15:30 // 08.01.2009 The traditions of vertepic theaters are revived by the Christmas Mystery festival, which today presented several performances at once at the Russian Ethnographic Museum of St. Petersburg. The seventh meeting of theaters will last until January 11. The festival will be attended by 27 groups from St. Petersburg, the Leningrad Region, Kaluga, Veliky Novgorod, the Vologda Oblast and other regions of Russia.

15:52 // 08/08/2009 The Local Lore of the Altai City of Zmeinogorsk plans to restore the serf tower of the former Zmeinogorsk fortress that existed in the eighteenth century on its territory. It will become part of the created museum complex "Zmeinogorsk - the city of monuments" and it will be placed in an exposition dedicated to the Cossacks, said the museum of Valentin Smirnova. A grant for the restoration of this monument was allocated by the regional administration.

13:02 // 08/08/2009 One person died and two were injured of varying severity as a result of a traffic accident that happened on the night of Thursday in the center of Moscow, a representative of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate said. A man on the Toyota minibus at about 01.30 shot down three pedestrians on a large garden, one of which died on the spot, RIA Novosti reports. Two other participants in the accident are hospitalized with fractures and bruises.

16:02 // 08/08/2009 French banks will receive the next state site in the amount of 10.5 billion euros until the end of the first quarter of 2009 as part of the fight against the financial crisis, a representative of the Ministry of Finance of France said. French President Nicolas Sarkozy announced on Wednesday that the state would provide banks with additional funds, except 10.5 billion allocated in December with a rate of about 8% per annum, RIA Novosti reports.

The European world is trying to resolve the “gas dispute” of Russia and Ukraine, the European world is concerned about the “gas dispute” of Russia and Ukraine, which is suffered by European enterprises that do not receive Russian gas. The European Union organized an urgent meeting in Brussels on Thursday with the heads of gas concerns of both states. The chairmen of the board of Gazprom and Naftogaz of Ukraine Alexey Miller and Oleg Dubina arrived in the capital of Belgium with working visits.

16:34 // 08/08/2009 A wonderful Christmas gift was received by connoisseurs of the beautiful Northern capital - in the Central Exhibition Hall "Manege" today the annual exhibition of new visual works - "Petersburg -2008" has opened. The New Year panorama combined painting, sculpture, graphics, decorative art, computer projects, installations, photographs. This is a kind of reference book of modern fine art, representing the works of famous masters and youth, traditional and latest trends.