian made an emergency appeal to local television - he reproached Ukrainian officials that they play the enemy in a flared conflict between Tygrazepol and Chisinau. Because of what trains have already stopped walking, plants will soon stop, and in general it is an economic blockade, which puts an unrecognized republic at risk of starvation.

In the New York Cinema Landmarksunshinecinema that the Russian film “Night Watch” Timur Bekmambetov has been going on on Easthouston Street for two weeks. Ten sessions per day. Erica Hoyen, an employee of the cinema, says that tickets for the first time in a few years end already a couple of hours before the session, and a long queue is built to the ticket offices. For 2 weeks of rental in the states of the Night Watch, he raised a little more than $ 335,000.

Konstantin Khabensky loves experiments. For example, he recently performed with the Russian National Orchestra for a small audience of the Moscow Hall of Tchaikovsky. To the music of Tchaikovsky, he read Shakespeare for an hour and a half. Why one of the most recognizable, most popular and most expensive Russian artists with such a seemingly small dedication in every sense, Konstantin Khabensky told Vera Ryklino in an interview with the Russian Newsweek correspondent.

On Wednesday evening, Madrid Real Madrid played a draw with the London Arsenal, but in fact it was a defeat - according to the results of the two matches, Real Madrid flew out of the Champions League.

In the spacious office of one of the state buildings in the center of Beijing, two people are sitting against each other - a nonsense imposing American and a harsh Chinese in a strict bureaucratic suit. “You know that I can make your boss an angry letter from Washington, which will then get into the world media,” the American begins.

The entire last week before the new year 2004, employees of the Seventh Continent network of metropolitan supermarkets re-pasted price tags - in total, more than 5,000 pieces of paper had to be replaced. The management of the stores decided to tear their subordinates away from New Year's Eve troubles for the sake of the common good: the retail chain joined the “Minus 5%” campaign, designed to demonstrate to deputies and consumers the benefits of abolishing the sales tax.

They met students at the University of Baghdad. We saw each other furtively from friends and relatives. Sneak-up-because the 26-year-old Mahir Murad-Sunnit, and the 25-year-old Hind al-Yaseri-Shiita. “It was true love,” Murad recalls. In the three years that he and Hind met, they had seriously argued only once-the ritual of washing before prayer, which the Sunnis and Shiites perform differently. The question was whether it was necessary to wash the feet with water or just wipe them.

From our trunk - your trunk If you listen to specialists, a list of side effects of stem cell treatment is so wide that you can resort to this therapy only in the most desperate cases.