Artistic Director of the Gogol Center Theater Kirill Serebrennikov will take the position of director of the theater. As the director himself told the Moskva agency, the position will be nominal. In fact, his deputy Alexei Kabashev, who was proposed by Serebrennikov himself, will actually manage the theater by proxy.

The European Union allowed the supply of rocket fuel components from Russia. The corresponding document was published in the official journal of the European Union. An exception was made for propellant components needed for rocket and satellite launches. The EU authorities took this step so as not to harm the space programs of the European Union. Now supplies of hydrazine, heptyl and monomethylhydrazine of Russian origin are allowed.

The State Duma refused to index pensions for working pensioners, said on Twitter. Olga Batalina, head of the Duma Committee on Labor and Social Policy, According to Batalina, the deputies kept the pensions of working pensioners, but refused to index them. She added that the annual recalculation of pensions for working pensioners in August will continue. Batalina said today that Russians' pensions will be indexed twice.

Novaya Gazeta, together with the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, is launching a project in which we will talk with leading Russian experts on the Middle East and North Africa. The region is complex and torn apart by numerous local conflicts throughout the 20th century. And the Syrian conflict today has already turned into an international confrontation, the consequences of which are difficult to predict.

The living classic, the great Russian poet is 90 years old! The living classic, the great Russian poet is 90 years old! On October 14 of this year, the great Russian poet, living classic Naum Korzhavin turns 90 years old. And on October 15 in Moscow, in the "House of the Russian Diaspora" (Verkhnyaya Radishchevskaya, house 2) at 19:30, an evening dedicated to the hero of the day will be held. In the program of the evening: Host of the evening Leonid Persky. Free admission.

The head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Oleksandr Zakharchenko, has signed a decree postponing local elections to 2016, according to the Donetsk News Agency. It is known that the elections in the republic are scheduled for March 20, 2016. According to Denis Pushilin, chairman of the People's Council of the DPR, the decree to postpone elections to local governments from the planned date of October 18 next year will be another step towards Ukraine.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation said that over the past 24 hours, 300 militants of the Islamic State (an organization banned in Russia) have been killed as a result of airstrikes in Syria, reports . Interfax 200 people were killed during the bombing of the headquarters of the ISIS in the province of Raqqa, another 100 - in the province of Aleppo. Two high-ranking IS field commanders are reportedly among those killed.

Gazprom will start supplying gas to Ukraine from 12 October. The corporation agreed on this with the Ukrainian company Naftogaz, Interfax reports . It is reported that the Ukrainian side sent an application to Gazprom for the supply of 2 billion cubic meters of gas in October. According to the agreement, Russia will start supplying gas to Ukraine from 10 am on October 12, provided that by that time the money from Naftogaz will go to the accounts of Gazprom.

The Belarusian state pretended that the Nobel laureate Svetlana Aleksievich does not exist The Belarusian state pretended that the Nobel laureate Svetlana Aleksievich does not exist The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Svetlana Aleksievich gave her first press conference in the twenty-meter editorial room of the Nasha Niva newspaper. There was no other room for the Belarusian Nobel laureate in Minsk. Journalists asked: who among the officials congratulated you? It turned out no one.

On October 12, bailiffs will begin to seize the property of Alexei Navalny in order to recover from him a debt to Multi-Processing Company LLC, Vadim Kobzev, an oppositionist's lawyer, said on Twitter. Alexei Navalny and his brother Oleg must pay 4.5 million rubles in a civil lawsuit by the Diversified Processing Company, the injured party in the so-called Yves Rocher case.

The jury of the Russian Booker Literary Prize has announced a short list of contenders for the award, reports . TASS The shortlist includes: Alisa Ganieva with the novel "The Bride and Groom", Vladimir Danikhnov ("Lullaby"), Yuri Pokrovsky ("Among the People"), Roman Senchin ("Flood Zone"), Alexander Snegirev ("Faith. Friendship of Peoples ”) and Guzel Yakhnina (“Zuleikha opens her eyes”). This year the jury includes prose writer Denis Gutsko, linguist Maxim Krongauz, critic and poet from St.

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In Moscow, at the Troekurovsky cemetery, a monument to Boris Nemtsov was unveiled. The opening of the monument is timed to coincide with the 56th birthday of the co-chairman of Parnassus and a deputy of the Yaroslavl Regional Duma. A photo of the monument on Twitter was published by Ilya Yashin, a former candidate for the regional Duma of the Kostroma region from the Parnassus party. About two dozen of his friends and associates came to honor the memory of Nemtsov, writes TASS.

The Pentagon will change its support program for the Syrian opposition, US Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said in London after meeting with British Defense Secretary Michael Fallon. “I think that very soon we will hear from him (Barack Obama) about the proposals on this topic, which he approved and about the course that we will now follow,” was quoted by Reuters.

The Ural Investigation Department for Transport of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation has completed an investigation into the circumstances of the death of the vice-governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk District Vitaly Yermoshin. As Novaya Gazeta reported , Yermoshin disappeared on May 30 near the confluence of the Irtysh and the Ob, falling overboard from the comfortable boat Grandeza, according to witnesses who, in their own words, did not see the moment of the fall.