Ramon Masats twenty years apart Although the name Ramon Masatsa does not mean anything to the viewer (and not only the Russian one), he is a famous photographer, a pioneer of reportage, and the pride of Spanish photography. Like Russian photographers, Masats lived and photographed for many years in a closed provincial country, where world photographic fashion was followed but not created. Therefore, he could only be an innovator and pioneer for Spain.

The Warsaw Bolshoi Theater is preparing for a December exchange tour with the Moscow Bolshoi Theater On the initiative of Shvydki and the new Minister of Culture of Poland Waldemar Dąbrowski (when the agreement was reached, the latter was still serving as general director of the Warsaw Opera), the Warsaw Bolshoi Theater will bring three performances to Moscow - the traditionalist “The Terrible Yard” by Moniuszko (like our “Susanin”, only this is a charming comedy) , the modernist “King Roger” by

There is a widespread point of view that further development of the Russian economy is possible based on the use of either (as before) raw material potential, or (as an alternative) the accelerated growth of the knowledge-intensive, high-tech sector. At the same time, it is believed that the first path is flawed, leading to Russia’s technological lag behind the developed countries of the world and increasing our economic dependence.

States are sharply increasing their military budget Yesterday the US Senate adopted the country's military budget for the 2003 fiscal year. By a vote of 93 to 1, senators (most of them traditionally more peace-loving Democrats) allocated a record amount for defense - $355.4 billion.

Germany is seriously facing new troubles with the European Commission. This time, officials intend to use the courts to force Gerhard Schröder's government to strictly comply with the requirements for liberalizing the gas market.

National problems were predicted If we ignore the appearance of hobbits, Scythians and elves in certain Russian regions, the national side of the census did not bring any surprises. Pain points were Dagestan and Tatarstan, where the emergence of “new” peoples, not registered by Soviet censuses since 1938, was expected. They appeared there, which created difficult problems for the leadership of these republics.

There are more Chechens than before the war The Chechen government is proud of the census result: the population of the republic has exceeded one million. This means that, compared to pre-war times, the number of inhabitants there not only did not decrease, but even seemed to have grown. According to the 1989 census, about 1 million 300 thousand people lived in the Soviet Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Bahrain's Minister for External Relations, Fahmi Ali Al-Juder, said that in order to build a state-of-the-art circuit that will be ready to host Formula 1 in 2004, they will ask for help from Malaysia, which already has similar experience. Work is estimated to cost $150 million and is due to begin this month and finish in March 2004. If Bahrain meets the target date, it will become the first country in the Middle East to host an F1 Grand Prix.

On October 21, the REN TV channel will air a new project, “Economic Review,” which is a kind of continuation of the “Big Money” program, which ran until the summer of this year on the NTV channel. The correspondent of the Vremya Novostey newspaper Maxim BALUTENKO talked about the new television project with its creator and presenter, head of the Social Communications Agency Igor POTOTSKY. -- How will your new program differ from the “Big Money” project, which aired on the NTV channel?

Alexander Veshnyakov decided to personally monitor the elections in Kalmykia On Sunday, October 20, presidential elections will be held in Kalmykia. This will be the last election under the old electoral law. So, disillusioned after the riot that the Krasnoyarsk regional election commission staged, Alexander Veshnyakov decided to follow the Kalmyk elections with his own eyes so that “no one would be sick of looking at them.” To do this, he flew to the republic yesterday evening.

The domain name ntv.ru goes to the NTV television company. As the site's editor-in-chief Elena Bereznitskaya told a Vremya Novostey correspondent, the news site ntv.ru is changing its location on the Internet, and from October 17 it will be located at newsru.com. Already yesterday, there was a “stub” on the ntv.ru website, which recommended network users to follow the new address.

The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade agreed on the main provisions of the law on currency regulation Currency liberalization, which the Russian oligarchs have been demanding from the government for years, will apparently take place.

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Romano Prodi criticizes draconian EU laws President of the European Commission Romano Prodi yesterday called the European Stability and Economic Growth Pact “stupid and overly straightforward,” although this pact is key to the financial policies of all countries in the euro currency area. In an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde, Mr. Prodi complained that the document cannot even be adjusted due to the lack of flexibility in European Union legislation.

As you know, "O.G.I." - this is not only a publishing house ("united humanitarian"), but also a network of entertainment and nutritional establishments, where people drink and snack, buy books (not only "ogish"), listen (if the noise allows) poems performed by famous poets and sing along nice musical groups. This is in the evenings.