Moscow cuts quotas for attracting migrant workers Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov's promises to reduce the number of foreign workers in the city will begin to be implemented starting next year. Yesterday, at a meeting of the city “migration headquarters,” officials decided that the capital’s quota for attracting guest workers in 2008 will not exceed 300 thousand people.

CLUBS Oleg Kireev Quartet. The name of Oleg Kireev is known not only here, but also abroad: he regularly performs at prestigious festivals and the best club stages in Europe. The band's music combines jazz standards with elements of folklore. Club "Union of Composers" , 20.30. Edom (USA). "Home" , 20.00. Nick Rock 'n' Roll and "Rub the Souls." “OGI Project” , 22.00. CLASSIC State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia named after.

Chronicle of sporting events Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Columbus" -- "Detroit" -- 4:5 (B) -- Zherdev "K" (1+2), Fedorov "K" (1+0), Datsyuk "D" (1+1), "Minnesota" "-"Colorado" - 4:1, "Vancouver" - "Calgary" - 4:1. Russian goalkeeper Ilya Bryzgalov, recently exchanged from Anaheim to Phoenix, is successfully adapting to the new team. After keeping a clean sheet in his debut for the Coyotes, the goalie received a lot of positive feedback about his performance.

In Germany, they measured the distance to Russia German Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier calls for relying on energy cooperation with Russia .

Oil workers ask Viktor Zubkov to establish a dialogue with government agencies on associated gas Rostechnadzor's initiative to repeatedly increase fines for flaring associated gas stunned oil companies so much that they sent a lengthy letter to Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov.

"United Russia" and the movement "For Putin" will form a new "unbreakable bloc of communists and non-party people" Tomorrow in Moscow, the United Russia party will hold a “Forum of Putin Supporters” - one of the key events of the election campaign of the party and the government and its only representative on the federal list . United Russia invited activists of the all-Russian movement in support of President Vladimir Putin, created on November 15 in Tver, to the event.

CelloClaus exhibition at S'ART gallery At first, the exhibition, located in a small gallery hall on Zemlyanoy Val, is perceived as a set of strange artifacts of some kind of history, the meaning of which cannot be restored. In fact, the artist Anna Kuznetsova invited us to become accomplices in a completely hermetic novel, in which every detail is an emblem, a cipher, requiring its own key.

The largest disaster in the entire history of Ukraine Yesterday, a nationwide three-day mourning was declared in Ukraine in connection with the accident at the Zasyadko mine in the Donetsk region. Due to a methane explosion at a depth of 1078 meters on the morning of November 18, at least 80 miners out of 457 working in the face were killed, the fate of another 30 is unknown. Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych and President Viktor Yushchenko visited the site of the disaster.

The new album of the group "Leningrad" has been released “Who doesn’t know Shnurov, simply Shnur? He’s the main reveler in the city of Petra...” - this is how one of the compositions begins from the new album of the group (that is, of course, the group) “Leningrad”. The question posed in the first lines is, of course, rhetorical - such unknowns today can truly be counted on the fingers of one hand, and, perhaps, folded into a tasty fig. There are no such things, and cannot exist by definition.

Former leaders arrested in Cambodia Yesterday in Phnom Penh, 76-year-old Khieu Samphan, the former president of Kampuchea (now Cambodia), who held this position 30 years ago under the Khmer Rouge regime, was arrested. He was arrested at the hospital where he was admitted last week after being diagnosed with a stroke. A week ago, 83-year-old Ieng Sary, brother-in-law of dictator Pol Pot and former foreign minister, was arrested.

Scientists are trying to solve the energy crisis with baby diapers In Canada, fuel will soon be made using infants and bedridden patients. Children are needed to produce a critical raw material: biodiesel fuel will be produced from used diapers. This waste will be processed in a special installation that AMEC Corporation intends to build in Quebec, Canada. Businessmen are going to launch this plant in a year and a half. There are several points of interest in this diaper technology.

The performance "Raise Higher the Red Lantern" by the Central Ballet Company of China, staged by Zhang Yimou Black carved, patterned, like guipure screens hang from the grates, a blue backdrop quietly shines in the depths of the huge stage (the tour took place on the stage of the Russian Army Theater), and in the semi-darkness, maidservants walk on the stage, holding red lanterns in their hands.

The man who has been the official voice of the Russian Foreign Ministry for more than two years, answering pressing questions from journalists and commenting on the most pressing events of the day, has received the highest diplomatic rank. Yesterday, a decree of the Russian President was published on awarding the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Mikhail Kamynin the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary.

Nicolas Sarkozy follows in the footsteps of Margaret Thatcher Yesterday the French railway workers' union decided to continue the strike . It has been going on for a week now, and the railroad's losses have reached $150 million. Today, because of the strike, most French newspapers will not be published. Transport workers may be joined by workers in education, postal and telephone services, hospitals and customs, demanding higher wages.

The growing psychosis in Russia around the procedure of changing the first person, which is ordinary for any normal state, is the most clear evidence of the incapacity of our current political system.