Over its centuries-old history, the Serenade has evolved from a simple song of a medieval knight under his beloved’s balcony to a multi-part orchestral cycle. And it would be nice for the classicists who turned this gentle genre into applied music that accompanied festivities under the night sky, but what motivated the romantics who continued to compose chamber symphonies under the guise of serenades?

On March 16, the Russian men's biathlon team won the Nations Cup in the 2011-2012 season. The last sprint race of the World Cup stage took place in Khanty-Mansiysk, the result of which counts towards the Nations Cup. The first in the 10 km race was the Frenchman Martin Fourcade, the second was the German Arnd Peiffer, the third was the Norwegian Frederik Lindström. The best result among the Russians was shown by Dmitry Malyshko, who took 11th place.

Today, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Crimea reported that a criminal case has been opened into the rape of a 25-year-old girl who died in Simferopol. According to the report, the results of the autopsy showed that the deceased had multiple lacerations and scalp wounds to the head, upper and lower extremities, and large loss of blood. Forensic medical experts did not detect any traumatic brain injury in the victim.

The federal program to provide housing for young families is being returned to the republic Tatarstan intends to resume participation in the federal program “Young Family”, which was suspended last year. The Republic sent an application to the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation, if approved, it will receive 16 million rubles. to subsidize mortgages for young families. Compared to 2010, this is 50 times less.

Power struggle Excerpts from correspondence between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife Asma were made public by email. The “source material” was received by the British newspaper The Guardian from Syrian oppositionists, and, according to the publication, they carefully checked the authenticity of the materials before agreeing to publish them. Among the documents cited is a letter from the daughter of the Emir of Qatar addressed to Asma Assad.

Ulyanovsk ex-policeman will be tried In Ulyanovsk, a criminal case has been sent to court against the former detective of the group for combating drug trafficking of the police department serving the Zheleznodorozhny district, Ildar Akhmetzhanov. According to investigators, on the evening of February 13, 2011, he and a colleague detained a local resident suspected of theft near a house on Khrustalnaya Street.

Spain's public debt rose in 2011 to its highest level since 1995 - 68.5% of GDP - and will continue to rise in 2012, despite the government's program to reduce the budget deficit, data from the Bank of Spain shows. In 2010, Spain's public debt amounted to 61.2% of GDP. In the third quarter of 2011, the figure was at the level of 66% of GDP. In 2011, Spain's budget deficit amounted to 8.5% of GDP, down from 9.2% of GDP at the end of 2010.

Grigory Dashevsky about Stephen King's novel "Under the Dome" In Stephen King's novel Under the Dome, the characters are clearly divided into good and bad. This division is considered to be a sign of literature of a lower order - whoever wants to get into high literature must make his characters ambiguous, combining good and evil in very different proportions, moving from evil to good or back.

They will decide whether there are enough grounds to test their fellow MPs Today the State Duma must adopt a resolution on a commission to monitor the reliability of information about the income and property of deputies. The majority in the commission of 15 people will be from United Russia, and its chairman will be the former head of the Security Committee Vladimir Vasiliev, who is also a member of the United Russia faction.

The rating agency Moody's Investors Service predicts that Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) will have a positive impact on the activities of Russian importers and some exporters; some companies operating in the engineering and agricultural sectors are likely to suffer, the rating agency Moody's Investors Service notes in a special comment published yesterday.

The Federal Agency for Maritime and River Transport (Rosmorrechflot) has announced an open competition for work on the first stage of major repairs of locks No. 13–16 of the Gorodets hydroelectric complex in the Nizhny Novgorod region, according to the state order website. The initial cost of the government contract is 1.18 billion rubles.

They are trying to resign the head of the district The head of the Voskresensky district, Alexander Antipanov, announced an attempt to seize power in the area under his jurisdiction. According to him, some United Russia deputies are making attempts to remove him from his post. According to the head, the parliamentarians involved in his removal claim that Mr. Antipanov is not working for the benefit of the region.

The European Court of Human Rights ordered Ukraine to pay 2.4 thousand euros in compensation for moral damage and 100 euros in compensation for legal costs to 48-year-old Sergei Solomakin for the excessive length of the trial, the court’s press service said in a statement. The court made the corresponding decision at a meeting on March 15. Mr Solomakin complained of a violation of the right to a fair trial within a reasonable time and the right to respect for private and family life.

They are ready to pay inflated interest on deposits only through the courts Depositors who lost part of the high crisis interest rates on deposits due to commissions introduced by banks and bans on replenishing deposits were not helped by an appeal to the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). As soon as they received the FAS decision to return these funds to clients, banks began to challenge them in court.

Composer Sergei Nevsky about his opera "Autland" On March 17 and 18, the Platform project will present the Russian premiere of Sergei Nevsky's "Autland" - an opera for six soloists, chamber choir and electronics, written to poems and texts by people with autism. Autists can be identified in the lyrical heroes of almost all of your vocal music. Where does such persistent interest in this issue come from?