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This dish is not simple, but symbolic. All over the world this is a symbol of Ukraine - and the lost former, and the obscure current one. Emigrants indulge their nostalgia in Brighton restaurants the same way they did fifty years ago in Parisian bistros. Perhaps this is the most significant contribution of Ukrainian cuisine to the global one (what exactly is Ukrainian can be seen from old cookbooks, where borscht is usually called “Little Russian” - you see, not “a lot”, but “a little”!).

The former defender of Lokomotiv Moscow is one of the few of our football players who plays behind the hill. Alexey has been defending the honor of the French Bordeaux for two years now. Our correspondent met him at his current “field” and found out that it never became native to him. — Alexey, they say that Bordeaux is now creating a new team and you are assigned one of the key roles there? - A good question - a test of vanity. I don’t even know what to answer. In general, probably yes.

The image of a desperate adventurer “a la Samokhin,” moderately bitchy and romantic, was in demand in Russian cinema in the late 80s. The best works of the actress were created on this wave: Mercedes (“The Prisoner of the Chateau d’If”), Rita (“Thieves in Law”), Princess Tarakanova (“The Tsar’s Hunt”), a street dancer (“Don Cesar de Bazan”)...

Samara Mayor Georgy Limansky has been accused of sexual harassment of one of this year’s school graduates for three months. It is very likely that the mayor's removal from office is not far off. The first troubles for Georgy Limansky began on Black Friday, October 13. Someone called the leading Samara media and reported that the regional prosecutor's office was interrogating the mayor.

A year ago, on February 9, the charming lead singer of the group “Disco Accident” passed away. “A lot of people come to my son’s grave,” Oleg’s father, Evgeniy Nikolaevich, told me. — Recently, a delegation of children from all over Russia came to Ivanovo for the “Firebird” competition. They were asked: “What should I show you? Maybe the Palekh Museum?

Cosmonautics has long ceased to be science fiction, having become almost an everyday industry. And we talk about her less and less. The last reason was the tragedy associated with the death of the Columbia crew. Along with the versions of what happened, questions are being asked: what will happen to the ISS? Will Russia be able to put everything on its shoulders? We tried to get answers from a person who knows what it is to land a space shuttle.

The main problem for the federals in Chechnya are mines and land mines "Out of 10 daily installed by militants on the territory of Chechnya, only 2-3 charges go off. The rest are being eliminated by our sappers,” he said on the eve of Engineering Day. troops of the Russian Armed Forces their chief, Colonel General Nikolai Serdtsev. — It is impossible to completely secure the territory of the republic.

A special correspondent for Sobesednik reports from the area of ​​the Arab-Israeli conflict When the hot wind of the desert - khamsin - brings its vile breath to these places, even people who are accustomed to everything sometimes feel bad: it’s hard to breathe, their head goes crazy. Khamsin has been reigning in the promised land for several days now, but it seems that it has been going on for an eternity.

At the first Golden Eagle award ceremony, Andrei Proshkin took the winged prize for best directorial debut with the children's and youth film Spartak and Kalashnikov. The importance of this nomination can be judged by the fact that from whose hands Proshkin received the award: a statuette for him presented by Georgy Danelia and Nikita Mikhalkov. Meanwhile, few people understood for what merits such an honor fell to the young director: the film was not shown on television, in cinemas...

It won’t be long before they meet Deputy Prime Minister Kudrin in the corridors of RAO UES. Minister for Antimonopoly Policy Yuzhanov should not sit in the Gazprom skyscraper. And the Minister of Economic Development and Trade Gref will be missing from Rosneft, Svyazinvest, Sheremetyevo and Aeroflot. The author of the purge of government officials from the directors' chairs of Russian companies was Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov.

"Channel One" On February 4 and 9, Vladimir Putin will probably press the “first button”: on these days the World Alpine Ski Championships will be broadcast here. "Russia" The premiere of Eduard Petrov’s weekly program “Honest Detective,” where the most notorious crimes are investigated, is scheduled for February 7.

Dmitry Malikov wants to go international — Everyone is now concerned about the question of why I left the “Girl’s Tears” program. I just did three broadcasts, and then I became uninterested. I don’t want to seriously discuss topics like “I’m having an affair with my dad” or “Mom won’t allow me to have a puppy.” I understand that the public may be curious about this, but in my life I am concerned with more complex issues. Well, enough of that. I finally went to Slava Polunin’s “snow show”.

The anniversary of the Battle of Stalingrad, which took place 60 years ago, once again raised the issue of renaming Volgograd back to Stalingrad. The dispute is said to be coming to an end this time. The controversy surrounding the name of the city has been going on for a long time. Gennady Zyuganov, for example, has repeatedly publicly advocated renaming. But this issue has never been discussed in the State Duma. Today this initiative was intercepted by Zhirinov’s people.

Man tamed the first dog back in the Mesolithic era; the cat appeared in the house later. Since then, of course, a lot has changed - dogs have become smaller, cats are lazier, and people have developed a “disease of civilization” - allergies. Including pets. Non-allergenic breed – for $800 Any warm-blooded creature can cause allergies - not just cats and dogs, but also hamsters, rats, ferrets and all types of birds, including the innocent-looking canaries.