An award for children's writers has been established The buzzing fly, Aibolit and Moidodyr, Fedora with her grief and the evil Barmaley are heroes familiar to everyone in our country right from the cradle. This year marks the 125th anniversary of the birth of the man who invented them, one of the most famous children's writers - Korney Ivanovich Chukovsky. This anniversary became the occasion for several important events at once.

Jiri Kylian's film and Mats Ek's ballet meet in Stockholm The Stockholm Dance House kicked off the 2007/08 season with two super events in one evening. Jiri Kylian presented the premiere of the film Car-men, and Mats Ek composed a new ballet “The Place” for Mikhail Baryshnikov and Ana Laguna. The artistic director of the Dutch Dance Theater was not the first to divide the name of the fatal gypsy with a dash, revealing in it a combination of “machine” and “men”.

Magnitogorsk will provide Gazprom with iron Gazprom and Magnitogorsk yesterday announced the signing of a framework agreement on cooperation until 2015, which concerns the iron and steel plant’s supply of rolled products to manufacturers of pipes and equipment for the gas monopoly. The head and main shareholder of Magnitogorsk, Viktor Rashnikov, agreed with the chairman of the board of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, in April of this year that this agreement would be signed. Mr.

The Kaczynski twins are trying to cover up the scandalous wiretapping case Yesterday in Poland the confrontation between the Kaczynski brothers and the opposition reached a new level . At 7:30 a.m. in Warsaw, employees of the Internal Security Agency arrested former Minister of the Interior Janusz Kaczmarek.

The airline is trying to double its capital Having failed in its attempts to find a strategic investor for the loss-making national airline Alitalia , the Italian government is turning to the idea of ​​raising the funds it needs through a public offering. Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alitalia Maurizio Prato yesterday submitted to the board for consideration a proposal for an additional issue of shares of the company in the amount of up to 1.5 billion euros.

School physical education can't wait to be updated Russian President Vladimir Putin recently once again called on the Minister of Education and Science Andrei Fursenko to pay attention to the issues of physical education in schools. “The organization of physical education classes in schools must be changed and raised to a new level of quality,” the president said at a meeting with the head of the Ministry of Education and Science in August of this year.

The shadow of YUKOS appears in the investigation into the theft of MDM shares In the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow yesterday, a trial began in the case of fraud with shares of the Moscow Youth House (MDM). However, the court was unable to begin considering it on its merits. Due to the prosecutor's unwillingness to object to the defense's motion, filed for the second time, to return the case to the prosecutor's office to correct deficiencies, the hearing was postponed for ten days.

The trial in the “chemists’ case” has begun In the Perovsky Court of Moscow yesterday, a hearing began on the merits of the so-called “chemists’ case” - against the leaders of the capital’s Sofex company, Yana Yakovleva and Alexei Protsky (see Vremya Novostey, August 9). Employees of the Moscow department of the Federal Service for Drug Control (FSKN) accuse them of illegal sale of potent substances, illegal entrepreneurship and laundering proceeds from crime.

Serbs and Albanians came to Vienna, but did not reach an agreement Negotiations between the delegations of Serbia and the Kosovo region resumed yesterday in Vienna after a six-month break . However, they had little in common with the classical negotiation process.

CSKA found out their opponents in the Champions League The draw for the group stage of the 2007/08 Champions League season took place yesterday in Monaco. The final of this outstanding competition will be held in Moscow at the Luzhniki Stadium, which is why there is special attention to the current draw of the main club tournament of the Old World in Russia.

2005 world champion in the 400m hurdles Yulia Pechenkina resigned as champion today. At the current World Championships in Osaka, the Russian woman became second, but this result is a real feat for her. Immediately after the finish, Olga ERMOLINA, a special correspondent for Vremya Novostei, spoke with Yulia PECHENKINA. - Julia, what didn’t work out? “Everything worked out, you just need to hurt less.” She showed what she was ready for.

The election campaign is actively unfolding in Ukraine. The leader of the Communist Party of Ukraine (CPU) Petro SYMONENKO told the INTERFAX-UKRAINE agency about preparations for the early parliamentary elections on September 30 , about the position of Ukrainian communists, about the socio-political and economic situation in the country - in an interview for Vremya Novostei. - What platform is the Communist Party of Ukraine going to the elections with?

The Russian Orthodox Church agreed that studying the basics of Orthodoxy will not be compulsory On the eve of the start of the school year, the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church again started talking about “Fundamentals of Orthodox Culture” . This time, the position of the largest Russian denomination, voiced by the deputy head of the Department for External Church Relations, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, looks like a compromise.

Angela Merkel updates the Kyoto Protocol German Chancellor Angela Merkel, accompanied by an impressive delegation of economic and political representatives, continues her tour of Japan, where she arrived on Wednesday from China . The Land of the Rising Sun provides the German guest with the perfect stage to discuss global climate change .

The Israeli economy is waiting for Russian tourists “Israel has done everything to introduce a visa-free regime with Russia. It’s up to the Russian side,” Zeev Elkin, a deputy from the ruling Kadima party, said yesterday in a conversation with a Vremya Novostey correspondent.