Eurasian porcelain project of the Hermitage This exhibition is exquisite and complex, like the speculative constructions of its curator, State Hermitage researcher Lydia Lyakhova, who believes that the Eurocentrism of Western culture in the 17th-18th centuries was established not least because the West at that time looked with admiration at the East . As evidence, she cites six different groups of early Meissen porcelain.

The second leader of the Stavropol Just Russia became the object of criminal prosecution Chairman of the State Duma of the Stavropol Territory Andrei Utkin will be prosecuted. As Sergei Solodovnikov, deputy head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for the Southern Federal District, said yesterday, the conclusion on the validity of the claims was given by the Stavropol Regional Court. Mr.

Yesterday, General Pervez Musharraf resigned as Commander-in-Chief of the Pakistani Armed Forces . At a ceremony at the military garrison stadium in Rawalpindi, where the General Staff is located, he said: “This army is my life, my passion. I love her. And I am happy that I commanded the best army in the world." Musharraf, 64, spent 43 years in military service. Musharraf, who won the presidential election in October, is expected to be sworn in today for a second five-year term as a civilian.

Most of the European territory is still in captivity of the snow cyclone, and a new Atlantic cyclone is already rushing to its aid. Therefore, most of the European territory of Russia will not survive these days without precipitation in the form of snow and sleet, or even snow and rain. In the northwestern region -1...-6оС, wet snow in places. In the central region there is occasional light to moderate snow, the prevailing temperature is 0...-6°C.

President Kaczynski is losing political influence Today, the most popular newspaper in Poland, Fakt (circulation 700 thousand copies), is published under the editorship of the new Prime Minister Donald Tusk. Yesterday morning, the politician was in the editorial office - he held a meeting of the editorial board and a planning meeting, worked on the layout, selected materials and photographs, and edited.

The President of Turkmenistan threatened Gazprom with a trans-Caspian pipeline The reasons why Gazprom so quickly agreed to a 40 percent increase in prices for Turkmen gas turned out to be extremely simple.

On December 1, 1934, the head of the Leningrad Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks, Sergei Kirov, was killed in Smolny. This tragic event was the reason for the start of mass repressions in the country, the peak of which came in 1937 - the year of great terror. Versions of Kirov's murder are still being debated.

In Nizhny Novgorod, turnout in parliamentary elections will be increased with the help of schoolchildren On December 2, Nizhny Novgorod will host not only elections to the State Duma. At the same time, a citywide school referendum “Together into the Future” will be held in the regional center.

Roskultura presented a development plan until 2020 One can only guess why Mikhail Shvydkoy suddenly came out with an urgent presentation of the project “Strategy for the development of the cultural sector until 2020.” This project is intended for the meeting of the State Council, which will be held in December. By this time the project, one must think, will have been developed in detail, because yesterday at a press conference Mikhail Shvydkoy only briefly outlined its main priorities.

CLUBS WASP (USA). "Orange" , 20.00. Happy Mondays (UK). Iconic British band Happy Mondays, revived in 2004, one of the icons of the Manchester scene of the eighties, will perform at the Rolling Stones birthday party at B1 Maximum , 20.00. MOVIE PREMIERES "Rud and Sam" (Russia, 2007). Directed by Grigor Gyardushyan. Starring Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Alexander Kalyagin, Natalya Ionova, Vitaly Emashov, Oscar Kuchera, Vladimir Zaitsev, Olga Volkova, Yuri Tsurilo and others.

Reputable businessman Sergei Mikhailov was not allowed to bring a pistol into Russia Doctor of Law Sergei Mikhailov, a major businessman and philanthropist, whom in certain circles people close to him simply call Mikhas, is suing the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

German Gref heads Sberbank Yesterday, German Gref, with the almost unanimous support of participants in an extraordinary meeting of Sberbank shareholders, headed the country's largest commercial bank . True, the owners of only 76.48% of the total number of voting shares took part in the meeting.

The Davis Cup final begins in Portland on Friday. In Portland, America, from December 1 to 3, the final match of the Davis Cup will take place, where the home team will face off against the current holders of this prestigious trophy, the Russians. As one might expect, the “stars and stripes” quartet consisted of Andy Roddick, James Blake, brothers Bob and Mike Bryan. The Russian team included Igor Andreev, Nikolay Davydenko, Dmitry Tursunov and Mikhail Yuzhny.

Kaliningrad governor establishes new orders and titles The authorities of the westernmost Russian region established the Order of Merit for the Kaliningrad Region, and decided to hang an amber star around their necks and award one million rubles to honorary citizens of the region. All these innovations belong to Governor Georgy Boos, who pays special attention to local symbolism .

Yesterday the 10th China-European Union summit , dedicated to trade and economic issues, was held in Beijing. This year, trade between China and the EU will reach a record value of $446 billion, but Europeans are not happy about this - their trade deficit with China will reach 253 billion. Brussels is seeking a revaluation of the Chinese currency in order to reduce the flow of goods from China.