She died tragically on November 20 four years ago Galina Starovoitova is one of the first Soviet women to rush into politics like a whirlpool. She was in full view of millions as if under a large magnifying glass. And yet it remained closed to many. Even her fellow politicians did not know what she was like in everyday life. She answered her father: I was not created to wash dishes. This year Galina Starovoitova would have turned 56.

Host of “Star Factory” Yana Churikova: On New Year’s, put a good man under my Christmas tree After the former host of the program “12 Evil Spectators on MTV” was taken into the “Star Factory” project on ORT, her popularity only increased. However, they don’t become stars of “Channel One” for no reason at all—there are still rumors in the social circle that the presenter’s career was helped by her rich lover, who gave the TV bosses a lot of money.

The traffic police recently summed up the sad results of ten months of this year. Nationwide, the number of road accidents increased by 48 percent. In Moscow alone, 1,033 people died in them during this time. “According to our data, in more than half of the cases the culprits of the accidents were pedestrians,” Vladimir Shmylkov, a representative of the Moscow State Traffic Inspectorate, told Interlocutor.

The vast majority of people know Andrei Kozlov from “Brain Ring” and “What? Where? When?". But not everyone knows that he has been directing on television since 1990, and is a chemist by education and has not completed any special courses. As he himself says, the main course, which lasted 10 years, was working for Vladimir Yakovlevich Voroshilov. At the moment, he runs the “Cultural Revolution” program, where his “subject” is the well-known Mikhail Efimovich Shvydkoy. — Is it easy to lead them?

Dear editors of the newspaper “Sobesednik”. I want to share my trouble with you and ask for advice. I, Kalyuzhnaya Nelya Grigorievna, was born in 1926 in Russia. During the Great Patriotic War, from 1943, she served in the Soviet Army, and after that she lived with her husband in Fergana. But I had to leave from there due to ignorance of the Uzbek language and oppression of the Russian-speaking population.

The Civil Liberties Foundation, founded by disgraced oligarch Boris Berezovsky, has taken the initiative to support those journalists who may be subject to persecution from the authorities in connection with new amendments to the law on the media. About this Boris Berezovsky also talks about his vision of the current politics of Russia in an exclusive interview with our newspaper.

The scandalous program “Big Kush” was closed on the STS channel — Otar, what’s going on? “According to my personal suspicions, the new head of the channel, Alexander Rodnyansky, broke down under the pressure of my ill-wishers. The program's rating was one of the highest. I think people who personally hate me have been putting pressure on Rodnyansky since the program aired.

The best virologists on earth gathered in Malta, trying to imagine what the next deadly influenza pandemic would look like. And they found out: the human body can cope will not be able to deal with it, because the mutant virus is similar to the famous “Spanish flu” that wiped out in 1918 there were tens of millions in Europe alone. Young people will be the first victims In terms of mortality, that outbreak was not even reminiscent of the flu, but of Ebola fever or the medieval plague.

Svetlana Khorkina: After Tropic of Cancer I look at sex in a new way What does Svetlana Khorkina do? Either she is a dissertation candidate, or a theater actress, or a fashion model. Future plans also include cinema, television, management, and law. But the most amazing thing is that with all this, Sveta also manages to perform on the platform, winning more and more titles.

I read the article “Officer hazing” in your newspaper (“Interlocutor” No. 41, 2002. - Ed.) and thought that you could help me in my grief. The fact is that my son was beaten in his unit 44286 Ulan-Ude, Art. Divisional. Before that, he wrote to me that they were beating him, demanding money, and if I didn’t help him, he would either hang himself or run away. I thought that I would have time to go to see him, but I didn’t have time - my son left the unit on leave and did not return.

Deputies of the local regional council made the decision to create a permanent mission of the Lipetsk region to the Russian government in Moscow back in July, but the regional administration is in no hurry to implement this decision: “If the issue is considered, it will not be until next year.” The sluggishness of officials can be understood: representation - this is an extra cost. But Lipetsk is one of those few regions that are called “donors”.

A month has passed since the former owner of Taimyr, Alexander Khloponin, stepped up the career ladder, taking the position of head of the administration of the Krasnoyarsk Territory that was vacated after the death of Alexander Lebed. First, Vladimir Putin brought Khloponin into the governor’s chair, by means of his decree temporarily confirming Alexander Gennadievich in office.

No sooner has the Russian capital moved away from the “visit” of some Chechen militants than others may soon infiltrate it. This time it's official. “On December 13, we plan to hold a congress of all representatives of the peoples of Chechnya, whom the war has scattered throughout Russia,” says State Duma deputy from the Chechen Republic Aslanbek Aslakhanov. — Everyone, and not just non-combatants, otherwise our congress will be of little use. Just don’t panic about this.

Only two left alive In December 2000, 14-year-old Kaliningrad schoolgirl Margarita Babina won the Supermodel of the World competition. This year, more than ten thousand girls tried to catch their bird of happiness at our stage of the competition. Of these, only 60 made it to the final qualifying round. In the corridor there is the smell of valerian. The selection committee decides who will be selected to the finals. “They didn’t take me.

Representatives of the oldest profession exiled closer to Nikita Khrushchev's dacha On one of the islands of the Lower Volga, 140 kilometers from Astrakhan, There is still a village of exiled prostitutes. Beginning in 1919, the Soviet government evicted women of easy virtue here from Moscow, Leningrad and other large cities of the country. People call this place Suchy settlements.