A festival in memory of Nikolai Dmitriev was held in Tokyo The window of any Japanese eatery is sure to display the dishes that are on the menu. You don’t immediately notice that these are skillful dummies, larger than the food itself. You can feel that in Japan, like in Greece, everything is available at home. At the same time, the Japanese do not seem to have any complexes when they travel to Tula with their samovar.

The Customs Service will punish violating exporters through the Tax Service The state has not yet been able to effectively combat the abuses of exporters, despite the constant tightening of requirements for them. Customs officers have come up with a new design for catching unscrupulous exporters.

From January 1, the CIS will become Europe for Gazprom On New Year's Day, gas-deficient CIS countries will receive an unpleasant but predictable gift from Moscow. Prices for natural gas from Russia for Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia from January 1 will increase to the European level, calculated by Gazprom specialists. It is already clear that prices for the Transcaucasian republics will rise to $110.

Alexander Abramov will leave the Evraz group The main shareholder of the Evraz group, Alexander Abramov, who controls almost 60% of the company, will leave the posts of chairman of the board of directors and president, which he has held since its inception in 1999, in the new year. The position of president will be taken by his partner, now managing director for operational issues, Valery Khoroshkovsky (according to official data, he owns slightly less than 2% of the company's shares).

The next round of parliamentary elections in Egypt was accompanied by riots in Alexandria, Port Said and other areas of the country. The police did not allow voters into those polling stations where the Muslim Brotherhood group, banned since 1954, is popular. She fielded her supporters as independent candidates. The police claimed, however, that they were only detaining “professional instigators” to prevent unrest.

Pozecco's 26 points did not prevent Messina's team from beating the leader The former sole leader of the Super League, the Moscow region club Khimki, suffered its first defeat in the tournament last Saturday, losing to the current champion CSKA in its new Sports Palace - 73:84. These two teams established dual power in the national championship in terms of lost points. There could have been three leaders, but UNICS unexpectedly lost to Dynamo St. Petersburg at home in Kazan - 69:79.

A coffin on wheels is not an abbreviation for civil society in Russia, although it is also suitable. A coffin on wheels is a collective image of the products of the Russian automotive industry in the minds of its consumers. Last week, as newspapers write, the state regained control over the flagship of this same automobile industry - the Volzhsky Automobile Plant, appointing people from Rosoboronexport to helm the enterprise.

Chechen parliamentary elections took place Last Sunday, Chechnya finally acquired all the formal characteristics of a subject of the Russian Federation - after a six-year break, a parliament was elected there. Preliminary results of the distribution of seats in both chambers of the new representative body will be officially announced only today. A Vremya Novostey correspondent observed the elections in several localities of the republic.

"United Russia" changed color On Saturday, the VI Congress of the United Russia party was held in Krasnoyarsk. The most noticeable formal event in the life of United Russia was the change of symbols. The bear turned from brown to blue - either in honor of the onset of winter, or in connection with the idea of ​​more seriously developing the northern territories, which was actively discussed by the delegates of the congress.

Khabarovsk is next The population of Khabarovsk and the Jewish Autonomous Region is urgently stocking up on water in anticipation of poisoned water from China entering the Amur. After an explosion at a chemical plant in the city of Jilin on November 13, about 100 tons of benzene-containing substances entered the waters of the Songhua River.

Were there secret US prisons even in Kosovo? In Europe, a scandal surrounding the possible existence of secret US CIA prisons on the continent is gaining momentum. As Swiss Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Karin Carey said yesterday, her country has already sent a request to Washington. And the list of suspicious countries and territories was supplemented by Türkiye and the Serbian region of Kosovo, which is under the control of the UN.

Another redistribution of the defense industry is brewing in Russia Who would have thought that a phrase casually dropped on November 9 by the Chief of the General Staff, Yuri Baluevsky, would have such radical consequences. This refers to the words of the army general, addressed directly to Vladimir Putin during a meeting of the leadership of the military department, about the need to improve the coordination of the country’s military-industrial complex.

Sociologists have decided only on the leader and outsiders of the Moscow elections Research by sociologists conducted on the eve of the Moscow City Duma elections can only reassure United Russia, which is leading by a large margin. According to polls, Rodina could confidently overcome the ten percent barrier and take second place after the party in power, but the question of its participation in the election campaign is now within the competence of the Supreme Court of Russia.

October 25 -- November 25 The ratings were calculated using the Medialogy information and analytical system based on materials from 1,500 Russian media. The system processes all categories of central and regional media in Russia - TV, radio, press, news agencies, online publications. The mention rating reflects the total number of posts in which a given person appears.

The Russian Grand Prix stage became the first official international start of the season for three-time world champion Evgeni Plushenko. Until this moment, Alexei Mishin’s student had not taken part in any ISU tournament, with the exception of the home stages of the Russian Cup and exhibition performances abroad. The skater marked his start in the Olympic season with a personal best: for the short program on St. Petersburg ice, the public favorite received 82.7 points.