The authorities of the Finnish region of Kuusamo in Lapland, where the Ruka ski resort is located, have agreed with travel agencies Neva and Ascent Travel to organize charter flights to the region from St. Petersburg and Moscow Charter flights from St. Petersburg and Moscow to Kuusamo should be organized from January 3, 2010, and will be carried out every Sunday until the end of March, that is, during the main ski season at the Ruka resort located in the region.

Voice “If fate now takes me to Prague or the Philippines, I will still write about Perm and Ulaanbaatar” Writer Leonid Yuzefovich, whose novel “Cranes and Dwarfs” became the main book of the year according to the “Big Book” award (“Private Correspondent”)

The column is led by Dmitry Polonsky // ON YOUR FIELD On November 25, the head of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation, Alexey Kudrin, said that the 3% shares of UC Rusal, which VEB plans to acquire as part of the company’s IPO, will become a long-term investment for at least three years. The minister explained that when placing a 10% stake in Rusal, the main owner of OK, Oleg Deripaska, “loses control” over the company.

Dossier Gennady Timchenko is a billionaire from the Forbes list (43rd place, net worth $2.5 billion). Owner of Novatek, owner of one of the world's largest oil trading companies Gunvor, St. Petersburg company Transoil, terminal for the transportation of petroleum products in the port of Ust-Luga and the same facility in the port of Novorossiysk. Born in 1952 into a military family. Graduated from the Leningrad Mechanical Institute.

On Kommersant’s anniversary days, OLEG KASHIN flips through Kommersant’s files over the past twenty years and remembers what the newspaper wrote about during these years. Twenty years - twenty stories. Ordinary stories from those that did not appear on the front page at all. It’s all the more unusual to re-read them now.

4K 6 min. ... The deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine from Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko Svyatoslav Oleinik told Olga Allenova why Viktor Yanukovych will lose. You yourself are from the east of Ukraine. Why didn't you support Yanukovych? After all, the East is considered its region. In the east there is no total support of Yanukovych. Personally, I never supported him. I supported Yushchenko when there was an "orange revolution." Yanukovych’s control style, in my opinion, from the past.

The leader of the public organization "Front of Zmin" became the chairman of the party of the same name On Saturday, a congress of the Front of Zmin party was held, which was predictably headed by the leader of the social movement of the same name, people's deputy and presidential candidate Arseniy Yatsenyuk (Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense). The party supported Mr.

Today, November 30, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said that Brazil does not recognize the results of the presidential elections in Honduras because it does not recognize the removal of the country's legitimate president from power as a result of a coup d'etat. Constitutional President of Honduras Manuel Zelaya, removed from power on June 28 as a result of a coup d'état, is hiding in the Brazilian Embassy in Tegucigalpa.

British pound** 1309.6366 Belarusian ruble* 0.0287 Hungarian forint*** 43.7203 Danish krone** 159.9676 U.S. dollar** 798.0900 Euro** 1190.5907 Icelandic krona** 4.1055 Kazakh tenge** 5.3664 Canadian dollar** 744.4914 Norwegian krone** 140.2014 Polish zloty** 285.9591 Russian ruble* 2.6765 Turkish Lira** 521.5027 Czech crown** 45.4667 Swedish krona** 114.1254 Swiss frank** 790.3549 Japanese yen*** 92.1510 * For 10. ** For 100. *** For 1000. According to the NBU

About a million residents of Bashkiria in December will be able to receive pension and social payments, taking into account recalculation under the valorization program (revaluation of the monetary value of pension rights that were acquired by citizens before the pension reform of 2002), RIA Novosti reports with reference to Foat Khantimerov, manager of the PFR branch for the Republic of Bashkortostan .

According to the latest data, the fate of two passengers of the Nevsky Express train that crashed on November 27 remains unknown. Four people were previously reported missing. “Two people have been found, the whereabouts of two more are unknown,” a representative of the information department of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations told RIA Novosti on November 30.

Today, November 30, President Viktor Yushchenko issued a decree “On the awarding of State Prizes of Ukraine in the field of science and technology in 2009.” As reported on the official website of the head of state, the size of the state bonus is 170 thousand UAH each.

You can visit Finland not only for transit to foreign countries, but also for visits to neighbors on the Baltic Sea The greatest interest for a tourist who does not want to limit himself only to a holiday in Finland may be the opportunity to quickly and comfortably travel by ferry in the Helsinki-Tallinn-Stockholm triangle. The same route may be interesting for business tourism - in the cities and on ferries there are all conditions for holding events away from the usual St. Petersburg scenery.

30.11 On the stage of the Concert Hall. P.I. Tchaikovsky, Canadian jazz singer Diana Krall will present her 12th album Quiet Nights to the Russian public. 01.12 At the Variety Theater - the premiere of the comedy "The Result is Obvious" based on Claude Magnier's play "Hermine" directed by Andrei Zhitinkin. 02.12 The exhibition "Rendezvous. Russian artists in French book publishing of the first half of the twentieth century" opens in the Moscow Central House of Artists.

He lives in Moscow and St. Petersburg. His image (external, thought and life) is unlikely to evoke tenderness from the “rest of Russia”, including a peer who lives next door to him, but is not able to afford the same thing as him Sergei Shargunov, writer To be lethargic, satiated and at the same time cherish a special style, keep track of everything that is current and avoid pop.