“Interlocutor” asked this question to Jamal Ismail, an employee of Abu Dhabi TV (United Arab Emirates), who has personally known Bin Laden since 1989. “It’s funny if the Americans expected to kill Osama from the air.” He survived such Soviet air raids when no stone was left unturned around his detachment... It is easy to bomb Serbia, where people have not known what war is for half a century. In Afghanistan they know how to hide from bombs.

She was used to seeing her name in the enthusiastic headlines of the largest Western newspapers. She became an honorary citizen of Oklahoma five years ago. There are fan clubs for her in China and Japan. She is also accustomed to the fact that in Russia no one meets her at the airport, and passengers on the subway do not recognize her by sight. The only thing she can’t come to terms with is the need to wander around the apartments of friends and girlfriends.

On October 13 and 14, Irina Ponarovskaya’s concerts will be held at the Academichesky Concert Hall in Moscow, where the singer will perform her solo program “A Woman is Always Right.” She experienced clinical death twice and learned to walk and sing again. Her second husband stole her child. While I was looking for my son, I turned gray and now have to dye my hair.

Following a wave of protest from believers after the introduction of an individual tax number (TIN), Orthodox church rectors are once again calling on the flock to stand up “with all their might” against yet another government innovation. This time we are talking about a methadone treatment program for drug addicts. Its essence is to legally provide the synthetic drug methadone to incurable drug addicts with experience.

Leonid Zorin. Auction M., “Word”, 2001 The author of “The Intercession Gate”, “Warsaw Melody” and “The Tsar’s Hunt” is over seventy. Meanwhile, he continues to release book after book (mostly prose) - one more sensational than the other. There is only one play in the new one (“Brother, Sister and Stranger”), but what a play! A classic Zorin intellectual dialogue: in 1875, Nietzsche, his sister and Turgenev happened to be in the same city and could easily have met. What would they talk about?

Investments in the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug are investments in the present and future of Russia As part of the traditional presentation of Russian regions, a presentation of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug and its promising investment programs was held at the press center of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

Not a single psychologist will say that unequal marriages are this is bad. Because this is normal! They may be unequal in age, money or origin, but they are completely happy. And this, you see, is much more important. Because all good fairy tales end the same way: “And they lived happily ever after...” King Gustav of Sweden and Queen Silvia have been living in an unequal marriage from the point of view of royal laws for 25 years.

Over the 11 years of Radio Russia’s existence, a huge number of programs were born on its waves, some of them had a very special fate. Vladimir Belov’s popular science program “Search” can be fully classified as a serious, thorough and at the same time interesting program for the mass listener. — It seems strange that the broadcast of such a rare genre today continues to live for so many years and is in demand by the audience.

In physics, opposites attract, and that's a good thing. But in lyric poetry this law is more complicated: when life brings together two people who are completely different by all criteria, this “attraction” often turns into problems. Curiosity about unequal marriages is at a minimum: who is older, who is richer, who is more important. What's the difference, really? Husband-surrogate dad Viktor Antonovich was completely unsuitable for the role of Nabokov's Humbert.

According to a study conducted in European countries, residents of Foggy Albion are more susceptible to depression than others. The studies were conducted among residents of urban and rural areas in the UK, Ireland, Norway, Finland and Spain. The results were as follows: Women suffer from depression more often than men. On average in Europe, 10% of women have illnesses caused by depression.

In the first strike on Afghanistan, the Americans used only a small fraction of their forces: 15 strategic bombers - B-1 Stealth (flew from Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri), B-2s and even the archaic B-52s - carried out raids from the base on. Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. In addition, 25 carrier-based attack aircraft took part in the operation, and at least another 20-30 fighters provided cover for the air raid, patrolling in Pakistani airspace.

Restraint for Kozakov On October 10, actor Mikhail Kozakov turns 67 years old. His nephew Alexander congratulates him on his birthday: - Dear uncle! You are a brilliant actor who is loved not only in Russia. Every year your colleagues throw a real celebration on their name day. I remember well how your 65th birthday was celebrated at the Moscow House of Actors and at the Mikhail Kozakov Russian Entreprise Theater. They gave pictures, books, and made wonderful toasts.

Romanian athlete Aurel Vernica is going to set a world record for swimming with tied legs and arms, which will subsequently be included in the Guinness Book of Records. Forty-year-old Aurel intends to swim 400 meters. Representatives of the Guinness Book of Records disapprove of the Romanian swimmer's idea, since his example may inspire other athletes to repeat this feat, which is quite dangerous to health.

On Sunday, George W. Bush ordered the bombing of Taliban military bases. People reacted differently to what was happening. Even Americans took to the streets of cities to protest. To find out how we perceived the behavior of the American president, Sobesednik conducted a rapid survey of famous Russians. Alexander Rutskoy, ex-governor of the Kursk region: “The Americans’ actions are hasty and ill-considered. Missile and bomb strikes will not lead to anything good.

Residents of the city of Calama in northern Chile are afraid to leave their homes. And everyone was frightened by another report on local TV about new atrocities of the humanoid bloodsucker Chupacabra. The next victims of the vampire were domestic ducks. In general, the bloodsucker has been terrorizing farmers in Latin America for 6 years. Over the years, Chupacabra has destroyed several thousand heads of livestock. Sometimes he attacks people too.