From December 16, the Tchaikovsky Festival in Washington will show performances by the Mariinsky Theater, including Mazepa and Eugene Onegin. In addition, a ballet troupe from St. Petersburg will take part in the festival, which will present “The Nutcracker” and “Swan Lake” to the audience, RIA Novosti reports.

Compensation is being paid to victims of the explosion at National 1K 2 minutes. ... consequences of the terrorist attack Yesterday, the Moscow government announced the start of payment of compensation to victims of the terrorist attack at the National Hotel - the families of the victims are entitled to 100 thousand rubles. and reimbursement of funeral expenses. However, the relatives of the victims have already buried them at their own expense.

tender 41 3 min. ... Yesterday, the Central Bank competition commission halved the number of audit firms participating in the tender for the Central Bank audit for 2003. According to Kommersant's information, PricewaterhouseCoopers and FBK (together), Deloitte, and BDO Unicon reached the finals of the competition. Its winner has a chance to check the Bank of Russia for an unprecedentedly long time - three years without a new competition.

Sensations, albeit club ones 137 1 min. ... Today, musicians who are practically not shown on TV and who, despite this, gather full houses, will appear on the stage of one of the largest clubs in Moscow “B-2”.

31 4 min. ... On New Year's Eve, ordinary people decorate their Christmas trees, and brewers decorate their bottles. Moreover, these bottles contain new beers of a limited, so to speak, “New Year’s” series, which are sold for several weeks a year, when drinking and hangovers are especially common in Rus'.

eleven). Brazil - 848 points. 2 (2). France - 827.3 (3). Spain - 798.4 103 1 min. ... eleven). Brazil - 848 points. 2 (2). France - 827.3 (3). Spain - 798.4 (6). Holland - 752.5 (4). Argentina - 744.6 (10). Czech Republic - 743.7 (5). Mexico - 740.8 (8). England - 738.8 (7). Türkiye - 738. 10 (11). Italy - 734. 11 (12). USA - 732. 12 (9). Germany - 729. 13 (13). Denmark - 715. 14 (15). Ireland - 712.14 (14). Cameroon - 712.16 (16). Belgium - 696.17 (19). Costa Rica - 682.17 (18). Portugal - 682.

410 1 min. ... Vesti 20.00 Main story - Azerbaijan said goodbye to Heydar Aliyev. Genre: reportage. The intonation is sympathetic. The correspondent talks about the civil memorial service and funeral of the ex-president. “The center of Baku is literally buried in flowers, there are even wreaths on the sidewalks,” he comments. Footage of the arrival in Baku of Vladimir Putin, who, according to the journalist, considered Heydar Aliyev a “personal friend,” is shown.

"We still have many months left to continue discussing the constitution. 261 1 min. ... Alexander Kwasniewski President of Poland "We still have many months left to continue discussing the EU constitution. The situation around the failure of the draft EU constitution has been greatly exaggerated." This is how Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski described the results of the EU summit held last weekend in an interview with Polish radio. According to Mr.

Not counting two jumps for Evgeni Plushenko 677 2 minutes. ... figure skating Dancers Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov became the only Russians who managed to win gold in the Grand Prix final of figure skating, which ended in Colorado Springs, America. In pair skating, Tatyana Totmyanina - Maxim Marinin and Maria Petrova - Alexey Tikhonov received silver and bronze respectively. Evgeni Plushenko sensationally lost to Canadian Emanuel Sandhu.

eleven 4 min. ... Country Maturity date Coupon (% of nominal value) Issue volume ($ million) Demand (% of nominal value) Offer (% of nominal) Meas.

State Duma Deputy Oleg Smolin spoke about new PR technologies 24 2 minutes. ... As Russian State Duma deputy Oleg Smolin said at a press conference yesterday, “sophisticated PR technologies” were used against him during the recent elections.

169 3 min. ... 12.00, 15.45, 19.05, 22.45 "Free kick" 12.15 Football weekend 13.00 Boys. World Championship in the UAE. 1/2 finals.

On December 16, such data was presented at the all-Russian meeting of chairmen of regional commissions on issues of pardon by the head of the presidential department for pardons, Robert Tsivilev. Speaking at a meeting held in Nizhny Novgorod, Mr. Tsivilev said that all decisions on pardoning criminals were made by the president on the basis of materials provided by regional commissions, reports RIA Novosti .

Stories named after Yuri Kazakov 52 1 min. ... The candidates for the Yuri Kazakov Prize for the best story of this year have become known. The prize was established by the New World magazine and the Charitable Reserve Fund. Among the laureates of past years are Viktor Astafiev, Igor Klekh, Asar Eppel.

UMMC and Uralsevergaz bought the Ring of the Urals bank 280 3 min. ... Yesterday, General Director of OJSC UMMC-Holding Andrei Kozitsyn confirmed to a Kommersant correspondent the fact of the holding's entry into the authorized capital of the Yekaterinburg bank Koltso Ural LLC. In addition to UMMC, Itera’s subsidiary, OJSC Uralsevergaz, entered the authorized capital.