Brawler Oleg Mitvol helps Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov to promote United Russia in elections in the capital The first thing that catches your eye upon entering the office of the prefect of the Northern District of Moscow is a full-wall TV panel and Versace furniture. According to the owner of the office, Oleg Mitvol, he inherited all this from his predecessor.

“9” and “Gamer”: it seems that a new film genre is emerging - an imitation of a computer game Some young gamer recently wrote on his blog: “If only they made a movie based on Stalker, that would be a movie!” “Stalker” for him is not a film by Andrei Tarkovsky based on the story by the Strugatsky brothers, but a computer game in which gloomy men go to the Zone, and sometimes sit by the fire and play guitars. What a movie that would be!

Hockey has become a fashionable sport in Russia again: clubs do not spare money, and TV companies fight for broadcasts For some reason, AvtoVAZ’s decision to cut funding came as a surprise to the Lada hockey team: hockey players got used to the fact that for the past two years the car factory had been steadily deducting almost 400 million rubles to the team, and at the end of April they suddenly cut their already small budget. The whole world was looking for a new sponsor.

The Criminal Court of Khartoum on Monday found guilty Sudanese journalist Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, accused of indecent behavior - wearing trousers in a public place, and sentenced to a fine of $ 200, RIA Novosti reports citing Arab media. The journalist managed to escape punishment in the form of 40 lashes, provided for in article 152 of the Criminal Code of Sudan, under which she was tried.

The idyll is over: an attempt to reform the US healthcare system cost Barack Obama his sky-high rating On Saturday, armed with a "No to Prayer Treatment" sign, Mike Siders travels to Waldorf, Maryland, to the office of Rep. Steny Hoyer. When asked why not protest on a weekday, Siders only snorts: “It's Obama supporters who have time to demonstrate on weekdays. And we all work." Hoyer at this time is just resting in neighboring Virginia, from where Siders and his comrades arrived.

Scientists have not been able to endow robots with real intelligence. This can be fixed by making machines evolve When Jerry Tesoro, an employee of the IBM Research Center, played backgammon for the first time with his own program, victory was easy for him. The level of the TD-Gammon game - that was the name of the algorithm created by the scientist - left much to be desired: even a child could easily beat the program. But after a few days, TD-Gammon began to defeat its creator.

Elena Chernenko, Alena Stepanenko The guards at the American embassy in Kabul regularly staged drunken orgies and forced their Afghan counterparts to participate in them. This became known from a letter from the non-profit oversight organization Project on Government Oversight (POGO), sent September 1, 2009 to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Japan's new prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, may never have thought that a song he recorded 20 years ago would sell for good money on an online auction. The record titled "Take Heart - Fly, Dove of Peace" was recorded by the prime minister back in 1988, when he was first elected to the Japanese parliament as a member of the Democratic Party. The record was sold for 35,000 yen ($375). The title of the song is a play on words related to Hatoyama's name.

Pavel Sedakov, Alexey Savkin The case of Yevgeny Chichvarkin before our eyes has become the loudest example of the persecution of an entrepreneur in Russia in recent years. Businessmen often have problems with organs, and many of them emigrate, including large ones. But it was the extravagant entrepreneur-politician Chichvarkin who became a symbol of success in Russia. And then a criminal case was brought against him.

The largest Russian truck manufacturer KAMAZ OJSC on Monday resumes the work of the main assembly line, which has been stopped since early August, Oleg Afanasyev, director of the company's information policy department, told RIA Novosti. During August, almost all the company's plants did not work. KAMAZ sold cars assembled earlier. “As expected, the main assembly line of the automobile plant will start on September 7th.

In the coming years, Russia will be chronically short of money, and the crisis has nothing to do with it Dmitry Medvedev will finish his first presidential term with a zero result. In 2012, according to the forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development, the Russian economy will just reach the pre-crisis level.

Former environmental activist tells Newsweek correspondent Nadezhda Ivanitskaya that he has a lot to learn from Yuri Luzhkov How do you assess the situation in your district? The previous leadership of the district brought the situation almost to a critical point. A lot of questions to the former prefect Yuri Khardikov, who, as far as I understand, is already on the run (a criminal case has been opened against him, he is in Germany. - Newsweek ).

The Kremlin is seriously discussing whether to return the death penalty. Capital punishment is very popular and will allow not to pay compensation to Mikhail Khodorkovsky When Orthodox hierarchs were asked how they felt about the death penalty, they usually shrugged it off: the Old Testament recognized it as a special measure of punishment, but not the New Testament, which, however, does not say anything about the need for its complete abolition.

Maria Zheleznova The district election commissions of the city of Moscow refused to register for the elections to the Moscow City Duma, which are scheduled for October 11, the majority of single-mandate candidates from the opposition. Most of the complaints were against the signature lists of candidates from Solidarity and Right Cause. So, Ilya Yashin had 100% of the collected signatures rejected.

The world economy seems to be climbing out of a hole. Russia as always a special case It took 80 years to find this man. He was searched for by thousands of world-famous professionals. To solve the tragic riddle, a new branch of knowledge was even created - macroeconomics.