Alexander Khloponin begins his first major project in the Caucasus: the creation of a huge tourist zone worth hundreds of billions of rubles Last year on Elbrus, local authorities built a new one in addition to the old Soviet cable car. Since then it has been blown up twice. In November, attackers also blew up a substation, cutting off power to two villages. As a result, there were 75 million rubles in losses - the route was idle on New Year's Day, and this is the height of the tourist season.

Scorsese is swimming against the current again. Having taught everyone to shoot actual films, he returned to a pure genre Martin Scorsese has been described as pumping reality with such energy that it explodes into an almost hallucinatory brilliance. Since the time of his "Mean Streets" reality has become very cloudy, and to this day - to the film "Shutter Island" - a director has come who prefers to look not at reality, but at hallucinations. The time of the "Island" - 1954.

More photos Five years ago, the Kremlin was doing everything possible for Viktor Yanukovych to become president. Now Vladimir Putin has to fight him The official results of the Ukrainian elections have not yet been announced, but those around Viktor Yanukovych have already begun to plan how the inauguration will take place. And they immediately faced a serious problem: whom to invite - Dmitry Medvedev or Vladimir Putin? The protocol is to call the president.

Norilsk Nickel made a gift to the Republic of North Ossetia: Alania returns to the Premier League One of the leaders of the fan club of the Vladikavkaz Alania conducted an online broadcast from the press conference of Norilsk Nickel, at which it was announced the termination of financing of the football club Moskva. People in Vladikavkaz immediately took to the streets to celebrate Alania's return to the Premier League. She automatically took the place of the bankrupt Moscow club.

More photos Perhaps Viktor Yanukovych won a Pyrrhic victory. He needs an ally, but they are all worse than the other Two dogs meet near the ballot box, and one asks the other who to vote for: Academician Pavlov or Gerasim? The most popular anecdote on the day of the second round of elections was told to a Newsweek correspondent in the headquarters of both candidates - Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko.

Magomedsalam Magomedov became the President of Dagestan. Under his father, corruption in the republic reached unprecedented proportions. In late December, the head of the Dagestan treasury, Saidgusein Magomedov, one of Dagestan's announced presidential candidates, flew to Moscow and told his chauffeur to drive to the Kremlin. The treasurer spent almost four hours behind the red walls and, as his driver immediately told his friends, he returned from there very tired.

Scientists have been arguing for 150 years about how distant ancestors of birds flew. Plastic dinosaur helped find the answer Three years ago, conventional tests were suspended in the Bristol University wind tunnel - instead of a mock-up aircraft, a half-meter aluminum lizard was placed in the installation. An exact copy of Quechneosaurus, a reptile that became extinct 200 million years ago, was made by the German paleontologist Cohen Stein.

Having called the Polish prime minister to Katyn, Putin wants to do the best, but most likely it will work out as always In addition to the relatives of the executed Polish officers, the Katyn memorial complex has other regular visitors - Polish bikers. Every year in early September, about a hundred motorcyclists from all over Poland come to a small village near Smolensk - they call it the "Katyn Raid".

There are fewer homeless children in Russia. There are no homeless teenagers. They reject the big world and create their own - just for their own. Asya grew up on the street. Seven years ago, after her mother was imprisoned for the murder of her father, she left home. For some time she lived at the Kursk railway station, then she moved under the Sickle and Hammer railway platform, popular with Moscow homeless children, in the Gorky direction.

The Iranian authorities and the opposition tested each other's strength. Both sides showed amazing stubbornness and vitality It was +9 degrees in Tehran last Thursday, but many young people who took to the streets on the 31st anniversary of the Islamic Revolution were wrapped up as if they were going to Antarctica.