The International Chess Federation (FIDE) wants to build the World Chess Center on the site of the twin towers in New York. On Thursday, September 16, the head of Fide Kirsan Ilyumzhinov spoke about these plans. The Federation offered the mayor of New York Michael Bloomberg and the owner of this land plot to redeem the land for $ 10 million. At this place, FIDE plans to build a center with a chess academy and a school.

In 2009, the Minister of Culture of the Perm Territory Boris Milgram at the Economic Forum talked a lot about the cultural strategy of the city. Most of his recommendations were taken into account - so on the forum -2010 he will have something to brag about and what to rely on the report. However, the minister himself is not inclined to exaggerate his merits to the cultural revolution in Perm.

Ahmed Zakaev is already in Poland. “The Prime Minister in the exile of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria” came to the Third International Congress of the peoples of Chechnya in Warsaw. This information on Thursday, September 16, distributed TVN24. Zakaev states that the last time was in Poland three weeks ago, and nothing . Photo: Musa Muradov / Kommersant The third international congress of the peoples of Chechnya began on September 16 in the suburbs of Warsaw, it will last until September 18.

President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, congratulated Evgeny Petrosyan on the 65th anniversary of the People's Artist of the RSFSR. The President of Belarus, the press service of the President of Belarus, reports on the congratulation of the television soldier on Thursday, September 16. At the same time, on September 14, Alexander Lukashenko did not send a congratulatory telegram with the 45th anniversary of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.

On September 16, the XVII forum of publishers opened in Lviv. The event is international: participants from Poland, Russia, the USA, Germany, Lithuania. According to statistics, editors of several hundred publishers arrived, 70 libraries, bookstores, and many public organizations were presented. There is also a literary festival, for which 290 writers and poets from 24 countries are engaged. At the same time - library and entrepreneurial forums.

Samara school No. 15 was sealed with the schoolchildren located inside. On Thursday, September 16, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the bailiffs. The school was closed on Wednesday, September 15, for 30 days by court decision due to violations of fire safety standards. On this day, the students had the first extension. When the parents came for the children, they saw a sealed building. Schoolchildren remained inside. Parents brought their children through the back door.

The wife of the Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkova Elena Baturina will become the heroine of the Russian Sensation program on NTV. The authors of the program plan to explain “how to become the wife of the mayor of Moscow”, promises an advertising video of the program posted on Thursday, September 16, on the television company. The program is scheduled for September 18. The program is called "Dear Elena Nikolavna" and will talk about the "richest and, perhaps, the most mysterious" woman in Russia.

In one of the abandoned buildings of Perm, squat will soon appear - rooms in which artists will be able to live and engage in creativity for a symbolic fee. As always, this idea, ripening in the head of Marat Helman, has already caused a wave of criticism.