The world-famous Stuttgart chamber orchestra, leading Christophe Altstedt, will perform in the Great Hall of the St. Petersburg Academic Philharmonic named after Shostakovich on October 3, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the organizers. The program in the program: Mendelssohn - Symphony for the string orchestra No. 11 "Swiss", Bach - concerts for the piano with the orchestra La Major, FI Minor and Reinor.

In March 2009, the Italian automaker Lancia will release a new limited version of the YPSILON model, the creation of which was attended by the famous Versace Fashion House. The novelty received the name - Lancia Ypsilon Versus, reports brakes.ru . This car is limited and is only 500 copies. And his premiere will be held next month at the Paris Motor Show. Ypsilon Versus will appear before the public in glamorous bronze color with Versus logo on the roof.

Representatives of the Bloc Yulia Tymoshenko (BUT) told why they refused to include funds to the draft budget for 2009 to pay off gas debt to Russia and began negotiations on raising the price of the Black Sea Fleet base, as President Viktor Yushchenko demands, the New Region reports. According to the deputy from Beth Anatoly Seminoga, "our president has recently been some kind of strange.

The Federal Financial Market Service (FSFR of Russia), along with a ban on "short" sales and marginal transactions, introduces a ban on unsecured transactions from 9.00 to Moscow time, a representative of the service told RIA Novosti . "The innovation in today's order of the FSFR is the introduction of a ban on unsecured transactions," the agency’s interlocutor said on Monday.

The financial crisis beats in large Russian business. Rosneft company this month had to increase the provision of credit several times; The amount of the surcharge could reach $ 2.8 billion. The AFK System, Altimo, UC Rusal, Norilsel and others could face the same problems, write Vedomosti on Tuesday. There were many loans on the Russian market, secured by the shares of the companies, the analyst of Standard & Poor's Elena Anankina states.

In the first match of the 1/8 finals of the Russian Cup, Moscow "Dynamo" in its field confidently beat the Rostov army with a score of 2: 0. The first goal of the blue and white, as noted by the Sport TV channel, was almost alone by Markin Kovalchik. Having received a program on the right flank from Kirill Kombarov, he picked up the ball, left the defender and tried to execute the feed to the penalty area, but was shot down by Ilya Kalashnikov.

The “Izzeddin al -Kassam” brigades - the combat wing of the Islamic resistance movement “Hamas” - took responsibility for the terrorist attack in Jerusalem on Monday, as a result of which more than 10 people were injured. This action means "the continuation of the intifada (Palestinian uprising) in order to liberate Jerusalem and protect the legitimate rights of Palestinians," ITAR-TASS quoted the group of the group, published on Tuesday.

Russia continues to carry out transit through its territory of non -military cargo for NATO forces in Afghanistan and does not intend to cancel it. This was stated by the head of the organization of collective security agreement ( CSTO ) Nikolai Bordyuzha. "Today, non -unit transit through the CSTO member states regulated by agreements, recently signed between Russia and representatives of NATO, as well as Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, are conducted.

The baby Leopard Sakumi was declared the official talisman of the 2010 World Cup, which will be held for the first time in South Africa. The ceremony of the presentation of Talisman took place at the headquarters of the State Television and Radio Company SABK in Johannesburg. It is no coincidence that the organizers of the festival of football chose a leopard - in the African tradition it is a symbol of power, and only leaders have the right to walk in leopard skins.

Last week, on Thursday, at the combined arms training ground of the Leningrad Military District (Lensvo), military exercises were held near the village of Kamenka in the Leningrad Region, the culmination of which was a training battle with real firing. Suddenly for everyone, this army event was seriously spoiled, the headlines website reports.

One of the organizers of the abduction and murder of journalist Georgy Gongadze - General Alexei Pukach , who was wanted - is in the USA. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to the press service of the Socialist Party of Ukraine (PA). The party leader Alexander Moroz on Tuesday testified to the Gonadze case in the Prosecutor General’s Office, the news agency notes.

The traces of the glaciers that existed on the site of the current New York about 20 thousand years ago were discovered by workers who are engaged in digging a foundation pit in that place in the lower part of Manhattan, where, before the attacks of September 11, 2001, there were skyscrapers of the World Commercial Center (WTC).

On the eve of Vienna, the coaching congress began to work, dedicated to the results of the European Football Championship. Russia in the Austrian capital is represented by the head coach of the national team of GUS Hiddink and his assistant Alexander Borodyuk.

Russia expects to preserve the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol after 2017 and may submit to Ukraine a set of mutually beneficial offers that would allow this to do this, said the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Anatoly Serdyukov. He met with the editors of the Russian media in ITAR-TASS in Moscow.

Roscosmos did everything possible to prevent the repetition of the ballistic descent of the astronauts while returning from the International Space Station. This, as Interfax reports, said Anatoly Perminov, head of Roscosmos, during a meeting with the next crew of the station. (Crew MKS-18: commander Michael Fink, Bortinzhener Yuri Lonchakov and a member of the space flight Richard Garriot).