“Restaurants in Moscow vary very much in price and quality. If you just need to have a bite, visit “Petrovich” or “Russian Bistro”. But if you want to see what a real modern Russian restaurant means, you must certainly get into pathos establishments inside the garden ring, ”the American guide to Moscow Sasha'SmoscowTravelguide. It is in such restaurants - expensive and fashionable - Moskovsky bomond dinner, dinner and even have breakfast.

“If you want to see the queue, come back in a week and a half,” Galina advised the operator at the exchange office on Tverskaya Street. She knows for sure that before the May holidays, people will come to sell "bucks" and buy rubles - the exchange rate is worse during long weekends, and only Russian currency is accepted in wine stores.

On the eve of the elections, residents of large Italian cities were wondering, exploding them or not blown up. They were inclined to the fact that there would be a large terrorist attack - it was in Spain on the eve of the change of power - and the most careful avoided driving the subway.

A few years ago, when new holidays and old hymns appeared in abundance in Russia, the idea was born to celebrate April 21, the Day of Alternative Consciousness. It was supposed to be a day of discussions that would help society get rid of ideological chimeras and totalitarian temptations; when else to arrange such a holiday as not on April 21, a day that has not stained itself with anything in world history, following Hitler's birthday and on the eve of Lenin's birthday.

If Koreans fall in love with someone, it's forever. Coach Guus Hiddink, having taught the South Korean team how to play, received a villa, free Korean Airlines flights and eternal glory as a gift. Biologist Hwang Woo Seok, who fooled the world with a fake cloning sensation, got even more. Then, in a moment, he lost everything except the most important thing—respect for fellow countrymen. Recently, one of the fans of the falsifying geneticist committed suicide.

Ehud Olmert announced the plan to evacuate Israeli settlements from much of the West Bank at the height of the election campaign. It may have cost his Kadima party some of the electorate—the victory was not nearly as convincing as expected. But Olmert still won and is now assembling the ruling coalition according to a strict principle: those who join it must accept his disengagement plan, that is, withdrawal from most of the occupied territories.

"Transneft", which was dubbed "Transdeath" here, and in general presumptuous Muscovite capitalists are now the main enemies of the inhabitants of the Irkutsk region. They came to the rally in defense of Lake Baikal, next to which they are going to lay a very important pipeline for Russia, despite the ten-degree frost and piercing wind. “I am not evil, but I will tear for Baikal!” - read a banner around the neck of an imposing Rottweiler.

On Thursday, April 20, “V for Vendetta,” a film produced by the Wachowski brothers from their own script, finally comes out. Long before the premiere, he became famous for the fact that Natalie Portman cut her hair to zero for his sake. The Wachowskis intended to direct the film themselves, but - according to the official version - they were so exhausted by the "Matrix" that they entrusted the direction to their "pocket" man: James McTeague was their assistant on all three "Matrix".

Ukraine | Did not pass the sixth paragraph Undaunted by the unfortunate date, the leading political forces of Ukraine - the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc, Our Ukraine and the Socialist Party - signed on April 13 the Protocol on the Creation of a Democratic Coalition, the first formal document that the government of Ukraine would be "orange".

Beit Lahia-a living place in the north of the Gaza Strip, near the border with Israel. Here, peaches, watermelons, melons, oranges are grown on numerous farms, but strawberries were and remains the main product of Beit Lahia. Hasan Meskhal, Palestinian farmer, proudly shows his beds: “This year special berries were laid. The whole secret is in sweet water. At a depth of seven meters, a layer of clay lies, which holds water and does not allow it to leave deeper.

Dear reader! At least once every two years - during the World and European Championships - football becomes a universal national idea. "Guus stray" - the Dutch coach Guus Hiddink is called upon to lead the Russian team, so that from now on this idea does not fail every time. Our correspondents witnessed how, at Hiddink's former place of work, the celebration of the championship of the PSV Eindhoven club spilled over into a "dump" mentor, flying to Moscow for the first time.