"Legally Blonde" on Moscow screens The main character of this cosmetic-legal comedy is the good girl Elle (Reese Witherspoon), who shares her name in the original with one of the main women's magazines on the planet (Elle). And she herself is all so glossy and shiny, as if she had just been unpacked from a crunchy cellophane film.

A performance about the difficult fate of women was shown at the contemporary dance festival The Second European Festival of Contemporary Dance was among the victims of global outrages. The participants of the “guest” program, the Americans - Dayton contemporary dance company, whose performance was considered the culmination of the festival, did not arrive.

Russian consumers say they are living better Russians are showing more and more interest in large stores, prefer branded goods and spend money not only on essential goods. True, not everyone can afford expensive household appliances and a computer. These are the results of a large-scale study of Russian consumers conducted by the marketing agency GfK. The average per capita income of Russians (taking into account inflation) became 34% higher in August than in August 1998.

According to the Vremya Novostei newspaper, the United Bank sold its stake in the Nezavisimaya Gazeta Editorial Board CJSC. The buyer's name has not been disclosed. It is possible that it is a structure, just like the United Bank, associated with Boris Berezovsky, and the transaction itself is only an element of “internal restructuring”.

The tragic story of the death of the Tu-154M aircraft with tail number RA-85693 of the Siberia Airlines last Saturday came to an end.

NASA employees claim that their unique technique allowed astronomers to witness a unique experiment. Thanks to the Hubble Space Super Telescope and the Mars Global Surveyor research vehicle in Martian orbit, scientists on Earth can observe for the first time how the climate on the Red Planet is changing.

In a sea of ​​financial instability in the CIS “Our relationship has entered a new stage, and we must recognize that Russia has become one of the leading countries in our organization,” IMF Managing Director Horst Koehler said before leaving Moscow. This was his first visit to Russia since taking office as head of the IMF in May last year.

The crew of the Omsk yacht “Sibir” recently completed a circumnavigation of the world. The yacht left the pier of the Omsk river station in the summer of 2000. In 15 months she traveled around the globe, which is an absolute world record. Now the achievement of the Omsk residents will be included in the Guinness Book of Records.

The Red Cross left deadly bacteria for the Taliban The Kabul Red Cross laboratory, where the anthrax cultures were stored, has been under Taliban control since September 16. ITAR-TASS reported this yesterday with reference to “circles close to the French intelligence services.” The laboratory was established in 1997 as part of the Red Cross program to support Afghan livestock production, in particular, vaccination against anthrax.

Deputies decided to help the former rich The State Duma decided to force the state to help poor Russian regions. But not the poor by nature, but the depressed, that is, those who used to be rich, but in recent years have become poor.

Yuri Luzhkov wants the president to lead a single centrist party The process of building a new centrist party is gaining momentum. This was confirmed by two party events that took place last weekend - the congresses of the Fatherland and All Russia movements. Both organizations unanimously decided that today the unification of all centrist forces is necessary more than ever, and adopted a statement confirming their desire to transform into a single party together with Unity.

A scandalous emergency marked the end of last week for the Russian Navy: at one of the naval bases in Kamchatka, overrunning sailors captured their commander, and at the same time the entire warship. The incident occurred on Friday on a diesel submarine belonging to the 182nd Submarine Brigade. The crew of the submarine was in the barracks on the shore, on vacation. The sailors who remained on the boat got drunk out of boredom.

Roman KOZAK became the chief director of the Theater. Pushkin. He already had leadership experience - he tried his hand at the Theater. Stanislavsky, unfortunately without much success. Kozak belongs to a generation for which special hopes were placed in the eighties. With the performances “Cinzano” and “Emigrants” from the “Chelovek” studio, the young artist and director Kozak toured almost all Soviet and international festivals.

Traffic police officers detained last Friday in Volokolamsk three servicemen who escaped a few days ago from the guardhouse of the Khimki garrison. During the day, in the village of Novo-Petrovskoye, an armed raid was carried out on a store. An interception plan was introduced to apprehend the criminals. While checking the cars, inspectors noticed a suspicious Volga, in which there were five young people. The police detained the car - three passengers and turned out to be fleeing deserters.

Human rights activists want to be friends with the authorities against energy workers Chief Russian human rights activist Oleg Mironov called for developing a new concept of work and finding a common language with the authorities at a round table of human rights commissioners held over the weekend in Smolensk.