Nadezhda Ivanitskaya Last week, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin approved a new scheme to support domestic cinema. At a meeting at VGIK, he complained that Nikita Mikhalkov "ate all his baldness" with stories about how to raise Russian cinema to an international level. In 2010, the budget promises 4.9 billion rubles to support cinema, a rather large amount, given that investment spending had to be reduced. The money for cinema is distributed by the Ministry of Culture.

Russian spirituality is more and more reminiscent of Santa Claus: it seems that it doesn’t exist, but filmmakers, like children, believe and seek Big Russian cinema lately has been setting up snares and traps everywhere to capture and record spirituality. Even so - Spirituality. The directors are reminiscent of small children who stay up all night on New Year's Eve, hoping to see how Santa Claus brings gifts.

And 20 years later the Germans are still not one people I keep my own green graffiti wall piece in a box at home. I broke it off when I came to Berlin in early 1991 to oversee the dismantling of the main symbol of the Cold War. The wall was living its last days and looked like a mortally wounded monster. The young journalist had little money, and therefore, for 35 marks a day, I rented a room in Neukölln, in the former American occupation zone.

High-speed trains make China a very compact place and change people's mentality For decades, traveling on the Chinese railroad was hours of torture in a jolting, packed East German train weaving along old, shabby tracks. Now China has decided to put an end to this and will spend about $300 billion on railways in the next three years. Their length will increase by 20,000 km. Of these, 13,000 km will be designed for high-speed trains capable of speeding up to 350 km/h.

Massacre perpetrated by a psychiatrist at a Texas military base will make the idea of ​​sending additional troops to Afghanistan even less popular If, because of the prospect of being in Afghanistan or Iraq, an American military psychiatrist can shoot more than a dozen colleagues, then what to expect from ordinary military men who do not understand why they need to go to the ends of the world to die. Major Nidal Hasan heard dozens of stories from soldiers returning from the "war on terror".

Russian officials are recovering from a failed attempt to buy Opel. It seems that they are not going to take revenge on the perfidious Americans Last Wednesday, at a reception in honor of National Unity Day, there was a joke among those invited: “Didn’t your Opel get stolen yesterday?” - “No, this is with German Oskarovich!” The day before, the board of directors of General Motors decided not to sell Opel to a consortium of the Canadian Magna and Sberbank.

The attempt to stop swine flu at the borders failed. Now it turns out that Russia did not have time to prepare for the epidemic If you feel unwell, do not go to the doctor under any circumstances. Just go to the Ministry of Health website and fill out a special form. The program will immediately determine whether you have swine flu symptoms. If so, you will be sent a personal code.

The last communist prime minister of the GDR, Hans Modrow, worked in this post for only a few months, losing it to Lothar de Maizières. After the unification of Germany, he managed to be a member of the Bundestag and the European Parliament. Now Modrow is the honorary chairman of the Left Party. In a conversation with Peter Galling, he explained what has become better and worse in Germany over the past 20 years.

Medical representatives will have a hard time. This is how the government is expelling Western pharmacists from the Russian market This fall, the U.S. Department of Justice fined Pfizer $2.3 billion. A record fine was issued for collusion between the company's medical representatives and doctors, who prescribed medications they didn't need to patients. In America, laws describing the work of medical representatives have been adopted for a long time.