The Moscow Conservatory will celebrate its 140th anniversary and other dates The new academic and concert year began at the Conservatory with the opening of all its premises, which were closed in the summer after a decision was made about their emergency condition. The entry into force of the Krasnopresnensky court decision to suspend work in these premises for 90 days from September 1 was postponed until September 19.

Today at 19.00 at the Lokomotiv stadium, Spanish referee Mejuto Gonzalez will blow the starting whistle, and the Russian team will begin the qualifying round for the 2008 European Championship. The first cycle with foreign coach Guus Hiddink and the first full cycle under the leadership of the President of the Russian Football Union Vitaly Mutko, for which he bears full responsibility.

CLUBS “Salt of Svaneti” (USSR, 1929). Directed by Mikhail Kalatozov. The film will be shown as part of a series of film evenings organized by the Purple Legion and Cafe, formerly known as the Crisis of the Genre, with the support of Rambler Vision.

The reconstruction of one of the main recreational places in the capital will even affect the Moscow River Immediately after the end of the City Day celebrations, capital officials decided to once again return to the issue of organizing recreation for Muscovites. Yesterday, at a meeting of the capital's government, a new layout of one of the iconic landmarks of the capital - the territory of the Central Park of Culture and Culture named after. Gorky.

From the mid-1970s to the late 1980s, Lebanon experienced a civil war that began with political assassinations. However, the Lebanese group Hezbollah assures that there will be no new internal conflict. One of the leaders of Hezbollah, the head of the parliamentary faction of this group, Muhammad RAAD, convinced Vremya Novostei newspaper columnist Elena SUPONINA of this yesterday in Beirut. Officially, this faction is called “Consent for Resistance” (meaning resistance to Israel).

Among the wide range of weapons and military equipment produced by Russia for its armed forces and sold abroad, military radar has dropped out. They write and talk about tanks, airplanes, missile systems and even hovercraft, but practically do not mention radar stations. Meanwhile, until recently, Russia and before that the USSR were classified as world powerhouses with an excellent scientific school and production base. What is the situation in this area today?

The words of South African President Thabo Mbeki at a joint press conference with Vladimir Putin that the two countries “have a lot to do to develop trade and economic cooperation” have already received practical development. Yesterday, as part of the visit of the Russian President to South Africa, Chairman of Vnesheconombank Vladimir Dmitriev and Chairman of the Board of the South African bank Nedbank Rul Koza signed a cooperation agreement between the two credit institutions.

Prime Minister Fradkov named the mountains in Antarctica It seems that the cool attitude of the modern Russian authorities towards the scientific achievements of polar explorers fifty years ago has not withstood global warming. Officials, who throughout the 90s ignored the developments accumulated in the Arctic and Antarctic during Soviet rule, again, in a fit of patriotism, began to fill in the blank dots on the map with Russian names.

Despite the president’s demand to curb the strengthening of the ruble, the Central Bank continues to increase the value of the national currency in the hope of curbing inflation. Yesterday, the official exchange rate of the ruble against the dollar, set by the Bank of Russia, increased immediately by 0.3% - from 26.72 to 26.64 rubles. per dollar, thus reaching the maximum value since December 1999. The exchange rate against the bi-currency basket strengthened by 0.3%.

In South Africa, the Russian President faced prison and memories of the Soviet past Vladimir Putin and South African President Thabo Mbeki have known each other personally for a long time. They met more than once, the last time very recently - during the G8 summit in July in St. Petersburg, where Putin invited his South African counterpart. Yesterday their meeting took place in the homeland of 64-year-old Mbeki, in Cape Town, the parliamentary capital of South Africa.

Pyongyang finds it increasingly difficult to play on differences US Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill, responsible for Korean issues, arrived in Beijing yesterday. The American began his Asian tour on Monday from Japan, and after a meeting in Beijing with Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Wu Dawei, he will go to Seoul.

Yuzhny consistently overcomes rivals from the Iberian Peninsula A quartet of Russian tennis players reached the quarterfinals of the US Open following the results of the playing session, which took place on the night of Monday to Tuesday, Moscow time. Yesterday late in the evening Marat Safin and Nikolai Davidenko had such a chance, who met respectively with the German Tommy Haas and the Scotsman Andy Murray.

Russian writers at the Beijing Book Fair For four days (from August 30 to September 2) in Tiananmen Square, not only Chinese red flags, but also Russian tricolors fluttered, from the facade of the China International Exhibition Center the Cyrillic inscription “Russia” looked out at the public (solid hieroglyphs all around), and on numerous posters the brown a bear cub in a three-color T-shirt was holding a panda in a red T-shirt with yellow stars by the paw.

Chronicle of sporting events The club's defender Zakhar Pashutin became the captain of the CSKA basketball team. Previously, these duties were performed for four years by Sergei Panov, who retired from his sports career. Commenting on his appointment, Pashutin said that this is a great responsibility for him. “I will need to communicate more with young Russian players: suggest something, recommend something. Share your experience in this way.

Tatneft will stop trading ADR on the New York Stock Exchange until the end of the year Tatneft, as promised, has begun the first stage of delisting the company's ADRs on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and plans to complete the entire procedure by the end of the year. And in a year and a half, she intends to enter the London Stock Exchange with these securities. One of the consultants participating in the process told Vremya Novostey about this.