On February 14, Mariinsky Theater soloists Ildar Abdrazakov and Olga Borodina received two Grammy awards for their participation in the recording of Giuseppe Verdi’s “Requiem.” Verdi's Requiem, recorded by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Chicago Chorus, won in the Best Classical Album and Best Choral Album categories. The Grammy ceremony is considered the main event in the life of the music world, notes RIA Novosti .

The series of revolutions that swept across the Arab Mediterranean once again reminded us of the fundamental ineffectiveness of all authoritarian regimes, except, it seems, one—Chinese. Another attempt to explain the Chinese miracle was made by a professor from Hong Kong. THE RUBRIC IS HOSTED BY IGOR FEDYUKIN The collapse of the Tunisian and, possibly, Egyptian regimes was quite predictable.

Opponents of Alexander Lukashenko are splitting up to get stronger On Saturday in Minsk, representatives of the Belarusian opposition announced the creation of a new party, the Belarusian Movement. The backbone of this organization was made up of former members of the Belarusian Popular Front (BPF), who left the party in protest against the compromise of its leadership with the authorities.

He became the world champion in classical all-around Ivan Skobrev became the world champion in the most prestigious genre of speed skating - classic all-around. Having won the world championship in Calgary, he did something that no domestic athlete had been able to do for almost a quarter of a century. The triumph of Ivan Skobrev in Canada became a landmark event.

The Antimonopoly Committee allowed the Nuclear Insurance Pool to extend the validity of the regulations on membership in the pool by 5 years as amended on November 16, 2010. The association was created in September 2003 and includes insurance companies that have undertaken to compensate for damage from nuclear accidents of NNEGC Energoatom (operator of 15 power units at four nuclear power plants: Zaporozhye, Rivne, Khmelnytsky and South Ukrainian).

GENERAL LINE The column is led by Alexander Kukolevsky It took the system six days to straighten out the general line of relations between the authorities and the opposition, which, due to inexperience, was slightly bent by policeman Artem Charukhin.

A lump sum of 50 thousand rubles will be paid from the city budget. for each family member who has lost a breadwinner, the city administration reports. These are minor children, elderly parents and unemployed close relatives living in Perm. To receive payments, specialists from the Social Protection Committee of the Perm Administration will help prepare all the necessary documents for people who find themselves in an emergency situation.

NOT IN OUR WAY Even in Russia, where the state considers itself to have the right to control all aspects of public life, there remain areas beyond its control, areas which, most importantly, the state does not seek to control. Such as the other world and everything connected with it. Another thing is Romania. Here, witches and evil spirits are taken very seriously at the highest government level and they try to control the other world.

About the progress of the housing and communal services reform, about the overhaul of houses and more 819 9 min. ... Anton [02.02 23:48] Don’t you think that every management company or HOA should be required to disclose its finances as much as possible, i.e. so that reports are compiled on a monthly basis, how much money is collected, how much is spent and for what purposes? Lyudmila [02.02 12:18] Dear Konstantin Georgievich! I have been living in my new house for 3 years.

At the end of 2010, sales of used cars outpaced sales of new ones by more than twice. True, if a third of new cars are now purchased with bank loans, then citizens prefer to purchase used cars without using car loans. Often such loans are not very popular due to banks’ strict requirements for borrowers and high interest rates. An alternative to them can be a regular consumer loan.

Today, February 14, the press service of the National Bank reports that the monetary base in January 2011 decreased by UAH 3 billion 929.7 million to UAH 221 billion 762.1 million. Domestic credit decreased to UAH 37 billion 034.5 million. Net external assets amounted to UAH 224 billion 434.2 million. Based on materials from RBC-Ukraine

Today, February 14, the Austrian concern EPIC (its subsidiary ESU LLC is the only participant in the competition for the sale of 92.79% of the shares of Ukrtelecom OJSC) agreed with the price of $1.33 billion (UAH 10.575 billion) proposed by the State Property Fund ( SPFU) for this enterprise.

Today marks the 37th anniversary of the General Director of the National Television Company of Ukraine Egor Benkendorf The general producer of the Inter TV channel, Vladimir Zelensky, congratulates him on his birthday: — Egor, on behalf of myself and the Inter TV channel, I congratulate you on your birthday! You are a person who never stands still, an excellent manager and responsible leader with unique experience in television.

Victor Loshak It seems the world is not ready for the Chinese to become more free to move On the beach and in the restaurant they gather in noisy groups, smoke a lot, talk loudly on their mobile phones where others have them turned off, from dawn they occupy comfortable sun loungers on the beach (the genetic memory of how to be the first in line will not go away soon), almost everyone They know how to communicate in English, they even prefer to go shopping together...

China's economy has become the second largest in the world Tokyo has published data on Japan's GDP for 2010, from which it follows that China has become the second economy in the world in terms of nominal GDP. Although China's economy is two and a half times smaller than that of the current world leader, the United States, many banks predict that this gap can be eliminated within ten years. True, the continuation of the phenomenal growth of the PRC in the next decade is not at all guaranteed.