30 May 2012, 18:58 Culture Left only in stone Japanese director Kaneto Shindo dies "Park of Culture" close 100% In Japan, the patriarch of Japanese cinema, Kaneto Shindo, died at the age of 100. It turned out that Kaneto Shindo’s life in cinema was connected with Moscow and the Moscow Film Festival. It was at the Moscow International Film Festival in 1961 that his film “The Naked Island” received the Grand Prix; The chairman of the jury that year was Luchino Visconti.

Smoke in the ventilation system occurred in the chambers of the Romanov boyars in the center of Moscow, Interfax reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies . “In the museum, located in the chambers of the Romanov boyars on Varvarka, house 10, there was smoke in the ventilation system,” the agency’s interlocutor said. For safety reasons, people were evacuated; firefighters arrived at the scene and opened ventilation ducts in search of the source of the smoke.

On Wednesday at about 14:00 (10 Moscow time), the duty department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Tomsk received a message from the sorting shop of the Tomsk-2 cargo station, located on Vokzalnaya street, building 67/2. The caller reported that a powder with a pungent odor was found in a mail bag. explained to Gazeta.Ru As the regional Ministry of Emergency Situations , one of the envelopes contained three glass ampoules with an unknown powder.

The famous Polish boxer Tomasz Adamek, former IBF cruiserweight champion and now heavyweight champion, intrigued fans with an unexpected statement. “I plan to hold a great battle in Poland in the fall,” he said in an interview with the Polsat TV channel. According to the TV channel, Adamek’s “autumn” opponent could be Alexander Povetkin, holder of the interim WBA heavyweight champion.

The final game of the world chess championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Boris Gelfand ended in a draw. The final score in the match after 12 games was 6:6 and the game went to a tiebreaker, in which the opponents played rapid chess. These are four additional games with a control of 25 minutes plus 10 seconds per move. If the score remains equal, then the candidates for the chess crown will play two more games with a control of 5 minutes + 3 seconds per move.

30 May 2012, 14:43 Society Stealth Robbers Four robbers robbed a capital company for more than three hours Svetlana Smetankina close 100% Masked robbers robbed the office of one of the capital's companies for more than three hours, tying up three employees and a security guard. Their loot, in particular, was 2.5 million rubles from an ATM. The police do not have photographs of the criminals: they entered the premises without being captured by surveillance cameras.

Unidentified men wearing masks with the word “police” written on the back beat the man, then put him in a car and fled the crime scene in the Moscow region, RIA Novosti reports, citing the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Moscow Region.

May 30, 2012, 10:50 Science Night work increases the risk of breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men Women who work night shifts more than twice a week may be at increased risk of developing breast cancer, Compulenta reports , citing a publication in the journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine . This risk is cumulative and is highest among those who consider themselves “larks” rather than “night owls,” scientists from the Institute of Cancer Epidemiology (Denmark) showed.

May 30, 2012, 16:59 Society Airborne Forces Commander Vladimir Shamanov became Colonel General Airborne Forces commander Vladimir Shamanov was awarded the rank of colonel general, Interfax reports . “I would like to inform you that the commander of the Russian Airborne Forces, Lieutenant General Shamanov, has been awarded the next military rank - colonel general. Today I signed the corresponding decree,” said at a meeting with the leadership of the Ministry of Defense Vladimir Putin .

May 30, 2012 at 12:01 pm Comments Rusty friendship pipe Lukashenko is again looking for a way to receive help from Moscow without giving anything significant in return Vitaly Tsygankov (Minsk) close 100% Alexander Lukashenko says that Vladimir Putin does not have the resources to “strangle Belarus.” Does Lukashenko himself have the resources to fight off the Kremlin’s fraternal embrace?

Myanmar opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has traveled abroad for the first time in 24 years, the BBC reports . Suu Kyi arrived in neighboring Thailand for the World Economic Forum. Suu Kyi has not previously traveled abroad for fear she would not be allowed back. Observers regard the opposition leader's departure as a sign of her growing confidence in the reforms being carried out in the country.

30 May 2012, 13:30 Cars Taxi with passengers burned down Seven people, including two children, died in a major accident in Altai Boris Ignatenko close 100% In Altai, seven people died in a car accident, including two children. All seven were traveling in a taxi, which, after a head-on collision with another car, flew into a ditch and burned out. A criminal case has been initiated into the accident.

The curator of the Fifth Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, which will be held in the fall of 2013, is Catherine de Zegher, guest curator of the New York Museum of Modern Art and the Tàpies Foundation in Barcelona. De Zeger is known for her work as executive director and chief curator at the Drawing Center in New York and exhibition director at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

The double terrorist attack that occurred on May 3 at a police post in Makhachkala was carried out by the Aliyevs’ brother and sister, Interfax reports, citing the Dagestan prosecutor’s office. “On April 29, Alibekova M. Kh. contacted the police department in the Sovetsky district of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Makhachkala with a statement about the unknown disappearance on April 25 of her children Aliyev R. R. and Aliyeva M. R.

Prices for air tickets to foreign destinations increased by 18–20% by the beginning of summer compared to the same period last year, , said at a press conference at RIA Novosti , executive director of the Association of Tour Operators of Russia (ATOR) Maya Lomidze . “Airlines usually, when declaring a transition to a summer schedule, increase prices by 5–10%.