Together with a creative team, I am currently developing the concept of a channel that will talk about lifestyle. I would like this to be a channel that will orient people to the incredible number of products now offered in stores and help them develop their taste. And not only in food - we are also going to talk with them about the comfort of home, cottage, and the beauty of the garden. We will talk about new products in these areas, even about cleaning products and new washing powders!

The inexperienced layman always imagines the New Year's celebration among popular people known to the general public as a party among the same celebrities. We decided to check whether the stereotype was true and turned to the celebrities themselves: “Where and how will you celebrate the New Year?” Tigran Keosayan, director: – I want to celebrate this year at home, in Moscow.

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Why “Big Difference” will air six months late As soon as Alexander Tsekalo moved to Channel One in the chair of deputy general director for special projects, he immediately began to forge humorous shows. His new program, where Tsekalo’s partner is another person with a tongue without bones - Ivan Urgant, is called “Big Difference”. Soon a program will be released on First, which was planned to be launched at the end of summer.

We hope our readers enjoyed the virtual journey through the seven new wonders of the world that we took in the past year... We hope that readers enjoyed the virtual journey through the seven new wonders of the world that we took in the past year (see “Interlocutor” No. 27–48 for 2007). From the first issue of the new year, we are launching a new voyage. This time, the purpose of our travels is well-known images that are literally dear to the heart of every Russian - sights depicted on banknotes.

In the nineties, I wanted to criticize the nineties and everything that personified them. Then it turned out that everything could be the same, only more boring and deceitful, and many of the heroes of that time, who caused irritation, began to be liked in hindsight. For example, I simply fell in love with Renata Litvinova. However, maybe it was she who changed - there was more self-irony and diversity.

On December 26, 1865, Englishman James Nelson patented a coffee maker. But technology historians are confident that the first coffee maker in history appeared much earlier - in 1800. Then the French Archbishop de Bellois invented the drip coffee maker, more modern versions of which are still used in offices. In it, boiling water passed drop by drop through a filter with ground coffee. 19 years later, tinsmith Moriz improved this design, making it reversible. The coffee became stronger.

From January 1, fines for some sections of traffic rules will change. Some innovations seem quite tough to car owners, while others seem very ambiguous. To figure out how all this will work on the roads, we turned for clarification to Vladimir Kuzin, Deputy Head of the Road Safety Department of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. joke on topic – Didn’t you see the sign? Here you can only go in one direction! – Am I really going in two directions?

Our correspondent changed his profession on New Year's Eve Many children dream of studying at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, but, alas, it only exists in Rowling's fairy tales. But there is a Santa Claus school in Moscow, and it’s a real one. But it is for adults. And I studied there. Frost is not a red nose Studying at Santa Claus's school lasts almost the entire month of December. It is located on Sparrow Hills, in the Palace of Children's (Youth) Creativity.

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Fans of the most mysterious old man in history, Grishka Rasputin, believe in the magic of his things There are Rasputin restaurants in all major world capitals. Vodka, vacuum cleaners, boxing gloves and condoms are produced under this name in Europe. Recently, the boom has begun to gain momentum in Russia. Crowds of tourists - ours and foreign ones - go to the homeland of Grishka Rasputin, the Siberian village of Pokrovskoye. Not least to sit on the famous “Rasputin chair”.

We finally have our own home in the near Moscow region. It took a long time to build, but now there is a cozy place where you can gather on holidays and for family gatherings. This is where we will celebrate the New Year - in a house among the pine trees under a snow cap. By the way, happy upcoming year! Not long ago I had a photo exhibition “Turkish Presentation”. This is an event in my life. The exhibition was visited mainly by people who are engaged in photography professionally.

How to protect yourself and your stomach during the holidays Almost all New Year's chores revolve around the table in one way or another: what to cook, what to drink, what to do when you overeat and drink too much, and especially if the doctors did not tell you to eat everything that you are supposed to eat on New Year's Eve. Let's set the New Year's table this time together with a nutritionist.

Almost a year ago, on January 15, a “new era” in Russian migration policy began in the country: the law became more loyal to visitors. Liberals applaud the new fads, but the general director of the Interregional Information and Business Center Georgy Timofeev is ready to argue with them. Liberal era – The year of reform is already behind us. And what do you think of its results?

. Vladim Vladimych! At the end of the year Please accept congratulations from the people. We were so afraid of your leaving! Like Bush - Iran, Sarkozy - divorce. You were dearer to us than freedom, Gazprom, oil reserves and food. Let the sun leave the sky, And you don't go anywhere! When you left, then you would immediately The country would have entered a bad phase.