First and last time "Baltic House" in Moscow Yesterday, on the stage of the Moscow Youth Theater, the NET festival closed with Alvis Hermanis’s “The Inspector General” (New Riga Theater) and the “Baltic House” festival in Moscow began (read the review of the play in tomorrow’s issue of the newspaper) . What the St. Petersburg Theater-Festival “Baltic House” is, why it is called that and why it is famous, is even somehow inconvenient to explain in the twelfth year of its life.

Armenian pilots killed in Sudan The four foreign citizens who died in the An-12 plane crash in southern Sudan on Monday were employees of Armenian civil aviation. A Sudanese Sariya airline cargo plane exploded while landing at Wau airport. 13 people were killed, including the Armenian crew. According to the airline's general director, Mohammed Abdel Kader, the plane was carrying food and money from the Central Bank.

Sergei Ivanov defeated the generals Yesterday, as befits his position, the chief newsmaker of the traditional annual meeting of the leadership of the Ministry of Defense became the chief newsmaker of this department, Sergei Ivanov. Although the President-Commander-in-Chief traditionally participates in this event, this time he took the floor only twice. “The army must be prepared to repel the threats of tomorrow” - this statement was the leitmotif of Putin’s opening speech.

Yesterday, 50-year-old Gennady Vasilyev, who previously held the post of Vice Speaker of the Rada, became the new Prosecutor General of Ukraine. The deputies supported the president's proposal and voted for this appointment. It was possible to obtain the required number of votes thanks to the communists. In exchange, they received the position of vice-speaker of the Rada - Adam Martynyuk became it.

Centrists ask the Prosecutor General's Office to leave the communists without an investor The State Duma yesterday turned to the Prosecutor General of Russia Vladimir Ustinov with a request to conduct an audit of the activities of the Rosagropromstroy corporation, which is headed by one of the leaders and main sponsor of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Viktor Vidmanov (pictured) . The initiative for the appeal was taken by the Duma Security Committee.

Officials of the Ministry of Natural Resources were presented with an article In Khabarovsk on Monday, two high-ranking officials detained last week were formally charged. The head of the Far Eastern District Directorate of the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR), Sergei Krupetsky, and the head of the Khabarovsk Regional Directorate of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Vitaly Sevrin, are charged with Art.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Accounts Chamber now want to deal with alcohol producers and railway workers The heads of the Main Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes (GUBEP) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Accounts Chamber (AC) yesterday at a joint press conference gave explanations regarding the significant statements made the day before about possible new investigations against oil workers.

Having sent troops to Afghanistan a quarter of a century ago, the USSR became bogged down in a long-term, hopeless war. Today, many analysts believe, the United States finds itself in a similar situation in Iraq. But analogies are hardly appropriate here. Our soldiers appeared in Afghanistan during the global Soviet-American confrontation. The Americans entered Iraq when neither the bipolar world nor the USSR ceased to exist.

Russia has forgiven Transnistria part of its gas debt The Russian government has decided to write off part of Moldova's debt in the amount of $100 million. This was announced yesterday by the head of the government information department, Alexey Gorshkov. According to him, this is a debt for Russian gas received by Pridnestrovie, the supplies of which were carried out for a number of years by Gazprom. According to Mr.

Orthodox Christians from Boston ask their priests to return to the Russian Orthodox Church For the second day now, the hierarchs of the Moscow Patriarchate and the delegation of the Church Abroad have been trying to come to an agreement on overcoming the schism in Russian Orthodoxy. Yesterday the first negotiations took place between Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow and All Rus' and Archbishop Mark of Berlin and Germany, who arrived in Moscow with other bishops of the ROCOR on Monday evening.

"Diamonds of American Ballet" on the stage of the Bolshoi Theater Slot machines that are in stores and cinemas - you throw a coin, a piece of iron goes and grabs the toy from the general pile. One toy. Or it doesn’t catch at all - which is more common. And there are a lot of toys, and it would be great to get one, and another, and a third. But we are all adults, we all know what it costs and that miracles do not happen. In general, we don’t even hope to win, just like that, what if...

Today, the Federation Cup, an unofficial world championship for women's teams, starts at the Olimpiysky sports complex in the capital. In the semi-finals, the teams of Russia and France, as well as Belgium and the USA will sort things out. Then the winners of the semi-final matches will meet in the final. Before the start of the team tournament, the Belgians were considered one of the main contenders for winning the Cup.

Arkady Dvorkovich assessed the potential of the law on deposit insurance The government is making its last efforts to publicly support the bill “On insurance of deposits in banks.” Deputy Minister of Economic Development Arkady Dvorkovich yesterday made an interesting forecast, according to which the State Duma will today approve the law in the second reading with a majority of “250-260 votes.” Mr.

The complaint of Mr. Smykov, who objects to the approval by the Ministry of Antimonopoly Policy (MAP) of the merger of YUKOS and Sibneft, was accepted by the Presnensky Court for consideration.

Don deputies want to protect buyers of new buildings from scammers The Legislative Assembly of the Rostov Region intends to introduce special “state accounting of investment agreements in housing construction” on the Don in order to protect shareholders from unscrupulous developers trying to sell the same apartment to several investors at once.