Alexandrinka opened after reconstruction and celebrated its 250th anniversary Long before August 30, billboards throughout St. Petersburg proclaimed: “250 years of the first theater of Russia,” and on street stands, one after another, posters with the faces of the legendary actors of the Alexandrinsky were changed.

The Vremya Novostei newspaper decided to find out from politicians and political scientists why the prime minister instructed Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov to lead the development of measures to ensure flight safety, including civil airliners, and how this assignment could affect his political prospects as one of the possible successors President Putin.

How and with whom will Russia end the second war in Chechnya? During traditional peace lessons that open the new school year in all Russian schools, it is customary to remember September 1, 1939 - the day the Second World War began. The lessons of peace ten years ago acquired additional, more relevant significance: on the afternoon of August 31, 1996, in the Dagestan city of Khasavyurt, the first Chechen war, which had lasted almost two years, ended.

Burgas-Alexandroupolis will be tested at the highest level Despite loud statements by officials about the imminent signing of an intergovernmental agreement on the construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline, oil companies have not yet gained faith in its implementation.

One can argue endlessly whether Hezbollah is a terrorist organization or a national and even liberation movement, and each side will remain with its own opinion. The catch is that the question has ideological implications. For some, terrorist acts, no matter how high-flown motives are justified, are a crime. For others, attacks against Israel and the United States behind it are justified and fair, even if they run counter to international law.

Just a few days before the start of the school year, Russian education officials frightened all parents in the country with a statement that their children might not get to school on September 1. According to statistics released on Wednesday by the head of Rosobrnadzor, Viktor Bolotov, and the state fire inspector of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Gennady Kirillov, more than 13% of educational institutions in Russia today do not meet fire safety standards.

Myskina crashes early in the US Open for the third time in a row On Wednesday, after a 24-hour break, matches finally resumed at the last Grand Slam tournament of the season - the US Open in New York. The rain has stopped, and the competitors are forced to make up for the previously disrupted schedule of matches. We can absolutely say that the pause benefited our men, who showed a 100% result in meetings with foreign opponents.

Rosprirodnadzor appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office regarding the Sakhalin-2 project Rosprirodnadzor finally found out who the main “enemy of nature” is within the Sakhalin-2 project and complained about him to the Prosecutor General’s Office of the Russian Federation. It was the general contractor of Sakhalin Energy - Welding and Installation Trust, which was responsible for laying the onshore pipeline as part of the only completely foreign project in the Russian gas sector.

The American CIA regularly falsified information on the problem of weapons of mass destruction (WMD), which were never found in Iraq, but served as justification for the US invasion of Iraq in the spring of 2003. This was announced yesterday by Australian chemical weapons expert John Gee, a former participant in the US-supervised Iraq Study Group program to search for weapons of mass destruction.

The cyclone has settled quite confidently over the European territory of Russia. It will determine weather conditions from its northern outskirts to its southern borders not only on Friday, but over the next two days. In connection with this, it will be rainy in the northwestern region, the air temperature at night will be +10...+15оС, followed by a drop to +8...+13оС, and during the day mostly +15...+21оС.

EU and Norway to discuss mutual energy interests The meeting between EU Energy Commissioner Andris Piebalgs and Norwegian Minister of Petroleum and Energy Odd Roger Inoksen, which was planned this week and was supposed to be the starting point of a new energy era in relations between Brussels and Oslo, did not take place. At it, the European Commissioner planned to discuss Norway's opportunities to meet Europe's growing demand for natural gas and reduce its dependence on supplies from Russia.

Ford is selling off expensive and very expensive brands The oldest American auto giant Ford Motor Co. decided to part with the famous sports brand Aston Martin. This decision, according to the company's chief executive officer Bill Ford, is part of a review of the asset structure, Bloomberg reports. The once prestigious British concern, known for its James Bond films, began to experience financial difficulties.

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Zenit is the main player in the additional application campaign On the last day of summer, the transfer window closed in Europe and Russia. After the fact, some transitions and last-minute deals will come to light. But the main contracts have already been signed, and the main protagonist of this transfer campaign can be safely recognized as Zenit St. Petersburg. As always, Russian clubs do not disclose financial details of transactions.

The failed leader of the Revolutionary Military Council was sentenced Communist extremist Igor Gubkin was sentenced yesterday to 19 years in a maximum security colony. The Moscow City Court, based on a jury verdict, found him guilty of blowing up a monument to Nicholas II in the Moscow region and attempting to blow up a monument to Peter I in Moscow, as well as of manufacturing, storing and carrying weapons and explosives.