The ballet troupe of the Mariinsky Theater begins a series of performances in Washington, this time the Petersburgers brought Cinderella to the American capital, RIA Novosti reports. Tours Mariinsky on the stage of the John Kennedy Center for Fine Arts will last until October 21.

On the Costa Concordia, which in January, sank in the Tyrrin Sea off the coast of Italy, operated on the Kostroy Liner. They plundered the flooded part of the vessel, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the TGCOM24 TV channel.

The judge of the city of the city of Helsinki Rey Suni justified the seizure of four children, including a newborn child, from the Russian woman Anastasia Zavgorodny . "Anastasia Zavgorodnaya the day before received the decision of the Helsinki administrative court in connection with her request to stop the execution of the decision to withdraw (her) children.

On Tuesday, military sailors, by order of the command, left the famous cruiser Aurora, standing on the jokes of the Neva embankment in St. Petersburg and withdrawn two years ago from the armed forces of the Russian Federation. At five in the morning, 14 military personnel went from the ship ashore to go to the place of new deployment in Vyborg, reports Fontanka.ru . Nevertheless, the flag on the legendary ship was raised today.

Legal norms governing the activities of Russian architects must be brought into line with European ones, said the president of the Union of Architects of Russia (SAR) Andrei Bokov before the congress of the organization. "The purpose of our congress is to bring our profession into line with those norms that exist abroad and which are spelled out in the documents in connection with Russia's entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO)," Bokov said, speaking at a press conference on Monday.

Thirteen bicycles were hospitalized in South Africa after the Roy OS attack, the nest of which they disturbed during the race in the province of the Western Cape. Among the victims are twelve South Africans and one Belgian. The representative of the rescue service Keri Davis said that a group of seven cyclists accidentally ran into a horned nest during the crossed area of ​​the Bridge Cape Pioneer .

The Chelyabinsk "Tractor", leading in the Eastern Conference of the KHL, intends to appeal the result of the match of the regular championship against the Yaroslavl "Lokomotiv", which took place on October 15. This was stated by the director of the Chelyabinsk team Vladimir Krechin, who is quoted by the official website of the club. The meeting in Chelyabinsk ended with the defeat of the team Valery Belousov on shootouts with a score of 2: 3.

A group of specialists from the University of Carnegie Mellon (USA), led by Dr. Chris Harrison, created a touch screen capable of generating and receiving electrical signals, reports Daily RBC . Thus, scientists believe, the screen will be able to distinguish one person from another only on the basis of touch. The innovative sensor is going to integrate into the Disney's Touche system, which is used to "revive" household items.

Valery Fedotov “...bloggers came in droves, confidently explaining: “United Russia” is a relic that cannot be taken seriously. It is about to be replaced by the ONF. People are ready to vote for anyone except the “party of swindlers and thieves,” so the victory of the opposition in any more or less fair elections. And so on, and so on. Yesterday's elections proved that it is too early to bury United Russia and it is impossible to write it off.

The ex -leader of the Bosnian Serbs, Radovan Karadzhich, tried to convince the International Tribunal in the former Yugoslavia (MTBU) of accusing him, "a soft, tolerable person" of genocide and war crimes during a civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. Karadzhich explained that he had never held on to power and that he wanted to abandon politics for the sake of medicine and poetry. “Everyone who knows me will confirm that I am not an autocrat, that I am not an aggressor, I am not intolerant.

The Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko said that the problems during the construction of the new Zenit stadium arose due to the fault of those who made decisions, and he does not believe that the slow pace of construction is associated with the unfair use of the allocated funds. He also noted that the city authorities intend to turn to the population for voluntary help in the construction of the arena, the cost of which increased to 43 billion rubles, Interfax reports.

The price of the Microsoft Surface tablet with the Windows RT operating system will begin in the American market from $ 499 for the junior model with 32 GB of RAM and without the applied keyboard, which is comparable to the cost of Apple iPad. Information about the price of the device appeared on the official website of Microsoft on Tuesday, but after some time it was deleted, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Techniccrunch Technoblog.

Blue Buckets “Why is the permissible standard being introduced? Not at all to allow slightly drunk citizens to get behind the wheel. First of all, the human body always contains small amounts of so-called natural endogenous ethanol. In addition, for certain diseases, devices can show the presence of non-ethyl , and isopropyl alcohol in the blood. Well, someone takes medications containing microscopic doses of alcohol. That is, traces of alcohol can be found in the body of any person.

In Moscow, the construction of the folklore musical theater "Russian Song" was completed under the leadership of the People's Artist of Russia Nadezhda Babkina. Construction and installation work in the theater with a total area of ​​8.7 thousand square meters at Olympic Prospekt, the possession of 12/16 completed, the act of the acceptance committee was signed by the artistic director of the theater, RIA Novosti reports.

In Russia, the reception of orders for the updated model of the Lamborghini Aventador Supercarry 2013 model year has begun. The basic equipment of the machine costs 17.6 million rubles. But a wide set of options that allow the car to give an individual to the buyer to limit his budget. After the update, Aventador has a Stop-Start Engine system and the cylinder shutdown function at incomplete load.