Once upon a time, a Volgograd girl Lenochka saw Tatyana Vedeneeva on TV and decided finally and irrevocably: “I will be the same!” And it happened. Today, the presenter of the live broadcast (“Data”, TVC) Elena Starostina is also preparing for filming in two television series. — Lena, where do such projects come from? Do you have little work on live television or have you decided to change your profession?

Made from what was In 1989, when the country was overwhelmed with “White Roses,” Vika was 14 years old. Of course, she fell in love with the orphan Yura Shatunov. A year passed, then another, the ranks of Tender May fans thinned noticeably, but Vika loved everything. She didn’t go to any concerts, didn’t stage a tape terror at home, didn’t write letters to newspapers, and didn’t intend to throw herself out of the window. The fandom turned out to be non-standard.

At a meeting of the executive committee of the International Olympic Committee in Lausanne (Switzerland), it was decided to include women's wrestling in the program of the 2004 Olympic Games. “It is already known that women will fight in 4 weight categories,” Lev Savin, deputy head of the working group for coordinating preparations for the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad in Athens, told Interlocutor. — The Russian women's wrestling team will definitely take part in these competitions.

The VI All-Russian Scientific and Industrial Forum “United Russia” was held at the Nizhny Novgorod Fair. Today are some of its results. Our regular readers, of course, have noticed that over the past two years, Sobesednik has been paying more and more attention to the problems of entrepreneurship and production, life and concerns of the regions of Russia. We made sure that this was of interest to our audience as well.

Last week, Interior Minister Boris Gryzlov accused Russian banks of supporting Chechen militants. “Some of them are involved in cashing out funds sent to militants from abroad,” said Boris Vyacheslavovich after a meeting on ensuring the counter-terrorist operation in Chechnya. Gryzlov did not specify which banks were being discussed.

English sociologists have found another danger in marriage of different ages - to life. Women over fifty, whose husbands are about 10 years younger than them, die at this age twice as often as their peers who live in traditional marriages. For older men, the dangerous difference is greater: they risk their lives if they marry people 15-20 years younger than themselves. That's arithmetic! And all, according to scientists, is due to stress. Spouses in such marriages get very nervous!

The fact remains: Dorenko will appear with his “Program” on Channel 3, which will greatly raise the ratings of “Muscovy”. But whether he is joking or not when he says that he intends to protect Luzhkov from Moscow corruption is still unclear. Another thing is clear: the elections to the City Duma this year will not be calm. It remains to be seen who the “information bulldog” is working against this time.

The person who organized the terrorist attack is known to the Russian intelligence services. And his name is not Bin Laden On September 19, with reference to the Israeli military intelligence Aman, the British press reported: the direct organizers of the attack on America were the Lebanese Imad Mughniyeh, head of Hezbollah’s “special overseas operations” department, and the Egyptian “Doctor” Ayman Al Zawahiri, a member of the leadership of Bin Laden’s Al-Qaeda organization (“The Base”). and...

Recently in Kharkov, a monument to Father Fedor appeared on the platform of the railway station. The roguish priest is the spitting image of Pugovkin from Gaidai’s comedy. As if specially for the holiday. This year the film “The Twelve Chairs” is 30 years old. Mikhail Pugovkin, Archil Gomiashvili, Natalya Krachkovskaya, Nina Grebeshkova, Igor Yasulovich will gather for the anniversary evening at the House of Cinema.

We continue the series of conversations with the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Primakov was baptized at 68 — Your Holiness, you have to communicate quite a lot with people in power and business. Are there often deep and sincere believers among them? — Yes, I meet more and more people who sincerely believe.

The scene depicts State Duma. Kasyanov reports at the podium. KASYANOV: Good news today I intend to explain it to you. Russia does not stand still - It's twice as good began to live! The miners rushed into the mines, Doctors go to hospitals... etc. Our GDP* has doubled. Thank you, dear GDP**! (Applause.) After all, Russia is not a stranger to us! Progress has reached the ground: We're twice the harvest We collected as much as we could! Work hard, honest heroes, To the sounds of friendly cheers!

NTV had a lot of problems with Greed. The simplest thing was to adopt the transmission structure from Western analogues. And then off we go: Dmitry Dibrov, the appointed host, “betrayed” the channel from ORT; another contender, showman Nikolai Fomenko, did not promise anything at all and, when they tried to recruit him, announced his resignation from domestic screens. “And why did these foolish stars surrender to us?” - NTV thought and decided to act for sure.

ORT-RTR The degree of television solidarity is amazing. While Valery Todorovsky is filming a continuation of the series “Kamenskaya” for RTR, ORT has agreed to show its first part since September 27. Todorovsky is incredibly happy about this success: “I am pleased that with this show, “the first button” is preparing the ground for the broadcast of “Kamenskaya-2” already on our channel.” ORT, however, does not sleep itself. Work on “Stop on Demand 2” with the former actors is about to end.

In December, the “Best Managers of the New Era” Foundation will hold the first Petrine Assembly of the 21st century As we have already reported, in Nizhny Novgorod at the “United Russia” forum there was a presentation of the book “Ten Roads to Success”, which was published by our Publishing House together with the “Best Managers of the New Era” Foundation. Its president, Viktor ZASYPKO, answered questions from journalists.

“I’ve been reading “Interlocutor” for a long time, sometimes I take part in competitions, but for the first time I wanted to write a real letter. Lolita Milyavskaya, singer and actress, whom I love very much. Lolita is even good in advertising, although it is a little jarring. It’s somehow strange: she and washing powder! Tell me, Lolita, why did you agree to star in this video (I think not every actress would take on this)?