A month ago, another full moon ended. This time, because of the insidious luminary in Moscow, 9 people took their own lives at once. Moreover, only two suicides suffered from mental illness - mild schizophrenia. The other day there was an eerily round moon outside the window again. She again tormented the souls of some of us... Every fiftieth is a somnambulist Humanity has been studying the Moon for thousands of years.

Ivanov, as you know, the Russian land holds on. The most common surname, one might say. We even have two ministers (of defense and foreign affairs) wearing it. And the Ivanovs live not only in Russia. How many of them are scattered all over the world - in the near and far abroad! By the way, how do they live there? We asked our correspondents in Latvia, Belarus, Georgia and Ukraine to find out this point.

Radio tape recorders have become so similar to mini-systems of music centers, that among the abundance of modern electronics you cannot immediately distinguish them. The most important thing, for the sake of which, in fact, a music purchase is started, is sound.

“Fee,” Arkady Ivanovich Volsky once said to his counterpart Evgeny Alekseevich Kiselev for the fact that the Itogi presenter called him a veteran. — But I have always supported journalists. And I could support you.” This conversation happened at the end of January. And at the beginning of March, Arkady Volsky and “another veteran of our politics” (E. Kiselev’s definition) Yevgeny Primakov, who formed the “Media Society,” demonstrated their weight with their own eyes.

Subscription Archive Last issue on sale from 04/25/02 Heroes of this issue: Putin Vladimir Arafat Yasser Zemfira Shenderovich Victor Mikhailov Boris Tsekalo Alexander Zhirinovsky Vladimir Without perspective? Today it is no secret to anyone that the Russian outback, our small towns, often eke out a miserable existence. There is even a proverb: Moscow is one country, everything else is another. Absurd, of course. But - reality.

From March 11 to 17, Orthodox Christians celebrate Maslenitsa. Russians are already eating pancakes with might and main, visiting their mothers-in-law, friends and acquaintances. “Where are you going to try the blinks?” - we asked famous people. Evgeny Steblov, actor: My wife’s is better No one cooks pancakes better than my wife. And as fillings we use jam, condensed milk and caviar. Our friends come to see this delicacy. We treat everyone who wants to, and then pay a return visit to them.

Zemfira Zemfira Ramazanova. Born in 1977 in the city of Ufa. Zemfira's mom is a doctor, dad is a history teacher. Since childhood, Zemfira has been interested in music, composing and writing poetry herself. At the age of five he began studying piano at a music school. At the age of seven, she composed her first song dedicated to the group Black Sabbath. I always dreamed of becoming a singer. She performed in nightclubs and was quite popular. I played basketball at school.

It’s good that now every week Ilyinsky bakers in the Ivanovo region began to bake money - 300 rubles - into one of the loaves. True, not the bills themselves, but only their equivalent - a special token, which, once found, can be exchanged for the required amount in any store. “This unconventional sales measure was taken to arouse buyers’ interest in our products,” Valentina Bogush, chairman of the board of the Ilyinsky Bread Factory, shared a trade secret with Sobesednik.

In Samara, the police caught three thieves red-handed. The oldest of them was only 14, the youngest was 11. In the jacket pocket of the middle one, 13 years old, during a search, investigators found a talisman: “God, take us away from the cops and help us steal!” In general, amazing stupidity is demonstrated not only by criminals, but also by victims and police officers.

Once upon a time, Ksenia Polteva played “Smart Men and Clever Girls,” a TV game created by the brilliant Yuri Vyazemsky, writer, philosopher and teacher at MGIMO. She did not reach the finals and did not become the public's favorite: fame came to her two years later, when she became a twice laureate of the Grushinsky Festival and took part in almost all bard competitions. She is twenty years old, but the luminary of the genre Sukharev has already called her the main hope of the author's song.

Valery Meladze made an appointment for me at “his” restaurant “Rhythm and Blues Cafe”. He was 20 minutes late. During this time, I managed to study the wall portraits of all the great bluesmen of the world and the menu with non-childish prices. Meladze burst in - and the bluesmen, the prices, the delay were forgotten. Georgian temperament, whatever you want. — Valera, you were recognized about ten years ago. How did it happen that you didn’t get bored, faded, or drown in self-repetition?

Nobody knows how many accountants there are in the country. At the same time, each of us probably has at least one accountant or financier acquaintance - after all, in the end, we all go to the same accounting department to get our salaries. In general, an accountant is one of the most popular professions both in the country and among our readers. What do we know about the life of the accounting community? Almost nothing!

I recently saw in a respected publication a ranking of the most popular TV stars. In first place by a significant margin is she, Vedeneeva. Next, in a tight group, are other stars of domestic TV - Ekaterina Andreeva, Yulia Bordovskikh, Zhanna Agalakova, Tatyana Mitkova...

“The husband left, the child is with friends. The girl wants to have an interesting night,” they introduced me to the doctor on duty, a surgeon at the St. Petersburg Institute of Emergency Medicine. Eduard Gennadievich said hello and immediately disappeared, leaving me alone on the front line of emergency medicine. They immediately started loading me up with stories about hungry orderlies. The most harmless one is about a cucumber.

Singer Zemfira takes a vow of silence “Now Zemfira is in her homeland, in Ufa,” Rita Mitrofanova, her press secretary and host of Maximum radio, told Interlocutor. “Her mother was admitted to the hospital, and as soon as the singer found out about this, she immediately went to Ufa. But now, thank God, the time has come for discharge, so Zemfira is already calm. However, she will not talk to any journalist until April 1. Lately, so much has fallen on her!