The first performance of Robert Lepage's retrospective, “The Other Side of the Moon,” was shown in Moscow. Canadian Robert Lepage is the main attraction of the current Chekhov Festival, a director about whom there have been an incredible number of enthusiastic rumors, a winner of many awards and a star of festivals, who received the Stanislavsky Prize before even one of his performances reached Russia - we already have was.

At the end of the work week and on the weekend, the weather in most of European Russia will be determined by a vast Atlantic cyclone; on Saturday its center from Minsk will approach the northwestern regions. Only the south of European Russia will remain away from the cyclone, in the warm air. In the central regions in the warm sector of the cyclone, short-term thunderstorms, during the day +23...+28оС.

Until now, the first and only time the Olympic Games were held on Russian territory was in 1980 - in Moscow and Leningrad. It was the XXII Summer Olympics. January 4, 1980 US President Jimmy Carter called on the whole world to boycott the Moscow Olympics in response to the entry of Soviet troops into Afghanistan. Of the 144 countries that were members of the IOC in 1980, representatives from 81 countries came to the Olympics in Moscow.

Foreign pharmaceutical companies are invited to become domestic producers The revival of the domestic pharmaceutical industry , apparently, will occur thanks to the massive construction of so-called “test tube assembly” workshops.

The Ministry of Defense will punish graduates of military schools who did not become officers with rubles In order to keep officers in the army, the Russian military department, and at its instigation, the government, decided to use the power of the ruble.

The Sochi Olympics began with an increase in dill prices “The victory of the city of Sochi is one of the most significant events in the history of modern Russia, this is the second birthday for Sochi,” said Alexey Khraban, the city’s vice-mayor for preparations for the Olympics, at a special “celebratory” press conference yesterday. According to him, in honor of such an event, July 5 may become a permanent holiday in the city.

Chronicle of sporting events The draw for the Russian Cup took place, in which the home team of the 1/8 final matches was determined. National champion CSKA will host Khimki, Spartak-Nalchik will play at home with Rubin, and Rostov will play with Tom.

The Olympics will cause a boom in the real estate market of the Krasnodar region The holding of the Olympics in 2014 will cause big changes in the residential and commercial real estate market in the Sochi region. After all, it is planned to build more than 1 million square meters. m, including 661 thousand sq. m of housing, 208 thousand of hotel space, 50 thousand of retail space and another 50 thousand of exhibition halls and conference rooms.

The ANCOR company has assembled a unique base of qualified workers in Russia The growth of the Russian economy has led to the rapid development of the country's personnel services market. According to experts, in 2006 the volume of the recruitment market amounted to $300 million. This year it should grow by more than a third and amount to $500 million.

The famous AK-47 turns 60 years old Yesterday, the Russian government at its meeting celebrated not only the victory of Sochi as the capital of the 2014 Winter Olympics, but also two high-profile and at the same time inconspicuous dates: the 60th anniversary of the first model of the Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifle and the 200th anniversary of the Izhevsk plant , which produces Kalash rifles. and other small arms.

In Lisbon, at the just- concluded first EU-Brazil summit , which marked the beginning of Portugal's EU presidency, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva announced that his country would free Europeans from their energy dependence on Russia . An alternative to Russian oil and gas is biofuel. Brazil has been improving technology in this area for 30 years. Cooperation with Portugal is particularly strong, including joint production in Brazil and export to Europe.

There is no point in postponing holidays until the weekend. The natural desire for a modern city dweller living in the fast pace of life to sleep off on the weekend is self-deception, and quite dangerous at that. It will still be impossible to force an organism accustomed to chronic lack of sleep to compensate for the hours stolen from sleep by work, traffic jams, household chores or TV.

Government asks customs to be more transparent and less zealous The victory of Sochi in the Olympic race brought the cabinet of ministers into complete delight. Yesterday's meeting began literally like a wedding, where the bride, confirmed in distant Guatemala, delighted everyone with her somehow unreality, inaccessibility and fabulousness. However, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov saw this as a “sign”. So he said: “This is a certain sign.

CLUBS Gauloises Avant Fest. Held for the fourth year in a row, the international music festival brings to Moscow the most current pop and rock music from different countries and demonstrates the successes of young domestic musicians. Groups Earworm (Belarus), Analog Sound , Los Bananas , Without Breakfast , Dot Dash , Esther , Homepage , The Rave Ticket Sellers , Wahdafunkz?!

Traumatologist will turn Latvia from the USA to Russia On Sunday, the Latvian Sejm will host the inauguration of the country's new president, 52-year-old Valdis Zatlers. And on Sunday night, the powers of the current President Vaira Vike-Freiberga (pictured) , who served as head of state for two consecutive terms - eight years, will expire. The Latvian Seimas elected traumatologist Valdis Zatlers as president on May 31 .