The anniversary of the legendary duet was celebrated at the Bolshoi Theater A festival was held in the country's main theater in honor of Ekaterina Maximova and Vladimir Vasiliev. It was not the birthdays of the famous artists that were celebrated, but the fiftieth anniversary of their creative duo. Festive mini-festivals have already been organized in the theater in honor of Maya Plisetskaya, Yuri Grigorovich and Marina Semenova.

Vnesheconombank will finance projects of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) in the areas of defense procurement and military-technical cooperation. “Together with the corporation, we must assess the amount of resources that are needed to implement the planned projects,” VEB Chairman Vladimir Dmitriev said at a press conference yesterday. Under the defense order, investments will amount to hundreds of millions of dollars in ruble equivalent.

Wojciech Jaruzelski is confident that he is right Yesterday, the ex-leader of socialist Poland, 85-year-old General Wojciech Jaruzelski, completed his speech before members of the Warsaw District Court. “Perhaps this is my last word,” he ended his speech. The former Polish leader is the main defendant in the trial of the “authors of martial law,” which was introduced in Poland on December 13, 1981 and continued to operate for more than a year and a half.

The swings in the stock markets have gone up Having opened after a day of forced downtime, yesterday Russian stock exchanges showed an increase of more than 4%. The RTS index exceeded 550 points. Analysts note that trading volumes remain low, and despite fundamentally low share prices, investors are in no hurry to return to the Russian market. But government funds are already operating on it through the Development Bank.

The word "sequestration" was pronounced at the Moscow City Hall Ten years after the 1998 default, Muscovites will have to remember another frightening economic term that came into use at that time. City authorities, in the context of the unfolding financial crisis, will use the so-called sequestration mechanism, or cost reduction, to hedge against a likely decline in city treasury revenues, a significant share of which is made up of tax revenues from oil companies.

Klaus Roland: Now there is a crisis, and in such a situation you do what needs to be done immediately Director and Resident Representative of the World Bank in Russia Klaus ROLAND answered questions from Prime-TASS agency columnist Sergei LYSAKOV and Vremya Novostey columnist Andrei DENISOV about the situation in global markets and the adequacy of anti-crisis measures taken in Russia.

Demonstrations on access to the pipe were held at the board of directors of Gazprom The fourth meeting of the Gazprom board of directors, chaired by First Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov, was marked by a showdown.

The head of the Central Election Commission is ready to conduct electronic voting in Russia without a special law The head of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov, intends, with the help of lawyers, to slip through the gaps in Russian election legislation, which does not yet provide for voting using the Internet. Mr.

The jury found Alexey Frenkel guilty In the Moscow City Court yesterday, a jury unanimously found the former head of the capital's VIP bank, Alexei Frenkel, guilty of organizing the murder of the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation , Andrei Kozlov, who was shot dead in September 2006 . The people's judges also found the other defendants in this high-profile case guilty.

Today in Bonn (Germany) the 11th game of the match for the title of world chess champion between Viswanathan Anand (India) and Vladimir Kramnik will take place. We have already reported on the result of the 10th game, in which the Russian won, reducing the gap in the overall score to 4:6. And yet, Kramnik’s first victory in this confrontation requires some understanding. It seemed that the last third of the match for the chess crown was no longer interesting.

It takes $9 trillion to save humanity from oil, gas and coal The exact dollar amount that is needed to return the environment to its former harmony has recently become known. Ironically, Greenpeace published the results of its research on this matter in Berlin precisely in those days when the world's leading politicians, with not too obvious success, are racking their brains in search of ways out of the global financial crisis.

Contract for the supply of Russian oil - by friendship or by market Despite their mutually declared desire to expand their partnership , Russia and China find it difficult to agree on key economic issues for each other. This was confirmed by yesterday's bilateral intergovernmental negotiations in Moscow . The leaders of the executive branch - Premier of the State Council of China Wen Jiabao and Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin spent almost the entire day together.

Gas producers created the “Big Three”, and the EU countries divided themselves according to the “third package” The next meeting of energy ministers of gas exporting countries is due to take place in Moscow in mid-November.

On the eve of the September extraordinary meeting of the leaders of the EU member states (where the August military conflict in South Ossetia was discussed - Ed. ), The Observer newspaper published an article by British Prime Minister Gordon Brown. In it, the author, concerned that through Russian supplies Europe “covers 42% of its needs for gas and 33% for oil,” recommended that the EU urgently seek contacts with other possible suppliers of oil and gas.

VEB and the Pension Fund will be given more effective financial instruments By the end of this year, amendments to the legislation may be adopted that will allow the Pension Fund (PFR) and Vnesheconombank to invest pension savings in corporate bonds and mortgage-backed securities. This was stated yesterday by the head of the financial policy department of the Ministry of Finance, Alexey Savatyugin.