Tobacco lovers hide from persecution in special shelters Following America, which is suffering from obesity, the Old World has also joined the fight for a healthy lifestyle. The first victims of a healthy lifestyle, of course, were smokers. One after another, European countries began to ban smoking, first in schools, then in workplaces, and then on the streets. In Italy, a smoking ban law adopted exactly a year ago has already led to a reduction in the number of smokers by half a million people.

Forecast for the coming days In the next 24 hours, a new Atlantic cyclone will approach Scandinavia. In the northwestern region (in the warm part of the cyclone) there will be light precipitation, the daytime temperature will rise to +1...-4°C. The influence of the cyclone will also affect the central regions of Russia. The Atlantic breath will increase the temperature at night to -2...-7оС, on Wednesday during the day to 0...-5оС.

CLUBS People of Today party. Epik Soundsystem , DJs ZigZag and Komotsky are participating. Funk, hip-hop. "Propaganda" , 21.00. "Minimal for Single Men" featuring DJs Helga and Cross . These weekly parties are ideal for a mid-week rhythm - they don't start late, the music is calm and interesting. "Shanti" , 20.00. Igor Bril (piano) will perform together with his sons Alexander (tenor saxophone) and Dmitry (soprano saxophone). Jazz Town , 22.00 "Volga".

Artists and scientists are suing over their dacha hectares Another land scandal has broken out in the Moscow region. While the bailiffs of the Solnechnogorsk court are arguing with the owners of cottages in the ill-fated village of Pyatnitsa, and the Prosecutor General’s Office is dealing with the “dacha affairs” of ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov, the famous Nikolina Gora was drawn into a major legal battle on New Year’s Eve.

The prosecutor's office filed 32 criminal cases against housing developers Deputy Prosecutor General for the Central Federal District (CFD) Nikolai Savchenko yesterday announced the detention of the former president of the Construction Initiative and Company partnership Nikolai Karasev as part of an ongoing criminal case of defrauding housing co-investors.

Due to bird flu, Russian authorities want to return pilgrims from Mecca, bypassing Turkey The growing epidemic of bird flu in Turkey has introduced amendments to the procedure of the Muslim Hajj, which seemed so far from worldly affairs. For the safety of Russian pilgrims, as well as citizens on Russian territory, the domestic hajj mission had to work on changing the route of believers returning from Saudi Arabia.

Four out of five Russians are satisfied that they were born in Russia In our country, it is usually not considered bad form to criticize or even scold one’s own country and the (dis)orders reigning in it. However, sociologists argue that, despite chronic dissatisfaction with their fatherland, the overwhelming majority of Russians are quite satisfied that fate destined them to be born in Russia and not in any other state.

Prosecutors and lawyers in the Klebnikov case accused each other of sabotage A new scandal was marked yesterday by the trial that began the day before in the Moscow City Court in the case of the murder of the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of the American Forbes magazine, Paul Klebnikov. The second court hearing ended, in fact, before it even began. At it, as expected, the prosecutor was supposed to present the first evidence in the case to the jury, but this did not happen.

A shaven-headed Muscovite wounded eight people in a synagogue The Moscow synagogue on Malaya Bronnaya Street, 6, which has been the target of extremist attacks more than once, yesterday was subjected to a new, completely savage attack. Right during the prayer, a 20-year-old Muscovite burst into its premises and began attacking people with a knife. As a result, eight people were injured.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Russia discovered the appalling state of Russian orphanages After a high-profile campaign dedicated to the international adoption of orphans and violations in this area, the Russian Prosecutor General's Office turned its attention to those children abandoned by their parents who remain in their homeland.