Return to publications Projects archive On December 19 at 20:00 the Bilingua club will host a Political Debate on the topic “WHERE ARE THE ELECTIONS?” World chess champion and leader of the United Civil Front Garry Kasparov and leader of the Union of Right Forces party Nikita Belykh are participating in the debate. Free admission. DIRECTIONS TO THE CLUB: Krivokolenny Lane. house 10 p. 5; Art. metro: "Turgenevskaya", "Chistye Prudy".

The setting of the opera of Mozart “Idomena, the King of Cretan” again on the stage of the Berlin opera, RIA Novosti reports. It was first delivered in 2003, but in September 2006 it was canceled : the theater troupe decided not to provoke religious radicals. The fact is that in the production of Hans Neuofels, the protagonist puts a bag onto the stage, in which the heads of Buddha, Poseidon, Jesus and the Prophet Muhammad are lying.

The Malaysian government announced on Monday an order according to which all civil servants working in a border zone with Thailand are forbidden to go to a neighboring state for lunch, RIA Novosti reports. Employees of various state departments working in the immediate vicinity of the state border with Thailand, including employees of Border and law enforcement agencies, systematically visit a neighboring state without relevant documents.

On December 20, 2006, from 10-00 to 12-00 hours in Rosatom, a meeting of the board of the Union of Territories and Atomic Energy Enterprises (Chairman of the Board is the Governor of the Tver Region Dmitry Zelenin).

A group of American congressmen who was on Cuba received assurances from the Cuban authorities that Fidel Castro does not have cancer or any other deadly diseases, the Air Force reports. According to Cuban representatives, Castro, who underwent a surgical surgery on the intestine this year, was not shown in the public for several months, he will certainly return to active activity. Congressmen arrived at Cuba in order to contribute to the American-Cuban dialogue.

President of Ukraine Viktor Yushchenko went on a state visit to South Korea. According to news agencies, the president’s trip is accompanied by Foreign Minister Boris Tarasuk, Defense Minister Anatoly Gritsenko, Minister of Economy Vladimir Makukha, deputy head of the Presidential Secretariat Alexander Chaly.

The Israeli authorities plan to hold consultations with the Palestinian side in the coming days on the exchange of prisoners of Palestinians for the stolen corporal of Gida Shalit, RIA Novosti reports. Israel repeatedly expressed his readiness to release several hundred Palestinian prisoners from prisons in exchange for Shalit, who has been held captive by militants in the gas sector in June. The parameters of the transaction are still imprisoned by both parties with the mediation of Egypt.

** Themes of the day ** From the federal level, the central media commented on the meeting of the State Council of the Union State of Russia and Belarus, who has past last Friday. The press notes that V. Putin and A. Lukashenko have recently been regularly negotiated. But the "Allies" cannot resolve the sore issues of economic interaction. So their last was no exception: the three -hour conversation in the narrow composition ended with formal words about the planning progress in negotiations.

The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow on Monday will begin consideration on the merits of the criminal case of the ex-head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation Evgeny Adamov, accused of fraud and abuse of authority. Previous meetings have been repeatedly transferred. The reason for the transfer was the disease of one of the defendants - Vyacheslav the written and the failure of his lawyer Dmitry Kharitonov. The prosecutor has not accused the defense of delaying the process.

“This is not a disease? Is this Nietzsche? " - asks the scientist-homosexual, specialist in Proust with suicidal inclinations, with his fifteen-year-old nephew. The nephew is silent: because of Nietzsche, he no longer speaks, he hates everyone, but wants to become a pilot and squeezes in the backyard every morning. His father makes a living with lectures on success theory, 9 steps to victory for five single students, but he himself cannot boast of success.

Grigory Gritsenko The topic of state investment has always been very fashionable with us. Firstly, because from 1929 to 1991, all investments in our country were state. Secondly, part of the pale pink political forces of modern Russia, who heard the ringing, but do not know where he, with foam at the mouth, claims that in the modern capitalist West there is, it turns out, state investments, but we hit liberalism, and this is wrong, we must turn back.

The Court of the Southern District of New York temporarily banned Altimo and its two 100% “daughters”-Cyprus Alpren and the Ukrainian LLC Storm (owning 43.5% of Kyivstara)- To take on the territory of Ukraine any judicial actions that can “disrupt, postpone or prevent arbitration to the arbitration between Telenor and the Storm in New York.

Employees of the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation refused to ask witnesses in the “Litvinenko case” by Andrei Lugovoi and Dmitry Kovtun questions that were interested in British investigators, British The Times reports with reference to their sources in Scotland Yard.

The Tomsk regional court left the mayor of Tomsk Alexander Makarov under arrest, Radio Liberty reports . The court rejected the cassation appeal against the lower court's decision made on December 8. Lawyers sought to replace the arrest with a written recognizance or bail.

The President of the Russian Railway (Russian Railways), Vladimir Yakunin, does not exclude the possibility of creating two freight Russian Railways, RIA Novosti reports. According to Yakunin on Monday to journalists, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Ministry of Transport consider it advisable not to allocate all wagons into one cargo company at once, but to create two companies, since it would be more profitable.