The Russian premiere of “The St. John Passion” by Sofia Gubaidulina took place Two months after the world premiere in Stuttgart, “The St. John Passion” was performed in Russia. Under the direction of Valery Gergiev, it was performed in St. Petersburg by soloists, orchestra and choir of the Mariinsky Theater, reinforced by the Nikolai Kornev Chamber Choir.

A new book by Vera Pavlova has been published Vera Pavlova's collection "The Fourth Dream" (M., "Zakharov") opens with a collection of critical judgments, where delight is adjacent to ferocious shouts. Swearing is also advertising: you have to maintain a scandalous atmosphere, you have to remind again and again that Pavlova writes exclusively “about this,” you have to lure the reader with the aroma of the forbidden fruit. In my opinion, there is no need.

Peres and Arafat prove that they received the Peace Prize for a reason Today it will become clear to what extent the head of the Palestinian Authority, Yasser Arafat, controls the situation in the territories transferred to him. Yesterday, the Palestinian leader showed political will for peace by agreeing with former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres to end the violence. Arafat later discussed security measures by telephone with current Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak.

Lubyanka is preparing for war with American special forces On Thursday, Georgia completed the implementation of an American program called the Beecroft Initiative.

“Spartak” can always count on help that it doesn’t need Having defeated Rostselmash yesterday in Luzhniki with a score of 1:0, the players of the capital's Spartak won the title of Russian champions. The “red-whites” receiving another title, the eighth in the recent history of Russian football and the fifth in a row, can be viewed differently. But the fact remains that at the moment Spartak is truly the best club in the country.

Emperor Haile Selassie will finally be buried The remains of Ethiopia's last emperor, Haile Selassie, will be reburied in Addis Ababa on Sunday. The ceremony, marking the 70th anniversary of his coronation, caused controversy. Many objected to the mourning ceremony being official. Haile Selassie, who died a quarter of a century ago, ascended the throne in 1930. According to legend, his family, which ruled the country for 2000 years, went back to the biblical King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba.

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When I received the order, I immediately set a condition: I want to write the Passion according to the Gospel of John. Because Jesus is closest to me as he is described in John. However, to each his own: Wolfgang Rihm, for example, when he was asked to write the Passion, exclaimed: “Not according to John!” And I chose the Passion according to Luke. The most important thing for me in this work was the combination of the texts of the Passion with texts from the Apocalypse.

A meeting of the commission to investigate the circumstances of the crash of the Il-18 military transport aircraft, which occurred on October 25 in the vicinity of Batumi, took place in Moscow yesterday. The head of the commission, Secretary of the Russian Security Council Sergei Ivanov, said that the cause of the plane crash was its deviation from the established approach pattern of up to 20 km.

The main Mujahid reached Tehran The military leader of the Northern Alliance of Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, spent almost the entire day yesterday in Tehran, where he was received by high-ranking representatives of the Iranian army and intelligence services. According to information from the Vremya Novostey newspaper, obtained from informed Iranian sources, the leader of the Afghan northerners arrived in Tehran on the evening of November 1.

Another scandal was marked yesterday by the closed trial taking place in the Moscow City Court in the case of American citizen Edmond Pope, accused by the Russian authorities of espionage. State prosecutor Oleg Plotnikov said after the end of the meeting that the wife of a professor at Moscow State Technical University, who spoke on the NTV program “Today” on November 1, Bauman Anatoly Babkin, who is one of the key witnesses in the Pope case, is not one at all.

Norilsk Nickel found something to spend its profits on Norilsk Nickel will produce glass melting vessels, catalysts for the oil industry and filter catalysts for cars. Yesterday this was announced by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of RAO Norilsk Nickel, Yuri Kotlyar, speaking at the conference “Russian Market of Precious Metals and Precious Stones”. “If people produce metal, they want to participate in the business in which this metal is used,” says Yuri Kotlyar.

Royal Probably never in recent years have Swedes talked so much about Crown Princess Victoria and the future of the Swedish monarchy. The thing is that Crown Princess Victoria became engaged to her lover Daniel Collert. It would seem to be an everyday matter. However, a princess is a princess because her every step, and especially her choice of groom, takes on the character of a political action.

Vladimir Kramnik - 14th world chess champion “He doesn’t just play with chess, he performs sacred acts,” Vladimir Nabokov said about the famous player in his famous novel “The Defense of Luzhin.” Perhaps this is precisely the description that any master of the ancient game deserves who has reached the main pinnacle in his career - the title of world champion. Until yesterday, there were 13 such people in world history.

Another fragment of the suicide note of Kursk crew member Dmitry Kolesnikov was made public yesterday at the St. Petersburg Admiralty during the farewell to the lieutenant commander. “It’s dark to write here, but I’ll try by touch. There seems to be no chance. 10-20 percent. Let's hope at least someone reads it. Here are the lists of the personnel of the compartments who are in the ninth and will try to leave.