CLUBS RAMP-2007 award ceremony. For the first time in Russia, one of the most authoritative experimental music projects in the world is Unkle . For four years they were silent, for four years they were expected to explode. The cult duo Unkle is back with a new sound, a new show and a new album. James Lavelle and Tim Goldsworthy, creators of the most unconventional and original music, are specially going to the RAMP Awards to present their full-scale show War Stories to Russian music lovers.

Vladimir Putin - about the Great Terror The seventieth anniversary of the beginning of Stalin's great terror , which seemed almost unnoticed by the authorities throughout 2007, was officially celebrated yesterday in a way that many probably did not expect.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 International Union for Conservation of Nature has published a list of endangered primates. Humanity is too actively developing the planet, according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). So active that our closest relatives, primates, have nowhere to live. Ecologists believe that at least two and a half dozen species of monkeys and lemurs are getting closer and closer to complete extinction.