WORLD TOP-10

people from around the world most popular in Russia

AUTUMN 98

Category	Name	Country	Comments
1.Business	Nicholas Oppenheimer	South Africa	DeBeers and Russia signed an initial agreement to clear the way for the purchase of Russian uncut gems. DeBeers controls over 75% of the $6 billion global market. About 26% of DeBeer's total diamond purchases comes from Russia.
2.Politics	Bill Clinton	USA	America is a really reach country, if it spends more than 40million$ for shows like "Bill&Monica".
3.Music	Brian May	Great Britain	Queen's Festival in Moscow and St.Petersburg was great. But without Freddy...
4.Cinema	Bruce Willis	USA	""Armageddon" has been discussed even in the Russian parliament (do you remember the Russian astronaut banged up to the eyes ?). It's a real success!
5.Arts&Literature	Peter Stein	Germany	This outstanding German stage director has staged a lot of Chekhov's plays and has worked with great number of Russian actors. In October he presented "Hamlet" in Moscow.
6.Sport	Mika Hakkinen	Finland	Great season in Formula-1 for "flying finn". Great event for Finland.
7.Historical person	Napoleon Bonaparte	France	"How to be Napoleon?" - three TV-evenings with russian historian and dramatist E.Radzinsky were very diverting.
8.One more woman	Jennifer Aniston	USA	Russian men are happy: they can see Jennifer's face in every pharmacy - on Russian condoms. I've heard, Jennifer went to law.
9.One more man	Javier Solana	Spain	Did you really want to bomb Yugoslavia, Mr.NATO Secretary General? I hope not.
10.One of us	Baltazar Garzon	Spain	Oct 19 - Spain's judge Baltazar Garzon broadens his arrest warrant for Pinochet to charges of genocide, torture and terrorism of 94 people of different nationalities.