The globalization of Nazism threatens everyone Yesterday in Moscow there was a round table meeting “Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Croatia, Austria: attempts to glorify Nazism,” organized by the publishing house “Europe” together with the Russian Institute. The main speaker was the famous Israeli historian, director of the Jerusalem Simon Wiesenthal Center, authoritative “Nazi hunter” Efraim Zuroff .

Watch from November 1 on Moscow screens "Kingdom" (USA, 2007, Peter Berg). A large-scale political thriller with shootings and explosions based on the script by Matthew Martin Carnahan (very soon another of his films, also related to the Middle East and big politics, “Lions for Lambs”) will be released on our screens.

Ukraine must repay $729 million by evening Today the repayment period for Ukraine's debt for Central Asian gas supplied in the summer expires. A month ago, the emergence of information about the newly accumulated debt once again heated up the situation between Kiev and Moscow and required the intervention of the Ukrainian authorities in negotiations between corporations involved in supplies. However, the parties again reached the deadline.

Rivalry between Russia and the United States in the field of missile defense is intensifying A Russian short-range anti-missile missile successfully hit a conditional target at the specified time yesterday. The test launch from the Sary-Shagan test site in Kazakhstan was carried out by a joint combat crew of the Strategic Missile Forces and the Space Forces. The rocket is not new - since 1983, this is already the 43rd launch of a product of this type.

Moscow authorities do not want to part with state property in the social sector The Moscow authorities are in no hurry to part with the numerous social institutions that now belong to the city and criticize the federal center for its haste in the commercialization of the educational and cultural sphere.

The new owners of the Russian electric power industry predict a strong increase in the price of a kilowatt-hour The head of RAO UES of Russia, Anatoly Chubais, yesterday expressed satisfaction with the work of the state: he was glad that the State Duma and the Federation Council approved amendments to the legislation on the electric power industry, which set a deadline for completing the reform.

Kazakhstan will wait to chair the OSCE Yesterday ended a two-day visit to Kazakhstan by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Before leaving Astana, the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry and his Kazakh counterpart Marat Tazhin were received by the President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev. According to Mr.

The reasons for the failure of Zemfira’s album “Thank You” The current musical year has been fruitful for Russian music, at least much more successful than the last. The cult jazz-rock group “Auktsion” and no less significant heroes of psychedelic punk “Civil Defense” have released new records, and a new album by the founder of the rock-pop style “Mumiy Troll” has been released. But there was much more anticipation for the release of Zemfira’s new album.

A delegation from the federal government visited the special zone of the Russian innovation economy Dubna, located near Moscow, where one of the four Russian special economic zones of technology-innovation type is located, yesterday received a delegation of distinguished guests from Moscow.

The club management has reasons to believe in the best Last week's two European Cup matches involving Zenit and Lokomotiv left fans disappointed. Not the content of the game, but the result. Especially the draw between Lokomotiv and Atletico Madrid. The game was great, perhaps the most interesting and exciting in all Thursday's matches - with speed, game thought, brilliant individual actions, passion. But 3:3 is not at all what Loko fans were hoping for.

Ephraim ZUROFF, director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Jerusalem, spoke to Vremya Novostei about the fight against Nazi criminals . -- Does your center cooperate with Russia in searching for Nazi criminals? -- No. But in the morning I discussed with the Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs Mikhail Margelov the prospects for cooperation with Russia in countering the spread of Nazi ideas.

With actions in support of a third term, the bureaucracy, with the help of the people, puts pressure on the president In recent weeks , massive street protests have taken place across Russia in support of Vladimir Putin's third consecutive term as president . And regional parliaments, one after another, accepted appeals to the president with a request to remain the de facto leader of the country even after the end of his presidential powers in the spring of 2008.

The tournament in Paris will name all participants in the final championship The last tennis tournament of the Masters series with a prize fund of 2.1 million euros is taking place in the French capital. At the end of these competitions, the full list of participants in the final men's tournament in Shanghai, which will take place in November, will be determined. At the moment, the names of six holders of Shanghai “tickets” are known.

Pyongyang demanded energy equipment Yesterday in Beijing it was announced that the heads of the DPRK and US delegations at the six-party talks on the Korean nuclear issue - Deputy Foreign Minister Kim Kye-gwan and Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill - would arrive there. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao did not rule out a meeting between the two diplomats who came to confer with their Chinese counterpart Wu Dawei.

Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk and Kaliningrad defends the right of the church to evaluate state policy The approaching Day of National Unity could not go unnoticed by the Russian Orthodox Church, which timed a whole series of “church-social events” to coincide with this holiday, which had not yet taken root in the consciousness of Russians.