Elections in Germany. Act one: clowns, porn stars and swindlers. Act Two: Angela Merkel From a state visit to Georgia, German politician Martin Sonneborn most of all remembers a green plastic bottle without a label, or rather its contents.

Artem Vernidub Chinese businessmen are not abandoning the idea of ​​building a new market in Moscow instead of Cherkizovsky. In the first half of September, another delegation from Beijing visited Moscow. True, the details of the negotiations became known only when the negotiators returned to their homeland and took part in a teleconference with Moscow from the Beijing studio of RIA Novosti. For the first time, the Chinese openly criticized Russia for what happened in the summer.

Ordinary schools are turning into schools of the future: they no longer need textbooks and notebooks, and assessments can be made at a distance Hunters from the taiga village of Nerkha in the Irkutsk Territory quickly learn about the progress of their children, although they study far away - at a boarding school in the village of Alygdzher. Schoolchildren live there, their parents rarely see them.

The problems in the economy are much more serious than the government assures In one remote province, from where you gallop for three years, you will not reach any border, they sent a young governor with progressive views. He, of course, brought with him the capital's advisers, but he did not quarrel with the local bigwigs either. Almost a year has passed - nothing works.

State managers are bad owners and managers. During the crisis, they become more and more When Vladimir Putin and his entourage came to Togliatti to rescue AvtoVAZ this spring, Valentina Kazakova, the chef of the plant's top managers, prepared dinner for the retinue. She worked 20 hours a day, she recalls, Muscovites were satisfied. The prime minister then explained that the state would help AvtoVAZ, even though it was a private company.

Rhythmic gymnastics is becoming unsportsmanlike: the Russian team has no competitors and is not expected Alice from Novosibirsk has been doing rhythmic gymnastics for three years now. She was brought into this sport by her mother, who was not afraid of horror stories about a crippled childhood and exhausted children. At first, Alice often cried, but gradually got used to it.

Humanity can easily and cheaply get rid of global warming. Unless, of course, the drug kills the patient The book by the Soviet science fiction writer Alexander Kazantsev “Polar Dream” ends with pictures of the flourishing Soviet Arctic: an armada of ships under red flags is moving along the polar sea, free from ice. A great time came after the Soviet engineering genius warmed up the ocean with underwater nuclear reactors.

Almost all last week Saratov lived on the verge of panic. On Tuesday, September 15, a serious accident occurred at one of the city's pumping stations, leaving 450,000 people without water - half of all residents of Saratov. Queues lined up in stores for drinking water, hundreds of people gathered at local springs, fire engines were used as pumps in dehydrated areas. The governor of the Saratov region Pavel Ipatov himself took part in the elimination of the accident.

Obama's decision not to deploy missile defense in Europe was not a concession to Russia, but gives Moscow time to consider whether to renew the confrontation Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell insisted last Tuesday that the revision of the US missile defense system had not yet been completed, and was not even ready to say "how close [the US] is to resolving this issue." At this point, apparently, someone was already leaking information to the Wall Street Journal that the Obama administration was

About how Germany's policy towards Russia will change depending on the color of the new government, Mirela Izich, a researcher at the Munich Center for Applied Political Research, told Newsweek. Does the development of Russian-German relations depend on the results of Sunday's parliamentary elections in Germany?

Photo exhibition "Germany: stop a moment!" is a retrospective of an international photography competition among journalists established by the German National Tourist Board (DZT) on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. As part of the photo contest, more than 30 journalists from 18 European countries, Japan and the United States, from September to January 2008, went on a "photo journey" to Berlin and other areas of Germany, which until 1989 passed the Berlin Wall.