A unique exhibition from private collections has opened at the Andrei Rublev Museum The exhibition presented in two ancient chambers of the Andronikov Monastery is a real sensation. It is capable of greatly correcting, and in some cases radically changing, existing ideas about the history of Russian art. At the exhibition, where there are 165 icons from 33 personal collections, you are speechless.

Security officers found the wrong plutonium Kyrgyz security officers reported yesterday another success in the fight against smuggling of radioactive materials. According to the press secretary of the National Security Service (NSB) of Kyrgyzstan, Chinara Asanova, on September 21, an operation was carried out to detain a citizen of the republic who was trying to sell “60 units of radioactive devices containing plutonium-239.” The NSS officers acted as buyers.

Yesterday, Deputy Head of the North Korean Foreign Ministry Choi Su Hong told participants in the 59th session of the UN General Assembly in New York that enriched uranium, allegedly extracted from eight thousand recycled fuel rods of North Korean nuclear reactors, has been turned into a nuclear weapon. This was Pyongyang’s supposedly forced step to create a nuclear deterrent force in response to Washington’s threats to destroy the DPRK with preventive nuclear strikes.

Robert Dudley may cede his post at TNK-BP to a figurehead TNK-BP President Robert Dudley made several important statements in an interview with The Financial Times yesterday. First of all, he admitted that TNK-BP was subject to pressure from the intelligence services to comply with the Law on State Secrets. As you know, information about the strategic reserves of Russian oil and gas companies is a state secret, and foreigners have no right to possess it. Mr.

Russian sappers saved South Ossetia from an explosion In the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, within two days, Russian sappers from the Joint Peacekeeping Forces discovered and neutralized over 170 kg of TNT. Assistant commander of the SSPM Andrei Pryakhin told Vremya Novostey about this.

American ally doesn't believe in Iraqi elections The international community has no choice but to support the current interim government of Iraq, King Abdullah II of Jordan said during his Western European tour.

Deputy Prime Minister Zhukov promises investors an economy without officials Yesterday, Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov continued the propaganda campaign launched the day before by Mikhail Fradkov to attract investment to Russia. Moreover, there - at the conference “Russia: Investments in the Growth Economy”, organized by Brunswick UBS.

To the centenary of Nikolai Ostrovsky “Well-tested” rumors creep and creep: “How the Steel Was Tempered” is returning to the school curriculum.

CSKA will play today in Moscow with PSG Today CSKA faces another test in the Champions League. The army passed the first one, in Porto, with honor. But it is the game with Paris Saint-Germain that should answer the question of whether Gazzaev’s team is ready to seriously qualify for exit from the group, since CSKA is considered the favorite in today’s match. True, not all fans will see this match. The Lokomotiv Stadium, where it will take place, can only accommodate 28 thousand spectators.

Forecast for the coming days In the coming days, the influence of rainy atmospheric fronts will weaken in the central regions. They, together with the Scandinavian cyclone, go east. And the other cyclone, which is rushing towards us through the south of the Baltic, will only reach Belarus for now. Therefore, in the interval between cyclones, the clouds will thin out, the rains will not bother you, but at night and in the morning, fog will descend in places in the humid autumn air.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs found millions of Yukos in the Kaluga forests The prosecutor's office of the Kaluga region opened a criminal case against the head of the Mosalsky district of the Kaluga region, Ivan Kozlov. This investigation could be considered ordinary if not for one significant fact - the Mosalsky district is considered the secret patrimony of YUKOS. At one time, more than 200 enterprises associated with the oil company were registered on its territory, including MFO MENATEP.

22 more banks have been accepted into the deposit insurance system The Central Bank continues to please the market with the results of selection into the deposit insurance system. Yesterday, the Central Bank accepted 22 more banks into it, most of which were again represented by little-known regional organizations and only two Moscow ones. The total volume of their obligations to depositors is 11 billion rubles, and the largest on the list was the St.

The FAS office for the Tyumen region began proceedings against the local branch of Uralsvyazinform, which is a telephone monopolist in the region. FAS suspects the company of creating unequal conditions for competition in the Internet access market. This is not the first case of litigation between Internet providers and telecommunications companies.

The merger of Gazprom and Rosneft began with a conflict Yesterday's meeting of the board of directors of Gazprom - or, more precisely, a break in it - was marked by an unprecedented event.

The experiment to conduct an agricultural census was considered successful The Federal Statistics Service has completed a trial agricultural census. It precedes the global All-Russian census of the number and condition of agricultural objects and subjects, which is planned to be carried out in the summer of 2006. The success of the training finally convinced the organizers that the idea was promising.