A person’s entire life is furnished and regulated by various kinds of instructions. They are found in government agencies, in transport, in hospitals, on fire shields, in bank branches, in boxes with household appliances, and you never know where else. These creations were compiled by people with different levels of intelligence, having various motives, including the banal bureaucratic one - to protect themselves from responsibility: no matter what happens.

"Rostrud" will campaign for a comfortable old age The Federal Tax Service will receive an ally in the fight to “whiten” the salaries of Russians. The head of the Federal Service for Labor and Employment, Maxim Topilin, said yesterday that the days of “envelope schemes” for remuneration should remain in the past.

The New Year's lights this time did not strike us with anything special. High quality, but without much flight. True, NTV tried to find a new form of the New Year format. The result was something on the verge of half-eroticism and half-porn in some cheap processing. But people turned out to be not receptive to nudity on New Year’s Eve, and even the audience devoted to the channel, who favored outrageousness, ignored such a New Year’s format.

Those accused of the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market wanted to become hooligans The Moscow City Court yesterday began a hearing on the merits of the sensational case of the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market in August 2006, when 12 people were killed and about 50 more were injured.

The Russians are going to break Israel's unbeaten streak The Russian women's team has begun a new campaign for the Federation Cup, which it has won three times over the past four years. Our girls have been in Israel for several days now, where they are preparing for the away quarterfinal match that starts on Saturday.

Bushehr will be completed in the fall Yesterday, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that the country would independently build nuclear power plants if other states refused to cooperate in their construction. “Today we invite you to take part in the construction of Iranian nuclear power plants.

Courts of general jurisdiction reported on the work done and spoke about plans for the future The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation intends to increase the time limits for bringing to administrative responsibility so that offenders cannot avoid punishment by citing illness, business trips and vacations.

After short frosts, another deep and active cyclone, which will move through the waters of the Arctic seas, is in a hurry to make its adjustments. With the western and southwestern flows, which are established at high altitudes, warm and humid air will flow into the territory of European Russia, maintaining unseasonably warm weather. The most active atmospheric processes will occur in the European North and North-West, closer to the center of the cyclone.

Following the results of a cold January in most parts of Russia, it became clear that there is still not enough gas in the country. Yesterday, at an electronic auction at Mezhregiongaz, as part of a government experiment on selling gas at free prices, Gazprom was able to offer buyers only 5.5 million cubic meters (produced by Northgas) for the second ten days of February. Independent producers supported the sad initiative of the monopolist; only LUKOIL sold 18 million cubic meters of gas.

The best program in January was a program filmed 20 years ago: Channel One repeated four programs by Eldar Ryazanov about Vladimir Vysotsky. This is an example of how respectfully one can talk about a person, even if in his private, family life, both in childhood and in adulthood, not everything was simple. Channel One did a great job by devoting one day to Vysotsky.

Russia promises to maintain economic stability after change of power The Russian economy, which has gained strength in recent years and is now adequately resisting the “storms” on the world financial and stock markets, forces international investors to look at its prospects very carefully. Current and potential investors today are most concerned about two problems. First: how the country’s economy is doing in conditions of instability in world markets.

Winzavod galleries offer their own versions of art’s communication with the market The Regina gallery has existed for many years and belongs to the “council of elders” of the Moscow gallery world. It also includes XL, "Aidan", Gelman Gallery. The successful combination of cultural, “educational” functions with an equally successful “business plan” allows “Regina” to always be in the center of attention of the Russian art community.

For a good half of January, the main TV channels preferred to rest and fed the public with old Soviet and new glamorous Christmas tales, as well as endless repetitions of their monotonous New Year's entertainment. The January premiere, of course, is “Big Difference” (“The First”) - a parody television show, noted by all critics and enthusiastically received by television viewers.

Ben Elton. Until the last call. Translation from English Alla Baldzhi. -- M.: Inostranka, 2008. Ben Elton's novels are ideal for lovers of detective stories with a parody filling. Elton's characters are most similar to the heroes of entertaining comic books, from whom not phrases fly out of their mouths, but bubbles with a set of letters. In the past, Elton worked as an eccentric comedian on British TV, then took part in creating scripts for Mr.

A draft plan to combat inflation will be presented to the government today The relevant departments will develop a program to combat inflation based on the results of consideration of a package of anti-inflationary measures at a meeting of the Russian government on Thursday, a source in the Cabinet of Ministers told reporters on the eve of the meeting.