"Modern music." Composer Alexander Knaifel (Petersburg) ** "Visiting the Ural Old Believers." Tell the Old Believers of the city of Nevyansk (Sverdlovsk region)

In January, sales of new cars in Russia decreased by almost 30 percent, Kommersant reports. The decline last year amounted to 36 percent, while sales of luxurious brands are only growing.

- The new “wave” of the ruble devaluation will already increase prices in Russia by at least twice as much as it would be without it. - Import substitution in the Russian economy rested on such an expected problem as quality.

Ecocenter "Dront" Nizhny Novgorod Ecological Center "Dront" was included in the register of NPOs performing the functions of "Foreign Agent", May 22, 2015 The Nizhny Novgorod Ecological Center "Dront", included in the register of the so -called NGOs - "foreign agents" suspended work for an indefinite time, the Radio Liberty correspondent Sergei Anisimov reports.

Turkish President Recep Erdogan The President of Turkey called the "ridiculous" statement of Moscow about the impending invasion of the Turkish army in Syria Turkish President Recep Erdogan accused Russia of trying to create a “pocket state” in Syria. Speaking on Friday before journalists in Istanbul, the president said that Moscow should be held accountable for killing people in Syria.

Protest action of Serbian journalists in the city of Novi-Pazar January 25 The parliament, considering the dismissal of Bratislav Hashich, decided to unanimously The Serbia parliament on Friday, after a multi -hour discussion, resigned the Minister of Defense Bratislav Hashich. The reason for this decision was his insulting statement to the journalist of the Serbian television and radio company B92, which sounded in early December.

How did the governor elections in St. Petersburg in 1996 have influenced the future of Russia? Conversation with political scientist Alexei Shustov This year marks the 20th anniversary of the fateful elections of the Governor of St. Petersburg, on which mayor Anatoly Sobchak, together with his team, including Vladimir Putin, Alexei Kudrin , Lyudmila Narusov and many other politicians known today, suffered a crushing defeat, and Vladimir Yakovlev was elected the governor of St. Petersburg.

Reconstructures of the funeral complex "Princess Ukoka" at the National Museum of Gorno-Altaysk The court in Altai did not allow the burial of the ancient mummy, which local religious leaders consider sacred The Gorno-Altai City Court defended the lawsuit of the local religious figure Akai Kina , who demanded to reburiate the ancient mummy found by archaeologists on the UKOK plateau.

On February 12, a meeting of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill and Pope Francis will be held in Cuba on February 12, they said on Friday in the Russian Orthodox Church and in the Vatican. As the head of the Synodal Department of External Church Relations, Metropolitan Hilarion, told reporters in Moscow, the central topic of the upcoming negotiations will be persecution of Christians.

Frame from the film "Radio Directorate" The prize of spectator sympathy went to the picture about German prisoners of war in 1945 The jury of the 45th International Film Festival in Rotterdam summed up the results of its work. The award in the main competition ("Rotterdam Tiger") received the film "Radio Directorate" by Iranian director Babak Jalali. This is the story of Radio Pars from San Francisco.

Composer monologues ** "Visiting the Ural Old Believers." Tell the Old Believers of the city of Nevyansk (Sverdlovsk region) Composer Alexander Knaifel (Petersburg): “By what laws does art exist in time? I once still imagined that beauty is a moment of such burning, absolute combustion, and this impossibility, unbearable fire, energy, divine fire, in order to exist in our earthly time, freezes in the form of beauty.

Christian Jensen According to the Foreign Minister Denmark, otherwise Europe will be difficult to remain unified in support of sanctions against Russia Ukraine must fully carry out the reforms provided for by the Minsk agreements to resolve the conflict in the east of Ukraine. Otherwise, the countries of Europe will be very difficult to act with a single position on the issue of supporting sanctions against Moscow.

Vladimir Kekhman tried to answer the accusations of the "criminal" reconstruction of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater A year ago, the head of the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater, the head of the St. Petersburg Mikhailovsky Theater, Vladimir Kekhman, was appointed. This happened after the scandal with the setting of the opera Richard Wagner Tangeyer and the subsequent dismissal of the former director Boris Mezdrich.