Belarusian businessmen are being pushed to marry employees A strike of individual entrepreneurs took place in Belarus yesterday. According to estimates from the public association “Perspective”, about 80 thousand people took part in the action. Entrepreneurs and sellers who did not go to work in markets and exhibition centers in Minsk and other large cities. “It was a serious action,” Perspektiva leader Anatoly Shumchenko told Vremya Novostei.

The festival dedicated to the 75th anniversary of Rodion Shchedrin has ended The Shchedrin Festival is a bright and successful project of the philharmonic season. For several days there were full halls, varied programs, an inspired audience and applause that turned into an ovation for the star couple - the composer and his muse Maya Plisetskaya.

The conflict between the parties continued at the board of directors of KM Invest Former partners who are in the process of dividing a joint business - the head of the Interros holding Vladimir Potanin and the head of the Onexim group Mikhail Prokhorov - once again failed to come to a peace agreement . Yesterday, at the board of directors of the KM Invest fund, which owns the joint assets of entrepreneurs, representatives of Mr.

Chronicle of sporting events Famous Brazilian forward Romario has been suspended for 120 days by the Brazilian Football Confederation for doping. Romario, who fulfilled his long-time dream of scoring the 1000th goal in his career, recently played the role of player-coach at the Vasco da Gama club and rarely allowed himself on the field. However, the forward-coach took part in the match against Palmeiras, and after that the drug finasteride was found in his doping tests.

The 2007 season ended with serious competitions at the national level For most tennis players included in the world elite, the 2007 season on the ATP tour ended in early November, when the winner of the Masters tournament in the French capital was determined. After that, in mid-November, the eight strongest players took part in the final Masters Cup competition of the year on the court in Shanghai, China. And in early December, the US and Russian national teams met in the Davis Cup final.

Uzbekistan elects a president This coming Sunday, December 23, a president will be elected in Uzbekistan . The upcoming vote, like other presidential elections in recent years in Eurasia - in Russia and Central Asia, does not contain any intrigue. The name of the winner of the Uzbek elections is known: Islam Abduganievich Karimov.

Ernst & Young studied the culture of risk management in Russia With rapidly growing investment in emerging markets, many companies remain unable to manage risk effectively. This is stated in the study by the auditing company Ernst & Young “Risk management practices in Russia and other countries with developing market economies.” According to her, the Western culture of risk management has a great influence on domestic companies, and they are gradually adopting the experience of their colleagues.

Features of national continuity There is one obvious circumstance in Russian political history - there is no continuity of power in Russia. From tsar to tsar, from secretary general to general secretary, from president to president, ideological models often change to the exact opposite, sometimes remaining within the framework of at least nominally reminiscent of the phraseology of their predecessors, but more often not reminiscent.

Premiere of the film "1814" The most difficult thing for today's cinema is to find an audience for the film, and in sufficient numbers. The modern active moviegoer is young, not burdened with erudition, knows little and is interested in little, but he needs a spectacular show, with young heroes, dynamic, entertaining, if possible, with intrigue, with eroticism, with music and certainly with humor. But at the same time it is romantic.

Scientists dispute Ukrainian famine myth Russian and Ukrainian scientists decided to contribute to the coverage of the problem of the Holodomor in Ukraine .

In the next two days, the weather in most of the European territory of Russia will be determined by the Atlantic cyclone, which rushed from the Upper Volga towards the Urals. It will bring cloudy and windy weather. In the northwest on Thursday and Friday there will be light precipitation in most areas, in some places northwest wind gusts can reach 15-20 m/s, and temperatures will fluctuate around 0°C.

Russia will create an insurance system for water transportation At the Maritime Collegium under the Russian government held yesterday, its head, First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov, outlined several radical proposals in the field of sea and river transportation and management of maritime activities. In particular, it is proposed to create an insurance system for this type of transportation, similar to the already existing air transportation insurance system.

Bush cuts warhead stockpile Even before the start of the new year, US President George W. Bush's decision to reduce American nuclear potential to a quarter of its volume during the end of the Cold War will come into force. A White House statement released yesterday notes that the decision was made by the president in consultation with Pentagon chief Robert Gates and Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, with support from the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as well as the US Strategic Command.

In the first month and a half after the victory of the October armed uprising, the task of suppressing resistance to the Bolshevik government was solved by the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee, working under the leadership of the Central Committee of the RSDLP (b) (the central committee of the Russian Social Democratic Party (Bolsheviks) and the Council of People's Commissars (Council of People's Commissars, or Sovnarkom) On December 1, 1917, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee

The trial of the organizers of the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market has begun The Moscow City Court yesterday began the trial of the explosion at the Cherkizovsky market , which killed 12 people and injured about 50 more in August last year. There are eight young people in the dock - the backbone of one of the capital's nationalist groups, which committed a total of eight explosions in Moscow and the region.