As an important date of modern theatrical art, the 85th anniversary of the outstanding master of the domestic scene Yuri Lyubimov is celebrated. From today, the anniversary week begins in the drama and comedy theater in Taganka. During this time, all existing performances staged by the director are now played in the repertoire, ITAR-TASS reports.

Two television series √ "Western Wing" and "Friends"-won the Emmy awards at the 54th ceremony in Los Angeles. Prestigious awards are awarded for the highest achievements in the field of television by the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. The series of the NBC television company received a prize in the drama nomination, "Friends" in the genre of comedy, Ananova.com reports.

The Archimandrite of the Jerusalem Orthodox Church Atall Hannah called on the international community to immediately take decisive measures in order to force Israel to stop the siege of the Yasir Arafat residence in Ramallach, ITAR-TASS reports.

The 92-fly Australian, a resident of Sydney Margaret Cole, became the oldest woman in the history of the country, who managed to issue a long-term loan for the purchase of a house. According to Reuters , it will be necessary to pay a loan in 30 years, when Margaret, I want to believe, will be 122 years old. “She fought all her life, simply did not understand the word“ no, ”says her agent James Hunt. And, in the end, she realized the“ great Australian dream ” - to have her own house.

The psychological and psychiatric examination was completed in the case of Colonel Budanov, accused of the murder of Chechen girl, Elsa Kungaeva. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the State Scientific Center for Social and Judicial Psychiatry named after Serbian. The act of conclusion of the commission will be sent to the court. In connection with the end of the examination, Yuri Budanov was taken to the investigative insulator.

The Commission of the International Group for Combating Financial Action Task Force (Fatf) on Monday begins to work in Moscow. Experts will prepare a report that can (and, according to the Russian authorities should) become the basis for the exclusion of Russia from the "black list" of countries that do not fight laundering "dirty" money.

The Presidents of the Russian Federation and Azerbaijan Vladimir Putin and Heydar Aliyev on Monday in Moscow signed an agreement on the distinction between adjacent sections of the Caspian Sea, Interfax reports.

The President of the Russian Academy of Arts Zurab Tsereteli made it clear that he was not averse to sculpture of the sculpture of Russian President Vladimir Putin. During the "Direct Line" with readers of the Moscow Komsomolets newspaper, Tsereteli noted that "he saw the photos of the president in motion, this is a fairy tale." “Every artist wants to convey this,” the famous sculptor -monumentalist said.

People's Artist of the Russian Federation Natalya Gundareva is currently undergoing a course of planned rehabilitation treatment in the Central Clinical Hospital of the Moscow Patriarchate. This was told by ITAR-TASS The Artistic Director of the Mayakovsky Theater Sergey Artsibashev. Three decades of the creative activity of the actress have been associated with this theater. Artsibashev said that the state of health of the actress is stable.

Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze said on Monday that he proposes to "send Russian military observers to Georgia so that they are familiar with the course of a special operation carried out by law enforcement agencies in the Pankisian Gorge." Speaking on the air of the national radio of Georgia, Shevardnadze at the same time emphasized that Russian military observers should arrive in Georgia "without weapons." The President of the Republic expressed confidence that the special operation

The famous director, the creator of such epoch-making tapes as the “godfather”, “Dracula”, “Apocalypse Today”, Francis Ford Coppol was awarded high-profile prolonged applause at the San Sebastian Film Festival. The presentation of a special jury prize and applause participants in the film forum paid tribute to the skill and cinematic experience of the director, who received here 33 years ago the main prize for the film "People in the Rain" (The Rain People), BBC reports.

The Russian Ministry of Emergencies said that the chances of finding members of the film crew Sergei Bodrov Jr. were minimized. 45 people from the film group were not found. These are 24 people directly from the film group, 8 people from the horse group participating in the shooting, 7 technical personnel. The group was also accompanied by 4 employees of the traffic police and 2 riot police, who had a special communications and radio funds with them.

In Moscow, cases of the use of Klofelin drug for the criminal purposes were more frequent, sources in the capital’s Central Internal Affairs Directorate told Interfax on Monday. So, on September 22, 37-year-old Sergey Garmaev, head of the Amur Tiger company, turned to the police. He said that the day before he met a girl and invited her to his house in an apartment on Guryanov Street. After the joint drinking of alcohol, in which Klofelin was most likely mixed, Garmaev fell asleep.

The first Chevrole-Niva car will go today from the conveyor of the joint Russian-American enterprise GM-Avtonses opening in Togliatti. "Chevrolet Niva"-the modernization of the folk Soviet "jeep" VAZ-2123, which recently exchanged a quarter century, will cost from $ 8,000. In total, 465 cars will be produced until the end of this year, and all of them will be painted in the same color - "silver metallic". The only green Chevrolet Niva will be made specifically for a car dealership in St.

In the near future, a special smoking room will appear in the Federation Council, combined with the winter garden. According to the chairman of the upper house, Sergei Mironov, a special room "specifically for smoking lovers" is being built over the hall of the first floor, RIA Novosti reports. Previously, in the Federation Council, you could smoke on the stairwells of two staircases in both wings of the building.