In the list of nominees for the International Opera Award of International Opera Awards 2015 in the category "Best Opera Theater" included the Moscow Theater "New Opera" named after E.V. Kolobova, reports to colta.ru . The International Opera Awards Award was established in 2013 by a philanthropist and opera lover Harry Haiman and Opera Expert editor John Ellison. The purpose of the award is to support novice opera talents and glorify outstanding opera skills.

Microsoft Outlook mail service in China was hacked by unknown hackers. According to the CNews portal, local PC users and mobile devices using mail customers based on IMAP and SMTP protocols began to receive an error message while trying to get or send mail. The report said that the application cannot check the authenticity of the mail server. If the user ignored this warning, his letters, contacts and passwords came to the hackers.

Member of the Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation from Crimea, Sergei Tsekov, stated on January 20 that the historical name of Tauris could be returned to Crimea, reports Crimea Media . "I do not think that we generally leave the word" Crimea ". I do not exclude that there may be Crimea Taurida, Taurida-Crime," the parliamentarian noted.

Warm winter in the Russian capital violated the familiar life of birds and plants. In recent days, the temperature in Moscow rarely dropped significantly below the zero mark. In the spring, warm weather allowed to stay wintering thousands of birds and wake up to trees.

In the capital of Armenia, Yerevan on Freedom Square on Tuesday hosts events in memory of the deceased baby Seryozha Avetisyan, wounded in the attack on the Avetisyan of the Russian military personnel Valery Permyakov. Unofficial events - the action is organized through social networks, the Caucasian Knot reports. Participants in the action leave soft toys on the squares of the steps in front of the theater entrance and light candles. The action was organized through social networks.

Famous American directors and screenwriters, Laureates of the Golden Palm Branch and four-time laureates of Obara Ethan and Joel Cohena will lead the jury of the 68th Cannes Film Festival, reports the publication of Screen Daily . This is the first case in the history of the film festival, when the jury is headed by two people.

The Ukrainian military again announced the presence of Russian soldiers in the east of the country. Such statements have been sounding for the second time for today: if earlier in Kiev it was said that the troops of the Russian Federation broke into the Donbass, now, according to the press center of the so-called anti-terrorist operation (ATO), the soldiers of the Russian Federation allegedly attacked Ukrainians in the Luhansk region.

The leadership of the VISA International Payment System, which continues to discuss the terms of its cooperation with NSPK OJSC, asked for insurance from failures in the Russian payment cards system, RBC reports. Visa doubts that the NSPK will work uninterruptedly, especially at first, and is afraid that this will strike her reputation. Therefore, the leadership of the system insists that, after the transfer of traffic to the NSPK, she has the opportunity to use her operating center abroad.

The rector of the Moscow Church of the Holy Trinity in Khokhlah, Archpriest Alexei Uminsky, acting as a lecture “The Sacrament of Baptism” as part of the new multimedia project of the MIA “Russia Today” “Sputnik. Reading”, emphasized that bathing for God's tradition is only a folk tradition. "The young man’s dipping in the hole has nothing to do with the forgiveness of sins.

The former head of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office (SCP) of the Russian Federation Dmitry Dovgi, sentenced in 2009 by nine years of colony of maximum regime for corruption, was conventionally released. About this on his Twitter was written by the State Duma deputy from United Russia Alexander Hinshtein. Dovgia lawyer Yuri Bagraev in an interview with RBC confirmed this information.

On Monday, November 19, the Tehran metro passengers to considerable surprise found in their ranks President Iran Hassan Rouhani, accompanied by Foreign Minister Jave the Sharif and other government members, Yahoo News reports with reference to AP. Thus, high-ranking officials participated in the national day of pure air, which attracts attention to the environmental problems of 12 million tiegran and popularizes public transport.

The Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Anton Siluanov said that up to 30 banks will receive pre -qualification through federal loan bonds (OFZ), Interfax reports. As previously said by the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, Alexei Simanovsky, the mechanism of pre -capitalization of banks through OFZ will be launched in the first quarter.

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) expects a decline in the Russian economy in 2015 by 3% with an October growth forecast by 0.5%. This follows from the January report "The Prospect of the Development of the World Economy" (World Economic Outlook), the presentation of which will be held in Beijing on Tuesday, RIA Novosti reports. The forecast for the growth of the economy for 2016 is also reduced: a decline is expected by 1% against the growth forecast by 1.5% in October.

The new bill, developed by the chairman of the State Duma Committee on the Legislation, Pavel Krasheninnikov, proposes to extend the country amnesty until March 1, 2018. The document has already been submitted for consideration by the lower house of the parliament, the Russian Newspaper reports. According to the deputy, then everyone is guaranteed to be guaranteed to register their land, houses, garages and baths.

The police detained two men sprinkled with water consecrated by the door of the Lenin Mausoleum on Red Square in the center of Moscow. We are talking about the participants in the “Blue Horseman” by Oleg Basov and Evgenia Avilov, who held a performance entitled “Exile the devil. The desecration of the mausoleum”.