The Belarusian economic miracle is under threat The energy conflict between Minsk and Moscow within a year could lead to a crisis in the economic model, and possibly also in political power in Belarus. Belarusian independent experts agree on this opinion, believing that the period of building the model in the country that Alexander Lukashenko once called market socialism has ended. Soon the country will be forced to carry out economic reforms.

Everyone remembers “Communication Pipe” and “Iron Curtain” from the film “Assa,” but few people know that Sergei Solovyov, who assembled his cult film about underground culture like a collage, used specific works of a specific artist. And these works were done back in the mid-1970s, long before the time of the story about snow-covered Crimea. The artist's name is Mikhail Roshal-Fedorov. Or rather, they called it. A few days ago he passed away.

The resolution of the traditional New Year's gas conflict only for a short moment created the impression in Moscow that a new round of energy hassle in Russia's relations with its Western neighbors had been avoided. No such luck, the gas “war” turned into an oil war. And this is all the more offensive since the gas negotiations ended on time. The renegotiation of gas contracts, unfortunately, is confined to the annual cycle.

Alexander Lukashenko left Europe without Russian oil Exactly a year after the gas war broke out between Russia and Ukraine, Moscow was forced to get involved in the next war. But if the first war , which took place in an extremely frosty winter, was quickly completed with the signing of a peace agreement between Moscow and Kiev on the third night of January, then the current scandalously warm winter, on the contrary, foreshadows deep “freezes” in relations between Moscow and Minsk .

Solzhenitsyn’s novel “In the First Circle” was published in the “Literary Monuments” series This has never happened before. Not only all the many years of experience, but also the very idea of ​​“Literary Monuments” rejects the possibility of publishing works by living authors in this series.

On the first day of the new US Congress, nine prominent senators introduced a bill in the Senate called the Energy Diplomacy and Security Act, one of the provisions of which is to support the desire of young democracies, in particular Ukraine and Georgia, for energy independence.

New exhibitions of St. Petersburg museums St. Petersburg likes fainting states. Who would argue. Inversions, perversions, somnambulistic whirlpool of thought serve as compensation for the circular-astrolabel regularity of space. The wrong swamp lights illuminate the right "prospects". This St. Petersburg otherness and “otherness” was especially impressive now, when the irregular winter with warm, humid air, shiny sidewalks and ashen skies plunged the city into permanent white nights.

The murder of a priest became the reason for the fight for the introduction of Orthodoxy lessons in schools Official authorities have now responded to the murder of a priest of a village church in the Sverdlovsk region on the eve of Christmas. Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II and the regional prosecutor's office expressed their opinion about the tragedy.

Lukashenko did not risk being left without Russian gas The worst forecasts for the development of the gas dialogue between Moscow and Minsk did not come true .

The former Volgograd authorities began to be sentenced The Volgograd Regional Court yesterday sentenced former chairman of the city legislative assembly Pavel Karev , who was arrested last summer for accepting a bribe on an especially large scale. The court found the former speaker guilty and sentenced him to three years in prison to be served in a maximum security colony. Karev was taken into custody right in the courtroom and transferred to city temporary detention center No.

There is no queue for maternity capital yet Yesterday, the regional branches of the Russian Pension Fund began accepting applications from citizens applying for so-called maternity capital . The law “On additional measures of state support for families with children,” adopted by the State Duma in the third reading on December 22 and signed by the president on the last day of the year, obliges the allocation of 250 thousand rubles from the budget.

Watch from January 11 on Moscow screens "Alpha Dog" (USA, 2006, Nick Cassavetes). Today, in order to become the hero of a Hollywood biopic, it is not at all necessary to be the last Chinese emperor, the author of brilliant symphonies, or even the first performer of the role of Superman.