On February 25, the Jubilee 20th Russian Antique Salon will open at the Central House of Sciences. Again, experts and considering themselves as such, wandering along the stands, will be baptized about fakes, about unreliable experts, that now generally one cannot believe in anything. Probably, they will also recall the “Preobrazhensky case” on the sale of about two dozens of falsified work to the collector for the sale of antiques.

In the suburbs of St. Petersburg, a forced labor colony number 5 is on fire. According to preliminary data, there are no injured. “Information about the fire in the two-story brick building of the correctional and labor colony number 5, located in the 1st passage in the village of Metallostroy (Kolpinsky district of St. Petersburg), received about 9.53 Moscow time,” said RIA Novosti in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation for St.

The deputy commander for the rear of the Glukhovsky Guards Division of the Strategic Missile Forces (Novosibirsk Region) Vladimir Kontonistov, who was accused of abuse of authority and receiving a bribe, was sentenced to a fine of 60 thousand rubles, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. The court also forbade Contronistov for 3 years to occupy command and administrative posts. In addition, the court satisfied the civil lawsuit against Containe in the amount of 110 thousand 440 rubles.

Iran will be discussed in Vienna Nuclear Dossier in Vienna Today, the Vienna International Center will host a meeting of the Council of Management of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) dedicated to the Iranian nuclear program. The day before, representatives of the UK, Germany, China, Russia, the USA and France agreed on the draft resolution on this issue.

Today, 60 years later, Sergei Prokofiev’s ballet “Cinderella” returns to the stage of the Bolshoi Theater. The event is commented by People's Artist of Russia, premier of the Bolshoi Theater ballet, Sergei Filin: The premiere of "Cinderella" is certainly an event for modern cultural life. The Bolshoi Theater has not produced a full-scale original ballet for a long time. The performance was done in a very unusual, modern way. Let's take the stage design for example.

The Egyptian tycoon, the owner of the French newspaper France Soir, who published on the eve of scandalous caricatures on the Prophet Muhammad, fired the responsible editor of the publication Jacques Lefranka, reports Ar . In his statement, the owner of the newspaper calls the dismissal “with a gesture of respect for the personal beliefs and beliefs of each person,” and apologizes to the entire Muslim community.

The Ministry of Culture is preparing amendments to the Federal Law on the media, Leonid Nadirov, Deputy Minister of Culture and Mass Communications, said at a press conference, however, what kind of amendments this will be, he refused to report. "The current law is conceptually preserved. But there are amendments that this law is modern. Now the concept of the law" On Amendments to the Law on Media is developed.

The State Duma Committee supports the idea of ​​creating a military police in the army. The Chairman of the Committee Viktor Zavarzin told reporters today, this structure is extremely necessary today by the Armed Forces of Russia. According to Zavarzin, the military police should be formed as an independent federal executive body with constant civil control over its activities by authorities and the public.

A group of researchers led by Dr. Charles Lada (Charles Lada) from Harvard-Smithsonian Center (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics) published data according to which 85% of our stars of our galaxy are single red dwarfs, reports Space . It was previously believed that most stars in our galaxy are double star systems. This idea that arose at the end of the 18th century and confirmed in the XX was based on the predominance of such stars among the observation available at that time.

Today, the Americans again celebrate Surka's Day - superstition, officially approved as a holiday in 1886 by popular belief, the onset of spring is predicted by animals that hibernate for the winter. It is believed that on February 2, the marmots crawl out of the hole to check whether it is possible to wake up. If it lingers, then the spring will be early.

The Security Service of Ukraine has lists of citizens whose stay in the country is undesirable, RIA Novosti reports. According to the press secretary of the SBU, Marina Ostapenko, such a list in the security service really exists, and it includes "not only citizens of the Russian Federation, but also many other states." According to Ostapenko, the “black list” is formed by the SBU on the basis of Ukrainian legislation, then transferred to the country's service of the country.

The director of the 8-episode film "Golden Calf" demonstrated by the first channel, Ulyana Shilkina in an interview with Polit.ru said: "I realized well enough that this film would be compared with other versions when I started working." The film really caused a wave of criticism. At the request of Komsomolskaya Pravda , cultural figures, TV (and several near -cultural figures) appreciated the new television version of the Golden Calf. Here are some impressions of the series.

The plot of the new film by Larisa Sadilova Prost to everyday life and is terrible to madness. Former biology teacher, provincial Galya (Marina Zubanova) is hired by a nanny into a suburban house of "new medium" and turns their life into hell. She tells the daughter of young spouses, she tells terrible stories, her mother calls on his cell phone and is silent into the phone, imitating her husband’s mistress, with whom, in turn, she sleeps and then blackmail him with her pregnancy.

Unfortunately, it is necessary to state that the process of reprivatization begins to accelerate. A few weeks ago, we had to write about the unusual investment activity of the state holding of Rosoboronexport. By investment activity in this case, we understand not the growth of the number of newly beginning construction projects, but the increase in the number of bought (or under control) of private enterprises.

“In some countries, not only in OPEC countries, but also in European countries, say, Norway, the oil and gas sector is almost completely monopolized by the state. There, Stat Oil and the second company are state-owned companies. We are not going down that path." Vladimir Putin Since President Putin is talking about complete monopolization in the Norwegian oil and gas sector, I would like to find out in more detail what Russia managed to avoid.