The Moscow Kremlin has not seen such a smoke screen, perhaps, since the fire of 1812. On the eve of the “mother-in-law’s evening” - the fifth day of the Maslenitsa celebration - a pancake “tower” almost seven meters high was built on Vasilyevsky Spusk.

It would seem that the painstaking selection for “Star Factory-2” was completed quite recently. But now the second person is leaving the Star House. On March 28, Yulia Volkova left Voronezh. During the broadcast, she was still somehow strengthened, but outside the cameras she could not hold back her tears or emotions. It took half an hour to bring the girl to her senses after the verdict of “semi-finished products” shocked her.

It has long been noted that the activity of deputies increases sharply with the onset of spring and the approach of elections. For example, the independent people's representative Alexander Chuev recently passed a bill according to which another language should become the state language - sign language.

When drinking beer from a well-known brand, and even one with a Russian name, we naturally don’t think about whose pockets we are filling. Who are the real owners of popular beer brands? Take, for example, Baltika. Well, who doesn’t know her, my dear. The company has factories in St. Petersburg, and in Tula (Arsenal beer), and in Rostov-on-Don (Don beer). It would seem that our own “Baltika” is on board, but no.

Humanity has been trying to solve the riddle of death, probably from the very moment people began to think. Philosophers, scientists, esotericists, and alchemists tried to find the answer to the question of whether it is possible to achieve immortality, but the search never brought the desired result. I had to be content with waiting for a better life after death... However, research continues.

Irina Ponarovskaya is going to the waters — A difficult year for me has ended: everyone thinks that I have my own fashion house with a huge staff, but I just have a small designer atelier, where all issues - both creative and administrative and financial - have to be resolved myself. Thank God, the studio works great, a circle of clients has been formed - so I don’t need advertising. Who's in this circle?

The XII Russian Football Championship starts on March 15 The rise of the Russian economy, combined with the financial crisis of European club football, blew up our market, turning it into a lively place for buying and selling exotic foreign players. That is why the traditional division into leaders, outsiders and a swamp of middle peasants does not work this season. The 16 teams of the Premier League can rather be divided into pairs of “brothers” of varying degrees of similarity.

After watching the fashion series, teenagers wanted to be like its heroes in everything - and became racketeers After “The Brigade” was shown on television, society was divided into two camps: for and against the cinematic idea. And while critics were arguing whether something like this could be shown, the children came up with a game for themselves - “Brigade”. They try to be like the heroes in everything - they behave the same way, speak the same way, dress the same way.

Lidia Ivanova Perhaps the most popular question I get asked, besides questions about relationships with men: “Do you go to bed wearing a hat?” I answer: you can guess for yourself. A long time ago, when I was hosting the “Tema” program, I advised women: “Wash the dishes with a hat if you are lazy or tired.” Then the women doubted whether I had ever washed the dishes. But I just like to cook and wash dishes, and wearing a hat makes both things much easier, faster and more fun.

On Thursday morning, a good half of the world woke up with the firm intention of spitting on the doors of the American embassy or otherwise doing harm to the aggressors. As if competing, the French, British, and Italians came up with new and extravagant ways of protest. The Russians condemned the attack on Iraq most laxly, both in number and in quality. And it’s not to say that we have fewer pacifists. Mother laziness just overcame me.

On March 24, the unexpected happened. Disgraced oligarch Boris Berezovsky and one of the former leaders of LogoVAZ, Yuliy Dubov, were arrested in London. The arrest took place at the police station on Charing Cross Street. British authorities brought charges against Berezovsky and Dubov, presented by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office.

In April 1984, journalist Dmitry Yakushkin published an interview “Captive of Prejudice” in Sobesednik. The conversation with Izvestia political observer Stanislav Kondrashov was about Soviet-American relations. Today, the executive director of the Russian-American Council for Business Cooperation, Dmitry Dmitrievich Yakushkin, with whom we are on first name terms for old time’s sake, is on the other side of the recorder. Questions are now asked to him, and he tells, how I lived all these years.

Aries (21.03 - 19.04). April 9 is a good day to pay off your debts. The end of the week is favorable for doing housework. Taurus (20.04 - 20.05). On April 7, quarrels should be avoided. It is recommended to travel in the middle of the week. Gemini (21.05 - 21.06). It is better to devote the beginning of the week to communicating with loved ones. April 11 is a good day to move to another job. Cancer (22.06 - 22.07).

For many, Klavdiya Shulzhenko is associated with trenches, the front, and bombings. The soldiers cried to “Blue Handkerchief” and “Let’s Smoke.” And who knows when “this Victory Day” would have come if it weren’t for those songs... Klavdia Ivanovna was born on March 24, 97 years ago. “Furtseva bullied her in the waiting room” “Mom often took me with her when she performed in front of the soldiers,” recalls the singer’s son Igor Kemper. “These trips to the front were deadly dangerous.

Local emergency In St. Petersburg, on Kosciuszko Street, a concrete canopy of a warehouse collapsed, crushing two people to death. They were a driver and a forwarder from one of the St. Petersburg companies, who were sitting calmly in the cab of a KAMAZ. At this time, their colleagues were trying to turn around in their bulky truck and accidentally knocked off the ill-fated visor on the unfortunate KAMAZ.