It is usually not so easy for office workers to achieve the resignation of their immediate superior. But today they have a chance In whatever search engine you start typing the phrase “what to do if the boss ...”, the same options pop up: find fault, tyrant, scream, yell, fool, idiot, goat. Previously, the answers to such questions mainly boiled down to how to establish a relationship with such a boss. Now they are increasingly giving advice on how to get rid of such a leader.

Scientists have long suspected that the blind can see. And it's only now that I've figured out why this is happening. An elderly man moves along the corridor with slow steps. From his uncertain movements, you can guess that he is completely blind. No one helps the man, and this walk is about to end in a fall—right in his path is a wastebasket. At the very last moment, the blind man takes a step to the side and clumsily walks around this object.

A mosque will be opened near the site of the September 11 attacks. She was conceived as a symbol of reconciliation, but became a bone of contention The answering machine on Steven Suleiman Schwartz's phone greets with the phrase "salaam alaikum" and says "inshallah" at parting. A white American and hereditary communist converted to Islam in 1997. It was then that an Arabic “patronymic” was added to his Anglo-Saxon name and Jewish surname.

The state is going to plant managers of oil companies and set prices for gasoline The trade law debate has raged throughout the past year. The law was eventually passed, but it did not affect the trade in gasoline, one of the most important goods. The Ministry of Energy decided to fill the gap and in the new version of the law on oil proposes to introduce price regulation on the oil products market.

With oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Russian oil companies may add new assets Hurricane Alex thwarted oil spill control in the Gulf of Mexico last week, but the operation to rescue British Petroleum itself continued in Moscow in the meantime. The head of the company, Tony Hayward, assured that he would overcome all difficulties, and was looking for money in Russia to compensate for the losses from the largest accident in the history of oil production. It looks like he found it.

Iceland becomes the world's offshore for compromising evidence. Great Powers Rely on Patriotic Hackers ELENA CHERNENKO, POLINA EREMENKO "Oh, just look at those dead bastards," rejoiced the gunner of an American Apache attack helicopter. The camera on its board transmitted a picture to the base: clouds of dust and sand that rose after the shelling, a dozen corpses on the pavement and a wounded guy moving a little further away. "Excellent, good job," congratulated the shooter on the radio.

The Caucasian Plenipotentiary Alexander Khloponin has a new plan for the development of the Caucasus ready. His Best Scenario: Ten Years of Rapid Growth The Dagestan state-owned enterprise "Directorate for the creation of infrastructure for the Anji glass container plant under construction" has just started work. But in the new draft strategy for the development of the Caucasus, which has just been submitted to the government, a place has already been found for it.

*Huge money, ten years of illegal work and probably long prison terms. Is it really all for the sake of an exemplary garden with hydrangeas? * NATASHA MOZGOVA, POLINA EREMENKO, NATALIA PORTIAKOVA At Ray's Hell Burger, the same cafe in Arlington where the presidents of Russia and the United States dined on June 25, they have not yet hung a historical photo on the wall, but they are rejoicing at the influx of customers that followed the “cheeseburger summit”.

The police abandoned the cane system and changed the form of reporting. It got worse The chairman of the Ekaterinburg HOA "Kvartal", 60-year-old Viktor Doronin, was very fond of his young wife Elena. And she loved to spend the money of the HOA for her needs and used the general account as her checkbook, even bought dresses, cosmetics and pads, Doronin's neighbors complained to Newsweek. In October 2008, the Doronins were removed from the board and filed a complaint with the police.

After the pogroms, many in Kyrgyzstan will prefer radical Islam to liberal values The Kyrgyz referendum took place. 90% of those who came to the polling stations voted for the new constitution. Nobody understood its essence, and in fact they voted for something much less abstract. Everyone I spoke to that day repeated the same thing: if the country votes yes, then the provisional government will become legitimate and prevent further pogroms.