"Piranesi and Piranesianism" at the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg In the Rumyantsev mansion, a branch of the Museum of the History of St. Petersburg, an exhibition “Piranesi and Piranesianism” has been opened, showing that Giovanni Battista Piranesi found faithful followers in the person of St. Petersburg and Leningrad classicist architects, and which explains a lot about the character of the city. ANNA TOLSTOVA reports. The collections of the Museum of the History of St.

"From Manet to Impressionism" in Madrid Exhibition/painting An exhibition with a seemingly paradoxical title has opened in the exhibition hall of the Mapfre Foundation in Madrid: “From Manet to Impressionism: The Renaissance of Modern Times.” About a hundred absolute masterpieces from the Musée d'Orsay in Paris are designed to tell a completely different story of impressionism than the one that has developed in the minds of the general public. She seems very convincing to KIRA DOLININA.

Context 3K 1 min. ... Yesterday the president appointed Prime Minister of the Krasnoyarsk region Edkham Akbulatov as acting governor of Krasnoyarsk. He will hold this post until the new governor takes office. Let us recall that recently Dmitry Medvedev prefers to look for personnel locally (Kommersant, January 11, 2010). In this case, it is desirable that candidates be included in the presidential personnel reserve.

On January 19, in the center of Moscow, more than a thousand people took part in a march in memory of lawyer Stanislav Markelov and journalist Anastasia Baburova, who were killed a year ago. Several dozen people were detained and taken to the police.

Today, January 20, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine began work on the removal of a liquid rocket fuel component - melange from the village of Tsenzhev, Ivano-Frankivsk region. “Railway tanks have already arrived. They have been checked for reliability and suitability for transporting rocket fuel oxidizer,” said Taras Gren, a spokesman for the Western Information Center of the Ministry of Defense.

The Voronezh City Department of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case under the article “Fraud on an especially large scale” of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation against the management of Quail Farm LLC for the fact of unjustified receipt of subsidies from the regional budget in the amount of more than 1.8 million rubles, its chief, Lieutenant General, said at a meeting of the board of the department Oleg Khotin.

Poland will deploy American Patriot anti-aircraft missile systems in the city of Morong, located 100 km from the border of the Kaliningrad region. Previously, it was planned that the missiles and personnel would be deployed near Warsaw, Ekho Moskvy reported on January 20. The military explains the location not for strategic reasons, but because it could provide better conditions for American soldiers and equipment.

Context According to the government of the Nizhny Novgorod region, in 2009, logging and wood processing enterprises removed 1.1 million cubic meters from the forests of the Nizhny Novgorod region. m of wood, or 93% compared to last year. The volume of shipped commercial products amounted to 3 billion rubles. The production index in woodworking at the end of the year was 85%.

Yesterday, BYuT deputies proposed that parliament adopt a new version of bill #4245 “On guarantees of the government of Ukraine in order to increase the capitalization of commercial banks.” The document offers investors who buy preferred shares of banks with temporary administrations by the end of 2010 to receive a 100 percent return after 5 years - from the bank or from the state budget.

In the Kurgan region, the nomination of candidates for elections to the regional Duma, which will take place on March 14, has been completed. Yesterday, the regional election commission registered the LDPR list for a single constituency, as well as party candidates for single-mandate constituencies. According to the region's election commission, a total of 36 people were registered on the list of Liberal Democrats.

The Internet payment system WebMoney Transfer increased turnover in Ukraine in 2009 by UAH 734 million, to UAH 1,397 million. In 2008, the volume of transactions amounted to UAH 663 million. The number of Ukrainian citizens registered in the system reached 1.55 thousand people, and the number of transactions - 4.5 million. The average transaction amount was about 310 UAH.

The Department for Investigation of Particularly Important Cases of the Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation for the Perm Territory has completed the investigation of a criminal case against a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Perm Territory, accused by the investigative authorities of illegal entrepreneurship involving the extraction of income on an especially large scale (clause “b” of Part. 2 Art.

Official opinion A lawsuit has been filed with the Austrian prosecutor's office to initiate a criminal case against the former ambassador of Kazakhstan to Austria, the former son-in-law of the President of Kazakhstan, Rakhat Aliyev, on suspicion of intentionally inflicting grievous bodily harm, deprivation of liberty, and possible murder. In January last year, the former son-in-law of Nursultan Nazarbayev was sentenced in absentia to a long term in his homeland for these crimes.

Motorized rifle regiment officers are suspected of beating their subordinates The military investigation department for the Novosibirsk garrison completed the investigation and sent a criminal case to court against the platoon commanders of the motorized rifle regiment, lieutenants Andrei Zubov and Roman Alafyev, accused of beating conscripts.

Chechen police killed Deputy Doku Umarov In Chechnya, one of Doku Umarov’s closest henchmen, Chingiskhan Gishaev, was killed yesterday. This militant was known as the organizer of a series of daring attacks on law enforcement agencies. The Chechen authorities, who launched a large-scale special operation in the mountainous part of the republic, said that in the near future the militants and, in particular, their leader Umarov would be dealt with.