Fairs are increasingly being held in cities and towns across the country. Somewhere small, but bringing joy to the local people. Somewhere they are quite representative. Like, say, in Nizhny Novgorod, where the All-Russian Scientific and Industrial Forum “United Russia” will take place from September 5 to 10, 2001.

NEWS OF THE DAY. The list of Russians injured in an accident in Turkey, which occurred on August 29, was published on the “Hotline” website of the Russian Consulate General in Antalya. Let us remind you that an accident involving a tourist bus, in which there were 21 Russian tourists, occurred on August 29 at 17.20 near the city of Serik (Antalya). As a result of the accident, one tourist and a Turkish citizen died on the spot.

Pavel Borodin was accepted into the club On the eve of last weekend, Secretary of State of the Union of Russia and Belarus Pavel Borodin was accepted into the ranks of the Club of the Best Managers of Russia. Along with Pal Palych, the prestigious club included the long-suffering mayor of Makhachkala Said Amirov, governors Alexander Filipenko (KhMAD) and Vladimir Egorov (Kaliningrad region), NIKoil president Nikolai Tsvetkov and a number of other prominent managers and businessmen.

Tusnyak in Moldavian style For several weeks now, Chisinau students, pushing their studies into the background, are going out to protest. They propose to exclude the Russian language from school curricula and insist that the parliament and government resign and the president resign. The Sobesednik correspondent spent one day in a crowd of protesting students and realized that they were ready to vote for anything, just to avoid sitting through boring lectures...

The St. Petersburg SOBR recently returned from its last Chechen mission. Among the harsh men, a woman also visited Grozny. In conditions of the strictest secrecy and understandable secrecy, our correspondent met with her. Although the little sweet tooth played with dolls and balls as a child, at the age of eight she decided: I will be a soldier. She glued a sword belt out of paper and painted it to match the skin.