Anna Tolstova about the Art under Attack exhibition in London You don’t have to go far for examples—in the sense of going all the way to the old Tate. The history of iconoclasm is well represented in Russian museums. It's not just about the pogrom at the "Beware of Religion" exhibition. Traces of this struggle are visible, say, in any department of ancient art, where old-regime “idols” display their injuries: broken bodies, severed heads, broken noses and other organs.

Serbia is interested in the success of the elections in the autonomous region, but not in its sovereignty Kosovo, a self-proclaimed republic that declared independence from Serbia in 2008, is preparing for municipal elections. The Serbian authorities are not going to interfere with their organization: voting there is one of the conditions for Belgrade to receive long-awaited membership in the European Union.

AlfaStroyComplex plans to build more than 40 thousand square meters by 2016. m of housing on the territory of the Hydrostroiteley microdistrict of Krasnodar, the press service of the mayor's office reported. The agreement on the implementation of the investment project at the International Investment Forum Sochi 2013 was signed by the head of the city, Vladimir Evlanov, and the general director of the construction company, Olga Kuznetsova.

State Duma deputy on the initiative of the Ministry of Finance The agency is preparing a bill according to which tax benefits will remain only for the sale of a single home. Kommersant FM’s interlocutors are confident that the majority of property owners will suffer from the new rules. Photo: Oleg Kharseev, Kommersant Owners of investment apartments will lose tax benefits. The Ministry of Finance is working on the corresponding bill.

loans for 1 monthloans for 3 months 5.90 10.70 Data: Thomson Reuters Newspaper "Kommersant Ukraine" No. 153 dated September 27, 2013, p. 5

The party in power curbed the appetites of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation in Kurultai The communists' ambitions to occupy leading positions in three committees of the Bashkir parliament did not materialize. United Russia lost only one committee to the second largest party - on health care, social policy and veterans' affairs. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation says that it will continue to fight for a key post in the Education Committee.

Lisa Birger about "Family Travel" and other museum projects for children “Family Travel” is a museum project that is taking place in Moscow for the sixth time. Every weekend until November 10, you can visit museums participating in the project, go through the programs they have created, and mark what you have completed in your traveler’s passport.

Chef of the Moscow restaurant Delicatessen Ivan Shishkin , who arrived in Kiev for the international forum RestoPraktiki, told Marina Gladkaya about meat — Which steak is the most delicious for you? Previous photo Next photo 1 / 2 Photo: Kommersant / Alexander Yalova — The most delicious part of the cow is the musculus spinalis dorsi. It is unlikely that you will meet it in a restaurant where suppliers bring ready-made, well-known sets of steaks.

In the coming years, two thousand parking spaces and five pedestrian crossings will appear in Rostov. Such goals are laid down in the draft municipal program “Development and operation of transport infrastructure and passenger transport in Rostov-on-Don for 2014–2018,” which was approved by the board of the city administration.

In Moscow, police detained and transported the former minister of property relations of the regional government to Khabarovsk. “The basis for the detention was the investigation of a criminal case initiated on the basis of fraud, in which a former official is involved,” reports the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Khabarovsk Territory. The Interfax agency, citing the department, clarifies that we are talking about Alexander Davidenko, who left his post in June.

A five-story residential building collapsed in the Indian city of Mumbai. According to The Times of India , the incident occurred at six in the morning local time (4:30 Moscow time). Five people were injured; in total, about 50 people are under the rubble, the publication clarifies. Rescuers on site began clearing the rubble.

The UN Security Council vote on a resolution that provides for the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria will take place on Saturday night. “The UN Security Council has scheduled a vote on the chemical weapons resolution at the ministerial level for Friday at 20:00 (4:00 Moscow time),” the French Permanent Mission to the UN said on Twitter .

Igor Gulin about the project “Reconstruction” based on the main exhibitions of the 90s The exhibition “Reconstruction” has opened at the Catherine Cultural Foundation - a new attempt to historiify Russian art of the 1990s. The idea of ​​curator Elena Selina (creator of XL Gallery) is to tell the story of Russian art through the most significant gallery exhibitions.

The owner and chef of the restaurant "Honest Kitchen" Sergei Eroshenko talks about one of the most valuable Siberian fish - muksun. Interviewed by Anna Karmanova What you need to know about muksun? The main thing is that this is a very tasty and rare fish. But it has become rare because of poachers, so now in many regions of Siberia, fishing for muksun is strictly prohibited. Now it is caught in the northern rivers - in the Ob, Yenisei, Lena. Where they can be caught, they use nets.

US President Barack Obama is going to provide $320 million in financial assistance to the bankrupt city of Detroit, reports the Rossiya-24 TV channel. Detroit, which previously housed the largest auto industry in the United States, declared bankruptcy after many years of decline, as a result of which the population dropped from 1.8 million by more than half - to 700 thousand people.