The US can change the strategy in Iraq Alisa Borisova US President George Bush may decide to change the strategy in Iraq in the coming weeks, his national security assistant Stephen Hadley said. “I think that we are talking about weeks rather than about months,” he said in an interview with journalists.

The current non/fiction fair (held, let me remind you, for the eighth time this year) differs from all previous ones, first of all, in the absence of clearly defined distinctive features. Do not consider this a paradox - it is a well-known phenomenon, it is called a minus technique.

The scandal with the destruction of the circulation of the December issue of Forbes magazine yesterday received the status of transnational. In addition to the German publishing house "Axel Springer", the American Forbes also joined him. The reason for the destruction of the circulation of the December Forbes was only a few words.

IN SLOVAK 164 (226) Projective lexicon of the Russian language December 10, 2006 Announcement: On Thursday, December 21, 2006, at 7 p.m., the next meeting of the Laboratory of Contemporary Thought will take place in New York . Topic: Russian languages . Speakers: philologist and cultural scientist Mikhail Epshtein, critic and editor Marina Adamovich, artist Leonid Pinchevsky. Everyone is invited to participate in the discussion. Free admission.

In Soviet times, there was such a common expression describing the next Congress of the CPSU: “historical”, “fateful”. Until now, the party ruling in Russia, having copied almost all the habits of that respected organization, has not used such expressions to describe its activities. However, the congress on December 2 gives us the full reason to intercept the initiative from PR managers of Mr. Kostin and return these words to the modern political dictionary.

IN SLOVAK 166 (230) Projective lexicon of the Russian language January 7, 2007 Dear friends! Have a bright and joyful Christmas! In the latest issue of the magazine "Star" (12, 2006) my article " Theology of the Book of Job " was published. It compares three theologies: Job, his prudent friends, and God himself, answering Job’s cry-question. Theme: name of the century There are such expressions as the Age of Enlightenment, the Age of Realism...

The Congress of the United Russia party, which begins in Yekaterinburg, will surely clarify the strategy and tactics of the United Russia on the eve of the beginning of the active phase of the 2007-2008.

In Washington, they are configured to cancel the restrictive correction of Jackson-Viennik against Russia after the Russian Federation entered the WTO, an authoritative American expert in the field of international trade, a senior researcher at the Institute of International Economics in Washington Schott (Jeffrey Schott).

The last train with weapons and military equipment of the Tbilisi garrison will return to Russia in mid -December, Alexei Maslov told reporters on Friday. “Now there are two trains to take out from there: one of them is coming today, and the other in mid -December,” the colonel general said. Thus, until the end of 2006, the Tbilisi garrison will be completely exported from Georgia, said Maslov. “I do not see problems with the withdrawal of the Tbilisi garrison,” Maslov emphasized.

The United Russia party will hold a number of iconic events in Yekaterinburg today. They are dedicated to the congress, which will be held here on Saturday. The congress will accept the program with which the party will go to the 2007 elections and determine the party strategy for the 10-year period. The agenda is very extensive. Therefore, the discussion of the most important topics for the party was decided to expand with discussions at additional sites.

Scotland-Yard experts will conduct an investigation to establish a connection between the possible poisoning of the former FSB officer Alexander Litvinenko and the disease of the director of the Institute of Economics of the transition period Yegor Gaidar. This was announced on Friday by the British newspaper "Times". Alexander Litvinenko died in London on November 23.

Alexander Litvinenko, a former FSB colonel, who fled to England and wrote two books there, which became a kind of alphabet for the National Bolsheviks and other Demshiza, received his fifteen seconds of fame. I don’t think, it is true that before his death he was happy with this situation. But many were not just happy, but just crazy about joy.

On December second, the VII Congress of United Russia will be held. The "party of the majority", better known under the name "Party of power", will collect his asset a year before the parliamentary elections. In the city where the family of the last Russian emperor was shot. On Dzerzhinsky Street, 4. In the theater "Cosmos". I think about these circumstances of the congress we will still hear a lot of jokes. And what about the congress? There will be reports. There will be (?) Debate.

On November 30, a concert of the world-famous American cellist Yo-Yo MA was held in Moscow (on December 2, Yo-Yo MA performs in St. Petersburg), and a month before, the equally famous Danish violinist Nikolai Tsnider. Alas, the Moscow public and musical management were not at height in both cases. Yo-Yo Ma was born in Paris on October 7, 1955 in a family of Chinese musicians. At the age of ten, he entered the Julian music school in New York. Leonard Rose was his teacher in the class of cello.