On Friday, the Patriarchal Ponds in Moscow opened the art festival “Manuscripts are not burning” dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the publication of the novel by Mikhail Bulgakov “Master and Margarita”. This was reported to RIA Novosti in the press service of the Russia TV channel, which acted as the organizer of the festival. On the opening day of the legendary ponds, the art action of the Lavki.com project is held, in which more than 30 Moscow artists take part.

In anticipation of Western Christmas, an exhibition was opened in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, at which you can see real Italian routes. Pressepio (from Latin Pressepium - Nursery) - this is the name of them on the Apennins. They arrived from different cities of Italy, made in the Middle Ages and recently.

The Russian Foreign Ministry is taking the necessary measures for the speedy liberation of the “Terney” ship, which was detained by the North Korean border guards and is now in the DPRK port. "The Russian Foreign Ministry and the Embassy in the DPRK continue to track the situation, maintain constant contact with the Korean authorities and take measures for the speedy exemption of the vessel and the crew," the Foreign Ministry said in a message widespread on Friday.

The Government of the Netherlands decided that the so -called cafes -shops are bars, where for 15 years, drugs made on the basis of Cannabis were legally sold and used, will soon be closed. Such a message was made by the Executive Director of the UN Office for drugs and crime (UNODC) Antonio Maria Costa "Amsterdam should join the EU decision to counteract the spread of drugs," he said at the IV National Conference on Combating drugs in Palermo.

Former British Daily Mirror reporter James Hipwell is found by the English royal jury guilty of manipulating the stock market. Through his column about the financial markets, he screwed the prices of the necessary shares, on which he earned about 70 thousand dollars. - illegal earnings for information: Russia went its own way Events unfolded from August 1999 to February 2000, when the Daily Mirror tabloid published a daily column for the city dodger investors.

In New York, nominees are announced for the prestigious Grammy musical award. The Russians Evgeny Kisin and Maxim Wengerov will fight for receiving a bonus in the nomination "Best Classical Solo Execution on a musical instrument." Pianist Evgeny Kisin is nominated for the best solo performance of the works of Scriabin, Metner and Stravinsky. Violinist Maxim Wengerov was put forward to the highest music award for the records of the works of Paganini and other composers.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko, during a visit to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant on December 8, announced his readiness to make a political decision on the burial of nuclear waste from other countries in the Chernobyl zone. This will happen in the case of an approving assessment of experts and scientists and after public discussion of this topic, the president said.

In Russia, on the railway this year, they began to steal twice as much as in the past. For 11 months of this year, employees of the departmental protection of the Russian railway transport, together with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, identified and took over more than eight thousand embezzlement of cargo and property, which is 2.3 times more than the same period last year.

The Pentagon made a serious decision for the next four years - to retain the opportunity to participate in two major military conflicts at the same time. This became known to the newspaper Washington Times (translation on the website inopressa.ru ).

In the British capital, the famous "Routemaster" (Routemaster) - red two -story buses with an open step disappear from December 9 from regular city routes. The last route is number 159, where Rutmasters traveled until recently, now, like all the others, will be served by more modern machines, RIA Novosti reports.

The 22-year-old son of the head of Rosatom Sergey Kirienko, Vladimir, can head the executive committee of the Nizhny Novgorod regional branch of the United Russia party. In this post, Vladimir Kiriyenko, who has not yet been involved in public policy, will replace the ex-gitarist of the Lube group Alexander Weinberg, writes Kommersant .

The police of Japan arrested the Buddhist monk, which raised marijuana not far from the temple complex of Neukoji. The 48-year-old Mikumaru Alus is suspected of raised 2.5 kg of pound marijuana, reports a police representative who did not want to name his name, reports the website AllheadLinenews . In addition, the monk is suspected of selling at least 50 grams of drug to an office worker near Tokyo, reports Ar.

The Music Publishing House intends to contribute to the emergence of the text of the anthem of Russia in each class of Russian schools. In any case, the paragraph about this is included in the program of popularization of the state anthem, developed by the publishing house. This was announced today by the director of "Music", Mark Zilberquit.

The city of Liege, located in the west of Belgium, is called the most criminal city in the territory of the EU member countries. According to a special study of the European Commission, in Liege the average number of registered crimes is 256 per thousand inhabitants. According to RIA Novosti , in Brussels this indicator is 153, in Paris - 146, in London - 61, Madrid - 38, Vienna - 29, Riga - 26.

In the Sverdlovsk region on Friday, the court announced the verdict in the case of the death of six babies in the maternity hospital of the city of Krasnoturinsk. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Sverdlovsk Regional Court. "The Krasnoturian city court sentenced the former chief doctor of the hospital to two years in prison in a colony-settlement.