A scandalous Tallinn performance was shown in St. Petersburg At the Baltic House festival, the play “Hot Estonian Guys” was staged by the very young and not very well-known Tallinn theater NO99. Rumor ran ahead of this production.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday accused Georgia of departing from the plan agreed in August by the presidents of Russia and France, Dmitry Medvedev and Nicolas Sarkozy, for detente around South Ossetia. According to the minister, Georgia is not fulfilling at least one of the points of the agreements, since it is not returning its troops to their places of permanent deployment.

CLUBS "A Few Proud Mongols" (France). Five musicians (only wind instruments and drums) and a blonde organist in national Mongolian costumes play jazz-rock. Union of Composers , October 24, 20.00. Lyapis Trubetskoy. B1 Maximum , October 24, 20.30. Konstantin Nikolsky. Concert , October 24, 21.30. Alexey Aigi and 4'33Project. O.G.I. , October 24, 22.00. "City 312". B2 , October 24, 23.00. "Dolphin". Ikra , October 24 and 25, 21.00. Swod (Germany).

Fidel Castro praised Metropolitan Kirill for his dislike of American imperialism An unexpected compliment to the Russian Orthodox Church came yesterday from the lips of Fidel Castro.

Russian diplomats have prepared a “package” of ideas for the EU on the visa problem in the Kaliningrad region The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs intends to draw the attention of colleagues from the European Union to the problems of the Kaliningrad region. The Russian Foreign Ministry is preparing a “package” of seven options for solving the visa puzzle of the westernmost region of the Russian Federation .

Khabibulin did not allow his goal to be printed Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "New Jersey" - "Dallas" - 5:0, "Ottawa" - "Florida" - 1:3, "Philadelphia" - "San Jose" - 6:7 B - Semenov " S" (0+1), "St. Louis" -- "Detroit" -- 3:4 -- Datsyuk "D" (0+2), "Chicago" -- "Edmonton" -- 3:0. Chicago head coach Jule Quenneville said that he is completely satisfied with the team's goaltending line. “We are in no hurry. Both goalies deserve a chance to prove themselves.

A memorandum on the development of cooperation between their regions was signed yesterday in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk by the governors of the Sakhalin region, Mr. Alexander Khoroshavin, and the Japanese prefecture of Hokkaido, Ms. Takahashi Harumi. The visit of the guest, who in 2003 became the first head of the administration of Japan's northernmost prefecture, is timed to coincide with the tenth anniversary of the establishment of friendly ties between the two islands.

Financial and economic crisis: some lessons and directions for system modernization By now it is clear that the crisis that has broken out is profound, and its occurrence cannot be associated only with one or another unfortunate combination of circumstances. It reflects the possibilities inherent in the existing system, including the potential for negative developments. Sooner or later this potential had to reveal itself.

CSKA's first match in the Euroleague attracted only 3,000 fans This week the first matches of the ULEB Euroleague took place - in fact the continental club championship. The tournament started on Monday. "Tau" (Spain) fought with "Fenerbahce" (Türkiye). On Wednesday, four more games took place, including a meeting between CSKA and Armani Jeans (Milan, Italy), and late yesterday evening Moscow time the first round ended with seven matches.

Warsaw wants to once again review the intergovernmental agreement with Moscow A meeting took place at the Gazprom office between the head of the concern, Alexey Miller, and a representative delegation from Poland.

The European Parliament yesterday named 35-year-old Chinese human rights activist Hu Jia as the laureate of the Sakharov Prize. He beat out other nominees, including Belarusian politician Alexander Kazulin . Beijing wanted to prevent this prize from being awarded to the Chinese. "Attempts have been made by writing to party group chairs in the European Parliament and even by telephone," said Liberal group chairman Graham Watson.

United Russia wants to change the system of municipal elections to suit itself An attempt to ensure complete dominance, following the federal and regional ones, in municipal legislative assemblies is being made by United Russia. The Presidium of the General Council of the party in power recently recommended that its deputies in municipal assemblies initiate a transition to a majoritarian-proportional election system. That is, according to party lists.

On the European territory of Russia there is a confrontation between a cyclone and an anticyclone. The cyclone will occupy the north of the European territory of Russia, but at the same time, the next Western European anticyclone will approach the center from the west by the weekend. In the northwestern region on Friday and Saturday, light rains are possible only in the Leningrad region, and there will be +6...+11оС.

The government again proposes to create an oil reserve OPEC countries today will decide how much to reduce oil production in order to support world prices for it. And in Russia, officials yesterday continued to talk about the need for an oil reserve. However, from their statements it is not even possible to understand what exactly is being proposed: to reserve deposits or already extracted raw materials.

Guitar virtuoso Steve Vai will hold a master class in Moscow If you ask a group of average music lovers whether they know Steve Vai, one hundred percent of the sample will answer in the affirmative. When asked what exactly it makes sense for him to listen to, a minority will answer that he works with Frank Zappa, a slightly larger number will say with the singer David Lee Roth, and the largest part will recommend the album Slip of the Tongue by Whitesnake (1989).