Until recently, the government was thinking about how to save the sinking economy. And now they say that the crisis is a good time to buy It's a holiday in the Opel fan club in Berlin. “We, the fans of the brand, do not care who saved the company - the KGB, the FBI or the green men,” club member Sigmund Kolbrich does not mind at all that Sberbank, together with the Canadian company Magna, bought a controlling stake in the automaker.

Making their way to the West, Russian investors also pay for the image of their country. Lobbyists can't help here. The GlobeScan International Research Center, together with the Program on International Policy Attitudes, conducts a global poll every year on the topic of who the world does not like. Russia in this list of anti-heroes in 2006 ranked third after Iran and the United States, and this year moved further away - to fifth, skipping ahead of Iran, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea.

Things are moving towards a new gas war. Moscow is struggling to involve Europe in the conflict with Kiev Gas disputes with Ukraine have been going on for years, but for the past two weeks Moscow has acted as if something irreparable was happening this time.

The upcoming census should show the success of the social policy of the Kremlin and the government. Due to the crisis, it can be canceled The St. Petersburg agency RiF has been sending Russian citizens for permanent residence abroad for twenty years. Three years ago, potential clients were introduced to the People's Census of Russia, says manager Vitaly Vetrov. Such a marketing ploy. The “census” was compiled by the agency employees themselves from various statistics from Internet sites.

You can now read about where to go and what to see in books: “traveler’s companions” come out one after another At the end of the 19th century, as they would say today, Capri became a priority destination for Russian tourism. The most famous domestic inhabitant of this Mediterranean island was, of course, Maxim Gorky - he lived here for more than eight years, and almost all Russian bohemia visited him.

Those who arrested Russian students in Egypt did not know that Chechens and Dagestanis are also citizens of the Russian Federation Rasul, a student of the Islamic Al-Azhar University, originally from Karachay-Cherkessia, was detained by the Egyptian migration service after a day of prayer right at the exit of the Cairo Fayd Ur-Rahman mosque. He knew that raids on foreigners had been going on since early morning, so he had his passport with him.

Vladimir Putin came to Pikalevo, played a good king and offended Oleg Deripaska. In words Vladimir Putin succumbed to the pressure of the masses. Last Tuesday, the residents of Pikalevo, left without work and money, blocked the highway Novaya Ladoga-Vologda. On Thursday, the Prime Minister spoke before them.

To become famous, now it is enough to shoot a funny video and put it on the network. "Dear Mom and Dad. I ran away from home. I'm sorry, but I can't take this middle class life anymore. Everyone at my school is an idiot, and if anyone else talks to me about Susan Boyle singing Les Miserables, I….” - Ike, the younger brother of the boy Kyle from the cartoon "South Park", was indignant in a letter to his parents.

More and more teenagers dream of finding a summer job. This year they suddenly have competitors - adults At 16, Andrei Ivanyuk is already an experienced social worker. For two and a half years, he helped twenty grandmothers around the house. Now Andrei has three elderly women in his care. He works not only in the summer, but also while studying at school.

The first congress of the poet's descendants was held in Moscow As is known from the school literature course, Alexander Sergeevich Pushkin was at odds with the exact sciences. Ekaterina Mikhailovna Pushkina had the same problems. She suffered for a long time at the exam in strength of materials, until the teacher picked up her record book and discovered that he was in front of the poet's great-great-great-great-granddaughter.

The ex-owner of the Euroset company, Evgeny Chichvarkin, put on the international wanted list, appeared on Sunday at a ballet gala evening in London's Covent Garden. According to RIA Novosti correspondents, the businessman, known for his extravagant tastes in clothing, changed his style in a foreign land and came to the event in a strict dark blue suit with a tie.

The winner of the global crisis will not be the one who bought the past, but the one who will be able to sell the future The tectonic shifts in world architecture, which the sibyls and cassandras of the global crisis promised us, have finally come to fruition. If the Russians buy, albeit partially, Opel, and the Chinese get a Hummer in the bud - isn't this a revolution in the foundations of the world order? Just think: the Chinese "Hammer"! This is complete horror.

There is a growing number of kidnappings for ransom around the world. Russia is no exception The son of Rosneft Vice President Mikhail Stavsky was kidnapped on April 13. Information about this appeared only last week: relatives and the police hoped that the kidnappers would get in touch. But the criminals who ambushed Mikhail Stavsky Jr. near the building of the Gubkin University of Oil and Gas, where he is a freshman, are still silent.

A change of power in the DPRK will either lead to disaster or maintain the status quo.

It's time for politicians to take up biology textbooks. Long-gone epidemics left their mark on the geopolitical map of the world In 1994, the inhabitants of Rarotonga Atoll - the largest of the Cook Islands - hurriedly left their homes, taking only the most necessary with them. The natives had no choice: an epidemic broke out on the Cook Islands, and sea water was contaminated with several types of microscopic algae at once. The fish that ate them became deadly to humans.