The success recipe for Sergey Tigipko Deus Ex Machina. Sergey Tigipko is the only presidential candidates who can drink champagne now. Having joined the election campaign in the summer, he managed to gain more than 13% and come to the finish line third. Now the favorites fight for his voices. The recipe for success was disassembled by The New Times Tigipko left big policy 5 years ago.

The main director of the Hermitage Theater about the play for the anniversary of Anton Chekhov 2010 will be held under the sign of Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. January 29 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of a great writer, who largely determined the development of world culture of the twentieth century. At the end of January in Moscow, days will take place A.P. Chekhov, in which new Chekhov theatrical productions will be shown.

Blair on call. The ex-prime minister of Great Britain is returning to British politics for one day. On January 29, Tony Blair will testify before the Chilkot Commission, investigating London's participation in the Iraqi war. The hearing will last six hours. How can it end for the former prime minister - found The New Times In six years, from 2003 to 2009, the UK lost 179 military personnel in Iraq.

The unknown picture of Bryullov "Christ in the coffin" was the reason for the trial Passion for Karl Bryullov. On January 29, one of the district courts of St. Petersburg will be heard in the case, which one party considers the case of smuggling, and the opposite-by the state racket. The subject of the dispute is the picturesque image of Christ in the coffin made by the hand of the great Russian artist of the 19th century This story began in one of the Orthodox parishes of Belgium.

Shortly after the New Year, Prosecutor General Chaika said: in the first 9 months of last year, the courts considered 806 criminal cases of corruption crimes committed by high-ranking officials, mainly in the regions.

"Board Lord" Katherine Bigelou claims Oscar Male work. The military drama Katherine Bigelou The Hurt Locker has already received the most awards of leading associations of American film critics. Along with the Avatar, “I would be in the sky” and “inglorious bastards” she claims to be Oscar. True, Russian distributors decided that fellow citizens are unlikely to like it The name of the film in the press and the Internet was interpreted both as “hidden danger” and as “locked up with pain”.

The third round of presidential elections cannot be avoided, Oleksandr Chernenko, head of the Committee of Voters of Ukraine, believes. "The situation will not be easy, and I think that it will come to the third round, because there will be a stalemate, when no one will know for sure who won the election," he said. "In the end, it will continue for several weeks, until there will be some sort of political decision to get out of the situation rather than a legal one," Chernenko added.