Two days left until the end of “Faces of Love” The festival, whose goal for the seventh year in a row is to introduce metropolitan film fans to “the most artistically perfect and original works of cinema about love,” has passed the halfway mark and is moving towards closing, where they will show Peter Cattaneo’s new crime-love comedy “Gift of Fate.” But before this moment, another gift of fate is coming - the notorious “surprise film”, the name of which was hidden until the last minute, but was

Russia and Kyrgyzstan are ready to sign an “interaction program” Yesterday in Sochi there was a meeting between the presidents of Russia and Kyrgyzstan, Vladimir Putin and Askar Akayev. Negotiations between the presidents continued at the Bocharov Ruchey residence until late in the evening. The presidents discussed the entire range of issues of Russian-Kyrgyz cooperation.

A communal amnesty has been announced in Volgodonsk On the eve of the new heating season, the Volgodonsk mayor's office dared to experiment. To mobilize as much money as possible to prepare for winter, city authorities announced a communal amnesty from September 15 to October 15. If during this period the townspeople voluntarily pay off their debts, then they will be forgiven penalties and fines.

"Turandot" by Puccini through the prism of new rituality At the Bolshoi Theatre, as planned, the usual ritual of opening the season was successfully disrupted. Instead of the inevitable “Ivan Susanin,” the premiere of the magical-ritual opera “Turandot” was shown. The mossy ritual was replaced by a ritualized breakthrough to European sophistication. At least that's how it was intended.

The chances of Alexander Khloponin and Alexander Uss are approximately equal There was no sensation. Communist representative Sergei Glazyev, with 22% of the vote, was 3% behind the head of Taimyr Alexander Khloponin and took third place. Thus, Alexander Khloponin and the leader of yesterday's vote, Speaker of the Krasnoyarsk Legislative Assembly Alexander Uss (27.6% of the votes) will fight for the seat of governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

The international holiday of beauty was celebrated only in Russia Humanity, bored with everyday life, has come up with a lot of different holidays - from respectable and traditional ones like the New Year to humorous ones like International No Diet Day. And it’s quite difficult for a new holiday to secure a place in the calendar. But not in Russia - we grab any excuse for a “cultural holiday.” The list of little-known holidays often includes International Beauty Day, which falls on September 9.

Kuchma responded to “Our Ukraine” Ukrainian President Leonid Kuchma is ready to form a coalition government. Even if the majority in the Verkhovna Rada is created on the basis of the opposition faction “Our Ukraine”, led by former Prime Minister Viktor Yushchenko. “If Viktor Andreevich can form a majority, let him create it. Without waiting for changes to the constitution, I will go to form a government,” Kuchma said.

The jackpot was divided among four The final stage of the annual Golden League athletics marathon, which finished last weekend in Berlin, did not make any changes to the list of contenders for the golden jackpot. Their names were known even before the start: American Marion Jones, Mexican Anna Guevara, Moroccan Hicham El Gerouj and Felix Sanchez from the Dominican Republic. All four won the previous six stages of the track and field Grand Prix.

The world has approached the anniversary of September 11 with serious contradictions. The United States is increasingly trying to impose rules of behavior on the world stage on its partners, in particular Russia.

ITAR-TASS united Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan Yesterday, with the light hand of an ITAR-TASS correspondent in Astana, an incredible sensation rumbled across the spaces of Eurasia.

Everything should be like in the textbooks The absence of a coal strategy in Russia (which Vladimir Putin and Aman Tuleyev recently spoke about in Kemerovo at a meeting of the State Council Presidium) may have an impact already this winter: coal miners warn that if cold weather sets in, Siberia faces an energy crisis.

Jessica MATTHEWS, President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, spoke to Vremya Novostei about the impact of September 11 on the most powerful country in the world. -- The United States has changed more than the rest of the world. Although in life we ​​encounter changes only at airports or in institutions. The myth that we stand apart and the fears of the world do not concern us has been dispelled.

Could terrorist attacks using aircraft as air rams be repeated in Russia? Army General Anatoly KORNUKOV, former commander-in-chief of the Russian Air Force, and now adviser to the general director of NPO Almaz OJSC on military-technical policy issues, answers this question in a conversation with military observer of the Vremya Novostei newspaper Nikolai POROSKOV. — Anatoly Mikhailovich, is this possible in Moscow?

Svetlana Vragova lit the “Sacred Fire” on the Moscow Art Theater stage The Moscow Art Theater is premiering again. It’s already difficult to say which one. Under the leadership of Oleg Tabakov, the dilapidated citadel of tradition instantly turned into a factory of theatrical events. The three stages of the country's main theater (the main stage, the Small Stage and the recently opened New Stage) produce performances like well-oiled conveyor belts.

The American consumer turned out to be morally stable Details of the deal to sell cable assets to AOL Time Warner, the dismissal of unscrupulous managers from Merrill Lynch, and, finally, the reduction in the forecast for American GDP growth based on the Federal Reserve's report on the state of the budget - these were the main topics of business newspapers on September 11, 2001. However, only Europe managed to read them - the Americans had no time for newspapers on the morning of the 11th.