We were very afraid that we would be left without an audience. The jester knows what the GB, and not only the GB, could come up with.

30 years ago official art had to make room Is it possible today to imagine that tens of thousands of people came to the outskirts of Moscow over the course of ten days, walked half an hour from the last metro station, then stood in line in the sun and rain for three hours - and all in order to see works unknown to anyone? artists? I think it's impossible to imagine such a thing. Everyone is busy with their own business. Those who are interested in art go to museums and galleries.

The best violinists of the world in the BZK and the House of Music Over the course of three days, two excellent world-famous violinists performed in the largest Moscow halls, representing a new generation of performers and to varying degrees associated with the old violin school and Russian masters.

In the coming days, the US State Department will launch a “quick response center” for foreign media publications that “distort the foreign policy” of the Bush administration. This was announced yesterday on the way to the Middle East by Deputy Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes.

Yulia Tymoshenko is trying to be friends with Moscow against Viktor Yushchenko The Russian Prosecutor General's Office unexpectedly announced yesterday that former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko no longer faces Russian prison - her international search has been stopped, and the arrest warrant issued at one time has been cancelled.

The RSPP is preparing to resolve the issue of Arkady Volsky and Mikhail Khodorkovsky The fate of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) is now entirely in the hands of its permanent president Arkady Volsky. Or, as representatives of big business dream, he will leave this post, and then the union will begin to change, integrating into a new reality. Either Mr. Volsky, despite all the behind-the-scenes agreements, will remain, which will mean the collapse of the organization.

Transport tax may be forced to be paid in advance Maintaining cars is becoming more and more expensive, not only because of rising gasoline prices. At the same time, transport tax rates are increasing in almost all regions. Following Muscovites, for whom the transport tax will at least double from next year, residents of the Moscow region will also feel the increase in car taxes. The Moscow Regional Duma has received a bill to increase transport tax rates in the region by an average of 18%.

The novel by Janusz Wisniewski , published by the Azbuka publishing house (translated from Polish by Leonid Tsyvyan), will certainly intrigue the reader with its title. “Loneliness on the Internet” is a simple and accurate definition of the complex range of emotions that everyone has experienced at least once, finding themselves face to face with the endless and chaotic space of the Internet. The author himself is still unknown to the public.

Standard & Poor's and Fitch warn investors about the risks of investing in developing countries The world's largest rating agencies Standard & Poor's and Fitch Ratings yesterday published a review of the situation in emerging markets. According to agency analysts, developing countries will soon face a significant slowdown in economic growth if current global energy problems affect investor sentiment.

Those accused of the assassination attempt on Chubais were associated with extremists The Prosecutor General's Office yesterday announced the completion of the investigation into the scandalous case of the assassination attempt on the head of RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais. The materials have been handed over for review to representatives of the injured party, that is, Mr. Chubais himself, after which the defendants themselves and their lawyers can begin to study them.

Russia awarded the Order "For Contribution to Victory" to a group of Chinese veterans of the Second World War. Relatives of Mao Zedong received the orders posthumously - his eldest son Mao Anying and his second wife He Zizhen. Yesterday at the Russian embassy in Beijing, Chairman of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov presented awards to Mao Anying's widow and the chairman's daughter from his second marriage.

Forecast for the coming days September in the center of European territory continues to surprise with prolonged warm and dry weather. For example, in Moscow since the beginning of the month, only 12 mm of precipitation has fallen, which is 20% of the monthly norm. No rain is expected in the coming days. The anticyclone, which settled over the center of the European territory of Russia, “grew” in the atmosphere to great heights and serves as a reliable barrier in the path of cyclones.

The USA and the European Union stood up for the Russian language in Turkmenistan When the Warsaw OSCE Human Rights Conference summed up the results of the first week of its work, it seems that Turkmenistan's Ambassador to the OSCE, Vladimir Kadyrov, felt most uncomfortable. His country was subjected to formal obstruction. Unfortunately for Mr. Kadyrov, a whole troop of Turkmen oppositionists living in exile landed in Warsaw to participate in the conference.

AHML promises cheaper housing loans The head of the Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending (AHML), Alexander Semenyaka, said yesterday that he expects the interest rate on mortgage loans to be reduced by the end of 2006 to 12% per annum in rubles. The head of the agency also believes that the downward trend in ruble rates will continue in subsequent years.

Russian tourists in Turkey have again become hostages of an unscrupulous tour operator The Moscow tour operator Aztur, specializing in Turkey, greatly let down its clients yesterday. 70 tourists were forced to pay for air tickets again to return home from Antalya. The day before, more than ten people were unable to fly from Domodedovo in the opposite direction. The Aztur Moscow office was padlocked yesterday. However, no official announcement of the company's bankruptcy has been made.