Oleg Kudrin November 18. Every year on this day my friends and I go to the bathhouse - this is our tradition. There we celebrate the birthday of Eldar Ryazanov. This year, our film master is 75. Let's sing a hussar ballad on this occasion, start an office romance, or remember a forgotten melody for the flute... And we'll put the final point at the station. For two. Or for three? November 19. It would be nice to get out to Kholmogory on this day.

The first episode of the documentary “Unknown Putin” was shown on RTR on March 17 this year. The second, contrary to the announcements and expectations of the creators, never aired. Evil tongues said that the draconian decision was made for political reasons by some high official of the Ministry of Press. Meanwhile, the content of the film is quite harmless: the first part tells the story of Putin’s biography from birth to graduation. The second covers his life up to the moment when the acting.

While Boris Berezovsky is forced to vacation abroad of his dearly loving homeland, information began to leak from his circle that in the very near future the disgraced oligarch intends to make an attempt to regain power. This time - outside the Garden Ring, from where he was squeezed out so unceremoniously.

Exactly twenty years ago, the main symbol of stagnation, “dear Leonid Ilyich,” died. Two months earlier, he tried to neutralize the one who replaced him as secretary general Central Committee of the CPSU - Chairman of the KGB of the USSR. Obituary 20 years ago, the man who ruled our superpower for 18 years died, longer than anyone before or after him (with the exception of Stalin, of course).

Maria Shukshina: I keep up at work - I'm crying at home From childhood she was “just Maria.” Just the daughter of Vasily Shukshin and Lydia Fedoseeva. Her film career began at the age of one and a half, when her dad cast her in “Strange People,” but Masha wanted to be independent. She entered the Institute of Foreign Languages ​​and became a professional translator. True, nature still took its toll.

A beauty, a former athlete and Komsomol member, and now a simple Russian pensioner, Muza Vasilievna Andreeva was never afraid of anything. Therefore, when she saw a thief in her house, she behaved no worse than an experienced operative. For eight whole hours, the brave woman kept the robber under “arrest,” periodically calling the police. But the “law enforcement officers” never arrived.

In St. Petersburg, two rare publications were stolen from the Russian National Library (RNB): Newton’s “Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy” (1687) and Bolshakov’s “Le futur” (1913). An examination of the value of the stolen property has not yet been carried out. The loss, as usual, was discovered by chance: the checklists handed in by readers turned out to be fake. This is the fourth major theft from this library in the last 10 years.

On November 10, 80 kilometers northeast of the Kazakh city of Arkalyk, the Soyuz-TM-34 descent module landed with cosmonauts Sergei Zaletin, Yuri Lonchakov and Belgian Frank de Winne. A little later, Prince Philip landed there. The heir to the Belgian crown flew to Astana on a Belgian Air Force Falcon plane the day before the cosmonauts returned. He was taken to the Kazakh steppes by helicopter from President Nazarbayev's air fleet.

Subscription Archive observer Irina Lipovets Carried away There is hysteria in the USA: a respectable family from New Mexico, having arrived in New York on vacation, brought with them the bubonic plague - both are in the hospital, the husband is in serious condition. "Black Death! - the local media scream. - She's back! Guard!" But then the doctors modestly objected: why would the plague return if it never disappeared? They say it's carried by rats - didn't you know?

No matter how much the masters of live television broadcast say that for them “live” work on camera is a common thing, many cannot get rid of their excitement to this day. And they remember their first broadcasts, filled with reservations and ridiculous overlays, all their lives. When Alexander Gurnov , still at the time of his work at TSN, invited Tatyana Mitkova (Segodnya, NTV) to become a news anchor, she, according to him, almost fainted.

The editors have received a draft of a new federal law, already submitted to the Duma for discussion: “On the approval of state symbols of the Russian Federation.” The introduction of the project “completely by accident” coincided with the consideration of the issue of adopting a new anthem at the first meeting of the new State Council.

The "bet" is made, gentlemen. On August 30, the “Bet” show started on RTR in prime time. “Interlocutor” visited the first filming of the program. Six players are placed on the court. The host gives them a simple task - to make an initial bet. The minimum amount is 5 thousand rubles, the maximum is 25 thousand. The player who bet the largest amount is eliminated as the “greediest”.

American psychologists say: families dominated by women live conflict-free and happy lives. A clear example of this is a Moscow married couple - Viktor and Lena Ageev. The sponges did their job For Lena, a willful and strong-willed girl, this is already her second marriage. She divorced her first husband Andrei when their son Maksik was 2.5 years old. Despite his love for the baby, the husband separated without hesitation - he was too fed up with his wife’s incessant nagging.

ORT Perhaps, starting from the new year, Gleb Skorokhodov’s weekly program “In Search of the Lost,” which tells about artists of past years, will stop airing. ORT has not yet disclosed the details of its closure. RTR The films “Brother” and “Brother-2” with Viktor Sukhorukov and Sergei Bodrov, it seems, will never fade into the shadows. Thanks to the love of the audience and the TV administration.

On November 11, a terrible emergency happened at the Baltic station in St. Petersburg. Around eleven in the afternoon, an electric train crashed into a dead-end platform at high speed. According to the representative of the Oktyabrskaya Railway, Viktor Korsakov, the train hit two cars that were blocking its path. As a result of the accident, four people died and five more were hospitalized. Experts who arrived at the scene found that the train was moving at a speed of 25-30 km per hour.