This year the National Theater Awards are going on tour Yesterday, the Golden Mask press conferences were held in parallel in Moscow and St. Petersburg, since the current festival, the ninth in a row, will be held in St. Petersburg for the first time. As the general director of the award and festival, Eduard Boyakov, explained at a press conference, the idea belongs to the governor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Yakovlev.

VGTRK acquires a sixth part of EuroNews VGTRK becomes one of the largest shareholders of the EuroNews TV channel. On Monday, the General Assembly of EuroNews shareholders approved an increase in VGTRK's share in EuroNews from 1.8 to 16%. Thus, the Russian state media holding, along with television companies in France, Italy and Spain, has become one of the four largest shareholders of the international information television channel.

Museums around the world have announced their refusal to return previously removed exhibits. The directors of the world's largest museums issued a joint statement refusing to return their exhibits to the countries from which they were once taken. According to the BBC, on December 9, this document was signed by the heads of 18 museums, including the St.

There are two prices for the sea gates of Taganrog Next week the deal to sell a controlling stake in the Taganrog Commercial Sea Port (TMTP) is due to be completed. The Severstaltrans company, which has owned it for less than a year, is ready to cede its stake to Taganrog entrepreneur Alexander Denisov and his company Karavay Plus. A source at Severstaltrans told the Vremya Novostey newspaper that Karavai Plus offered such a price for the port that it was impossible to refuse the offer.

Today the budget will leave the walls of the State Duma Today deputies will gather in order to send the 2003 federal budget into greater independence, adopting it in the final, fourth reading. This event is purely ritual in nature, since in the fourth reading only linguistic and technical-legal revisions are possible. All possible parameters have already been agreed upon, and the lobbying spears for income redistribution have already been broken during the second and third readings.

For Russian fans, the truly interesting games at the Commonwealth Cup begin with the semi-finals. However, this time, after the quarterfinal matches, the tournament could have lost several favorites. The Dynamo Kyiv players managed to defeat the Turkmen champion Nisa with great difficulty. The Kiev team scored the winning goal just a couple of minutes before the end of the match - 3:2.

Today is Lokomotiv's last exam of the season Today, the new Russian champion, Lokomotiv Moscow, will meet Real Madrid in Madrid. The railway workers are at the dividing line of the second group stage of the Champions League: defeat in this match sharply reduces their chances of reaching the quarterfinals, although this is already an almost impossible mission for our club. However, the same Lokomotiv showed us not so long ago that nothing is impossible in this tournament.

Venezuelan media do not hide their hatred of President Chavez On Monday, supporters of the Venezuelan President gathered in front of the editorial offices of the largest private television channels in Caracas with the demand “Tell the truth!” Meanwhile, the opposition protested in front of the building of the only state television channel. On the tenth day of the strike, a divided Venezuela is at a critical moment. “We are at the finish line.

There is talk of revolution in Russian hockey Yesterday, the Super League played matches of the last round before the New Year holidays - the longest break in the Russian championship. The caravan of participants covered more than half the distance of the regular championship and went on a well-deserved rest until January 4. The time has come to take a breath, sum up the results in a calm atmosphere, “recharge the batteries” and prepare a springboard for the finishing spurt.

But the Austro-Swiss bid is still the favorite For the first time in the history of the European Championships, UEFA carries out such a thorough selection among applicants. Not only financial viability is taken into account, but also government support. Perhaps the strict conditions of the competition explain the large number of applicants. After all, this is exactly the case when the mere intention to host the main tournament of the continent is already prestigious and worthy of respect.

In the Moscow region town of Odintsovo, the Podderzhka shopping complex, located on the station square, burned down on Monday evening. At about 19.00, when the first fire crews arrived at the scene, the fire was already raging on an area of ​​400 square meters. meters, and due to the high temperature the roof of the building began to collapse. The flames quickly spread through small pavilions built of transparent plastic and filled with household chemicals and clothing.

The investment program of RAO UES is being adopted according to last year’s scenario The government's consideration of the investment program of RAO UES of Russia, as almost a year ago, is arousing increased interest. After all, in February, when plans for this year were being considered, industry reform was being discussed at the same time, and the progress of restructuring displeased many members of the cabinet.

New cafe-gallery “Ulitsa O.G.I.” opened with a photo exhibition At the Art Manege fair, the stands of the Ulitsa O.G.I. gallery are traditionally interesting. Everything is always in order with the taste of curator Lisa Plavinskaya. Today on the fair “Street” there are works by the excellent artist Irina Zatulovskaya. There is one more reason to remember this gallery. "Street O.G.I." opened its new branch, located among expensive luxury boutiques in Tretyakovsky Proezd.

General Director of the Rosenergoatom state concern Oleg SARAEV is confident that the government will today approve the enterprise’s investment program for next year. He told the correspondent of the Vremya Novostei newspaper Nikolai GORELOV about the plans of the nuclear scientists. -- What are the preliminary results of the implementation of the investment program for 2002? — We had to spend 19.8 billion rubles.

Yevgeny Kafelnikov, who underwent surgery immediately after the Davis Cup final match, can already begin light training. The operation lasted about an hour, and recovery from it took less than a week. It is not yet known whether Evgeniy will leave tennis, although he promised to do so after winning the Davis Cup. He is still going to prepare for the next season. The Russian team will play its first match of the next Davis Cup against the Czech team in Ostrava from February 7 to 9.