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”.

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.

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.

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 government is considering the forecast for 2008 Today the Belarusian government will consider the forecast for next year, which assumes further economic growth. According to plans, in 2008 GDP will increase by 7.5-8.5%, industrial production will grow by 7-8%, and inflation will not go beyond 6-8%. Recently, Deputy Minister of Economy Vladimir Adashkevich said that the government is making forecasts for several scenarios, suggesting different options for rising prices for imported gas.

Moscow will celebrate its 860th anniversary without noise and dust It seems that residents of the capital's residential areas will be able to take a short break from the noise of numerous city construction projects, and residents of the center will be able to rest for a short time from the noise of cars.

A puppet theater from South Korea performed in Moscow for the first time European audiences saw the Hunday Puppet Theater a year ago at the Edinburgh Festival. To participate in it, the puppet theater, which has existed for more than forty years, left Korea for the first time. Although this troupe is known here only to specialists, the puppets made by the founder and director of the Hunday Puppet Theater, Cho Yong, are remembered by all sports fans.

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.

Elimination of the Ministry of Health and Social Development will lead to a doubling of federal agencies and services The Ministry of Health and Social Development is living its last days. Rumors about its dissolution and the emergence of two separate ministries in its place - the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of Labor and Social Development - first appeared in early August, when the current head of the Ministry of Health and Social Development, Mikhail Zurabov, went on another vacation.

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.

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.

CLUBS Crocodile TX The group is one of the founders of the so-called first wave of domestic alternative music. The team plays unimaginable and catchy music, mixed from a dozen styles, from the heaviest metal to hip-hop. "PodMoskovye" August 31, 21.00. "Chizh & Co". "Orange" , August 31, 20.00. "Leningrad". The group will open the concert season by performing old and new hits at the Tochka club, August 31, 20.30. “My leg cramped!” . "XO" , August 31, 22.00.