Recently, a unique educational institution opened in the capital - the Academy of Father Frost, and Sobesednik urgently sent its correspondent to acquire the skills necessary before the New Year. Nadezhda Guzheva played the role of Santa Claus. I take off my fur coat - and yeah Academy students took a short general course - the history of Father Frost, his costume, and several lessons in stagecraft - in Moscow.

If in the old days the number one male pop star Valery Leontyev received the press in the most honorable dressing room of the State Concert Hall "Russia", today it happens in the same place, but two floors above - in an office with a modest sign "Valery Leontyev Studio". While the star, exhausted by turnover, was catching his breath, I, sipping coffee, sunk into a leather sofa and gazed at the almost home-made European-quality renovation with a hint of designer delights.

Banker Melnichenko is mastering the methods of an American magician: recently he succeeded “evaporate” the Converse Bank building Minatom's branch bank, Conversbank, continues to crack under the blows of its young leader (and concurrently the chairman of the supervisory board of MDM Bank) Andrei Melnichenko. The other day it became known that the luxurious building on Kotelnicheskaya Embankment, in which the main office of Converse is located, no longer belongs to the bank.

Burataeva Alexandra Born on March 30, 1965 in the city of Elista, Kalmyk Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. After graduating from high school in 1982, she entered the Kalmyk State University at the Faculty of Philology, Romance and Germanic Department. In 1987, she graduated from the university with a qualification as a teacher of English language and literature. She began her television career in Elista, on a city commercial television channel.

A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Rosenbaum Alexander Rosenbaum Alexander Yakovlevich was born on September 13, 1950 in Leningrad. Graduated from the First Leningrad Medical Institute named after. I.P. Pavlova (1974). He worked as an emergency physician for four years. In 1980 he went to the professional stage. He played in various groups and has performed solo concerts since 1983. Artistic director of the theater-studio "Creative Workshop of Alexander Rosenbaum".

In the States, special boots have been invented that make walking virtually silent. The development, however, can hardly be called boots in its pure form - they are pulled over regular shoes. The design is based on the use of spandex - oiled leather covered with elastic black fabric. In addition, for maximum noiselessness, the boots were equipped with shock-absorbing cords and foam inserts designed to absorb sound. Externally, the boots resemble galoshes; their price is still unknown.

Two spiritualists living in south London have said that Osama Bin Laden was badly damaged after one of the American bombings and is dying. Angela Bailty and Elizabeth Collis say terrorist No. 1 is located in the town of Wazi Khwa, 80 miles from where he was spotted last week. They also say that Osama's personal doctor is demanding that he leave for Pakistan as soon as possible.

A B C D E F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ ​ Bezrukova Irina Born April 11, 1965 Previous surname - Livanova. Graduated from the Rostov College of Arts (1986, specialty - dramatic actress, course of A. Malyshev). She played at the Academic Drama Theater named after. M. Gorky (Rostov-on-Don, 1984-1988), Tula Drama Theater (1988-1989), Moscow Theater under the direction of O. Tabakov (1989-1990). Hosts the program "Shop on the Couch". Actress of the theater "At the Nikitsky Gate" (?).

"Hello, my beloved singer Nadezhda Babkina! One of your fans, a simple Russian woman, your namesake, is writing to you. You and I are similar in another way - I was also born in Astrakhan. I, like you, have a beloved and only son, only he is still small. He is very good, but I just can’t cope with him. I'm afraid for him. I wanted to ask how you and your son get along - you are probably a very strict mother? Does he listen to your songs?

I came to the play “Quixote and Sancho” by chance: an administrator I knew invited me to increase the audience. Tickets cost up to 500 rubles, I ordered two for two hundred, just in case I asked what kind of performance it was. An acquaintance replied that this thing was for the intellectual elite and extremely original: firstly, there was a horse, sorry, defecating in oranges, and secondly, the midget Sannikovs were playing.

Evtushenko Evgeniy Born on July 18, 1933 at Zima station in the Irkutsk region. Father is a geologist, mother is a musician. Until 1944, Yevgeny Yevtushenko lived in Siberia. The first poems were written in 1949, that is, exactly fifty years ago. After the autobiographical poem “Winter Station,” Yevtushenko became the most popular Soviet poet for a whole decade, both in the Soviet Union and abroad.

You always want to celebrate the New Year in a special way - they say, how you do this is how you spend the next 12 months. And in vain many people think that something worthwhile can only be found in distant foreign countries. Believe me, in Russia the chances are much greater. The main thing is not to get the pilots drunk For example, it is absolutely possible to celebrate a holiday by sitting at the controls of an airplane. Circle over your hometown or fly to friends.

In the near future, the number of traffic police inspectors in the country will be reduced by 20 percent. This was stated by the deputy. Head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Alexander Chekalin. “True, the order has not yet been signed,” Andrei Chernyavsky, press secretary of the traffic police, told Interlocutor. “Therefore, all our employees will remain in their places and posts for some time.

Ugolnikov Igor Graduated from the State Institute of Theater Arts - directing department and acting department in 1984. After college, he worked in Moscow theaters as an actor and director. From 1984-1988 at the theater. Gogol played in the following plays: “And this one fell out of the nest” (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”) by D. Wasserman, "Decameron" by D. Boccaccio, "The Shore" by Yu. Bondarev, “There wasn’t a penny, but suddenly it was altyn” by A.N. Ostrovsky, "Ugly Elsa" by E.

Russian railways are being reformed in stages. Since the early 90s, the Ministry of Railways has carried out such global transformations as the reconstruction of the Trans-Siberian Railway and the St. Petersburg-Moscow highway. In the previous issue (No. 48, 2001), “Interlocutor” told readers about the introduction of the latest information technologies in railway transport. The time is coming for changes in the social sphere of the Ministry of Railways.