Subscription Archive Lidia Ivanova Healed! Have you noticed how concern for our health has increased? On TV and radio they endlessly play advertisements for pills, as if we are not a country, but some kind of hospital. I silently endure all this advertising disgrace and think: why do doctors study for six years, if everything is so easy - you eat it and you’re healthy!

Mikhail Shemyakin distinguished himself again: a year after the release of the acclaimed ballet “The Nutcracker,” he presented a new premiere at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg, “Princess Pirlipat, or Punished Nobility.” And it all started one day in America under a strange combination of circumstances: “That day I watched some version of The Nutcracker on TV,” Mikhail Shemyakin told Interlocutor.

The action takes place inside the TV BUSH (appearing on screen): Saddam and sons are dead The resistance is over And my operation It was a great success! HUSSEIN (squeezing him out): We have had significant success Bush Jr. is going down the drain! Fight, people, until everyone You won’t interrupt, praise be to Allah! BUSH (embarrassed): Well yes, he's still alive And it even moves, I won’t hide it, But I'm very sick in the head, Because I was shell-shocked!

A resident of the city of Kamensk-Uralsky, Anatoly Tarchinsky, is the most honorable donor in Russia. During his life he passed as many 90 liters of blood. For this human feat of his, Anatoly marks the Guinness Book of Records. “Have you ever been a donor?” - we asked famous people. Heinrich Padva, lawyer: - It happened. In distant youth. I was studying at the institute, I didn’t have enough money, but I wanted to eat constantly. So I went under the needle for food stamps.

Singer Uspenskaya was pretty tired of Los Angeles, and she decided to finally move to Moscow. The other day Lyuba bought a 160-meter apartment in the artists’ village, which is located in the Sokol metro area. All the joy cost $300 thousand. “I chose the 3rd floor,” Uspenskaya told Interlocutor. — In general, there are 30 of them. At first I coveted a penthouse at the very top, and then I got scared: what if the elevator breaks down.

The other day, at regular school No. 198, which is located near Yuri Gagarin Square, an unusual event took place: high school students and their teachers underwent a voluntary medical examination to determine the absence of narcotic or psychoactive substances in their bodies. However, this is not the first testing of schoolchildren as part of the “Life without Drugs” program conducted by the Russian Party of Life.

Not so long ago it seemed unlikely: the Biathlon World Championships were in Russia, and far from the capitals! Why is it unlikely? Not because, of course, We have no biathlon traditions - just the opposite. The reasons are more prosaic. There simply were no high-class sports facilities in the country. There wasn't. Bye in 1994, the government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug did not make a decision: to build a ski center in Ugra.

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.

Angelina Vovk appeared on TVC with a new children's project “Song of the Year”. However, adult fans of “Song of the Year” should not worry: contrary to rumors, the popular TV presenter will not leave this program. — You and Yuri Nikolaev are now competitors. Your new program is very similar to “Morning Star”... “I really appreciate the Morning Star, which, in my opinion, saved children’s creativity in the country.

Last week, exiled oligarch Boris Berezovsky hinted in a teleconference with the Irkutsk branch of Liberal Russia that he would make peace with Sergei Yushenkov by the upcoming Duma elections. Moreover, Berezovsky is considering returning to the State Duma himself as a deputy. “Yushenkov and I are involved in politics,” Berezovsky explained to Sobesednik over the phone from London.

Subscription Archive We don't need tax reform Evgeniy Yasin, Doctor of Economics, Professor The Ministry of Finance admitted that there are no prospects for tax reform in 2004. And from January 1, 2004, it will most likely not be possible to reduce the unified social tax (UST) and simplify the procedure for refunding export VAT. I believe that we need a real tax cut, not tax reform.

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.

From the beginning of April it will not be so easy to get into McDonald's eateries. Everyone who supports US policy in Iraq will be treated here free of charge. Every day from 12.00 to 13.00. To get a full meal, you will only need to present the coupon published on this Interlocutor page. We decided to obtain additional information first-hand from the initiators of the action - the management of the Russian chain of famous American eateries.

Fate treated actress Nina Menshikova cruelly: first she lost her husband, director Stanislav Rostotsky, with whom she lived happily for fifty years, and a year ago, she lost her only son, actor Andrei Rostotsky. Now all the love and care goes to granddaughter Olya, who calls her Nina. Recently, Menshikova starred in a television series based on Dontsova’s books as a music teacher.

In the small town of Belevo in the Tula region, a five-hour drive from Moscow, former teacher and now businessman Andrei Myalo created his own planet, where more than 120 species of animals coexist with inspiration: turtles with frogs, lizards with parrots, snakes with newts... Instead of walls - aquariums Mayakovsky Street on the outskirts of Belev turned out to be a typically rural place.