For my generation of war children, born shortly before the Prague Spring, Germany has always been a special country. We knew: there is “their” Germany, which preaches values ​​that are spiritually alien to us, and “ours”, which made wonderful toys - construction sets that replaced Lego for us, an amazing railway... This was Germany, which built “socialism in the colors of the GDR ".

The first game of the match for the title of world chess champion, which is sponsored by the British company Brain Games Network, two Russians - world champion Garry Kasparov and world number two Vladimir Kramnik - ended in a draw. Kasparov played with white. His opponent abandoned his favorite Russian opening and imposed an equal fight on the champion in the Spanish game, where Garry Kimovich was always quite skilled.

Sad news for everyone who served in the Western Group of Forces: the mother-of-pearl tea, table and coffee set “Madonna” has not been produced in united Germany for five years now. But returning to the Union at the end of his service in the Western Group with such a service in his luggage was a matter of honor and dignity for every Soviet and then Russian officer.

Canadian authorities stand up for Archangel Diamond Corporation On the morning of October 5, five masked armed men burst into the Arkhangelsk office of the Canadian company Archangel Diamond Corporation (ADC). The office employees were ordered to lie on the floor, they were handcuffed, the safe was emptied - and they were gone. It must have happened that just from October 4 to October 7, Linda MacDonald, the Consul General of Canada in St.

The boom in the development of Runet home networks occurred in 1997 and early 1998, and today there are about one and a half hundred of them in Moscow alone. The financial crisis of 1998 forced participants in this market to slow down sharply, but now “network” construction has begun to gain momentum again. But still, the sharp decline in the well-being of everyone who wants to have access to the Internet manifested itself in at least two new trends.

Nobel Prize in Medicine laureates announced The Royal Swedish Academy yesterday began announcing the list of Nobel Prize laureates for 2000. The first laureates in the field of medicine were named. They were a university professor from Gothenburg, Arvid Carlsson, and two scientists from New York, Paul Greengard and Eric Kandel. The prize was awarded to them for a series of discoveries concerning the interaction of cells in the human nervous system.

Just in time for the unification holiday, a survey conducted by the authoritative sociological service Emnid arrived. The results are impressive - 90% of residents of a united Germany consider themselves happy. 67% are confident that they will remain so in the coming years. The other day we were laying new concrete slabs in the parking lot in our village of amateur gardeners. This is the very east of the former GDR, right behind us begins the main candidate for accession to the EU - Poland.

To outsiders V. The race for priority in the release of Thomas Pynchon's debut (1963) novel "V." between two St. Petersburg publishing houses ended with the finishing spurt of "Amphora", which managed to be three weeks ahead of the appearance of the already announced second volume of Pynchon's collection in the "Symposium". However, if we put these two publications side by side, the comparison will not be in favor of Amphora. The translation downloaded from the Internet by G. Grigoriev and A.

The second auction for the sale of land plots in Zelenograd (Moscow district), scheduled for October 9, has been postponed to a later date. The first land auction in the Moscow region took place on October 2, at which a plot in Zelenograd with an area of ​​0.75 hectares was sold. The plot of land was acquired by the Gil-Gal company, which, according to the terms of the competition, must build a supermarket with an area of ​​2.4 thousand square meters on it within a year. meters. "TIME FOR NEWS"

Russian voices of a united Germany - Are you going to Gemeinde (German for “community” - Ed.) today? - No, I can’t, I have a term (Termin - meeting) with a Steuerberater (tax consultant). And then you still need to melt the new car (melden - register). - Oh zo! (Ach so - that's it). From a conversation between two recent immigrants from the former USSR How many of us are there?

The euphoria associated with the financial “bottomlessness” of the Internet is coming to an end. Gone are the days of enthusiasts for whom the World Wide Web was more entertainment than business. The time has come for professionals whose business would be Runet. Today's problems in the development of Russian e-commerce are caused not so much by technical as by ideological difficulties. The segment of the population that has bank accounts and makes payments through the bank is too thin.

A “smart home” - a home not only connected to the World Wide Web, but also stuffed with Internet-compatible household appliances - is no longer a fantasy of science fiction writers and a whim of billionaires. More recently, perhaps only the richest rich man, Bill Gates, who built an estate whose value is estimated at $25 million, could afford to have such a miracle.

During these holidays, the museum of the former legendary ORWO plant in Wolfen, which supplied the whole of Eastern Europe with color photographic film for many decades, is hosting the exhibition “40 Years of Actual Photography in the Everyday Life of the East.” Actual photography is nude photography. As we know, there was no sex under socialism.

He will be elected president in March 2001 The State Council of Tatarstan made a fateful decision yesterday. Mintimer Shaimiev will be elected president of Tatarstan for a third term not in December, as Tatar legislators wanted, but in March, as required by law.

Electronic commerce in RuNet is still mostly called a virtual walk with the purpose of looking at shop windows. This is due to several problems that do not allow you to normally pay for the selected product directly on the Internet. Firstly, the layer of the virtual population that has plastic cards, and bank accounts in general, is too thin.