At the Kayabukiya tavern outside Tokyo, two monkeys serve as waiters. The youngest of the monkeys, Fuku-chan, distributes hot hand towels to customers before eating, and the eldest, named Yat-chan, also delivers drinks in addition to towels. Previously, the monkeys simply lived at the restaurant to entertain visitors.

It's hard to believe, but in less than a year, the dream of all Cinderellas - Richard Gere - will turn 60. That, however, does not prevent him from remaining one of the main characters-lovers of Hollywood. Here is the new picture "Nights in Rodanthe", which is released in Russian cinemas on October 16, again about love. About love, love letters and "romance" with Diane Lane, which has been going on for almost a quarter of a century, the actor told our man in Hollywood - Nellie Holmes.

Sixteen years ago, the philosopher Francis Fukuyama proclaimed the victory of American-style liberal democracy. The famous article that made Fukuyama a world star was called The End of History. Pax Americana triumphs in the world, Fukuyama announced at the time. And in an article written specifically for Newsweek, the philosopher almost completely revises the concept he put forward.

The current Russian leadership concluded its first deal with Reykjavik back in the days of Sobchak. “We sold heavy fuel to Iceland and immediately bought herring from them,” Gennady Timchenko said in his only interview, according to Western analysts, one of the owners of Gunvor, which now controls 70% of Russian sea exports of oil. Timchenko recalled 1991, when he, together with an official of the St.

There is not a single gas stove in Visaginas, Lithuania. “We are a city of nuclear scientists,” Alikas Milko, head of the local mayor's office, says proudly. “Where there was a dense forest, the pipes of the INPP shot up!” This lyrical work of Soviet physicists still hangs as an epigraph on the city website.

A short, stout, middle-aged woman scrutinizes the Newsweek correspondent, shrugs and winces. The lady flips through several fashion magazines, mentally trying on dresses, skirts and sweaters for a journalist and says: “You can have such a leather jacket with a gold lining, but these green trousers cannot; raspberry boots, the length is somewhere up to the middle of the thigh will be acceptable, but in no case, forget the gray color.

Paul Krugman, an American researcher from Princeton University, has become the winner of the Alfred Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, established by the Swedish State Bank, in 2008, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences Committee on Economic Prize announced. The prize was awarded for "his analysis of the structure of trade and the geographic distribution of economic activity," the committee said in the decision.

Iceland went bankrupt, right? There was a possibility of bankruptcy if we did not take drastic measures. Therefore, Parliament passed the law on emergency economic measures. This was done to give the government the right to take control of the banks. And I think these measures will ensure that our country does not go bankrupt. The state has practically no external debts. In this sense, there is no government default. But, of course, banks, as private companies, were heavily in debt.

It's not even a sale - it's a liquidation. Western banks are very aggressive and do not wait a minute. Approximately such a picture was painted last week by Moscow businessmen. Their emotions are indignation mixed with resentment: a broker in London presses the button and doesn't even know what he is about to sell for next to nothing. And we can already talk about blocks of shares of Russian metallurgists or oilmen.

The fact that mutants live in the Volga is logical: the river itself is also a mutant. “There is no Volga as such. There is a natural-technogenic system,” says Gennady Rozenberg, director of the Institute of Ecology of the Volga Basin. The river turned into this difficult-to-pronounce phrase through the efforts of Soviet conquerors of nature: from 1935 to 1982, eight giant dams grew on the Volga.