You can relax in different ways: with your mother-in-law in Cheboksary, no mother-in-law in Turkey, no Turkey on the sofa, no sofa in a country shed - in short, there are a lot of options. My friends and I choose from this endless list the most the deaf version - to the mother taiga, to the river - and rafting, therefore, along it on inflatable floating devices. The same is what we “wish” for you, so to speak. What is Olekma? It all starts, naturally, with choosing a route.

Subscription Archive Have a hard time! Brooke Hornblower Every morning, because the hot water is cut off in my area, I have to take a cold shower. It’s generally difficult for me to understand how you tolerate the lack of a hot shower. This is the inalienable right of every civilized person! but I learned a way to escape from this nasty Russian phenomenon. This is a city bathhouse. I heard about the famous Sandunovsky baths, but it was closer to me to go to Babushkinsky, not far from my home.

On July 13, Mikhail Ivanovich Pugovkin will turn 80 years old. The famous actor will celebrate his anniversary in Moscow. Pugovkin is gathering strength and energy for the celebrations in Yalta. By the way, he has already started accepting congratulations. Local Minister of Culture Bogdan Stupka joined his Ukrainian colleagues.

Twelve years ago on the same July day, he caught me, the Literary Gazette courier, by the sleeve and seriously asked: “Are you writing?” I didn’t even realize who this short, disheveled man was, and automatically nodded: “I’m writing.” To my shame, I did not realize that in front of me was the famous journalist and deputy of the Supreme Council Yuri Shchekochikhin. ...At Yura’s dacha in Peredelkino, there are two long tables in the courtyard and a brazier for a cauldron of pilaf.

Just over a year ago, there were two Solomin brothers known throughout the country - now only the eldest remains. True, we see him less and less in films: for fifteen years now, Yuri Solomin has been the artistic director of the Maly Theater. At the same time, he teaches at the Shchepkinsky School together with his wife Olga Nikolaevna. His watch speaks better than any words about the actor’s constant employment - its leather strap is completely worn out from the sweat of work.

Former President Yeltsin is a restless pensioner. Therefore, it is difficult to surprise anyone with the rumor that Boris Nikolaevich is preparing to head the election list of the Union of Right Forces. We can only verify this rumor. The reason for it was the fairly frequent solitudes of the two Boriss - Nemtsov and Yeltsin. “Yes, they are meeting, but no one knows what they are discussing,” Irina Khakamada told Interlocutor.

On the eve of May Day, the chairman of the Moscow Regional Committee for Social Protection of the Population, Valentina Lagunkina, announced that by decision of Governor Boris Gromov, on the eve of the 60th anniversary of the Great Victory, all veterans and disabled people living in the Moscow region will become owners of Oka cars. At the same time, General Gromov is not going to wait until 2005, but will bring cars to veterans' yards before the end of this year.

The counselor planned for the whole country Change to native Palmyra power, And Yakovlev deflated, pressed, It's almost better to fall. Goodbye, business executive iron, Evil persecutor of Sobchak! All tricks are useless Before the formidable tactics of the Cheka. How you got on your nerves, How excited they were! You will be Valentina First Replaced by fall already.

I will never stop admiring Putin: How he imbued those around him with fear! To the main oligarch, modest Roman, There is absolutely nowhere to spend capital. Before, he and Berezoya spent money on the hunt, Nowadays, unwanted in the royal home, Equidistant to Chukotka itself, There is nothing to throw away a million for him. Neither to the factory nor to the mines does he make money won't invest The defense industry has been captured, aluminum has been taken... He would buy the St.

Today we asked the professor to answer a question sent by our reader from Yakutia Tamara Tarasova: “Local self-government was recently introduced in Yakutia. I have a small private grocery store in one of the Yakut villages. So, the head of the local government of this ulus (district) issued an order limiting the time for the sale of alcoholic beverages, including beer, from 10 to 19 hours from Monday to Saturday and completely prohibited the sale of these items on Sunday.

It would seem, what is the connection between the English word “performance” (presentation) and the folk crafts of the Ob Ugrians?.. Imagine, the most direct one. On June 28, the 1st interregional youth festival of folk art crafts was held in the capital of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug and decorative and applied arts "Yugorsky Performance". "Hotey" in the city But why still “performance”? Why this newspeak on Siberian soil?

The Heraldic Council under the President of the Russian Federation decided that it would be nice if President Putin could bestow a personal coat of arms on the most prominent people in the country. However, many of the new Russians have long been sculpting their own family heraldry. “How do you see your family coat of arms?” — we decided to ask, in turn, a number of famous people. Arkady Weiner, writer: - I want, I want my coat of arms.

Americans are taking over Russian oil Oil in the modern world is the boss of everything. The companies that manage it are planetary bosses. Price it forces everyone to worry - from Bush and his native State Duma to any of us, especially car enthusiasts. Deputies are currently discussing the Nationalization Law. And then the president, in his address to the Federal Assembly, spoke about the possible limitation of the role of monopolists in setting prices for their products...

When work on two new episodes of Lethal Force (Channel One) was in full swing in Cannes, our correspondent was the only Russian journalist who managed to witness the filming of all the episodes with the participation of Gerard Depardieu. How to trap an oligarch Early morning. My train is slowing down. “Monsieur, ladies, we have arrived in Cannes,” the driver sounded over the loudspeaker. Five minutes and I’m on the Croisette.

One of the entevesh pillars, native St. Petersburg resident Pavel Lobkov, had not previously arranged filming in his Moscow apartment, which, by the way, he bought in 1996 with a loan provided by his native television company NTV. And the popular TV presenter lives in the area of ​​Mayakovsky Square and modestly believes that he has nothing to brag about except flowers. I was lucky: just before our meeting, a rare orchid bloomed in Lobkov’s apartment.