Josh Holt, a 24-year-old physical education teacher in the elementary school of Heber Hunt Elementary, the city of Sedaly, Missouri, was incredibly proud when his colleagues began to invite him to his students to talk with his students. Apparently, he decided, more experienced teachers deservedly appreciated his work. But soon Holt realized: his professional qualities have nothing to do with it. Teachers and parents asked him to patronize the kids only because Josh is a man.

When Paul Verhoeven is in America, he is often asked for an autograph. “Well, I'm signing,” Paul says happily. The full namesake of the famous Dutch-Hollywood director lives in Brussels, where, not far from the old fish market, he sells woolen socks, bronze pissing boys, Soviet army patches and Belgian flags. The flags start at €12.50 and are usually sold at the rate of two per week, more just before football matches and the king or queen's birthday.

The Party of Regions has long staged its main headquarters in the building of the Kyiv cinema "Star". Everyone is used to the fact that the posters of films flaunt near the flags of the regionals. In the days when the Radu was opened, the poster “He, She and He” hung on the “Star” - as if announcing not to the film award, but the drama of Ukrainian politics unchanged over the past years.

Russia is a country of victorious hedonism. At least, the French writer Frederic Begbeder is sure of this. In his opinion, hedonism relies on the same principle as Stalinism: liars bullshit cretins, and modern Russia is the best proof of this. “What a strange century, after all,” writes Begbeder.

Ours forever The weaver of the fifth category of the Nordtex plant, the register of the Ivanovo region, Elena Lapshin, was the first to ask the delegates of the United Russia Congress to “come up with something” so that Vladimir Putin remained president after 2008. “Before going to the rostrum, my knees tremble,” said NEWSweek, but after Vladimir Vladimirovich said literally me literally It broke through, and I told about everything that was sore.

Dear reader! “Your own successor” is the conclusion that we made after the last political week. In this sense, Operation Successor itself seems to be canceled: Putin has become disillusioned with possible candidates. In addition, he realized that he could not entrust power to anyone, and was building a political system in which, having "left", he would remain not only the highest authority, but also in a key position.

Among the paintings that are coming out this week, you highlight the “brave” right away. Firstly, because it always made it unpredictable director Neil Jordan. Secondly, because the theme of personal revenge for criminals refers to the eternal.

The question "Who is Mr. Saakashvili?" Zaza Abashidze, in the past, the director of the National Library of Georgia, for the first time set himself on September 27, when he found out that the ex-defense minister Irakli Okashvili was arrested. Before that, the president and minister were revolutionaries. Now Okaashvili accused Saakashvili of lies and corruption, and he planted him.

Graphic designer Elena needs to find a new home by mid-October. While she rents a room, but a few weeks ago, the owners of the apartment asked her to move out. I would move even today, but nowhere yet. Elena dreams of renting a "odnushka" apartment, but she is ready to pay no more than 13,000 rubles. per month. This is the price of a small apartment without furniture and repairs in Balashikha or with new wallpaper and a Turquoise refrigerator - but in Skhodnya.

The weaver of the fifth category of the Nordtex plant, the register of the Ivanovo region, Elena Lapshin, was the first to ask the delegates of the United Russia Congress to “come up with something” so that Vladimir Putin remained president after 2008. “Before going to the rostrum, my knees tremble,” said NEWSweek, but after Vladimir Vladimirovich said literally me literally It broke through, and I told about everything that was sore.