Russia and Georgia reduce contacts to a minimum Russia and Georgia, who were unable to sign a framework agreement on friendship and good neighborliness after the collapse of the USSR due to constantly flaring up disagreements, despite their historical, geographical and spiritual proximity, are turning into distant relatives . Yesterday the Georgian parliament discussed whether the government should be recommended to completely sever diplomatic relations.

Yuri Norshtein’s two-volume book “Snow on the Grass” has been published About three years ago, Yuri Norshtein’s book “Snow on the Grass” was published by VGIK - it was not very thick, in paperback, was very cheap and was intended mainly for students: it contained lectures given at different times in Tokyo and in Moscow, at the Higher Directing Courses. I didn’t get this book then, I was terribly jealous of its owners and caught individual chapters from the Internet.

A strong earthquake occurred near Lake Baikal Yesterday morning an earthquake occurred in the Irkutsk region, the tremors of which were felt throughout almost all of Siberia - from Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk to Chita. The epicenter, where the force of the tremors reached 9 points, was located in the area of ​​Lake Baikal. Fortunately, there were no casualties or serious damage. Nevertheless, the disaster still caused damage.

Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a view from Latin America The death of Alexander Isaevich Solzhenitsyn prompted us to introduce Russian readers to the content of an essay about an outstanding writer and fighter against totalitarianism, which was published on the pages of the Chilean newspaper Prensa back in 1972.

"Babylon AD" Mathieu Kassovitz on Moscow screens “Save the world? For what? Life is a simple thing: kill yourself - or they will kill you. This is the law of survival. My law. And everything was like this until I was faced with a choice: change something or step aside and survive. At that moment I realized something important.

The confrontation between Russian and alliance ships in the Black Sea is intensifying For the first time in many decades, an extremely dangerous confrontation between groups of Russian and NATO warships has established in the Black Sea. Yesterday, the day after Moscow recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia , Russian warships entered Abkhaz waters.

Russia intends to tighten its meat and dairy belt Meat and dairy belts will be created in Russia, that is, regions that will develop the production of meat and dairy products. This decision was approved yesterday at a meeting of the government commission on issues of the agro-industrial complex. The country does not have the ability to uniformly support production throughout the entire territory, so grants for targeted development will be allocated on a competitive basis.

The American orbital gamma-ray telescope received a new name Usually ships are named first, and then they are lowered from the slipways and set sail. With spacecraft, in principle, the situation is exactly the same: at the time of launch, they already have their own name or serial number, under which they enter the annals of history. But NASA's new orbital telescope turned out to be an exception to this rule.

In the next couple of days, Atlantic cyclones will continue to control the weather in most of European Russia. One of them is already retreating to the east, but the Atlantic is not asleep, and from its vastness a new cyclone has rushed towards Russia. Because of it, it will rain at times in areas of the north-west, heavy in some places on Friday. And it’s cool, on August 28 it’s still +14...+19оС, and on Friday it’s only +12...+17оС.

In Russia, it seems, another era of imperial ecstasy has begun . Until now, all such eras have ended in the same way - collapse: economic, political, territorial. It seems that Russia is ready to repeat, in a new round of history, the Brezhnev-Gorbachev political cycle, which ended with the death of the USSR.

The new administration of the Irkutsk region is against Gazprom’s plan Gazprom's position in the Irkutsk region has become seriously complicated. After the resignation of Alexander Tishanin from the post of governor of the region and the arrival of a new team led by acting. The head of the regional administration, Igor Esipovsky, criticism of the activities of the gas monopolist is intensifying at a rapid pace.

Sudanese plane hijackers land in Libya Yesterday, the Libyan authorities, after negotiations that lasted all night, managed to persuade the hijackers of the Sudanese airliner to release first the women and children, and then the rest of the passengers. 90 Sudanese, two Ethiopian, one Ugandan and two Egyptian police officers left the plane. By evening, six crew members remained on board, as well as two air pirates, but they also surrendered to the Libyan authorities.

The monument to Minin and Pozharsky will be restored for the first time in its history Repair work, which has long become an integral attribute of the center of Moscow, will also affect one of the symbols of the capital. As Valery Shevchuk, head of the Moscow Cultural Heritage Committee, said on Wednesday, by order of the capital authorities, restoration of the monument to Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square will begin next year.

FAS submitted to the White House the text of the rules for access to the pipe The likelihood that the draft government resolution on the rules of non-discriminatory access to the gas transportation system will finally be considered at the level of the Prime Minister has increased sharply.

By signing a decree recognizing the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia , Russian President Dmitry Medvedev influenced the existing world order and international relations incomparably more than he himself perhaps imagined.