Two celebrities in Gary Tatintsian's gallery Perhaps it was a well-conceived and calculatedly executed plan. It seemed difficult to lure the Moscow crowd to the exhibition of Weegee, the king of night photography in New York in the late 1930s. The problem is that Weegee reigned during a time that, although close in spirit, was ancient and not very fashionable.

In England, the only football player who until recently had the somewhat offensive status of “replacement man” was Ole Gunnar Solskjaer. In Russia, Dmitry Kirichenko habitually wore this label. This season, however, has changed the situation somewhat - the former CSKA forward, and now a player of FC Moscow, has become the main striker in his team.

Lithuania intends to once again tighten the rules for railway travel of Russians to Kaliningrad From January 1, 2006, the Lithuanian customs service is going to require passengers of Russian transit trains traveling to and from the Kaliningrad region to fill out cargo customs declarations for the luggage they transport.

Gold miners are planning to expand using underperforming assets Polymetal decided to take over the ineffective assets of the Russian and Kazakh gold mining industries, and then, possibly, other regions.

The issue of creating a union state consisting of Russia and Kazakhstan “has never been discussed and is not being discussed.” This was stated yesterday by official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Kamynin, commenting on a report in one of the Russian magazines about the possible unification of the two countries “with a territory constituting 88% of the territory of the USSR.” According to the diplomat, “Russia respects the state sovereignty of Kazakhstan.” It “cooperates

Azerbaijan is preparing to disperse new rallies The closer the finish of the parliamentary marathon in Azerbaijan is, the more intense the intensity of the struggle. Elections to the Milli Majlis will take place on November 6. More than two thousand candidates are vying for 125 parliamentary seats.

They are trying to predict the locations of possible earthquakes even from the clouds Far Eastern rescuers, fully aware that they live, if not literally on a volcano, then certainly in a zone of increased tectonic activity, intend to use all available methods to predict earthquakes.

The Yukos case triggered a fall in the Russian stock market The Russian stock market was able to maintain a high level for only three days (the RTS index value was more than 1000 points). The deep decline in quotes was provoked by the Prosecutor General's Office, which announced on Wednesday the continuation of the Yukos case. As a result, the RTS index fell by more than 50 points yesterday. Blue chip shares fell 3.2% to 8.6%.

Yesterday, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine created a temporary commission to investigate the circumstances of the “cassette scandal” and its impact on state security. The recordings of Nikolai Melnichenko, a former major in the presidential guard, released in December 2000, provoked an international scandal, as a result of which Leonid Kuchma almost resigned.

Consists of one large island In the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall as part of the “Singapore po-russki. Between an Angel and a Lion" hosted the world premiere of a new work by composer Vladimir Martynov, "Singapore. About foreign lands and people" - a symphony created on the initiative and order of the Ambassador of Singapore to Russia Michael Tay and, according to the latter, designed to bring distant cultures together and tell the whole world about a distant, wonderful country. “What is Singapore?

What can Russia expect from right-wing parties coming to power in Poland? Professor Wladislav BARTOSHEWSKI, ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Poland, answers this question from Vremya Novostey. - Polish right-wing forces have traditionally, for 200 years, been distrustful of Germany, and Russia was considered an ancient Slavic power, and therefore have always tried to establish relations with it. Russia has never feared the Polish right.

The new Kaliningrad governor began with a personnel purge In just a few days of his leadership of the Kaliningrad region, Georgy Boos has already managed to carry out a personnel revolution. He invited Muscovites as his assistants, abolished the regional administration and formed a new government for the region. Mr. Boos assures that the regional bureaucracy will be reduced by almost half.

EADS has refused state support for the project to create a new aircraft Today, as expected, the supervisory board of the German-French defense and space concern EADS will announce the official launch of an ambitious project to create a new generation Airbus A-350.

“Dom” has grown very “Long Arms” This year, the Long Arms festival was unprecedented both in duration and in the composition of participants: ten days, several venues and two dozen participants from different countries. We must pay tribute to the musicians: on the anniversary of the death of the “House” boss, Nikolai Dmitriev, everyone who could responded. Another time, such a scale and quality of a program is unlikely to happen.

Moscow heard Waltraud Mayer in “Die Walküre” and “Parsifal” The Bolshoi Theater continues to invade the space that the Mariinsky Theater and Valery Gergiev created in the minds of Russian music lovers, the space of the great and terrible Richard Wagner. The Bolshoi chooses its own path and attracts artists from the West who are directly related to Wagner’s presence on stage and on the concert stage today.