In the Saratov region, over 90 thousand people visited theaters and concert organizations during the New Year and Christmas holidays, 70% of them were children. Almost 2 thousand children attended the governor’s Christmas tree, including orphans, disabled people, children from low-income and large families, and boarding school students.

Japanese company Suntory Holdings plans to buy whiskey maker Jim Beam. The deal is worth about $13 billion. The deal will help Suntory increase sales abroad, which will help offset the decline in the domestic market. The purchase is scheduled to be completed in the second quarter of 2014, AP reports.

Reconnaissance and special units of the Russian airborne troops will receive about 400 of the latest Arbalet-2 parachute systems by mid-2015. It is intended for landing special forces units from An-2, An-26, An-12, Il-76 aircraft and Mi-8 helicopters. Parachute systems will be supplied to the Pskov, Novorossiysk and Tula Airborne Forces, Interfax reports with reference to the official representative of the Airborne Forces, Lieutenant Colonel Evgeny Meshkov.

Artist Grisha Bruskin spoke about his personal life to Olga Tsipenyuk The column is led by Olga Tsipenyuk About roots The parents met and got married early - at 19 and 20 years old. I have four sisters, all of them are older than me. Dad wanted the boy. (Laughs.) My father entered the Moscow Energy Institute and then worked there all his life. Here’s what’s interesting about dad: everyone at work loved him very much and spoke of him as a pleasant, gentle person.

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The International Monetary Fund (IMF) plans to improve its forecasts for global economic growth in 2014. This possibility was announced by the managing director of the fund, Christine Lagarde. “We will improve forecasts for global economic growth,” Ms. Lagarde is quoted as saying on the IMF website. New forecasts will be released by the fund in three weeks.

Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky said on Monday that elections for the rector of the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet could take place after the end of the academic year, ITAR-TASS reports. The minister noted that the department stands for fair elections. “We will register everyone who appears. It is necessary for the school year to end, and then elections will be held,” said Mr. Medinsky.

Capital police detained a man at the New Cheryomushki metro station on the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line, who was on the coupling between two cars, the RIA Novosti agency reported on January 13, citing the press service of the Main Department of Internal Affairs in Moscow. “In the capital’s metro, a man was seen on the coupling between two cars.

Today, the head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church (UGCC) Svyatoslav (Shevchuk) announced a letter from the Ministry of Culture, in which, according to him, “a threat was made” regarding the cessation of the activities of religious organizations of the UGCC. “We thought that the time when the church was persecuted had long passed,” said the head of the church.

The column is led by Vladimir Pribylovsky Vladimir Veryutin, head of the main control department of the presidential administration On January 3, 2014, President Vladimir Putin signed a decree dismissing Vladimir Veryutin (born in 1959) as head of the Main Control Directorate of Presidential Administration (UDP). Vladimir Nikolaevich Veryutin was born in Kursk in 1959.

Sergey Melnikov - about the exhibition of kimono by Ichiku Kubota Masterpieces of Japanese national costume are now in Moscow: the exhibition “Transformation of the Kimono: The Art of Itchiku Kubota” has opened in the Manege Previous photo Kimonos are woven with gold and silver threads Photo: Anna Sergeeva / buy photo The "Universe" series is especially striking in its play of colors Photo: Anna Sergeeva / buy photo Tsujigahana means "flowers at the crossroads" in Japanese.

Business card Evgeny Mironov was born in 1966 in Saratov. At school, he was involved in a drama club and studied at a music school. In 1982 he entered the Saratov Theater School named after. I.A. Slonov, continued his studies in Moscow, enrolling in the Moscow Art Theater School on the course of Oleg Tabakov and Avangard Leontyev. Upon graduation, I received an invitation to three theaters at once.

223 1 min. ... Villa Ambron, without which Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria Quartet might not have existed, is threatened with destruction. The writer, the older brother of the author of the story "My Family and Other Animals" Gerald Durrell, moved from Corfu, Greece, to Alexandria in 1943 and stayed there until the end of World War II. He settled in the house of the architect Aldo Ambron, which he built for himself and his family.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs will spend almost 8 trillion rubles on the fight against crime. This amount is provided for in the draft state program until 2020. The head of research projects of the Public Verdict Foundation, Asmik Novikova, and the chairman of the coordinating council of the Trade Union of Ministry of Internal Affairs employees, Mikhail Pashkin, commented on the situation to presenter Natalya Zhdanova.

Vladimir Lukin's powers are running out. He served two terms, a third is not provided for by law. The main contenders are Mikhail Barshchevsky, Pavel Astakhov and Vladislav Grib. Drawing: Konstantin Kukso, Kommersant “The ombudsman must be decent, courageous, worthy, brave and not live in relation to power. And he must be able to empathize. Where can you find such a person?!” Yuri Norshtein, director I don’t know who can do a better job than Lukin .