While at one end of the vast city the two hundredth series of the inquisitorial trial against Lebedev and Khodorkovsky is endlessly and painfully going on, at the other end of it, in the form of a theatrical premiere, the rehabilitation of young Russian entrepreneurship has taken place. The Big Three met: A.P. Chekhov, Lenkom Theater and Mark Zakharov. This Grand Jury staged the play The Cherry Orchard. Before Mark Anatolyevich Zakharov, there was simply no one to read this play like that.

Why will Belgian prisoners sit in Holland Prisoners for export. Noisy demonstrations at the walls of prisons became commonplace for Belgium. But they are arranged not by human rights activists and relatives of the prisoners, but by the jailers themselves. What they protest against and why they waited for Belgian prisoners in Holland - found the New Times Another wave of strikes and demonstrations of the warders swept through Belgium after the incident in the prison of the Flemish city of Lyven.

The government abandoned the idea of ​​doubleting GDP Farewell to doubling. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin adjusted the main areas of government’s activities until 2012, approved by the Cabinet of Ministers in November 2008. The government abandoned the ambitious tasks of doubling GDP and a sharp increase in population incomes.

Director Jan Fabr experiences the viewer for tolerance Party members. In Moscow, the NET theater festival ended. Its main event was the “orgy of tolerance” - the most scandalous performance of this year, “exploding” the largest Avignon Theater Festival in Europe. The production of the famous Belgian director-provocateor Jan Fabra refutes the opinion that shock as a method of influence on the public has exhausted itself.

How new prices for beer and vodka will affect the health of Russians It does not destroy people. The government raises excise taxes on alcohol. As a result, a half-liter bottle of vodka from January 1, 2010 will cost at least 89 rubles. How the new price will affect the state of the alcohol market and the health of the nation - the New Times found out What Russian does not like to drink well?

Romanian leader will be chosen in the second round Who will become the master of the Palace Kotro in Bucharest - the first tour of the presidential elections in Romania did not determine. The current president and honorary chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party Trajan Basescu (33%) barely bypassed his main competitor-the leader of the Social-Democratic Party Mirche Joana (31.5%). On December 6, the second round is ahead.

Pale Fire Laura. On November 30, the Russian translation of the last novel by Vladimir Nabokov will be published, which, according to the oral will of the great writer, was to be burned. The writer's son Dmitry Nabokov, after long hesitation, published the manuscript of the book far from being finished. In fact, this is not a coherent narrative, but fragments, sketches, notes.