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.

Aries. The week will be very active, even stressful. Try to sleep more and recuperate on time. The male part of the family will need the attention of the female part. Taurus. Great time to complete projects. The more you plan, the more you will succeed. It is worth waiting for changes in relationships with the opposite sex. Twins. In the near future, everyone will get what they deserve. Luck will turn its face to the cheerful and active. Cancer.

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.

The analytical agency Autostat found that the most popular foreign car in Moscow is the Ford Focus. At the beginning of this year, 87,100 cars of this brand were registered in the capital. Second place went to Mitsubishi Lancer with a fleet of 56,800 cars. Further in the top ten are: Volkswagen Passat, Daewoo Nexia, Nissan Almera, Hyundai Accent, Toyota Corolla, Mazda 3, Opel Astra and BMW 5 Series. The place of one of the rarest models among metropolitan cars was taken by Toyota Sequoia .

Fazil Iskander We will appreciate the opportunities! – 25 years is that almost ideal age when there are still many opportunities, but you already appreciate them. This is the age for the transition from youthful love to serious and adult love, from poetry to prose, from unsteadiness to consistency. I remember this age well, too well. I wish you one thing - not to completely fall out of childhood: sooner or later everyone will have to fall back into it.

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.

Many people regard solving scanwords, crosswords and various kinds of puzzles as an innocent, but generally useless activity. However, this is a real opportunity to strengthen your memory. We discussed the benefits of exercises for the mind with psychotherapist Andrei Selivanov. You need to take care of your treasure trove of knowledge. Why do we lose memory - in old age, due to illness or severe stress?

Lolita Milyavskaya They never became tabloid - 25 years is an amazingly long time. Almost a life sentence. That is, on the contrary, of course: it is a lifelong pleasure to have you as an interlocutor. I thank you for the fact that in all this time you have never become a tabloid. How did you manage? How do you make money? 25 – and no porn. I don't understand how you survive. Does that really happen? It probably happens. When you are still only 25.

- Please don't kill me! I have four children, my wife is pregnant, the loan for the apartment has not been paid... Although... you know what? Kill me! A German arrives in a Russian village. He sees the grandmother chasing geese from the garden and yelling: - Well, get out, you damned goats! The German is perplexed: the goats seem to be large, with horns, but these are clearly birds. Asks grandma: – Tell me, why do you call birds goats? - Yes, because these pigs trampled my whole garden, dogs!

Fedor Bondarchuk We have an independent press. I heartily congratulate Sobesednik on this important date! Thank you for your professionalism, quality materials and talented journalists. Special words of gratitude to Dmitry Bykov, the person who was not afraid to support me at a time when many spoke impartially about my then-unreleased project “Inhabited Island”. This turned out to be possible only thanks to the existence of an independent press - such as Sobesednik!

Fedor Bondarchuk We have an independent press. I heartily congratulate Sobesednik on this important date! Thank you for your professionalism, quality materials and talented journalists. Special words of gratitude to Dmitry Bykov, the person who was not afraid to support me at a time when many spoke impartially about my then-unreleased project “Inhabited Island”. This turned out to be possible only thanks to the existence of an independent press - such as Sobesednik!

Roast for Mowgli Everyone already remembers about the New Year, but everyone tries to forget about the fact that December 30 is the birthday of the writer Kipling. And he is such a significant writer that he even managed to receive a Nobel Prize!

It’s hard to suspect a man in green sweatpants as the owner of elite square meters in the center of Moscow. Now almost all of his belongings fit into a plastic bag. The main content is DVDs on which Yura Zalogin records his story. In the frame is Zalogin, he sets up the camera and talks to it under the noise of the nearby railway track.

After the milk squabbles, the Slavic brothers did not greet us very warmly. The inscription on the badge “Russia” acted on some people like a red rag on a bison. The “welcome” began already on the train. In the dining car, my colleague and I were shortchanged by 500 Russian rubles when counting money from Belarusian “bunnies”. “Is something wrong? – the waitress rolled her eyes. - Oh, that's true. Well, it happens...” The game of simpletons continued in Vitebsk.

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.