Barack Obama Celebrates Election Anniversary Under Combat Conditions. The second year of the presidency promises to be even more difficult In the 2004 election, Sylvia Shapley, the wife of a farmer from Little Orleans in Maryland, voted for George W. Bush. But about the last election, which was won by Barack Obama, she evasively answers that "she doesn't even remember if she voted at all." Shepley and her husband run a livestock farm.

The film "Paranormal Activity", which was shot by unknown people for $ 15,000, has already earned more than $ 65 million and is not going to stop It's worth repeating: the film, which was made by unknown people for $15,000 (in words - fifteen thousand dollars!), has already earned more than $65 million (sixty-five million!). Is it normal? No, it's paranormal. The last film about which legends and stories could be told appeared ten years ago.

In Europe, they share the skin of an unkilled bear - the presidency of the EU, which may not arise if the Czech Republic rejects the Lisbon Treaty Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has not been slandered so much since his detractors, much to the outrage of the UK Poodle Association, called him "Bush's Poodle" for supporting the US in the Iraq War.

The authorities are afraid to reform the police, not because it is impossible, but because they are not sure of their future “What to do with the Ministry of Internal Affairs is clear even to Andrei Malakhov,” said a familiar businessman, making it clear that the conversation about police reform has gone in a circle and it’s time to end. About the police as about football - everyone has their own opinion.

Proven: Monkeys have traditions. They help them survive A well-known photograph from 1972 shows a slender blonde with a chimpanzee peeking under her blouse with undisguised interest. Blonde - British anthropologist Jane Goodall - has been studying monkeys for half a century and trying to prove that nothing human is alien to them. In 1999, Goodall published one of her most high-profile scientific papers in the journal Nature.

Altyn Holding has been dumping its gold for many years. For some reason, no one noticed that it was contraband Altyn's business grew out of an inconspicuous gold consumer goods store in Bishkek. Then he moved from Kyrgyzstan to Kazakhstan, and then to Russia. Here "Altyn" made a splash - such queues before the holidays were only in grocery stores. The vice-president of the holding, Antonina Babosyuk, was no less popular.

Having realized that you can really save a lot on water, gas and electricity, many people lose their sense of reality 42-year-old Muscovite Elena Filina installed hot and cold water meters at home two years ago. Filina lives in an apartment with her manager husband and adult daughter. Previously, water flowed from their taps literally like a river: they washed themselves in the bathroom, washed the dishes - no one watched this.

Whatever government comes up with a plan to save AvtoVAZ, its suppliers will cut production and lay off people one by one. A standard two-room apartment in Togliatti is littered with car hoses. They are everywhere - in the pantry, in the hallway, in the bedroom. These are not spare parts stolen from the factory, but components for which he does not pay.

The Crescendo Festival has been gathering the best young performers of classical music from all over Russia for the fifth year already. On October 24, it started in Pskov, on November 1, a gala concert was held in Moscow, and on December 5, New York awaits participants.

Russian aviation is sorely lacking pilots. Pilots from the CIS countries will soon be allowed to fly, but the crisis cannot be avoided Yuri Boguslavsky, a pilot from Dnepropetrovsk, has received ten offers to work in Russia over the past six months. “They constantly call and bargain. Once they offered $8,000 a month in business aviation,” says the pilot. Now he earns almost three times less. But today only Russians and Belarusians can be in the cockpit of a Russian aircraft.

The Russian authorities accuse the grandson of the American Communist Party leader William Browder of tax evasion. Browder himself, who has been doing business in Russia for more than a decade, told Ilya Arkhipov that it was the security forces who stole taxes paid by Hermitage fund companies. So did your companies pay taxes in Russia? The Hermitage Foundation and other foreign investors we have advised have paid more than $0.5 billion in taxes in Russia.

On National Unity Day, November 4, in Kazan, the Russian parliamentary football team will play with the veterans of the Spanish "Barcelona", Boris Gryzlov, speaker of the State Duma and one of the players of the Russian team, told reporters on Monday. “There will be a big football day in Kazan on November 4 - Rubin meets Barcelona in the Champions League. And on this day there will be a meeting of the parliamentary team of Russia with the veterans of Barcelona, ​​- said Gryzlov.