"Black Orchid" by Brian De Palma on Moscow screens In order to push through another amendment at the top and increase police salaries by 8%, the Los Angeles Police Department came up with an excellent move: a charity match between two once quite famous boxers, who, by the will of fate, became servants of the law. Their names were Bucky Blachert (Josh Hartnett) and Lee Blanchard (Aaron Eckhart), but they entered the ring under the pseudonyms Fire and Ice.

The American Mars rover Opportunity has achieved another goal The most amazing thing about NASA's Mars program is that the Spirit and Opportunity rovers have not yet turned into a pile of metal and plastic, but continue to function successfully. True, “Spirit” is still sleeping: in the part of the planet where it was landed, it is now winter and there is not enough sunlight for active movements.

Andrey Vasiliev returned to the post of chief editor of Kommersant Having changed the owner and black-and-white printing to color, the Kommersant publishing house seems to be trying to maintain the “good old” editorial policy. Yesterday Andrei Vasiliev, who headed Kommersant until June 2005, took up the duties of editor-in-chief of the joint editorial office of the publishing house and editor-in-chief of the daily newspaper.

The President called on Russian businessmen not to be afraid of the Caucasus The Kuban Economic Forum should become the main platform for attracting investment in the country. This year, the forum brought together almost two thousand participants, several high government officials, and President Vladimir Putin came for the first time. “I looked at the composition - there are four times more businessmen here than officials. This makes me very happy,” he said.

The Prosecutor General's Office found reasons to cancel the acquittal in the “Khlebnikov case” The Supreme Court received materials of a cassation appeal against the verdict in the “Khlebnikov case” - an American journalist, editor-in-chief of the Russian Forbes, who was killed in Moscow in July 2004.

Russian wrestlers won nine medals at the World Championships The world wrestling championship has ended in Guangzhou, China. The Russians won nine medals in the men's Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling tournaments - three gold, two silver and four bronze. Compared to the previous World Championships in Budapest, there were more medalists, although they lost in the quality of awards won.

An international theater festival has begun in St. Petersburg For sixteen years in a row, in the fall, at the beginning of the season, “theaters of the Baltic region countries” come to the northern capital. Established in 1990 for the sake of preserving cultural ties with the former republics, then already neighboring countries, the Baltic House festival gradually attracted distant foreign countries into its orbit - Poland, Germany, Scandinavia. The Baltic House has become perhaps the main St.

The Japanese passion for robotics is at times simply amazing: it seems that no other nation in the world is engaged in robotics with such passion. Engineers from the Kanagawa Prefectural Institute of Technology tried to make a long-standing human dream come true: to create a robotic suit that helps carry heavy objects.

The Investment Commission does not want to fight hemp cultivation for budget money At the next meeting, the investment commission considered three projects applying for government support from the investment fund. Considering that the commission meeting was held within the framework of the Kuban Economic Forum, two of the three projects were presented by the Krasnodar Territory. But only one earned the unconditional approval of the commission members.

The hockey club "Spartak" has found new owners. Several shareholders of OJSC AKB Conversbank-Moscow and Incredbank, through the mediation of the head of Rossport, Vyacheslav Fetisov, took upon themselves obligations to revive the hockey team, which, due to financial difficulties, was not allowed to participate in the current national championship. The details of the concluded transaction have not yet been disclosed by the parties who took part in it.

Tax reform, contrary to predictions about its gradual phasing out, will apparently last for a very long time. State Secretary and Deputy Minister of Finance Sergei SHATALOV told Vremya Novostey columnist Irina SKLYAROVA about what transformations await the tax system. According to the curator of the Russian tax system, changes await the income tax, mineral extraction tax, as well as the system of administering a number of local taxes.

August 29 -- September 29, 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.

Nigeria and Venezuela announced unilateral reduction in oil exports Some oil-exporting countries that are members of OPEC have announced their intention to reduce export quotas, contrary to the cartel's decision made in early September to maintain exports at 28 million barrels per day. The initiators of the autumn reduction were Nigeria and Venezuela, who announced that from October 1 they would reduce quotas by 120 thousand and 50 thousand barrels per day (by 5 and 1.5%).

Gazexport and Centrex received one sixth of the gas market Gazprom finally traded market share of one of the Western European countries for guarantees of gas supplies for 20 years in advance. At the end of last week, Gazexport, the Austrian oil and gas concern OMV and three gas traders - EconGas, GWH and Centrex Europe Energy & Gas AG - signed long-term contracts for the supply of natural gas to Austria.

Vladimir Putin accused the Georgian authorities of state terrorism The crisis in relations between Moscow and Tbilisi, which escalated on September 27 after the arrest of four Russian officers on suspicion of espionage, is becoming increasingly acute. Yesterday, President Vladimir Putin discussed this topic with members of the Russian Security Council.