"Oh yes! My dad and I often talk about Russia at home, especially after this Putin appeared and events took place in Georgia,” smiles Megan McCain, who looks like suddenly plump Ksyusha Sobchak. She continues: “It’s really funny, because when dad warned about Putin during the primaries, people said he was stuck in the 80s. And when all this happened between Russia and Georgia, people immediately: “Oh, he keeps his finger on the pulse of national security!” Oh, sorry, international security.

Alexander is one of the clients of the first Bank of Time in Russia. This original service, already very popular abroad, allows everyone to exchange a variety of services. In Russia, the Time Bank immediately adopted the Soviet slogan: "From each according to his ability - to each according to his needs." A person does for others what he loves, knows how to do or simply can. And in return he gets the services he needs.

Spacious office with leather furniture, a massive closet, a huge round table for negotiations. Nearby on the desktop are two laptops: on one - files and documents, on the other - a computer game Lines: relieve stress. Andrey, 28, a top executive in the Russian branch of a major Western investment firm, sits on a table eating a hot dog, a scene typical of New York but highly unusual in Moscow.

The film by 24-year-old Valeria Gai Germanika “Everyone will die, but I will stay”, which has already been called the “sensation of the year” and “scandal of the year”, is now at the box office and available to everyone. Even those who have not heard anything about the picture, having landed on the Moscow premiere last Tuesday, would immediately guess that Lera is a fashionable girl. And recognized in the circle of art leftists. Around her, the writer Eduard Limonov danced wildly.

In 1967, British astronomers Jocelyn Bell and Anthony Hewish recorded a radio signal that repeated itself with surprising frequency. Not knowing how to explain this, they assumed that they had caught the long-awaited message from the brothers in mind, and called the phenomenon they discovered LGM-1, that is, Little Green Men (little green men). Very soon, Hewish and Bell realized that such signals are not emitted by little men, but by stars of a special kind - pulsars.