Elected on February 24 as President of the Republic of Cyprus, 61-year-old Dimitris Christofias began active foreign policy activities. He traveled to Athens and Brussels, and on 21 March held a key meeting with Turkish Cypriot leader Mehmet Ali Talat .

The Perm governor found a prime minister but did not find a head of administration The plan of the Governor of the Perm Territory Oleg Chirkunov to renew power was only half successful: the regional legislative assembly approved a new chairman of the government, but the head of the governor’s administration unexpectedly resigned. The Vremya Novostei newspaper described in detail how the day after the Russian presidential elections, Mr.

Premiere of Prokofiev's The Gambler at the Berlin Staatsoper “The Player” by Sergei Prokofiev was staged twice at the Bolshoi Theater - in 1974 by Pokrovsky and Lazarev and in 2001 by Rozhdestvensky and Titel, and twice at the Mariinsky Theater - by Gergiev and Chkheidze. For Russia, Prokofiev’s opus is a textbook; it has entered the consciousness of people interested in opera and culture in general.

The blog portal “Live Journal” has published a page for Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia Sergei Storchak, who has been under arrest since November 15, 2007 on charges of attempted theft of government funds. Yesterday morning on this page a message was posted on behalf of Mr. Storchak “to Alexander Lebedev and the LiveJournal community.” As you know, State Duma deputy Alexander Lebedev is a friend of Mr.

The Russian frigate was enthusiastically received in Cuba The Russian training sailing frigate "Pallada" ("Pallada" is one of the epithets of the Greek goddess Athena) on a round-the-world voyage has set course for the Portuguese Azores Islands in the mid-Atlantic. Arrival at the port of Punta Delgada is expected in three weeks.

The Sunday wedding in New York of the ex-wife of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, 50-year-old Cecilia Siganiere-Albéniz, and 48-year-old native of Morocco, a Jew by birth, Richard Attias, was dubbed in the United States an “Easter wedding in revenge” in the United States. In early February, 53-year-old Sarkozy became engaged to 40-year-old Italian singer and former supermodel Carla Bruni.

On Tuesday, the weather in the European territory of Russia will depend on the Mediterranean cyclone, which will come from Belgrade to Belarus. The cyclone will bring snow to the northwestern region, strong in the morning and afternoon, blizzard, wind with gusts of up to 15--16 m/s, daytime temperature -1...+4oC. The central region will be in the warm part of the cyclone, so rain is expected, and the southeast and south wind will increase the air temperature to +11...+16oC.

During the military campaign in Iraq, which began five years ago, in March 2003, the number of US military personnel killed there has already exceeded 4 thousand people. Over 29 thousand more were wounded. This was announced yesterday by the US command in Iraq, reporting that the day before, four soldiers were killed south of Baghdad, whose patrol jeep was blown up by a roadside bomb.

Sometimes historical treatises can tell more about our time than current journalism. But if re-reading the pages of the past does not contribute to the growth of optimism, then the only antidote to political skepticism is the conscious construction of a new utopia. State utopia in theses Vladislav Surkov. Texts 97--07. - M.: Europe, 2008. A month ago, in a traditional review in Vremya Novostey, we presented a collection of articles and speeches by Dmitry Medvedev.

The new president makes good on his promise to unite the island Yesterday, in the center of the Cypriot capital Nicosia, work began on the final dismantling of the wall dividing the territory of residence of the Greek and Turkish communities. Sappers from the UN also arrived here to make sure that there are no mines or unexploded shells left near this wall. The city's oldest street, Ledra, is in many ways reminiscent of Moscow's Arbat.

The widespread practice in the world of some kind of temporary gap between the election of a new president and his taking office under the current Russian political system does not bring any benefit to the country, to put it mildly. The problem is that this gap is actively used by opposing factions near the Kremlin to solve personal political and commercial problems, which are closely intertwined with each other.

A new generation of artists in the St. Petersburg Globus gallery For the last ten years, in the contemporary art of St. Petersburg, the lack of an influx of fresh forces has been acutely felt, there has been no new wave - “where are the young punks who will wipe us off the face of the earth?” (BG). Individual, albeit bright names - Oleg Khvostov, Vitaly Pushnitsky, Pyotr Bely, Pyotr Shvetsov, Philip Dontsov - were happy exceptions.

Russia may legally return to partial state regulation of prices The trade bill, which the Ministry of Economic Development has been developing for more than two years, has received approval from the business community. After six months of weekly meetings of the working group, the parties managed to reach a compromise. However, this option cannot be considered final.

The organizers of the gala concert managed to please everyone The festival started with a sensation, but in the end it fizzled out. On the opening day, all kinds of media spread the news that the director of the ballet troupe, Mahar Vaziev, had submitted his resignation. On the day of closure, the press service of the Mariinsky Theater officially stated that there would be no comments, since there was nothing to comment on. Mr.

The head of Europe's largest municipal waste landfill was suspended from work The court of the city of Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region, sentenced the head of the Igumnovsky solid waste landfill, Roman Koverdyagu, to a fine of 200 thousand rubles. for violating the operating rules of the landfill. In addition to the fine, the court prohibited the head of the landfill from engaging in activities related to waste circulation for two years.