The festival “Pacific Meridians” took place in Vladivostok The fifth international film festival of the countries of the Asia-Pacific region “Pacific Meridians” is not the most popular event. There is a strong doubt that even the most advanced film fans suspect its existence, and if they do suspect it, then out of inertia they honor it as part of a local get-together that has nothing to do with the real film process.

The leader of the tournament for the world title, Indian grandmaster Viswanathan Anand, in the ninth round further increased his lead over his main pursuers. Taking into account the gap to Anand, Vladimir Kramnik’s tournament logic required him to make up the gap, even playing black. Moreover, he is a convenient opponent: Morozevich, despite the unpredictability of chess moves, is always predictable in his uncompromisingness - he will go to fight.

Military mortgage will undergo changes The first results of an experiment within the framework of a savings-mortgage system for providing housing for military personnel have been published: 218 participants in the experiment (according to the terms of the mortgage, these are young officers) purchased apartments.

Sergei KARELOV, Chairman of the Council of the League of Independent Experts in IT (LINEX), Editor-in-Chief of the Russian edition of the business profile Global Computing Services and Chief Analyst of the Center for Analysis of the Russian IT Market Real IT, talks with a Vremya Novostei correspondent on the topic “Is life good? information technologies in Rus'." — It is generally accepted that the IT industry is our main hope.

VTB-24 has come up with a special mortgage program for Sochi VTB-24 Bank announced the launch of a new mortgage program “114% for Sochi”. For clients purchasing real estate in the city, the bank can issue a loan , the amount of which is 14% higher than the appraisal of the apartment. This figure, of course, is related to the year the Olympic Games were held.

Olmert was inundated with corruption cases Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, who turns 62 on September 30, received an unpleasant “gift.” Yesterday, government legal adviser Menachem Mazuz decided to open a criminal investigation against the prime minister over the sale of a house at 8 Cremieux Street in Jerusalem .

Before us are two books of memoirs. One was written by a completely successful politician who headed the largest European state for seven years. The second author is an outsider, a man who, along with his comrades, was washed away by the wave of history. Perhaps the only thing that both have in common is their leftist beliefs. Schroeder doesn't lie Gerhard Schroeder. Solutions. My life in politics / Trans. with him. G. Leonova. - M.: Europe, 2007.

Gogol's "Marriage" was performed at Lenkom “Marriage,” directed by Mark Zakharov, was shown on the 80th anniversary of Lenkom - there was a large congress of guests in the theater, and critics have already described in detail the words of the main director that he had long wanted to gather all the “people” on stage, and how the authorities confused the names of the artists in official greetings.

Chelsea owner promises new head coach a gift After an intense run-up to the Big Five football championships, it's time for the first series of defining matches.

The government is not against open source computer programs Last week, the Ministry of Information and Communications hosted a meeting between First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and domestic companies - developers of free (i.e., freely distributed) software (software). They discussed, in particular, the use of the Linux operating system and the OpenOffice.org office application package in Russian schools.

Burmese authorities do not resist unrest Anti-government protests in Burma (officially Myanmar), launched a week ago by the Buddhist All Burma Monks Union (BMU), are growing to the scale of a popular revolution. Yesterday, an eight-kilometer column of demonstrators numbering at least 100 thousand people marched through the streets of the country's economic capital, Rangoon (Yangon).

Industrial gas consumers protest against the terms of long-term contracts with Gazprom Gazprom and RAO UES of Russia, having agreed on their positions on long-term contracts for the supply of gas to power plants until 2012 inclusive, prepared the final version of standard contracts. Gazprom is going to enter into contracts with other industrial consumers (that is, not controlled by RAO) on practically the same conditions.

E.ON supported the European Commission's intention to ban takeovers by foreign state-owned concerns Discussion continues around the package of new legislative initiatives recently proposed by the European Commission aimed at tightening competition in the energy market. The head of Europe's largest energy concern E.ON, Wulf Bernotat, in an interview published yesterday with The Financial Times Deutschland, demanded that the German authorities provide protection against hostile takeovers.

The composition and structure of Viktor Zubkov's government was commented on by Vremya Novostei, scientific director of the Higher School of Economics Evgeny Yasin and deputy head of the Center for Political Technologies Alexey Makarkin. Evgeniy YASIN: — I welcome the fact that Alexey Kudrin retained his post in the government. He is one of the best finance ministers ever.

Vladimir Potanin completed the sale of Power Machines Interros finally managed to sell all of its shares in Power Machines. Since 2003, the company has been trying to exit the power engineering project as a non-core business, but it was unable to sell almost 74% of the shares as a single package. As a result, the package was divided into three parts.