Name On October 12, an exhibition of Annie Leibovitz, portrait painter and photographer, opens at the Museum of Personal Collections . Born in 1949 in the USA, Annie shot her first shots in the Philippines, where her father, an Air Force lieutenant colonel, served. Leibovitz made the decision to devote her life to photography while excavating the palace of King Solomon in Israel. Annie's gift is a photographic portrait.

The main character of “Infected,” movie star Matt Damon, talks with Tatyana Rosenstein after the premiere Steven Soderbergh's Contagion hits theaters this week. The Ogonyok correspondent met with the leading actor Matt Damon Matt Damon is no stranger to playing guys who save the world, but the effect is enhanced by the fact that, as it seems, his character is not at all created for this.

“Chubais and Pochinok must take action. It’s time to put an end to tax surrealism... The government is accused of being engaged in monetarism. I admit, we are. But we are doing it poorly. This means that we will see our right-wing monetarist cause through to the end.” VIKTOR CHERNOMYRDIN, CHAIRMAN OF THE RF GOVERNMENT, FEBRUARY 26 “There is no oligarchy in Russia today. Oligarchy is a combination of power and money.

During the renovation of Primorsky Avenue, car dealers are forced to invent new trading formats 385 2 minutes. ... The Mercedes-Benz Avangard salon, owned by hockey player Maxim Sushinsky, and the largest Volvo salon in St. Petersburg, Svid-Mobil, located on Primorsky Prospekt, after the start of the reconstruction of this highway, were blocked by a construction fence and practically lost access roads.

The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) conducted the first experimental flight as part of the investigation into the Yak-42 crash near Yaroslavl. A plane with Yaroslavl Lokomotiv hockey players on board crashed on September 7, only the flight engineer survived the disaster. “The purpose of the flight was to replicate the actual actions of the crew during the accident flight, but without subjecting the aircraft to additional braking force.

DEMONSTRATIVE PERFORMANCE 158 1 min. ... “The prices of contemporary art are as absurd as the banking crisis,” German abstract artist Gerhard Richter said on October 4 at a press conference to mark the opening of his exhibition at London's Tate Modern. Richter is one of the highest paid living artists. In recent years, several of his works have been sold, each of which cost more than $10 million.

Experiment 274 1 min. ... Doctors at London's Moorfields Eye Hospital decided to be the first in Europe to test a revolutionary method for treating genetic eye diseases using embryonic stem cells. Twelve patients with Stargardt's macular degeneration, the most common inherited retinal pathology, were recruited to participate in the trial.

Declarations of party members published On Friday, the Central Election Commission published information on the income and property of LDPR candidates. The richest in the federal part of the list was the leader of the LDPR faction in the State Duma, Igor Lebedev, who earned twice as much as his father, vice speaker and head of the party Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Regional groups of the party were headed by a number of millionaires, including current State Duma deputies.

A huge gas field has been discovered in the Mediterranean Sea, its areas touching areas of Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus. The struggle for such a large resource will lead to an aggravation of the situation in the region, experts predict; in addition, the discovery will affect Russian positions in the market. A giant gas deposit comparable to Algeria's reserves has been found in the Mediterranean Sea.

"Central registration", on the one hand, and cozy intimacy on the other - a compromise for Moscow real estate, if possible, is extremely expensive. Is it really possible to reduce the cost of such a compromise without leaving the premium category? Production designer and producer Pavel Kaplevich tried to find out by going to the Sky House residential complex.

Russia and China intend to cooperate in the field of modernization. The most fruitful partnership will be in the field of industrial construction and space exploration, experts believe, and Russia will benefit primarily from such cooperation. Russia and China will help each other in the field of modernization. First Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov announced this in an interview with the Kommersant newspaper.

In the French production of Daphnis and Chloe by Jean-Claude Galotta Touring/ballet Yesterday at the Young Theater the tour performances of the ballet “Daphnis and Chloe”, staged by Jean-Claude Galotta at the National Center of Choreography of Grenoble, which he heads, ended. YULIA BENTYA reports. The French choreographer Jean-Claude Galotte is usually considered, if not among the gods of modern dance, then at least among the host of demigods who rarely visit our region.

Last Friday, October 7, the statutory court of the Sverdlovsk region summed up the results of the 1st regional competition among the media for the best coverage of the court's activities. The first place was taken by the correspondent of the Kommersant-Ural newspaper Igor Lesovskikh. The chairman of the statutory court, Vadim Panteleev, presented him with an honorary diploma and a netbook. Alexandra Prytkova, Kommersant-Online

FOR YOUR INDEPENDENT CONTRIBUTION 130 1 min. ... This happens extremely rarely, but this time the King of Sweden, Carl XVI Gustaf, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature to his own subject. The prize was awarded to the poet Thomas Tranströmer. The laureate is 80 years old. Over the past decade, he has published one collection of poems: after a stroke suffered in 1990, Tranströmer has only one hand and cannot speak.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's ruling party retains its lead in parliamentary elections after more than 60% of the ballots have been counted. According to exit polls, Civic Platform received 39.6% of the vote. According to the State Election Commission of Poland, after counting 63.74% of the ballots, the ruling Civic Platform party gains 37.47%, Jaroslaw Kaczynski's opposition Law and Justice party receives 30.61%, and the Palikot Movement - 9.8%.