“Rape City” is the most powerful impression of television in April. This is a documentary film by Leonid Mlechin. Nanjing, 1937. Japanese capture of a Chinese city. Chiang Kai-shek delays ordering the evacuation, as a result, residents have to flee at breakneck speed. Those who did not succeed, by order of the Japanese military leader, actually have their heads broken. It was decided to destroy, humiliate, and rape the city and its inhabitants.

The Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade propose to withdraw gas excess profits Deputy Minister of Economic Development and Trade Kirill Androsov said yesterday that his department and the Ministry of Finance have submitted a joint proposal to revise the mineral extraction tax (MET) in the gas sector.

Television April turned out to be very modest in terms of events with a “plus” sign. These are, of course, programs in memory of Andrei Tarkovsky and his films shown by the main channels on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the brilliant director (though, as always, at night).

Years of negotiations on Russia's accession to the WTO and the accompanying heated debates within the country have largely crowded out a broader view of foreign trade policy from public discussion. And even President Putin’s well-known statement that WTO membership is only “a tool for the development of the national economy” did not advance the conversation about what this particular one is for, and whether we need other new tools.

Russians are against the introduction of a ban on the purchase of a second or third apartment The task formulated not so long ago by the Russian authorities, right up to the president, to bring real estate taxation into a market framework has grown into several parallel existing concepts: levy a tax based on the market value of housing, from the income of its owners, or introduce an increased tax only for the owners of several apartments.

CLUBS Trio of Sergei Zhilin. Igor Butman Club , 20.00. Felix Lahouti (vocals, electric violin) and Arsenal . Forte , 21.00. CONCERTS "European masters of the 16th - 19th centuries." Evgeny Zhuravkin (countertenor), Elena Ivanova (flute), Daria Meerkova (organ). The program includes Frederick the Great's Sonata in C minor for flute and organ, Briccialdi's variations on themes from Verdi's La Traviata and Mozart's Andante in F major. St Andrew's Anglican Church , 7.30pm.

Deputies of the Communist Party faction in the State Duma refused to honor the memory of the first president of Russia Yesterday's plenary session of the State Duma began with a minute of silence on the occasion of the death of the first President of Russia Boris Yeltsin. And this moment was not without scandal. Even in the face of eternity, the deputies of the Communist Party faction did not forget about their ideological contradictions with the first head of the Russian state.

Dmitry Medvedev declared war on industry lobbying On Tuesday, First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev had the opportunity to prove himself not only as a curator of national projects, but also as a legal theorist. The deputy head of government, who graduated from the Law Faculty of Leningrad State University and is the head of the board of trustees of the Russian Lawyers' Association, decided to evaluate modern domestic legislation. Mr.

Alexander Shokhin: It is necessary to minimize informal technologies of protectionism Germany, as the current chairman of the G8, has brought a new spirit to the work of this club. Yesterday in Berlin, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel took part in the first meeting of the Business Eight - the leaders of the largest industrial associations. Russia was represented at this meeting by the President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Alexander Shokhin.

Former Polish minister shot herself during a search Yesterday at dawn, 57-year-old Barbara Blida (pictured) , Minister of Construction in the governments of the leftist forces of Pawlak, Oleksa and Cimoszewicz (1993-1996), one of the leaders of the Union of Democratic Left Forces (SDLS) in Silesia, committed suicide , long-term deputy of the Sejm (1989-2005).

Russian demographers became interested in the Swiss experience of adaptation of migrants Demographic scientists made another attempt to convince the authorities of the destructiveness of repressive migration policies yesterday.

The Pentagon chief told the Germans about Moscow's hesitation Yesterday, US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates was received in Berlin . The meeting at the airport was held with military honors, which was intended to symbolize the continued strength of the transatlantic partnership. Mr. Gates's first interlocutor in the German capital was Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier, followed by negotiations with Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung.

Ukrainian speaker wants to extend the crisis until 2011 Yesterday, the Constitutional Court of Ukraine (CC) , which is considering the legality of the presidential decree on the dissolution of the Rada of April 2, moved to the closed part of the hearings.

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Vladimir Putin addressed the Federal Assembly Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation at 12:00 on Thursday in the Marble Hall of the Kremlin. His speech was postponed one day due to national mourning for Boris Yeltsin.