Becoming a millionaire is simple: you need to commit a high-profile crime and earn money on interviews, memoirs and films all your life With an average salary of $500, it would take an ordinary Turk 8,333 years to earn $50 million. Mehmet Ali Agca, 52, is about to earn just that amount - and without much effort. Agca laid the foundation of his well-being on May 13, 1981. On that day, he tried to shoot Pope John Paul II.

The reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs is focused on increasing centralization and preserving corruption Minister Nurgaliyev listened to Major Dymovsky and promises to abolish the "stick" reporting system, in which every year it is necessary to show an increase in the number of solved crimes, which, according to the major, forces the police to falsify the disclosure of cases. True, neither the minister nor his associates can explain how the work of the police will be assessed now.

The authorities are preparing to introduce new punitive measures for protesters. The opposition believes that this is a sign of the approaching second wave of the crisis “Dear citizens! The event is over, please disperse!” - persuaded the police captain of the participants of the anti-fascist picket at Chistye Prudy last Tuesday. They did not disperse, demanding the release of their comrades, who had been detained a few hours earlier.

Residents of the Rechnik settlement in Moscow are ready to defend their homes from demolition with weapons in their hands On the morning of last Thursday, a bailiff came to Alexander Navrotsky, a resident of the metropolitan village of Rechnik, and advised him to take out his things - his log house would be demolished in the afternoon. The reserve captain Navrotsky sent the children to their grandmother and began to prepare for defense.

The capital of Haiti has turned into a city where the dead are disposed of like garbage, and life resembles paintings from the Apocalypse To one of the field hospitals deployed by rescue services in Port-au-Prince, 29-year-old Max-Darlene Azor traveled with an open leg fracture for almost three days. The bodies of her uncle and aunt were left in a collapsed house in the prestigious Petionville neighborhood, built on a hill.

Alexander Khloponin has become a very important official and will personally restore order in the Caucasus in the name of Putin and Medvedev. But to move the situation forward, he will have to perform a miracle.

Having opened borders to neighbors, Russia closed itself off from imports from far abroad Co-owner of the wine trading company "DP-Trade" Dmitry Pinsky was lucky. Before the new year, he managed to clear all the trucks with imported wine. After the holidays, when new deliveries began, Pinsky found out that the Russian customs, for some unknown reason, stopped letting alcohol through. But the entrepreneur quickly got his bearings.

American chicken legs were closed to the Russian market - this is part of the policy to turn the country into a great meat power Russia is mastering a new type of export to Europe: not oil or gas, but reindeer meat. Last week, Russian companies signed a contract in Berlin to supply 200 tons of venison to Finland and 160 tons to Germany. The deals were personally approved by First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov.

Death is the censor, co-writer and producer of Terry Gilliam's new film. She also did advertising. He is said to be a loser. He starts filming The Man Who Killed Don Quixote - and then a hurricane washes away the part of Spain where the filming is taking place. He shoots a third of The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus - and the actor playing the main character dies. He figures out how to shoot Imaginarium without losing a single important frame - and then the producer dies.

One of the main Russian emigrant churches, St. Nicholas Cathedral in Nice, was returned to Russia. Relations with emigration now depend on how Moscow disposes of its victory In the spring of 2009, Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople was on a visit to Paris and at the same time met with French Minister of the Interior Michel Alliot-Marie. From the minister, the patriarch needed one thing - a guarantee of a favorable outcome in the lawsuit on the ownership of St. Nicholas Cathedral in Nice.

The international community is conducting one of the largest rescue operations in history. The effect is barely noticeable The main trend in covering the tragedy of Haiti has become the so-called sympathetic journalism - participating journalism. It started with the American neurosurgeon Sanjay Gupta, who is also CNN's health columnist. He was one of the first to go to Haiti and has already performed dozens of operations, not forgetting to go live and leave notes on Twitter.

The problem of a runner - or a runner - Caster Semenya is being solved by the whole world: genetics from sports are looking for an answer to the question, where is the border between a man and a woman Last year, immediately after the premiere, heated debates began around the film "Berlin 36" by the German director Kaspar Heidelbach. The film tells the story of Dora Ratjen, although her name is changed to Marie Kettler.

Rusal successfully held an IPO in Hong Kong. Oleg Deripaska, the main loser of the crisis, is coming out of it without losing a single key asset They say about Vladimir Putin that one day in the summer of 2008, he put it something like this: wherever you spit, everywhere either Gazprom or Deripaska. Indeed, at the peak of the growth of the Russian stock market, Gazprom was the third largest company in the world by value.