Photo: AGN “Moscow” The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) decided to pamper its generals with an unusual gift and purchased crystal shoulder straps for them. A tender for almost half a million rubles was posted on the government procurement website. For 453.5 thousand rubles, the Center for State Property and Household Support of the Federal Penitentiary Service will purchase 15 sets of crystal shoulder straps: 10 for major generals and 5 for lieutenant generals.

Readers ask: “ My grandfather won’t let me buy chocolate bars that contain any nuts. But they are so delicious! And they cost more than chocolates without nougat. However, the grandfather is convinced: the nuts in such factory-made delicacies may turn out to be very old and, as a result, carcinogenic. Is this true?

Readers ask: “ I’m planning to fly to another continent. The flight with transfers in different cities and countries will take more than 48 hours. Even I, a person who is not afraid of airplanes, feel a little uneasy. Please tell me which seats in the cabin are considered the safest?

30 years ago, during a working visit to Germany, the first President of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, tried on the role of a conductor. Unexpectedly for everyone, he took on leading an entire orchestra. The whole world, watching these shots, chuckled: “And the president is drunk!” Frolic and cackled in a rich baritone “By that time, my wife and I were already living in Germany and heard about Yeltsin’s visit,” Oleg Byazelev, an eyewitness to Boris Nikolayevich’s “concert,” tells Interlocutor.

How the Bolsheviks destroyed the multi-party system The one-party system in Soviet Russia did not develop immediately after the Bolsheviks seized power in 1917. For some time there was a coalition government with the Left Socialist Revolutionaries. But even after him, socialist parties were not completely banned. “Interlocutor” spoke with Russian-American historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences Yuri Felshtinsky about the process of eliminating the multi-party system in the Soviet country.

What tourists say about holidays in the Krasnodar region At the beginning of August this year, prices for tickets from Anapa to Moscow jumped to 100 thousand rubles. Russian Railways explained the cost by class of service. This is not the only misfortune that awaits vacationers. In Sochi and other cities, tourists were attacked by bedbugs. “Interlocutor” talked to those who remained horrified by the long-awaited south.