Sergei Lavrov intends to meet with Poles more often Yesterday's visit by Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to Warsaw can be considered “reconnaissance in force.” After all, it was Poland that, more actively than other EU member countries, supported the Georgian aggression against South Ossetia and began to put together an anti-Russian bloc. The Baltic countries and Ukraine, which is actively striving to join the EU and NATO, managed to join it.

The first stage of the "Marine Facade" of St. Petersburg was opened From now on, St. Petersburg can rightfully be considered the sea capital of Russia. On Wednesday, the 17-deck megaliner Costa Mediterranea with two thousand tourists on board arrived at the berth of the first stage of the new passenger port, built on the reclaimed territory near the mouth of the Smolenka River. He was met by hundreds of St. Petersburg residents, led by the city governor Valentina Matvienko and other officials.

Alexei Ratmansky will become the main guest choreographer of the American Ballet Theater In the spring, when Alexey Ratmansky (pictured) announced that he was not going to renew his contract with the Bolshoi Theater, he did not say anything about his future career plans.

In the City of London, Russian business is treated without prejudice Moscow will be able to join 50 global financial centers of the world. This opinion was expressed at a press conference by the Lord Mayor of the City of London, David Lewis, who is on a visit to Moscow. According to him, Russian business is treated in the City without prejudice.

The Russians will have the Fed Cup final in Madrid This weekend, the final of the women's team tournament of the Fed Cup will take place in the Spanish capital, in which the hosts of the court, the Spaniards, will face off against the current holders of this title, the Russians. Our girls' rivals will be Anabel Medina-Garrigues, who occupies 29th place in the WTA rankings, Carla Suarez-Navvaro, Nuria Legostera-Vives and Virginia Ruano-Pascual.

Monday, September 15 Channel One 5 . 00, 9.00, 12.00, 15.00, 18.00, 23.30 News 5 . 05 Good morning 9 . 20 Malakhov + 10 . 20 Fashionable verdict 11 . 20 Test purchase 12 . 20 "DEATHING FORCE". Series 13 . 20 Detectives 14 . 00 Other news 14 . 20 Understand. Forgive 15 . 20 "FIRE OF LOVE". Series 16 . 10 Let's get married! 17 . 00 Federal Judge 18 . 20 Wait for me 19 . 10 "NEXT". Series 20 . 00 "MONTECRISTO". Series 21 . 00 Time 21 . 30 "TWO FATES. A NEW LIFE." Series 22 . 30 “Mikhail Tanich.

UK tightens rules for accepting migrant workers It will soon become much more difficult for thousands of foreigners looking to take up work in the UK. New rules recently published by the Ministry of Internal Affairs tighten the procedure for selecting migrant workers .

The Russian Museum displays the works of Vera Ermolaeva The first large personal exhibition of Vera Ermolaeva (1893-1937) opened at the State Russian Museum. This big event should have happened a long time ago, but it happened only now. The exhibition is part of a single project of the museum: at the same time another exhibition opened - Nikolai Suetin's. Both artists are followers of Malevich.

England take revenge on Croatia The sweetest revenge is the one that has been incubated for years. But by the will of the lot, which once again placed the teams of England and Croatia in one qualifying group, the British had to wait less than a year for the opportunity to take revenge for the offensive defeat at Wembley, which closed the doors of the European Championship to them. Arriving in Zagreb, the team, now led by Fabio Capello, happily riddled the hosts' defense - 4:1.

Leo Bassi at the World Congress of Fools The three main stars of the Poluninsky “World Congress of Fools,” a clown festival now taking place in Moscow, are the same ones who were the stars of the carnivals of the World Theater Olympics (summer 2001). Firstly, Polunin himself - then, when he first brought his “Snow Show”, he headed the “White Carnival” in the Hermitage Garden. Then an American from Holland, Django Edwards, gave performances at the Color Carnival.

Russia calls on Latvia not to use “lies” Today NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer arrives in Latvia on an official visit. President of Latvia Valdis Zatlers announced this yesterday, noting that meetings with the Secretary General of the Alliance are traditional and take place once every six months , but the current case is special, given that Jaap de Hoop Scheffer himself arrives in Riga. “We do not meet at a NATO summit or at NATO headquarters in Brussels.

Law enforcement agencies suspect of the theft of mobile phones seized from Euroset The scandal surrounding Euroset about the UPC’s reopening of a two-year-old case of smuggling of mobile phones and the arrest in connection with this of several top managers of the company took an unexpected turn. As Vremya Novostei managed to find out, the investigative department in Moscow, which was investigating this case, at one time closed it for lack of evidence of a crime.

CLUBS Juanes (Colombia). A fusion of rock, R&B, trance, funk, pop and Colombian folk style, vallenato. SC "Olympic" , September 12, 19.00. Prem Joshua (Germany, sitar, saxophone, flutes, vocals). Multi-instrumentalist and composer, innovator and researcher of World music, creator of a unique style based on the synthesis of ancient music of the East with modern rhythms of Western music. CC "Dom" , September 12, 20.00. "Moral Code". “B1 Maximum” , September 12, 20.30. Vladimir Kuzmin.

Abkhazia and South Ossetia choose between independence and Russia The leaders of the Russian-recognized republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia spoke yesterday at the Valdai discussion club about the past and future of their territories.

Russians do not consider confrontation with the West a threat to internal stability Yesterday, the general director of the All-Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion (VTsIOM), Valery Fedorov, with numbers in his hands, proved that in the minds of Russians, as in Orwell’s famous dystopia “1984,” the thesis “War is peace” dominates. According to Mr.