2nd of March Mironova Gallery. Cocktail on the occasion of the opening of Oksana Mas' exhibition "Bioamorphous Realism". Crystal Hall. What`s On magazine will host a What`s On Famous Spring Flowers Party. Girls band Sirena, group S.K.A.Y. will perform for the guests. and Kishe. March, 3rd Center for Contemporary Art "M17". Opening of the healthy food festival Best Food Fest. Guests can enjoy culinary master classes, tastings and lectures by chefs. Magazine "Kommersant Weekend" (Ukraine) No.

Renovated Hotel Grandes Alpes in Courchevel inspected by Masha Tsukanova This season, after a radical renovation, the patriarchal hotel Grandes Alpes opened in Courchevel. This is not just the first hotel in Courchevel - once with its appearance, a tiny unknown village began to turn into a ski resort. At first, Grandes Alpes was a resort itself, combining the functions of a hotel, post office, tourist office, ski pass sales point, cinema, sports school and bank.

March concerts at EverJazz Irina Kiseleva The EverJazz club celebrates its third birthday in March, and, according to an established tradition, holds a festival - “EverJazz in a cube”. The third anniversary is, of course, not an anniversary, but already a date. If you look back, it becomes obvious that a colossal amount of work has been done. Starting sometime in March 2009 with two, sometimes three concerts a week, today EverJazze hosts an average of 35–40 performances per month.

France closes its embassy in Syria. The corresponding decision was announced at the EU summit in Brussels (Belgium) by the President of the Republic, Nicolas Sarkozy. Last week, French photojournalist Remy Oschlik was killed in Syria, and their fellow countrymen Edith Bouvier and William Daniels were injured in Homs, the siege of which began in February and became one of the bloodiest episodes since mass protests began in the country in March 2011 .

Discontent with the country's leadership is brewing in Osh A mass opposition rally took place yesterday in the southern capital of Kyrgyzstan, Osh. It was organized by the leaders of the Ata-Jurt and Butun Kyrgyzstan parties Kamchybek Tashiev and Adakhan Madumarov, who lost the presidential elections in October, as well as local communists.

Food with Elena Chekalova I don’t know where it came from, that the way to the heart is through the stomach. I have been convinced many times that everything is just the opposite. My husband, children, friends, many acquaintances and strangers like everything I cook. They hardly notice my mistakes and always find some merit in my dishes.

Tatyana Aleshicheva about the smart rom-com “Children are not a hindrance to sex” In 2001, screenwriter Jennifer Westfeldt co-produced the film Kissing Jessica Stein, based on her own play, co-written by Heather Jurgensen. The co-authors themselves portrayed in the film two intellectual women who, in the absence of a suitable match among men, begin to date each other: one places an advertisement in the newspaper with a quote from Rilke, the other immediately reads the code.

On March 2, police officers are visiting almost 90 bank branches in Moscow and the Moscow region, one of which (which one is unclear) is threatening to be blown up by an unknown blackmailer, reports the Moscow Department of Internal Affairs.

VTB expects to sell shares bought back as part of a buy back on the market in the future, the head of VTB 24, Mikhail Zadornov, told reporters on March 2. “Of course, this will be done when and at the moment when we consider it most optimal for the state of the market, for financial results,” RIA Novosti quotes Mr. Zadornov. According to him, there are no exact guidelines for when the repurchased shares will be sold.

Vladislav Pletin, founder of the PiCard group of companies: My wife and I attended the private Ora Caviar Party, which took place at the OK Bar restaurant on the occasion of Maslenitsa. We ate pancakes with caviar and drank French Ora vodka. Spent a fun and enjoyable evening in the company of my friends. I was pleasantly surprised by the performance of Kelly Joyce, who sang a couple of her hits for us. I was also pleased with the box of Ora vodka - my wife won it at a competition.

Concert of the group "Aquarium" as part of the anniversary tour The Aquarium group, led by its permanent leader and guru Boris Borisovich Grebenshchikov, went on a large-scale tour dedicated to the 4000th anniversary of the group. This is the figure indicated on the Aquarium website. According to BG, “historians and other prominent agronomists” have calculated that the group has existed for a very long time, about the same number of years. You just have to humbly believe.

Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin proposes to combat leaks of official information in the media. In particular, he considers it necessary to classify the correspondence of officials. However, ways to solve the problem must be sought in the reasons and purposes of the “leaking” of information, experts say. Official correspondence of officials may be classified.

The film by Janik Fayziev, who once became famous for “The Turkish Gambit,” is the third feature film, the plot of which is firmly connected with the Russian-Georgian conflict in South Ossetia in 2008. The first two - the Russian "Olympius Inferno" and the American-Georgian "Five Days in August" - turned out to be openly propaganda.

Wood-burning cars, door springs, tin cars and piggy bank banks with a mechanism inside are all unusual items that can be found at the "Made to Be Played" toy auction at Bertoia Auctions in New Jersey in early spring. Dmitry Butkevich talks about the most interesting and expensive lots presented at the auction. "Made to Be Played" is the name of the auction from New Jersey house Bertoia Auctions. The auction will take place on March 23-24. 1400 toy lots.

The GPU insists on considering the case of Sergei Vovk Yesterday, the Supreme Court (SC) provided the Prosecutor General's Office with another opportunity to prove the legality of initiating a criminal case against the judge of the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv Sergei Vovk, known for convicting former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yuriy Lutsenko. Political associates of Mr.