Alexander Adabashyan Happiness is when it works out! – Before writing my first script, I didn’t write anything. Even notes for the school wall newspaper. And I thought it was easy. Not so. Andron Konchalovsky, who invited me to work on the script, patiently explained why what I sprinkled was no good. And I explained to him why it was wonderful.

Where should I put a comma in this heading? Can the boss set fines? For example, punish with rubles for not attending corporate events or deduct 100 rubles from your salary for every 10 minutes of lateness? Each hut has its own rattles. But how far can authorities go in the area of ​​fines? – The opinion is being propagated that fines are a legitimate way to manage a team.

Leonid Yarmolnik Diversity is always better than gray monotony - “Interlocutor” definitely has its originality. Probably, the dissimilarity annoys someone. There is no need to be afraid of this. Unfortunately, often people cannot reach an agreement precisely because they are not ready to understand and accept the position of the other.

It would seem that clubs had time throughout January to sell football players to Europe, but in reality many transactions are made literally 5 minutes before the transfer window closes. And in the case of Andrei Arshavin, an additional couple of hours were required, because the incredible snowfall in London paralyzed traffic and, it seems, club representatives skied to the negotiations. So what are the clubs waiting for?

Guest The young writer Stanislav Senkin wrote a book, and Akradiy Mamontov was listed as the author at the top. And who is the fag after this? Guest But I read somewhere that the worst homophobes are latent homosexuals. So we need to check about the young writer Stanislav Senkin, something is fishy here. Experienced State Holder Mamontov was a professional with authority on NTV, but he came out all right.

Maxim Shevchenko You are preventing stagnation. You are inconvenient. – How do I feel about “Interlocutor”? Your call found me on the slope of Elbrus, at a sharp turn. And this is not a coincidence: when I read the best materials from Sobesednik, this is exactly how I feel. For the newspaper and society, stagnation is the most hostile: let’s say, both Nicholas I and Arakcheev were very decent people, but it was very difficult to live and develop under them. So: you interfere with stagnation.

The Russians reached the semi-finals of the Fed Cup, defeating the Chinese team - 5:0. Elena Dementyeva, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Anna Chakvetadze and Alisa Kleybanova played for our team, but the Chinese leaders did not come - Li Na, who underwent surgery, and Zheng Jie, who was injured, so the three guests were forced to defend the honor of China. Russian team, tennis The Russians reached the semi-finals of the Fed Cup, defeating the Chinese team - 5:0.

Leonid Yarmolnik Diversity is always better than gray monotony - “Interlocutor” definitely has its originality. Probably, the dissimilarity annoys someone. There is no need to be afraid of this. Unfortunately, often people cannot reach an agreement precisely because they are not ready to understand and accept the position of the other.

Single-industry towns are settlements with city-forming enterprises that replenish more than half of the local budget. According to a study by the Institute of Regional Policy (IRP), there are 460 such settlements in Russia and 30% of them are on the verge of extinction. “Their city-forming enterprises will not survive the crisis, which means everything else will fall apart,” says IRP director Bulat Stolyarov.

The film “Group Zeta”, in which the actor starred, lay on the shelf for two years, and finally its first eight episodes are being released on “First”. Lieutenant Colonel Timofeev (actor Oleg Stefanko) together with his colleague in Afghanistan Kosenko (actor Alexey Zharkov) run the anti-terrorist secret group Zeta. The task was given - to remove the person through whom financial flows go to the Caucasus to extremist organizations for the training of martyrs.

The Antimonopoly Service promises to deal with companies that do not reduce gasoline prices Why is oil getting cheaper, while gasoline prices in one of the most oil-producing countries either remain stagnant or are falling too slowly? This is one of the main mysteries of our time. Last week, officials from the Federal Antimonopoly Service, whose line of work is supposed to monitor all such “miracles” in pricing and promptly punish the perpetrators, also asked the question.

Last week began with a wave of publications that the President of Tajikistan Emomali Rakhmonov refused to come to Moscow for a previously agreed meeting with President Medvedev. The publications sounded obvious resentment: why do our recent brothers in the Soviet Union treat us so badly? We help them, but they keep it in their pockets, turning their backs to us at every opportunity.

Before Valentina Matvienko had time to start repairs in the official toilet (in which only one toilet seat should cost the city budget 10,260 rubles), she urgently had to drain the staff. Two vice-governors from among Matvienko’s former associates in party and Komsomol work suddenly resigned - the head of the Smolny administration, Viktor Lobko, and the head of the St. Petersburg housing and communal services, Alexander Polukeev.

There is an opinion that suburban areas are such an outlaw territory. The summer residents themselves add fuel to the fire, ending conversations about safety with the theatrical: “And if something happens, there’s nowhere to run.” “If something happens,” you need to run to the police. It has not gone away - in the nearest rural settlement there is at least a district police officer. Moreover, he periodically looks into your holiday village and communicates with the chairman of the partnership.

Alexander Gordon Stay kind and evil - Usually, on the advice of Professor Preobrazhensky, I try not to read newspapers. Neither local nor anyone else. but for some reason I’ve been making an exception for Sobesednik for ten years now. and have never regretted it once. Happy birthday, you are our quarter-century-olds! Remain the same, unlike anyone else, kind and evil. Twenty-five is a wonderful age, as far as I remember.