“Star” (No. 7) opens with a very strong and lively poetic selection by Gleb Gorbovsky . Let us cite only the final poem: “Like a loose tree in the wind,/ I stand, deaf and blind in the morning... // Then I start living in a worn-out coat./ There is freedom in the country,/ but it’s still not the same!/ Not I curse the new days, but I will repeat: / I adore Dostoevsky’s path. // I’ll buy a very smoked fish,/ and a couple of beers...

The Northern Fleet command officially admitted the obvious Today, Vladimir Putin will finally address the people - already directly in Severomorsk.

In Yekaterinburg, a patient was infected during a transplant The first case in the history of Russian medicine of a patient contracting HIV infection after a transplant was recorded in Yekaterinburg. Tyumen oilman Yuri K., apparently, doctors transplanted a kidney from an infected donor. In Yekaterinburg City Clinical Hospital No. 1, where the operation was performed, they say that the surgeons are in shock, and the attending physician simply does not know how to inform the patient about this.

Russian sailors say they are hiding from the mafia In former times, there were cases when Soviet sailors remained in Canadian ports and asked the authorities for political asylum. However, what happened late last week in Halifax never happened. 39 sailors, two-thirds of the entire crew, escaped from the Russian refrigerated trawler Bison. There are 21 people left on the trawler; the ship can no longer go to sea.

The rock festival "Invasion 2000" took place “Our Radio” initially did not want to make its festival just another gathering of rock legends, so almost half of the groups were young and little-known, from among those whom “Our Radio” finds in small clubs in the cities of Russia and neighboring countries and tries to promote. Yuri Shevchuk liked the idea of ​​giving juniors a chance so much that he agreed to perform, although he usually refuses to participate in national concerts on principle.

Vladimir Putin remains above suspicion for most The independent research center ROMIR was one of the first to try to find out the attitude of Russians to what is happening in the Barents Sea. However, the telephone survey was conducted on August 19-20 only in Moscow, but sociologists claim that the sample of 500 people is quite representative for the capital.

The recently approved Concept of Russian Foreign Policy pays special attention to the economic direction of Russian diplomacy. Ekaterina LABETSKAYA, correspondent for the Vremya Novostey newspaper, asked Ivan IVANOV, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in charge of economic issues, about what this aspect of the Foreign Ministry’s activities is. — Diplomacy of the 21st century will obviously be different from that of the outgoing century.

Latvian police are at a loss about the causes of the Riga explosion Yesterday morning, 53-year-old Maya Pushmuchane died of burns in a Swedish clinic. She worked in the storage room of Riga's Centrs department store and was at the center of one of the explosions that rocked Riga last Thursday. The bomb was in one of the surrendered bags - about a kilogram of TNT.

RAO VSM will lose its last real assets The company "High-Speed ​​Railways" (RAO "VSM"), created in the early 90s for the construction of the "project of the century" - the country's first high-speed passenger rail line between Moscow and St. Petersburg, may soon remain only on paper.

As the Vremya Novostei newspaper learned, a settlement agreement with creditors of Voronezh Bank, which is managed by the Agency for the Restructuring of Credit Institutions (ARCO), will be considered in the Arbitration Court of the Voronezh Region in early September. We can already talk about the future of this once largest commercial bank in the region with a certain degree of certainty.

TV producers are not shy about their means to keep their competitors off the air For two weeks now, the country has been glued to its TV sets. August 8 - tragedy in Moscow, an explosion on Pushkin Square, which claimed the lives of nine people and injured dozens of people. August 14 -- message about a terrible accident on the Kursk submarine. The laws of the information genre are such that it is on days of tragedies and emergencies that news ratings increase.

New American full-length cartoon on Moscow screens The creators of “Titan after the Death of the Earth” had a way to make good money on their creation: they had to get a time machine, go to the USSR during the late stagnation era, print several thousand copies and release the cartoon in Soviet rentals. Those who, at a tender age, queued up in the morning to see the Japanese cartoon “Ghost Ship” will confirm that I’m right.

When will the Central Bank issue a new 1000 ruble banknote? The expectations of denomination and the joy of the disappearance of a large number of zeros on banknotes have not yet been erased from the people’s memory, and four-digit numbers on banknotes are again entering our everyday life. Yesterday, the Bank of Russia officially announced that from January 1 next year, banknotes with a face value of 1000 rubles will appear in circulation. This decision was made by the bank's board of directors.

Turkmen gas is in great demand On the eve of the meeting between the presidents of Turkmenistan and Ukraine, at which Leonid Kuchma is expected to present his proposals for the purchase of Turkmen gas, all interested parties are trying to influence the possible outcome of these negotiations. Ukrainian Deputy Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, the author of the preliminary agreement with Turkmenistan, once again accused Russia of monopolizing gas supplies to Ukraine.

The imam of the Tyumen city of Ishim, an ethnic Uzbek Khadzhi Khudzhaev, was detained last weekend in Omsk. His arrest overshadowed a grandiose event for all Muslims in Russia - a meeting of the leadership of two main Muslim organizations competing with each other - the Spiritual Administration of Muslims of the Asian Part of Russia and the all-Russian socio-political movement "Rifak" ("Prosperity"). However, the arrest of one of the Muslim leaders has nothing to do with the event.