The most prominent Russian writer of the 21st century living in the suburbs in the suburbs of Perm, Alexei Ivanov. An art critic, a graduate of the university in Yekaterinburg, rafting along the Ural rivers, worked as a guide to extreme tourism and wrote from the beginning of the 90s. The first book was published only in 2003, and now Ivanov’s novels are released one after another: “The Heart of Parma”, “The Gold of the Riot”, “The Geographer drank the globe”.

When Israeli army officers came to Rachel Cohen's house to report the death of her son Keyvan from a Palestinian sniper's bullet, she immediately decided that she would not simply accept his death. “The state took my son away from me, you must at least give me back my grandchildren,” she categorically told the military and demanded that semen be extracted from her son’s body. “The decision came instantly,” she recalls.

Dear reader! Why the "era of slavery of the XXI century" ? It turns out that forced labor is needed not only with a slave -owned system: there is also enough unskilled work in the new millennium, and does not want to perform it “golden billion”, and where there are migrants, there are non -or semi -wagon ones, and they are completely dependent on the employer, and he can almost not pay - only feed and give shelter.

Nelyudes of a new type Uzbek IS cautiously peeps out due to the gate of a high fence of a luxurious mansion. He is the first time in Russia - he arrived in the suburbs from Uzbekistan just a week ago, "on the advice of acquaintances." He was promised to pay 300 rubles. per day for small work in the site: mow grass, dig ditches, plowing trees.

The guide Anna Smeshko in one of the museums in Lviv asks all visitors to put on shoe covers before entering: there is a unique parquet of the 19th century on the floor, and cleanliness must be maintained. “Just like in the presidential palace!” - admired one of the tourists. At the word “presidential”, the elderly museum lady grimaces painfully: the conspiracy of the two Viktors - President Yushchenko and Prime Minister Yanukovych - is not approved in Lvov.

Director Zach Snyder in his 41 almost a debutant. “300 Spartans” is the whole second of his full -length picture. But he had already managed to earn a reputation and a scandalist (left the SWAT film set), and a professional with a new genre vision from which everything can be expected. His first film “The Dawn of the Dead” - the remake of Horror George A. Romero - undertook to present an intellectual Cannes festival. “300 Spartans” were honored on Berlinal.

Electrician Viktor, who works in the car workshop of millionaire Viktor Taknov, calls his namesake's cars "exceptional." In a “dacha” on the Minsk Highway, closed from prying eyes, two out of a dozen Taknov cars are standing under the watchful supervision of strict guards. And they are impressive.

The original “300 Spartans” of Zach Snyder, who come out with us on March 22, are called “300”. The film was on the move in America, in America, a cash register of March for the first weekend, collecting $ 70 million in three days. He also set a cash register for IMAX cinemas - he has a 3D version.

All American sitcoms always have a scene with a "suddenly attacked" scabies; in the house where the events unfold, at some point a corpse will certainly be found, and the heroes are simply obliged to joke on religious topics sooner or later. All of these situations are listed in the textbooks used in the West to learn how to write sitcom scripts.