Russian Maslenitsa is a tribute to paganism, an echo of those times when the New Year was celebrated in the spring. Now its celebration fits into the Orthodox calendar and precedes the beginning of Lent. This year, Shrovetide Week (March 11-17) promises to set an unusual record. From time immemorial, the Russian people ate themselves to the gills on Maslenitsa days - without measure, without looking back, with the aim that the whole next year would be just as satisfying.

If a child is a poor student, this does not mean that he is stupid. Perhaps he has problems communicating or he missed an important part of the material and now does not understand what is being discussed in the lesson. Or he just doesn't read well. This is where literacy courses can help. It’s a pleasure to study at such courses: the teachers are kind, sociable, they don’t give you bad grades or threaten you with the director on every occasion.

The composition of the future shareholders of the TV-6 team has been determined, which (under a new and not yet disclosed name) will enter the fight for the “sixth button”. The consortium of loyal oligarchs included Kakha Bendukidze, Vladimir Potanin, Alexander Mamut. The mediator in the negotiations was first Boris Nemtsov (who was dismissed for talkativeness), and then Anatoly Chubais, who, as it turned out, does not hold a grudge against Kiselev’s team.

The editors gave me a task - to enter a cage with a tiger. In general, journalists are extremely reluctant to be allowed into circus rehearsals: there is no risk, and every trainer has his own secrets... In general, not a single journalist in the world has yet entered a cage with a tiger. We could have become the first publication to send a correspondent directly into the mouth. I have been looking for real tigers for over a year.

ort Kirill Nabutov continues to be friends with Elena Berezhnaya and Channel One (without formalizing either relationship). On the eve of our couple's performance at the Olympic Games, we already saw his heartbreaking story about how the figure skater's former partner fractured her skull.

— I was born in June, Gemini by sign. Geminis are very emotional, impulsive, and tend to be divided. But Gemini women have one very good quality: they know how to be friends. In general, I have a difficult character - in everything except work. On stage or on set, I am a very disciplined and obedient person. The theater generally accustoms the actor to discipline, because at seven o’clock in the evening the curtain opens. And he must open up...

In June 1975, the musical Chicago premiered successfully on Broadway. In October of this year, the premiere will take place here, at the capital's Variety Theater. The rights to stage the Russian-language version of the musical were acquired by the Alla art studio and Philip Kirkorov Production, in other words, the Pugachev-Kirkorov couple.

Lyudmila Ulitskaya. Poor, evil, loved ones. "Eksmo", M., 2002 In the good series “Modern Prose” a good book by Lyudmila Ulitskaya (Booker - 2001) was published. Here are collected stories and stories from which Ulitskaya began to be known and loved.

The scene depicts the dining room of a modest dacha in Barvikha. There are plates on the table with borscht, dumplings, herbs. At the table are Boris Yeltsin and Boris Nemtsov. YELTSIN: You eat, eat... We, in the end, You already ate half a pound of salt. But why did I call you, Nemtsov: I forgot something actually. Everyone says: you, Yeltsin, wow! You provided help to all of Russia... But I myself don’t remember a thing! What did I do, don’t you remember?

Meladze Valery Valery Meladze was born in 1965 in Batumi. He began to study music while studying at the Batumi Shipbuilding Institute, which he graduated in 1987.

Because of these legs, over the last week the impression has been created that Russia and the United States are at odds. Of course! The millions and billions of dollars that economists operate with are no joke. And the menacing statements of statesmen: since they impose such taxes on our steel that it is impossible to export it, then we are not bad, we will also set up our own defensive hedgehogs. Let's ban chicken feet! Moreover, they have become harmful to health.

Rejoice, gourmands: rumors that chocolate boutiques and shops selling handmade sweets will open in Moscow very soon are not at all exaggerated. And this gift is from the president of the Odintsovo confectionery factory, Andrei Korkunov. Shops selling luxury chocolate exist in Europe, but so far there have been none in Russia.

When going to the ill-fated Pankisi Gorge, to be honest, I was preparing for surprises. He even took a knee brace for a sore joint so that he could limp to Bin Laden’s shelter, and he also took a photo of his son so that he could clutch it to his chest if he happened to end up in captivity of an “al-Qaeda branch.” The prose began at the bus station at the sight of a minibus with the inscription “Duisi” (center of Pankisi). - Why so-and-so? — the driver was surprised.

“Eternal cookware”, which many pot and pan companies boast about, is far from new. But do you really need an eternal saucepan? Illusory fashion The most fashionable dishes are made from 18-10 steel. It is a stainless alloy of iron with chromium (18%) and nickel (10%). The terribly expensive Zepter (up to $100 per saucepan) called this steel “medical grade.” Actually, this is the most ordinary stainless steel, there is nothing exclusive about it.

Children have difficulty mastering the Russian language. And not just because he is “great and powerful.” Boring textbooks, sometimes low qualifications of teachers, and problems of secondary education in general interfere. While public schools solve their problems, students need to solve theirs. Namely, to study, pass exams and enter universities. The right path to mastering the Russian language is offered by the Russian Speech Humanitarian Center.