Far Eastern governors discussed with federal ministers the implementation of national projects How to live further and how much money will be allocated for this was discussed in Moscow by the Far Eastern governors with the ministers of education, medicine and regional development. Only the governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Viktor Ishaev, and the owner of Chukotka, Roman Abramovich, were absent.

CLUBS Sergey Letov (flute, saxophones) and Alexey Borisov (electronics). Two patriarchs - one from free jazz, the other from electronics - will, in parallel with the show, play their own music for the famous film by Friedrich Murnau “Faust”. "Living Corner" , 20.00. Closing of the Mark Pekarsky Festival. The program includes works by Alexander Wustin, Faraj Karaev, Steve Reich, Laszlo Szary, John Dowland, Johann Sebastian Bach, Per Norgardt. On stage is the Percussion Ensemble of Mark Pekarsky.

The last word in the protracted struggle between public organizations and the State Duma will have to be said by the president. Yesterday, the Federation Council ignored the position of members of the Public Chamber and approved the scandalous bill “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of the Russian Federation,” providing for new principles of state regulation of the activities of non-profit organizations (NPOs).

Four secret sheets were found in the Khlebnikov case Today, the Moscow City Court is expected to form a panel of jurors who will have to render a verdict in the case of the murder of the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Forbes magazine, Paul Klebnikov. The circumstances of his death will be heard behind closed doors, since there are classified materials in the case.

For the Caucasus, 2005 turned out to be better than 2004 By the end of the year, a paradoxical impression emerged: even against the backdrop of the October attack by militants on Nalchik, it seems that the Russian North Caucasus has passed some very dangerous point. People began to breathe more calmly and now really hope that the current relative respite will be the beginning of a long peace, and not the calm before the big storm predicted by analysts.

The leader of the Super League fights on equal terms with the players of the Swiss championship By tradition, our hockey players are left without New Year and Christmas holidays every season. There is no special break in the national championship, and on the contrary, some teams have to agree to postpone matches in order to take part in various international tournaments, including official ones.

On the eve of the 150th anniversary, the Tretyakov Gallery opened an exhibition of drawings from the collection of Pavel Tretyakov On the eve of 2006, the anniversary year for the Tretyakov Gallery, we were pleased with an elegant surprise in the spirit of a “box with a secret” or the literary device “a story within a story.” You enter the main Tretyakov Gallery, and hidden in it, like in a nesting doll, is another one, developed sketchily in graphic sheets.

Christmas gifts are not accepted in the English Championship Unexpectedly, it turned out that the English championship is the only one that can compete with the Russian championship in terms of transfer amounts paid for players. This winter, two leaders of the English Premier League are going to buy players from the Russian championship, paying almost 25 million euros for them. Manchester United have already announced the acquisition of Spartak defender Nemanja Vidic.

Gerhard Schröder signed a contract with the Harry Walker lecture agency Yesterday, another place of work of ex-Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schröder became known. The German newspaper Bild reported that the management of the American agency Harry Walker from New York confirmed the fact of concluding a contract with this famous politician of the very recent past.

Eight candidates will compete for the post of President of Belarus. On Tuesday, all initiative groups that submitted applications were registered, CEC Secretary Nikolai Lozovik told Vremya Novostei. The main events of the campaign will unfold around the current President Alexander Lukashenko and the leader of the united opposition Alexander Milinkevich (VN wrote about the other candidates on December 26). The signature collection campaign starts tomorrow.

Seven rounds were played at the Russian Chess Championship. Sergei Rublevsky and Dmitry Yakovenko are in the lead - 5 points each, Peter Svidler, Vadim Zvyagintsev and Evgeniy Bareev are half a point behind. In the second third of the tournament, the leading triumvirate disintegrated.

Woody Allen's new film Match Point Everyone is surprised - how Woody Allen, in his eighth, one might say, ten years, suddenly took and made not just a good film, but also one completely different from his previous films. Having moved to London, that is, having reconnected with the very European cultural environment that had always been considered natural for him - it was “Europeanness” that was the distinctive feature of this New York intellectual - Woody Allen found a second wind.

Dmitry Rogozin is ready to unite with the Communist Party of the Russian Federation The past year has been a tense but rewarding one for the Rodina party. At least that’s what party leader Dmitry Rogozin thinks. He announced this yesterday at a press conference in Moscow. In his opinion, 2005 “showed that Rodina is an opposition party.” “Our tasks suddenly began to diverge from the course pursued by the authorities,” stated the leader of Rodina.

Watch before and after the New Year on Moscow screens “Where the Truth Lies” (Canada - UK - USA, 2005, Atom Egoyan).

The delay in MEDT investigations is disastrous for the Russian pipe industry The epic entitled “protection of the Russian pipe industry from Ukrainian pipe products” is beginning to acquire an increasingly distinct detective shade.