Zhenovach's studio staged a play based on Goncharov The theatrical art studio (the same one that was formed a year ago from the course of Sergei Zhenovach) has restored another graduation performance on the professional stage - “Ob-lo-mov-shchina” - and now shows it as it should be in a “real” theater: with specially made scenery and costumes, in a hall (branch of the Mayakovsky Theater) designed for 250 people.

FOOTBALL. September 12--13. Champions League. Group stage. 1st round. Russian Championship. Premier League. 19th round. September 16. “Torpedo” - “Rostov”, “Shinnik” - “Saturn”, “Luch-Energia” - “Moscow”. September 17. "Lokomotiv" - "Spartak" (M), "Rubin" - "Spartak" (Nch), "Zenit" - "Wings of the Soviets", "Dynamo" - "Amkar", "Tom" - CSKA. After a year-long break, Russian clubs enter the fight in the group stage of the Champions League.

In memory of Arkady Volsky We have lost a prominent public figure, an intelligent and insightful person who carried enormous life experience - Arkady Ivanovich Volsky, honorary president of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. I met Arkady Ivanovich relatively recently, in 1991. I know that before that he worked at ZIL, was the secretary of the party committee of this industrial giant.

Russia has expanded its “window” from Europe The St. Petersburg authorities hope to eliminate one of the most serious traffic jams at the entrance to Russia. Last Friday, a new section of the road between the Brusnichnoye and Nuyamaa border checkpoints was opened in the Leningrad Region. The new road is only 4 km long.

August 8 -- September 8, 2006 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of Vremya Novostei and the Medialogia company, are ratings of the political figures most actively discussed in the Russian media.

When last season, due to a lockout in the National Hockey League, high-calibre foreign players, including Jaromir Jagr, came to our super league in large numbers, and the payrolls of some Russian teams made one's eyes widen at the number of zeros, there were ominous predictions of imminent big financial problems in domestic hockey. It looks like these predictions are starting to come true.

Deputies increased the incomes of scientists and mothers Deputies began the autumn session on a very optimistic note - demographic bills. On Friday, the State Duma adopted several laws at once increasing social benefits and salaries of public sector employees. The social fervor, as members of the lower house promise, will not end here: the Duma is preparing to monthly index child care benefits for children up to one and a half years old.

LUKOIL decided to return to considering the idea of ​​building an oil refinery in the Kaliningrad region. On Friday, LUKOIL President Vagit Alekperov held a meeting with the regional governor Georgy Boos, following which he announced the company’s plans to begin geological exploration work in new areas of the Baltic shelf this year. And based on their results, we can answer the question: should the Kaliningrad Oil Refinery exist or not?

Maria Sharapova won the US Open At the age of 19, Maria Sharapova became the first Russian tennis player to win two Grand Slam tournaments. In the final of the US Open, the world's highest-paid athlete beat Belgian Justine Henin-Hardenne 6:4, 6:4. To the first serious title won two years ago at Wimbledon, Sharapova added not only the main US Open trophy, but also a career-record fee of $1.7 million.

Schumacher Sr. announced his retirement from Royal Racing Michael Schumacher won the 90th victory of his career at Monza and reduced the gap from championship leader Fernando Alonso to two points. After the Italian Grand Prix, the race winner announced his retirement from Formula 1 at the end of this season. “One day this moment had to come, and I felt that the time had come. I think now Felipe Massa should take his place in the team,” said the seven-time world champion.

Russian figure skaters take away all the “gold” of the European Championship At the European Figure Skating Championships, the Russians once again set a kind of record. They excelled in all four types of the program, and won a total of six medals. In addition to the “gold” and “bronze” in pair skating, the highest awards were added by dancers Tatyana Navka and Roman Kostomarov, as well as singles skaters Irina Slutskaya and Evgeni Plushenko. Another Russian, Elena Sokolova, won silver in Lyon.

Nikolay Davydenko almost secured his participation in the Masters Cup Nikolay Davydenko and Mikhail Youzhny failed to make it to the men's singles final at the US Open. Davydenko lost to the first racket of the world to the Swiss Roger Federer in three sets - 1:6, 5:7, 4:6, Yuzhny, in a more stubborn fight, was defeated by the American Andy Roddick - 7:6 (7:5), 0:6 , 6:7 (3:7), 3:6. It was difficult for the Russians to count on success in these matches.

After the events of September 11, 2001, international terrorism appeared in Russia As soon as the terrorist planes crashed into Manhattan skyscrapers, the local war, which had been going on for two years on the other side of the globe, changed its status. Events in Chechnya have turned from an internal Russian problem into part of the global counteraction to the terrorist threat.

CSKA and Spartak showed what Russian football can be Foreign referees who come to referee matches in the Russian championship are happy people. They, and only they, serving the most important games, are confident that the Russian championship claims to be one of the leading ones in Europe.

Yesterday, in the traditional annual All-Star Game of the Russian Hockey Premier League, the West team beat the East team with a score of 6:4. The winners led the match from the first to the last minute. Before the match, competitions were held in which the West team also defeated the East with a score of 4:3. "TIME FOR NEWS"