Pain, compassion, shock and gradually growing rage - this is what the majority of Russians feel now after the “ten days of terror.” In the wake of the horror they experienced, a huge number of people want to help the families of the victims and victims and protect their own country, their home. And this house is not easy - multinational, full of contradictions and divergent interests. I don’t want to write now on the topic “Who is to blame?” Obviously, we are all to blame.

Yesterday, the parliamentary majority, thanks to which Leonid Kuchma controlled the work of the Rada, collapsed. 15 deputies of the “Deminitiative-Democracy” faction suspended their membership in it.

The meeting of CMD shareholders will decide the personnel issue The conflict between the stock market regulator and the Central Moscow Depository, which has lasted more than two years, may end in the near future. An extraordinary meeting of CMD shareholders will take place on September 30. The only issue on the agenda is personnel.

The European Court of Human Rights is studying the complaint of Jehovah's Witnesses The echo of the long-term struggle between Jehovah's Witnesses and the leadership of a number of Russian cities, which consider Jehovah's Witness communities to be totalitarian sects, has reached Strasbourg. Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights held its first consideration of the complaint of Jehovah's Witnesses trying to defend the right to exist in Russia.

The former chief of the General Staff will command the calmest federal district Yesterday, one of the few civilian plenipotentiary representatives of the president, Plenipotentiary Envoy to the Siberian Federal District Leonid Drachevsky, resigned. He will be replaced by a military man - General Anatoly Kvashnin, who was recently dismissed from his post as Chief of the General Staff. Today the head of the presidential administration, Dmitry Medvedev, is due to fly to Novosibirsk.

Jury member of the competition "Arbitrariness in the Law" Georgy Satarov - on the future of human rights journalism Since July 15, the second all-Russian competition of journalistic works on human rights violations, “Arbitrariness in the Law,” has been taking place. The competition was organized by the public organization “Open Russia”, “Support of Russia”, the “Public Verdict” foundation and the ANO “Internews”. The main part of the contestants are representatives of the regions.

Foreigners can take part in the privatization of MMK On the eve of the sale of the state stake (17.8% of shares), the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works demonstrates an increase in its investment attractiveness and accepts foreign investors. At the beginning of the week, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who now heads the consulting company Giuliani Partners, visited Magnitogorsk.

The author of the DNA identification method is afraid that the intelligence services will find out too much about us This morning at 9:55 GMT marks the 20th anniversary of the idea of ​​identifying people using DNA samples. On September 10, 1984, Briton Alec Jeffries, a then little-known scientist from the University of Leicester who studied genetic variations, was the first in the world to identify several sections of DNA that are unique to each individual person.

Pyongyang uses Seoul's openness to its advantage Seoul acknowledged that 20 years ago, South Korean scientists obtained a small amount of plutonium, a radioactive element used in the production of nuclear weapons.

President By his decree, he appointed Yuri Vorobyov as First Deputy Minister for Civil Defense, Emergency Situations and Disaster Relief. By the same decree, Ruslan Tsalikov was appointed deputy head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Government It was decided to create a government commission in the field of biological and chemical safety , said Minister of Health and Social Development Mikhail Zurabov.

They didn’t beat the European giants, but they gave them a fair scare It's not very often that national teams make their debut on the European stage. However, the next game day of the World Cup qualifying cycle in the European zone was marked by the first official performance of the national team of Kazakhstan, which was recently accepted into UEFA.

Vladimir Mirzoev staged A Midsummer Night's Dream Last season, Vladimir Mirzoev, the most sought-after director from the “generation of forty-year-olds,” began with a failure. The director's plot of "Lear" at the Vakhtangov Theater and the role of Maxim Sukhanov were, first of all, poorly conceived. Sukhanov, as theatergoers remember, played the entire first act wearing an insurance-like silicone mask; ballet stars might as well dance in stocks.

The trade boom has led to a decline in rental rates Large Western retailers are coming to Moscow, and this is causing a change in rental rates for retail space. Among the latest “newcomers” is the British retail chain Kingfisher, which offers goods for home and garden equipment. Over the course of ten years, the company intends to invest more than $600 million in the development of 60 hypermarkets in Russia, at least five of which will appear in the capital.

The series “Plot”, shown by Channel One on New Year’s Eve, broke all rating records. The success of the series is largely due to the author of the script, who created the policeman Kravtsov, his dog Caesar and the inhabitants of the village of Anisovka. Alexey Slapovsky is a prose writer, playwright and screenwriter. Successful in all areas. Novels and stories are published, plays are staged, scripts are filmed.

A Matisse masterpiece was brought to the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Matisse's "Dance" was brought to the Pushkin Museum. Not the one that was commissioned by Sergei Shchukin to decorate his own mansion, and now hangs in the Hermitage. Another, born in 1932.