In Moscow, there are real unrest of traders left without work: the Cherkizovsky market was closed forever A real Babylonian pandemonium: the Chinese are squatting in the shade of a fence, a lone Hindu in a turban is standing a little to the side, Dagestani women in black headscarves are surrounded by a black Mercedes, Ukrainians and Russians are discussing the latest news. These are sellers from the closed Cherkizovsky market who came to pick up their goods.

The experiment with the respite service in St. Petersburg was successful: volunteers were found who were ready to sit with seriously ill children Alina K.'s pregnancy was difficult, and the birth was premature. Doctors immediately advised her to abandon the child. At nine months old, her daughter Katya did not roll over, she did not walk at a year old, and at one and a half she developed epilepsy. By the age of three, she already had cerebral palsy (CP) and Down syndrome.

President Obama does not want to stir up the past, but the new US Attorney General may still launch an investigation into the actions of the Bush administration On the evening of July 3 - the eve of US Independence Day - Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. stood on the roof of the White House with President Barack Obama. They watched the fireworks that illuminated the monuments to Lincoln and Washington.

Natalya Estemirova, 1959–2009, was a key figure in the human rights movement in Chechnya. Since 1999, she began working as a journalist and human rights activist in the Organization of Prisoners of Filtration Camps, since 2000 she has been an employee of the Memorial Center in Chechnya. . Anna Politkovskaya (2007). She left a daughter. Newsweek got her own account of her life, captured on audiotape a year ago.

Chechen human rights activist Natalya Estemirova was killed. Chechen-linked political terror becomes President Medvedev's main problem In October 2006, after Anna Politkovskaya was killed, Newsweek wrote about her meeting with Ramzan Kadyrov, according to her companion, with whom they came together to Kadyrov in Tsentoroi: “They had a very difficult conversation.

Following the peplum, the musical and the western, Big Hollywood Style returned in another genre - the gangster saga. Came back to die There is a legend that the great gangsters once imitated the great actors. Allegedly, James Cagney or Clark Gable knew better than any gangster how he should wear a hat or hold a gun, how to talk to a woman and how to go to his death. Life and cinema are endlessly reflected in each other. Clark Gable himself copied his gangsters from Johnny Dillinger.

The Russian project of the South Stream gas pipeline is less and less likely to materialize. Last week, the governments of Turkey, Austria, Hungary, Bulgaria and Romania signed an agreement in Ankara to build an alternative gas pipeline - Nabucco, named after an ancient Babylonian king. The main goal is to send gas to Europe, bypassing Russia. The last month turned out to be unsuccessful for the Russian gas policy.

Russian team tennis in crisis: the federation lacks money, and the stars complain about the schedule Last week, after the Russian team lost miserably to Israeli tennis players in the quarterfinals of the Davis Cup, the frustrated team captain Shamil Tarpischev threw up in his hearts that he could not ask the players to play “for no reason” and there was no money. When Newsweek relayed these words to Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko, he was very surprised.

Oleg Suntsov from St. Petersburg recalls how in 1995 his wife gave him 15 rubles to buy bread, and he squandered everything in slot machines. From gambling addiction, says Suntsov, oddly enough, he was cured by casinos and poker. “I just realized: sat down at the machine - already lost,” he explains. Suntsov began to play with people, and things went well.

Newsweek Exclusive Investigation A native of Russia killed a Muslim woman in Germany. Now the Germans are wondering where he contracted Islamophobia - at home or in Germany No one in the world resented the murder of a young Egyptian Marva Sherbini in Dresden more than the Iranian authorities.

Einstein's previously unknown letters published. They allow us to trace how a physicist turned into a politician. And suspect him of plagiarism Franz Rusch, professor of physics at the Zhili Province Technical College in China, opened the postal envelope. Inside was a piece of paper, covered in ink stains and written in what looked like a child's handwriting. In 1921, this letter traveled a long way from Germany to China. “I lead a hectic and hasty life.

The crisis is the time to open, not close trading places. In the fight for the Cherkizovsky market, buyers will be extreme I am not interested in understanding why the Cherkizovsky market was actually closed. I don't know who is more important in Russia - Telman Ismailov or Zarakh Iliev. And what is their relationship with Mayor Luzhkov and Putin's judo coach. I, like almost every resident of Russia, only understand that earlier the Cherkizovsky market had a very powerful “roof”.

Englishmen Steve Henry and David Alberts published a book proving that there are much more valuable things in life than money. The book is called You Are Really Rich, You Just Don't Know It Yet. The authors conducted a large-scale study: they interviewed 1,000 people to assign a monetary equivalent to various life events. Respondents had to compare the joy from each of the events and from winning the lottery of one or another amount of money.

The government tried to establish a transparent distribution of state orders. In response, officials stopped spending this money Last year, the administration of the Peterhof Museum was preparing a traditional festival of fountains and announced a tender: the company that undertakes to organize the event in five days will receive a contract.

Among the benefactors there are scammers. Honest foundations are still afraid to talk about it so as not to aggravate the situation of charity in Russia The two-year-old daughter of financier Andrei Shcherbakov was fading away, and Moscow doctors could not even properly diagnose. Shcherbakov turned to German doctors, and they warned: we will treat him, but in case of complications, the cost of treatment will double. Three weeks later, Sasha was put on her feet, and she returned home.