You can inherit more than just an apartment, talent, or hair color from your mom, dad, or grandparents. There is also a predisposition to varicose veins or allergies - and this is not very pleasant. Is it possible to find out what disease was passed on to a person by his parents and what is the use of this knowledge to us, explained geneticist Maria Litvinova, an employee of the INVITRO Independent Laboratory.

You can already feel the pre-holiday fever in Russian stores. People are buying everything and everyone, and trading companies are fueling this boom with all sorts of discounts and sales. The famous psychologist Vladimir Shakhidzhanyan told Sobesednik about the psychological side of this phenomenon. – A person is subject to herd feelings, nothing can be done about it. Everyone buys, and I buy - and trade skillfully uses this human property. And I think that's normal.

On December 8, the final of the fifth Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 will take place in Rotterdam (Netherlands). The honor of Russia will be defended by 10-year-old Alexandra Golovchenko from Volgograd with the song “Excellent Girl”. She will try to repeat the success of her predecessors - twin sisters from Kursk Masha and Nastya Tolmachev, who won Eurovision 2006.

The famous psychic Alan Chumak presented the book “To Those Who Believe in Miracles” to the public. Many people believed in the miracle, and the hall was filled to capacity with representatives of the press and guests. Unfortunately, everyone was in for a bitter disappointment. After two and a half hours of communication with the guests, when half of them were already dozing in soft chairs, Alan Vladimirovich finally decided to demonstrate his abilities.

The lead singer of the Reflex group, Zhenya Malakhova, decided to celebrate her next birthday with her family, in her parents’ country house. Only the closest ones gathered - relatives, friends, girls from the Reflex group and Zhenya’s young friend. – It was the best birthday of my life, because for the first time I made it for myself, for my soul and only for loved ones! – Malakhova shared with ZhG. – My mother gave me a laptop, my friends gave me jewelry.

Convicted ex-FSB officer Mikhail Trepashkin has been released. Trepashkin, as he is called, “Putin’s enemy No. 2,” a friend of “enemy No. 1” (Alexander Litvinenko) poisoned in London, served four years for illegal possession of weapons and disclosure of state secrets and has already managed to sue Russia in Strasbourg for 3 thousand euros for poor detention in prison.

People have a strong belief that if the body requires something, then this is what it vitally needs. We won’t talk about cigarettes and vodka - everyone knows perfectly well what the reasons are. But what if the desire to drink cucumber pickle is not associated with a morning hangover, and the passion for salty foods is not associated with an interesting situation?

On December 6, People's Artist Mikhail Evdokimov would have turned 50 years old. Only 50! But, to our greatest regret, he has not been among us for two years. On his birthday, anniversary events organized by the Interregional Public Fund will be held in the artist’s homeland and in Moscow. Evdokimov. Friends and relatives will remember him with good, kind words. The artist’s close friend Regina Dubovitskaya shared her memories with Sobesednik. – Mikhail Evdokimov started on my radio in 1985.

Even the winners of the election race were in no hurry to celebrate the results of the people's will. Tension and despondency reigned at the headquarters of other parties. SPS and Yabloko were burying democracy, the Socialist Revolutionaries, Communists and Liberal Democratic Party closely watched every new tenth of a percent of votes that were given to them or, on the contrary, taken away. And the United Russia members, smiling strainedly, said goodbye to their briefcases.

Sergei Ursulyak’s multi-part feature film “Liquidation” captivated millions of viewers to their televisions. A month earlier, our neighbors in Ukraine had already admired the film. Why did our viewer go second tier? Maybe in gratitude for the hospitable reception during filming in Odessa? The creator of the film, Sergei Ursulyak, told us about how Odessa residents received Russian filmmakers. “We couldn’t find such a texture as in Odessa in any city,” the director recalls.

The actress regrets that she cannot classify herself as a millionaire At the annual luxury exhibition Millionaire Fair, stars came not so much to show off themselves as to gawk at the world's most expensive yachts, helicopters, cars, furs, mobile phones and jewelry. Navka ordered a ring for $10,000 “Stars are mostly invited to Millionaire Fair to attract attention to the event; none of them are clients,” one of the organizers admitted to ZhG.

Snake charmer nearly gave taxi driver a heart attack Soon we will find out the winner of the “Minute of Fame” show, who will receive the coveted million rubles. 9 people will fight for it. Those who did not make it to the finals are not very upset either... As ZhG found out, not all of the participants came to perform in the “Minute of Fame” for the sake of a million. Many of them are in search of their happiness.

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Completely ordinary cucumbers are collected from the beds of the village of Bely Ugol, near Essentuki. On all plots, except one - the one that belongs to engineer Boris Ryzhenko, who is also a hereditary breeder. Boris Filippovich's cucumbers are exclusively Mexican, from the chayote breed. They took root for a long time and reluctantly, but finally their Latin American stubbornness was broken.

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