The season has crept up unnoticed. But the canals are mostly quiet and quiet. "New products" are given in homeopathic quantities. Everything goes by inertia. Television critics assigned their anti-TEFI to the elections on TV - an event that did not happen. The 14th TEFI Award is also an event that did not happen because it was not shown on TV. And they did it right! I liked it. The program "Big Difference" ("First") last season was released in the singular for reasons beyond its control.

The new season started against the backdrop of the propaganda fallout from the five-day war. By the beginning of September, the backhanded word “genocide” had stopped sounding on air, and the old-regime “aggressor” turned out to be familiar. Social and political broadcasting professionals mixed August's hysteria. The psychotherapeutic Sergei Brilev and the neat Evgeniy Revenko retained common sense in their corridor of possibilities.

Eight-year-old Obama was not friends with radicals Tomorrow in Nashville, Tennessee, the second debate of US presidential candidates will take place after September 26 - 72-year-old Republican John McCain and 47-year-old Democrat Barack Obama, now 7% ahead of his opponent in popularity . The dispute will revolve around health care reform, since Obama recently predicted that if McCain’s “radical program” in this area is implemented, 20 million people will become socially unprotected.

Boris Mikhailov at the Center for Contemporary Art For some reason, it is tempting to see the exhibition “Brikolage, or Yesterday’s Sandwich”, which opened at the NCCA, in associative connection with the monumental exhibition triptych by Ilya Kabakov, which seriously excited Moscow in September. In both cases, the syntax of artistic language is radically destroyed with the aim of its subsequent reformatting in other semantic fields outside the scope of art.

Nine Russian peacekeepers were killed in a terrorist attack in South Ossetia Russian authorities on Saturday officially accused the Georgian special services of involvement in organizing the explosion that occurred on Friday afternoon in Tskhinvali near the headquarters of Russian peacekeepers.

The NHL regular season has started in Europe For the first time in recent years, most experts believe that the only favorite to start the NHL championship is the Detroit Red Wings. But making predictions in this league is a completely thankless task. Everything is too unpredictable. An amazing situation: four National Hockey League clubs have already played two matches, but the exhibition matches have not been completed. It's all about advertising.

To remove a defector from the elections, United Russia did not release him from its ranks Leaving United Russia can sometimes be much more difficult than joining it. This was once again confirmed by a meeting of the Central Election Commission at the end of last week, during which members of the commission had to consider the complaint of their ex-colleague Igor Alyabiev, the former deputy head of the Yekaterinburg city election commission.

VTB-24 announced a moratorium on mortgages for housing under construction Due to the global financial crisis, Russian citizens have fewer and fewer opportunities to take out mortgage loans. Banks have already increased loan rates en masse and tightened requirements for clients. In addition, the population is less likely to get a mortgage for housing under construction.

The first round of international consultations on South Ossetia and Abkhazia within the framework of the Medvedev-Sarkozy plan is scheduled for October 15 in Geneva.

The rescue plan for Hypo Real Estate did not work, and Fortis will be saved through nationalization German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who recently participated in the anti-crisis summit in Paris , yesterday was forced to comment on the scandalous situation in the German banking sector. The Munich banking holding Hypo Real Estate, seemingly saved from bankruptcy a few days ago with the participation of the government, nevertheless found itself on the verge of collapse.

The beginning of the new television season is marked by several returns, significant losses and absolutely useless movements. The humorous show of Channel One “Big Difference” lived up to expectations: the new episode of the program turned out to be no less incendiary and witty than the previous one. The team of writers and actors is a real boon for television producers.

Nadezhda Petrova lost to the first racket of the world Several tennis tournaments took place this week. The attention of Russian fans was focused on three of them - in Tokyo, Stuttgart and French Metz. In Japan, after a break due to injuries and illnesses, Mikhail Youzhny appeared on the court again. In Germany and France, Nadezhda Petrova and Dmitry Tursunov made it to the finals.

In addition to the grandiose - 1250 copies - release of the film, intensive advertising on Channel One, an unusual book “Admiral” should also be released for the premiere. Film Encyclopedia”, consisting of 33 essays based on unique documents, as well as conversations with the creators of the film.

The northern half of the European territory will be in the grip of a high cyclone, the center of which moves from the southwest of Scandinavia to the north of the Gulf of Bothnia. The weather is cloudy, with precipitation of varying intensity, and gusty winds in places. The center of Russia will be in the warm sector of the Atlantic cyclone. Therefore, there will be short rains in places.

Exxon Mobile is afraid to predict production volumes at Sakhalin-1 The American Exxon Mobile, which is the operator of Sakhalin-1, summing up the first results of this year, stated that the project has reached a net profit.