Boris Borisovich Grebenshchikov spent the past week in Moscow. At first he had concerts at the Moscow Art Theater. Gorky, and then - in a club with a name close to him “Shambhala”, where BG presented the book “Dreams about something more”. Boris Borisych went on stage, sat down on it and, dangling his legs, asked: “Well, how are we going to do this?” Of course, he was referring to the conversation with journalists that preceded the concert.

There are many things you can talk about with anyone on the eve of their 70th birthday. Especially if the interlocutor is a more than well-known person: the president of the TVC company Oleg Poptsov, who has six years of leadership at VGTRK during the formation of democratic media in the new Russia and vast life experience. On May 27, Oleg Maksimovich, an incorrigible romantic by nature, a “golden pen” by profession and a “forest scientist” by education, celebrated his own anniversary.

Putin's fifth message to the Federal Assembly, delivered last Wednesday from the Marble Hall of the Kremlin, was received calmly by the people. Members of the government and deputies loyal to the authorities expressed their approval. Their opponents from the “record” category, out of habit, made dissatisfied grimaces: “Where is the breakthrough? Where is the fight against corruption? Boring...

The scandalous singer Shura celebrated his birthday in one of the large casinos in Moscow. This famous entertainment complex has probably never seen so many representatives of “non-standard orientation”. Everyone came. Except for Bori Moiseev. He is now closely occupied with recently acquired real estate (Starfall wrote about this in the last issue of Sobesednik). “A Dentist’s Dream” turned 32. Although the singer spent the whole evening trying to convince everyone that he was 27.