Russian nuclear engineering company Atomstroyexport (part of Rosatom ) has increased its claim against Bulgaria's National Electric Company (NEC) for the closure of the Belene NPP construction project to 1 billion euros. The plaintiff points out that the Bulgarian authorities terminated the project ahead of schedule and have still not compensated Atomstroyexport for its costs and losses.

Personal archive Yekaterinburg, where Samodurov took over as chief choreographer a year ago, has one of Russia’s most powerful ballet companies. Yet it has never been among the companies that define the domestic ballet landscape. Now that is changing rapidly. Late last season, Samodurov released his own original full-length ballet. Before the new season began, nine young choreographers, selected by a jury chaired by Ratmansky, came to Yekaterinburg to work with local artists on new productions.

The Ministry of Culture of the Moscow Region will add the protection zone of the Grebnevo estate in the Moscow Region to the state cadastre; these works are currently in their final stages, the ministry said in a statement. The Grebnevo estate, located in the Shchyolkovsky District of the region, has become yet another Moscow Region monument whose protection zone has been subject to unauthorized construction.

The Greek authorities, on the verge of default, have already taken significant steps towards optimizing the country's budget and modernizing its economy, the European Central Bank ( ECB ) said in a statement. Greece receives external assistance from the eurozone and the International Monetary Fund ( IMF), without which it is not able to fully pay off its obligations.

September 11, 2012, 14:38 / Auto Production of the VAZ “classic” will end on September 17 Gennady Anisimov AvtoVAZ is completing production of classic Lada models, said Alexey Alekseev, general director of the United Automobile Group (OAS, a subsidiary of AvtoVAZ). The last batch of cars will roll off the assembly line of the Izhevsk Automobile Plant, which is managed by the OAS, on September 17, RIA Novosti reports.

D. Grishkin / Vedomosti The policies of President Vladimir Putin are supported by 59% of Russians, while in 2002 the level of his support was 75%. These are the results of a poll conducted by VTsIOM on August 24-25 among 1,600 people in 46 regions. The statistical error does not exceed 3.4%. Respondents were asked what opinion they had of the president - favorable or unfavorable, whether they approved of his policies and how much he influenced events in the country.

1. EU leaders postponed decision on new sanctions against Russia 17 A new package of sanctions will be developed over the next week if tensions in southeast Ukraine do not de-escalate; four EU countries opposed the extension of the embargo 2.

15 photos Did one of the most famous Soviet children's writers, who received a state prize for his trilogy about a funny boy - a braggart and a liar, know half a century ago that his last fairy tale novel, ridiculing the vices of the capitalist world unknown to the Soviet reader, would become more relevant than ever in his homeland, after the collapse THE USSR?

The beginning of September turned out to be worse for the American box office than the end of August. The twelve highest-grossing films together scraped together $51.9 million. This is the worst result not even for the year, but for several years starting from the crisis of 2008, when on these same days the Americans brought in $50.3 million to a dozen box office leaders.

President Vladimir Putin has issued a decree establishing a coordinating council for the implementation of the National Strategy for Action in the Interests of Children for 2012-2017. According to the Kremlin website, the council will be headed by Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matviyenko. Deputy Prime Minister for Social Affairs Olga Golodets was appointed deputy chairperson of the council.

At a meeting on Tuesday, the Gazprom board approved an increase in the investment program for 2012 by 198 billion rubles compared to the 777 billion rubles approved in December of last year, thus increasing it to 975 billion rubles, the gas holding's information department reported to the Prime agency.

In the article “They came back for money” (No. 167 from 5.09.2012, p. 09) it should be read: “ Russian Railways borrowed more than 19 billion rubles in July.” In the article “Metro is distributing “Fasol” (No. 169 from 7.09.2012, issue “Yug Rossii”, page 06) one should read: “By September 11, five stores with an area of ​​50 to 150 sq. m will open under the “Fasol” brand in Rostov,” the press service of “Metro Cash & Carry” reported. The editors apologize.

In Russia, there is a discussion about tightening the smoking legislation. The Ministry of Health has submitted to the government a draft federal law "On the protection of public health from environmental tobacco smoke and the consequences of tobacco consumption." How important are such measures? The results of economic studies are as follows. Firstly, the ban on smoking in public places really does significantly reduce passive smoking.

Nelson Ching / Bloomberg The country's leadership is set to change in a few weeks at the Chinese Communist Party Congress, ushering in a fifth generation of leaders. But Xi has not appeared in public since September 1, canceling meetings with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong. A delegation of senior Russian officials was also out of luck.

Political scientist Vyacheslav Nikonov, elected to the State Duma in March, may take the post of first deputy chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, several deputies said. The committee is chaired by TV presenter Alexei Pushkov, who was first elected to parliament in March on the United Russia list and replaced another United Russia member, Konstantin Kosachev, in this post.