Hitler is 3 years old. He is afraid of strangers and, embarrassed, hides behind his mother's skirt. “Well, Hitler is a good name, European,” Lisbeth Mabundo tells me. “He was a man who fought a lot, he was such a fighting man.” In Europe, no one in a nightmare will dream of naming their son Hitler? - “Yes, what are you saying? Well, actually, I just gave a nickname, but that's his name Chichavo. For example, I just call his sister Smeshinka, but in our opinion she will be Canisa.

I recently had dinner with Tour de France boss Christian Prudhomme and Russian Katyusha team boss Andrey Chmil in Pau, France. We had a very nice talk, I found out that they treat us well and are ready to accept the Katyusha team, which is being created on the basis of my old Tinkoff team. Credit systems”, into the race from next year. Dinner was not bad, and in general, during the time that the Tour de France is taking place, only this meeting made a pleasant impression on me.

More than a year has passed since John Hayes, a teacher at Loyola College (Maryland, USA), took psilocybin, the active ingredient in the so-called magic mushrooms. Hayes claims that three sessions of eight hours each, arranged in the laboratory of the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, he became calmer and almost got rid of fears.

Court | Jury verdict The jurors participating in the case of the murder of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank Andrey Kozlov had a black streak. On July 10, juror No. 12, electrician Sergei Levin, was removed from the trial, in which the banker Alexei Frenkel is the main defendant, who allegedly tried to bribe three reserve jurors: he offered them 1,500 rubles each. for leaving the board. On the same day, juror No. 5 Alexander Popov and juror No.

One of the most anticipated films of the summer, The X-Files: I Want to Believe (directed by the legendary author and ideologue of all the X-Files Chris Carter) is released here and in America on July 24th. The only full-screen version of X-Files appeared already 10 years ago. The TV series ended six years ago, and for good reason: some of the latest episodes have been seen as outright parodies, deadly to the darkly conspiratorial spirit of The X-Files.

22-year-old Muscovite Sergei Perovsky (surname changed) has been repaying his debt to his homeland for a year and a half and will repay another one and a half - in rubles, monthly, at the nearest branch of Sberbank, paying off a loan for a tenth model Zhiguli. At the end of June, Sergei received a bachelor's degree in management and immediately automatically lost the right to deferment from the army.

At the end of the 15th century, the Italian sculptor Andrea della Robbia created a terracotta panel depicting St. archangel Michael. Since 1996, the exhibit in a wooden frame 160 cm wide has hung on metal brackets above the entrance to the building of European sculpture and decorative arts in the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art. But in early July, in the middle of the night, St. Archangel Michael fell "from heaven" and broke into pieces on the marble floor.

If tomorrow is a bloom Especially for Newsweek and Komsomolskaya Pravda, the commander of Russian peacekeepers in South Ossetia, Marat Kulakhametov, held a short lecture. Helping himself a huge wooden pointer, he showed slides - where the traditional sources of tension around Tskhinvili, and where something new appeared this year. Slides in English, because they were prepared for the visit of the ambassadors of the OSCE countries.

Decoration | Fish on the neck A new fashion has appeared in the Chinese city of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province: the girls here now wear unusual pendants - with a live fish inside. A small fish is kept in a heart-shaped plastic vessel filled with water and can survive in such a miniature ecosystem for about three months - at least this is what the jewelry manufacturers assure. The cost of the pendant is only 3 yuan (about 44 cents).