Lars von Trier at a press conference in Cannes The famous director Lars von Trier, expelled in May from the Cannes Film Festival after the statement that he "understands Hitler", abandoned his apologies. In an interview published in the October issue of GQ magazine, Trier says that he had nothing to apologize for, because his words were a joke.

Cheslav Milos: “enslaved mind” and “native Europe”. The famous program of Milos for the first time in Russian. Man and totalitarianism: a European at the decisive moments of history. Why, after Milos’s books, is it easier to talk about anti -Semitism, Catholicism and communism? Who is a resident of Central Europe, where does he get the feeling of rejection, who is he offended and why did he have to choose between fascism and communism?

Indian artist T.V. Santosh at his work by HoundingDown (2007) at the exhibition "Re -Celebrated Worlds". On September 22, the 4th Eight Biennale of Contemporary Art was opened in Moscow. Its main sites are the fifth floor of the TSUM department store and the Artplay Design Center. 65 artists and art groups from 33 countries participate in Biennal, and the motto of the exhibition is “rewriting the worlds”.

Football. Championship of Spain. 5th round "Valkano district" - "Levante" 1: 2 "Rasing" - "Real" 0: 0 "Malaga" - "Athletic" 1: 0 "Atletico" - "Sporting" 4: 0 "Valencia" - "Barcelona" 2: 2

In St. Petersburg, the 21st International Festival of Documentary, Game Short and Animation Films "The Message to Man" is opening today. At the opening ceremony that will be held in the Aurora cinema, the film Laureate of the Viktor Kosakovsky festival "Long live the antipodes!" 62 paintings participate in the international competition. The winner will receive a statuette of a golden centaur and 5 thousand dollars.

Marina Timasheva: I leaf through the collection '' History and culture of traditional Japan '', published by the Russian State Humanitarian University, and I find a familiar name. Here, in the Kamimite Kieko article, I read that '' In many countries there are erroneous ideas about Japan '', and B. Akunin '' is one of the few people, as it seems to us, correctly understanding our country '' (404).

Berlin: Demonstration against the visit of the pope In the center of Berlin, thousands of people gathered for a demonstration of protest against the visit of Pope Benedict XVI . The action organized by the Union of Lesbians and Gays of Germany was participated in victims of sexual crimes of priests, atheists, as well as several dozen opposition deputies of the Bundestag, who objected to the Pontiff's Parliament. In their opinion, this violates the principle of parliamentary neutrality.

Fans of fresh information in the coming days will provide reports at once on several large talks. For every taste: debate at the UN General Assembly, election congresses of Russian political parties. "Party", as it appears from the Latin root of the word - is also a "side". Here in the best traditions of "freedom" and consider everything - from all sides.

Moscow once supported Igor Smirnov ... Consultations on Transnistrian settlement were held in Moscow. They decided to resume the negotiation process in the "5+2" format. Negotiations on the political settlement of the Moldovan-Podnestrovsk conflict are resumed against the background of the beginning of the presidential election of the self-proclaimed Transnistrian Republic.

Istanbul police work at the murder site The Turkish police conducts an investigation into a high -profile crime - the murder in Istanbul at the end of last week of three people from Chechnya. Every day there are new circumstances of the incident that allow local journalists and experts to believe that Russian special services are behind this crime.

In Tunisia, Al Baghdadi Ali Al-Mammudi, the Prime Minister at the regime of the overthrown leader of Libya Muamar Gaddafi, was arrested. Unnamed representatives of the Tunisian authorities confirmed that this happened on Wednesday evening. Earlier on Thursday, the Libyan transition government said that his forces were captured by the city of Sabha, one of the last strongholds of Caddafi's supporters. However, so far it has not been possible to suppress several sniper points in the city.

Football. Championship of France. 7th round "Nansi" - "Valancenn" 1: 1 "Paris Saint-Germain"-"Nice" 2: 1 "St. Etienne"-"Toulouse" 1: 1 "Sosho" - "Renn" 2: 6 "Marcel" - "Evian" 2: 0 "Loryan" - "Oser" 1: 1 "Dijon" - "Brest" 1: 0 "Kan" - "Lyon" 1: 0 "Ayaccio" - "Montpellier" 1: 3 After the 7th round: 1. "Montpellier" 16 points 2. "Renn" 14 3. "Lyon" 14 4. "Toulouse" 14 5. "Paris Saint-Germain" 14

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