The population census has come to its logical conclusion. True, some managed to push through this action, despite the example set by the president himself, who was the first to surrender himself to the census takers. “Have you been rewritten?” we asked famous people. Henry Resnik, lawyer: — The census takers didn’t come to me. They said that if you want to be rewritten, you need to visit our local sports complex. I live in a cottage village.

Alexander Prokhanov naturally becomes one of the most discussed Russian writers and journalists of our time. The editor-in-chief of Zavtra, a newspaper that for many has become the personification of odiousness, he received a National Best Seller for his scandalous novel Mister Hexogen, which portrays the Moscow terrorist attacks of 1999 as the result of an extensive FSB conspiracy.

Torture is the mildest word that can be used to describe everyday life in the army today. Moreover Officers also contribute to hazing (as the notorious hazing is officially called). They are sometimes not much older than their subordinates (24-28 years old), but they are much more sophisticated in bullying. Apparently, having a higher education has an effect.

It’s good that the three pairs of twins who received gold medals for their studies in schools were awarded 100 thousand rubles by the administration of Primorye. Such prizes for good studies have never been given here before. “The governor came up with this,” Olga Sazhina, an employee of the Primorye Administration, told Interlocutor. — Sergei Darkin personally handed the money to the parents of the lucky ones. The remaining 190 Primorye medalists were only happy for the chosen ones.

Chaliapin was unable to speak, and Chkalov did not want his son to fly Liverpool daughter dies aged 93 Fedora Shalyapina Marfa Fedorovna. She was accompanied on her last journey by her sister, 90-year-old Maria Feodorovna. For many, bearing the surname of a great parent is not an easy burden. Not for our today's heroes. Maria Shalyapina: the surname will die with me Maria Fedorovna remained the last of the Chaliapin family.

The presentation of the Nobel Prize in Literature laureate this year was not without the traditional exclamation from the audience. For many years now, as soon as the Permanent Secretary of the Swedish Academy, Horace Engdahl, announces the name of the prize winner, a loud cry is immediately heard: “Well, finally!” To the displeasure of the organizers, it is clearly picked up by television and radio microphones.

Michael Jackson wanted to buy one of the castles in the Scottish Highlands and asked his old friend to help him. Raj Bakw, owner of the Cafe India restaurant in Glasgow, responded immediately, agreeing to resolve the problem. Bakv had helped Jackson before, arranging his life while the King of Pop was on his British tour, at the same time acting as his personal chef.

Actress Angelina Jolie has split from her husband Billy Bob Thornton. Taking her adopted son Maddox in her arms, she left the apartment in Beverly Hills, exchanging it for a hotel. The reason for the breakup was Bob's jealousy of their recently adopted baby. Since the arrival of his adopted child, Thornton has become irritable and lost peace: in his opinion, Angelina devotes too much time to the boy. “She’s just crazy about Maddox!” - Bob couldn’t resist.

After the massacre in the center of Moscow on Manezhnaya Square, it was believed that 17-year-old schoolboy Andrei Truzhenikov (he was buried this weekend) and 34-year-old warrant officer of the 3rd operational battalion of the Moscow riot police Ivan Bolmotov did not survive the meat grinder. Fortunately for the latter’s family and friends, the riot policeman survived. Bolmotov suffered greatly, and is now under the supervision of doctors.

Barsukovskaya was washed off the face of the earth in 20 minutes The most disastrous situation has developed in the Kochubeevsky district of the Stavropol Territory. The Novokubansky farm, the village of Nadzornoye and the village of Barsukovskaya were in the flood zone, and 4 more were partially flooded. “The badgers suffered the most.” “I talked about this, I talk about it and I will talk about it,” confirmed the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Sergei Shoigu, in Stavropol.

six sisters they were adopted by Elizaveta Solovyova from the village of Susanino, Kostroma region “They didn’t get married because they were born invisible” This short woman with thick glasses and a lush gray braid did not experience labor pains herself. Everything that usually accompanies the process of birth - the first cry of a child, the excitement of loved ones under the windows of the maternity hospital, her husband receiving a squeaking bundle - remained a pipe dream for her.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov decided to strengthen the defense capability of his homeland using Soviet methods. From May 26 to June 1, by his order, the capital's high school students were sent to military training. And 32 thousand teenagers smelled gunpowder... “After the collapse of the Union, the training camps managed to turn into a fiction,” Rasim Akchurin, director of the Center for Military-Patriotic and Civil Education at the Moscow Department of Education, told Interlocutor.

Yulia Tymoshenko: for me a skirt is not decoration There are women not only in Russian villages... If I were the Ukrainian brothers, I would choose Yulia Tymoshenko as president of Ukraine. And just like that. Look, what will happen. Ukraine will no longer be worse than it is. Again, you can always say: woman, what can I take from her? And if Tymoshenko succeeds in something... However, Yulia Vladimirovna is still far from the presidency. Kuchma stayed there until the end of 2004.

Before officials had time to more or less decide whether or not to have a unified state exam, ready-made answers to all its questions appeared on the Internet. The FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor General's Office immediately became alert and rushed to catch the pirates, and in the meantime we decided to find out from famous people whether they used cheat sheets when they studied.

Over the weekend, news appeared: Vladimir Ustinov was allegedly hospitalized with heart failure. And the prosecutor general felt so bad that he had to be placed in intensive care. Some evil tongues even claimed that Vladimir Vasilyevich’s attack happened because the president talked to him about his possible resignation. However, the Prosecutor General’s Office itself stated that their boss was fresh, healthy and had already appeared at his workplace on the morning of December 9.