The Council of Judges and the Constitutional Court defended the FSB and the presidential administration There was no doubt that the change in the procedure for appointing the chairman of the Constitutional Court (now, in the best traditions of monarchism, he is actually appointed by the president) will be followed by other dramatic novels in the life of the court.

The story of one manager: how Mukhtar Dzhakishev led and raised the nuclear industry of Kazakhstan, and then crossed the path of Vladimir Putin and Nursultan Nazarbayev and lost everything Dynastic marriages also happen in the nuclear industry. Vadim Zhivov heads Atomredmetzoloto, one of the largest subsidiaries of Rosatom, the Russian nuclear monopoly. He is married to the daughter of Vladimir Shkolnik, director of Kazatomprom, the nuclear monopoly in Kazakhstan.

Actor Mikhail Porechenkov is in demand in cinema, theater and television. Now he is acting in the TV series "Doctor Tyrsa", playing in the Moscow Art Theater. Chekhov and hosts the program "Culinary duel". Last week, Porechenkov, accompanied by a symphony orchestra, read the fairy tale "The Kid and Carlson" in the Great Hall of the Conservatory.

Why do we need satire, besides funny? To look at reality with a sober look - says Hollywood film "Mad SWAT" The word "farce" comes from the word "I start, stuffing": farcical, satirical scenes "started" a theatrical performance, ridiculing everyone in a row. In today's Russian cinema, few people are cut for this stuffing. It remains to be seen how the Americans make fun of themselves - for example, in the film "Mad Special Forces", which is released in Russian cinemas on December 10.

Major Dymovsky, the author of the famous video, travels around Russia. He turned out to be unlike the action movie hero who went out to fight one on one with the system Seven in the morning Chelyabinsk time. City of Kyshtym. Aleksei Dymovsky, a policeman from Novorossiysk who became famous for his revealing YouTube video, sits in flip-flops and shorts in a room at the Rodnik Hotel. I have to go shave, but he doesn’t like to shave: “I worked in the drug control department.

With the filing of Dmitry Medvedev, a redistribution began on Russian TV. It's about what television will look like on the eve of the 2012 presidential election. In the spring, the National Media Group (NMG) invited Alexander Rodnyansky, president of the STS television channel, to the Fifth Channel. Rodnyansky agreed and resigned from STS. But the Kovalchuk brothers, owners of the NMG and longtime acquaintances of Vladimir Putin, could not hire him.

The customs union has been built, but how it will work is still not clear to officials At the last moment, Alexander Lukashenko, from whom surprises are always expected, almost disrupted the creation of the Customs Union. As Newsweek learned, Lukashenka did not like the distribution of votes between Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan in the working bodies of the union. There was no scandal, but this is just one of many examples.

The key question in the Abkhazian elections: what is better to give to Russia - the soul or the wallet? The outcome of the vote is unpredictable Listen to the Abkhaz deputies, so on the eve of the presidential elections, the fate of the country was decided by the referent Marina. Her last name and exact position are the subject of controversy.

Ankara is trying to make peace with the Kurds and stop the bloodshed, which has been going on for 25 years. But the Turks and Kurds are against the peacekeeping initiative of the authorities Seventeen-year-old Baran left home, leaving a note to his parents: “My battery is dead. Don't worry, I'm going to my friends." With him, he took only an identity card, two photographs of the family and a sweater that was knitted by his beloved girlfriend.

A week ago, President Medvedev became the author of an international sensation. He proposed his draft treaty on European security. Russia's foreign policy has never known a more ambitious undertaking. Under Putin, Russia used to withdraw from international treaties. But she did not offer her own, and even such radical reforms of the world order. And under Medvedev, this is already the second experience: in the spring, an updated version of the Energy Charter was presented.

The Russian health insurance system is a hornet's nest. It needs to be reformed, but it is not clear how to approach it A year and a half ago, the head of the health insurance fund of the Chelyabinsk region, Valery Nekrasov, decided to carry out a healthcare reform in his region. Tired of constant theft, he figured out how to reshape the entire system for distributing funds for treatment. Last week, the project started in pilot mode, but Nekrasov himself will no longer see its results.