Great scandal in the big. After a global reconstruction, which lasted more than five years, the main building of the Bolshoi Theater opened at the end of October. All five years, the restructuring of the historical scene was accompanied by scandals. The discovery was not an exception The reconstruction of the large, according to the latest data, cost more than 24 billion rubles. The construction in the very heart of Moscow from the very beginning excited the public, and not in vain.

The care of the long -liver. On November 12, 2011, the Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi resigned. He had no sexual scandals and accusations of corruption. And only the threat of Defolt overwhelmed over Italy forced him to leave his chair. The whole era ended in the history of the country. Really forever?

In early December, the updated television channel of the 24.Doc documentary film was aired. The best world hits and the most significant Russian tapes can now be watched around the clock not only by subscription, but also on the usual television “button” “Writing a similarity to the names, a completely new, fundamentally different channel appeared on the site,” Vera Krichevskaya, creative producer of 24.doc, told The New Times.

On August 8, 2011, just as in 2009 and 2010, many in Russia and Georgia again remembered August 8, 2008 from bitter memory. And again they asked themselves the question: how could this happen at all and whether it would ever be possible to heal the wounds inflicted by that war. Personally, I don't think so. My grandmother, a native of Tbilisi, when the neighbors ran up to her shouting “Putin's planes are flying to bomb us!”, came down with a stroke, from which she never recovered.

Nonnichronized swimming. “The world is on the verge of new great depression”-Christine Lagard, the first woman who took the post of director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in its entire 65-year history, made such a gloomy forecast with such a gloomy forecast. The New Times became interested in how the daughter of a modest teacher's couple managed to break into the world elite Christine Lagard was born on January 1, 1956 in Paris.

Andrey Smirnov - The New Times Andrey Smirnov: "People do not remember anything and do not know" Andrei Smirnov was born in 1941 by film director, screenwriter and actor. Fame was brought to him by the films “The Pods of the Earth” (1964), “The Belarusian Station” (1970), “Autumn” (1975), “Vera and Truth” (1979).

Ilyinka without Kudrin. On September 26, 2011, President Dmitry Medvedev dismissed Alexei Kudrin, who led the Ministry of Finance for 11 years and 4 months. How to make a public policy from a professional economist Kudrin - The New Times watched Kudrin was the only one in the Russian government who knew how to restrain state expenses. That is, to say no, when someone important demanded money unplanned by the budget.

"February. Get ink and cry. Write about February sobbing. Boris Pasternak did not say this about the February Revolution, but it is precisely such feelings that this great missed chance arouses in us every year. Now is the time to remember everything that happened 94 years ago, because the historical roulette gave us another chance for red or black just as unexpectedly as it happened in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya.

Fireworks have long been to this day - a satellite of the celebration Light! Residents of large cities are increasingly celebrating the New Year on the streets and squares. So it happened from the meeting of Millennium. The Russians, however,, unlike Europeans, are selected from the houses already under the hops, cheerful and well -fed after the wires of the old year.

Pure gold bubble. All the difficult year 2011, gold continued to remain an island of stability in a stormy financial situation. By the end of December, Troika ounces costs over $ 1600 - almost a quarter more than at the beginning of the year.

Robert Vogel - The New Times "Learn Chinese if you are doing business." Today, no serious international business prognosis is complete without an analysis of China development prospects. In 2011, the Celestial Economy officially officially became the second in the world after the United States, leaving Japan behind. And by 2040 it will become the largest on the planet, says the Nobel laureate in economics Robert Fogel Robert Fogel is 85 years old.

On the streets in Hakni, police officers met cars set by young pogromers The uprising of the bottom. I have not seen such Britain since the Second World War: raging fires in many areas of London, Bristol, Birmingham, Liverpool, Manchester. Charmed skeletons of buildings, looted shops, workshops, cafes, hairdressers. Streets covered with a layer of broken glass and debris.

Mont Blanc over the Alps. The cinematic year was successful for Russian cinema. The largest and most unconditional achievement of our directorial school is the “Golden Leo” of the film “Faust” by Alexander Sokurov at the 68th film festival in Venice. Another festival favorite Andrei Zvyagintsev received the main prize of the Cannes program “Special Gazing” for the acute -social picture “Elena”.

Who said that Don Quixote is necessarily crazy, urban or rural, a loser in a copper basin instead of a helmet, mistaking windmills for evil wizards? Vaclav Havel, whom we and progressive humanity, fitting into the sparkling ellipse of universal values, lost on December 18, was not at all funny and quite a successful Don Quixote. When he was born in 1936 in Prague, into a wealthy bourgeois family, Czechoslovakia was a cozy and clean European country.