WORLD TOP-10

people from around the world most popular in Russia

WINTER 98/99

Category	Name	Country	Comments
1.Business	Rupert Murdoch	Australia	Some newspapers wrote,Australian info-baron is planning to buy one of Russian TV-channels.
2.Politics	Zhu Rongji	China	Everybody wants to make friends with Chineses. We too. Maybe Rongji's visit to Moscow will help us to improve our relationship.
3.Music	Vanessa Mae	Great Britain	I don't think she is the best violin player in the world. But she's one of the most beatefull of course.
4.Cinema	Julia Ormond	Great Britain	"Her role in the new Nikita Michalkov's film "Barber of Siberia" can be the most important in Julia's life.
5.Arts&Literature	Salman Rushdie	Great Britain	In winter Rushdi's novel "The Moor's Last Sigh" was published. It's the first publication of the author of the "Satanic Verses" in Russian language.
6.Sport	Stefania Belmondo	Italy	Italian veteran won two world championship gold medals, ending a four-year cross-country domination of Russian women.
7.Historical person	Paul Julius Reuter	Germany	A founder of the world news organization "Reuters" died 100 years ago on 25Feb1899.
8.One more woman	Juanita Broaddrick	USA	M.Lewinsky, P.Jones, K.Willey and now - Juanita Broaddrick. Bravo, Mr.Clinton!
9.One more man	Vincent Cochetel	France	UN High Commissioner for Refugees office in North Ossetia was released on 12 Dec98 after spending 317 days in captivity..
10.One of us	Nkem Chukwu	USA	This women, naturalized U.S. citizen originally from Nigeria, became the mother of the first world's survived octuplets.