The oil company Russneft is returning to its former owner: Mikhail Gutseriev is expected to help put out a fire in Ingushetia Mikhail Gutseriev is one of the most colorful Russian businessmen. At the very beginning of the 90s, he created the first tax offshore in Ingushetia, then became a deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party. According to rumors, he got the post of head of the Russian-Belarusian oil company Slavneft for helping to foil the impeachment of Boris Yeltsin in 1999.

The war on terror flares up with renewed vigor, and the American security agencies are stepping on the same rake as before September 11, 2001 On Christmas morning, December 25, a young man with a cash ticket to Detroit, connecting in Amsterdam and carrying nothing but hand luggage, boarded a plane at a Nigerian airport. A month earlier, his father had shown up at the US embassy in Nigeria, worried that his son was missing, with links he suspected to Yemeni extremists.

One of the main contenders for the "Golden Globe" and "Oscar" film "Up in the Air" with George Clooney is a smart film about today in the best European traditions The young director Jason Reitman is not the first time making a movie about a pleasant person who is busy with some kind of filth and sincerely loves this business. The hero of the film "Smoking Here" advertised cigarettes, knowing full well that smoking kills.

This year, the Gosnarkokontrol has a new target at gunpoint - sellers of anabolic steroids For strongman Vladimir Turchinsky, it seemed, nothing was impossible: he moved the 260-ton Ruslan aircraft, lifted the well-fed elephant and overcame a hundred meters, dragging a 20-ton double-decker bus behind him. 46-year-old Dynamite could not save only his own health.

Yukos strikes back at Russia. He wants to sue the Kremlin in European courts up to $100 billion In 2000, the European Court of Human Rights decided that the Greek government illegally took away from the former king of this country, Constantine, his three family estates, where his ancestors were buried. Now, says one of the lawyers working in the Strasbourg court, the Yukos v. Russia case will be based on the most important precedent - the case of King Constantine v. Greece.

The government is trying to return to the pre-crisis agenda and start modernizing from above It looks like Kazakhstan will help Russia get out of the crisis. Already this year, Russia will begin to massively borrow the technical regulations in force in the neighboring republic - they should replace the long-obsolete Soviet GOSTs, which described what an industrial product or technology should be like.

Sports should make the United Arab Emirates one of the world centers. A huge construction site has been launched here and they are preparing to host the 2020 Olympics From September to May, camel racing takes place in Al Watba, a suburb of Abu Dhabi.

Gene therapy has been talked about for more than twenty years. But from the cradle she began to emerge only now Until recently, nine-year-old American Cory Haas spent almost all his time at home. Now it is impossible to take him off the street: he plays baseball and rides a bicycle all day long. Most of his life, Haas was blind: he was born with a hereditary visual defect, a form of Leber's amaurosis. This severe disease occurs due to the mutation of a single gene - RPE65.

In the 2010s, Russia will have to solve the problem of "a country without a future" No matter what anyone says, we have entered a new decade. Who dares to say that 2010 refers to zero? Zero is over. And it's time to think about what awaits us in the 2010s. To understand where we are, it is important to see ourselves from the outside. And in this sense, the place occupied by Russian studies in Western university education can be considered a very useful indicator.

In the first round, Yulia Tymoshenko should be no more than 10% behind Viktor Yanukovych. Then the 2010 elections will not be more boring than the previous ones. The sheep didn't want to get out of the truck. For some reason, animals with the letter "U" on their sides resisted more than those with the letter "I" painted on them. On the site in front of the CEC of Ukraine in Kyiv, the culprit of suffering, presidential candidate Vasily Vasilyevich Protivsikh, was waiting for them.

Vicious circle: US anti-terrorism measures lead to the radicalization of local Muslims, and this creates the basis for new terrorist attacks At dusk, people begin to flock to a small building located in the Washington suburb of Alexandria between eateries and workshops. There is no sign on an ordinary brick one-story house. The only thing that distinguishes it from its neighbors is the lack of an American flag and a security camera. This is a mosque.

The life of the Customs Union began with the Russian-Belarusian oil war The oil market gave Moscow a present for Christmas - last week prices reached $80 per barrel, which had not been given for half a year. Analysts believe that among the main reasons is the New Year's conflict between Russia and Belarus, which threatens to disrupt transit oil supplies to Europe. You might think that the allies specifically agreed to quarrel.

With the opening of a new terminal at Moscow's Sheremetyevo, the conflict between Aeroflot and the airport entered a new phase. Passengers were held hostage The commander of the ship said everything as it is: "Dear passengers, we apologize to you, but due to the fact that the employees of Sheremetyevo Airport do not know how to work, you will not be able to leave the plane yet." Passengers who had just arrived in Moscow from Rome were still crowding in the aisle.