The President of Belarus intends to sign a gas contract before the Kremlin chimes strike Alexander Lukashenko began a propaganda campaign ahead of the next stage of gas negotiations with Russia. Having promised on Saturday to try not to delay the signing of the contract until the New Year's strike of the Kremlin chimes , as happened last year, Mr. Lukashenko did not fail to accuse Gazprom of an incessant thirst for profit.

Six-party talks on the Korean nuclear issue involving the two Koreas, China, the United States, Russia and Japan are due to take place this week in Beijing. The Chinese Foreign Ministry said that negotiations will take place on September 27-30. The meeting was planned to be held at the end of August. Then it was postponed to September 19, but was canceled again - allegedly due to Pyongyang’s request not to hold nuclear negotiations before the inter-Korean summit , scheduled for October 2-4.

At the Meyerhold meetings they showed “Quartet” directed by Matthias Langhoff A year ago, Valery Fokin at the Meyerhold Center undertook to hold annual Meyerhold meetings, inviting world directors' stars to present their latest premieres. Last time, Krzysztof Warlikowski, a Polish director of the new generation, brought “Krum” based on the play by Hanoch Levin - a play about the mid-life crisis and dashed hopes. And he received a special Meyerhold prize.

Problems with land in Sochi did not scare investors The main topic of the Sochi Investment Forum , held this weekend, was attracting investment in infrastructure projects. Moreover, if on the first day we talked about projects throughout the country, then on the second - only in Olympic Sochi. In total, according to the acting Minister of Economic Development German Gref, 169 investment agreements and protocols of intent worth $22 billion were signed during the forum.

The Philharmonic has opened a new children's season It all starts with a huge traffic jam on the Garden Ring, almost a kilometer before the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (this is on a day off). God knows how, it continues with parked cars or noisy running along the metro escalator in a crowd of children and parents.

Today, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili will go to New York to speak at the UN General Assembly session about the situation in the conflict regions of Georgia and criticize Russia’s mediation and peacekeeping role . These days the situation around Abkhazia has sharply deteriorated. Last Thursday, an armed clash occurred on the territory of the unrecognized republic. Two Abkhaz soldiers were killed, seven more were captured by Georgia and are accused of preparing sabotage.

Anand retains lead in championship tournament At the world championship tournament in Mexico, after eight rounds, Indian grandmaster Viswanathan Anand retained the lead with 5.5 points. Boris Gelfand, competing under the Israeli flag, was half a point behind him. So far, the current holder of the chess crown is Vladimir Kramnik, and in the seventh round, which concludes the first half of the competition, it was his game with Boris Gelfand that attracted general attention.

The right and the agrarians have determined who will go to the polls and with what Parties that, for various reasons, are perceived by public opinion as outsiders are determined to change the situation in their favor . Determination was demonstrated by the congresses of the Union of Right Forces, the Agrarian Party of Russia and the Civil Power party.

In the north-west and in the central zone of European Russia, where anticyclones rule, a beautiful and bright time of golden autumn has established itself. And although at night in some places the air temperature drops to freezing, during the day the thermometers are rapidly creeping up, and tomorrow the air will warm up to +14...+20°C, and the average daily temperature will be two to three degrees higher than usual for these days in September.

Japan will be led by a moderate politician Tomorrow, the lower house of Japan's parliament will hold elections for a new prime minister, who will replace Shinzo Abe, who announced his resignation on September 12 . The candidate for the vacant seat is 71-year-old Yasuo Fukuda (pictured) , who was elected yesterday as leader of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP).

Kazakhstan and Chevron are going to build a chemical production facility at the Tengiz field for the sake of oil production. In anticipation of the visit of Chevron management to Astana last Friday, Kazakh authorities once again presented environmental claims to the American company, which is the operator of the development of the Tengiz oil field (reserves exceed 3.1 billion tons) and the majority shareholder of this project.

Marcel Marceau was the first European mime to be seen in the Soviet Union. He arrived in 1957 and shocked the public so much that ten, twenty, and thirty years later, the image of this modern Pierrot, the thin and flexible little man Bip in a vest and hat, inspired Soviet artists.

More and more children are studying in Moscow schools who do not speak Russian. “Are there many non-Russians in the class?” - parents of Moscow schoolchildren ask each other. This question is only partly related to xenophobia. Adults are worried that their child will not be able to study normally and with pleasure if half the class speaks Russian poorly. Or doesn't speak at all. According to expert estimates, the number of migrants in Moscow ranges from 1 to 3 million people.

Yesterday, tens of thousands of monks marched through the streets of Burma's largest cities, swapping their traditional yellow robes for crimson ones. This was a symbolic indication of the willingness to sacrifice oneself - among Buddhists, the crimson color symbolizes the cleansing fire of posthumous reincarnation. In the economic capital of Rangoon, the demonstrators numbered about seven thousand, joined by several hundred nuns and thousands of sympathizers shouting anti-government slogans.

CLUBS Anna Koroleva (vocals, saxophone) and Jump . Forte , 21.00. CONCERTS Vladimir Ovchinnikov (piano) plays “Bergamas Suite”, “Children’s Corner” and “Island of Joy” by Debussy, Sonata No. 5 by Scriabin, three romances by Rachmaninov-Wilde. Small Hall of the Conservatory , 19.00. "Piano, flute and bows..." .