In St. Petersburg, in the Znamenka estate, next to Peterhof, the All-Russian scientific and practical conference of the All-Russian Society for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Monuments (VOOPIK) is being held.

Low prices for jet fuel do not allow Iran to purchase modern aircraft Iran plans to equalize domestic prices for aviation fuel with world prices. According to the director of the Kyiv State Aviation Plant (KiGAZ) Valery Kozorezov, Iranian officials informed the Ukrainian delegation that arrived in this country for negotiations on the prospects for joint production of the An-148 aircraft. Currently, domestic air travel in the Islamic Republic of Iran, including jet fuel, is subsidized.

LUKOIL continues to purchase foreign assets Despite the outbreak of the financial crisis and rapidly falling oil prices, LUKOIL does not refuse to purchase foreign assets . True, the company has to adjust the terms of transactions. Yesterday it was announced that LUKOIL agreed with the world's largest banks to obtain a loan for the purchase of the Turkish network of Akpet gas stations.

On November 5, the exhibition “Homo Legends: Reading Man” opens at the Tretyakov Gallery, dedicated to the anniversary of the Moscow bookstore. Vremya Novostei correspondent Sofya SAPOZHNIKOVA met with store director Marina KAMENEVA . -- Marina Nilovna, tell us about your joint project with the Tretyakov Gallery. -- The store turns fifty years old on November 5th. On this day, the exhibition “Homo Legends: Reading Man” will open. It will last a month.

Alexander Bulbov was finally charged Yesterday, the Investigative Committee brought final charges against the head of the FSKN operational support department, Lieutenant General Alexander Bulbov . Investigators counted 35 episodes of criminal activity in his biography, in particular illegal wiretapping of telephone conversations and receiving a bribe of $3.2 million.

The country's leading lawyers discuss the terminological conflict between the two codes Contrary to expectations, on the first day of the scientific and practical conference “Civil and Tax Law: Conflict of Legal Understandings,” which takes place in the building of the Faculty of Law of St.

Ashgabat proposed to the UN to take its gas pipelines under protection Turkmenistan recently submitted for discussion to the 2nd Committee of the UN General Assembly (GA) a draft of a very interesting resolution with a long title “Reliable and stable transit of energy resources and its role in ensuring sustainable development and international cooperation.” According to the UN News Center, all CIS states except Russia and Moldova, as well as Austria, Afghanistan, Macedonia, Iceland, South Korea,

Dmitry Medvedev is preparing for an emergency G20 summit Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is pushing for a new international economic agreement that would increase the legitimacy and effectiveness of the international financial institutions created under the 1944 Bretton Woods agreements. Then, as you know, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank were established. Yesterday, Mr.

New road and bridge can change life in St. Petersburg On Wednesday, an epoch-making event for the city took place in St. Petersburg. Two transport infrastructure facilities were inaugurated.

NBA stars will play at the football stadium Basketball. NBA. Regular season . Cleveland - Charlotte - 96:79, Dallas - Houston - 102:112, Phoenix - New Orleans - 95:108. The 2010 NBA All-Star Game will take place at the new stadium of the Dallas Cowboys. On February 14, the teams of the West and the East will meet on a site arranged right in the middle of the football field. The arena seats about 100,000 spectators, and if filled, it will set a new All-Star Game attendance record.

For the first time in Russian history, the match could not be completed It’s even a little pity for the Continental Hockey League. In the last month, they had to deal with the death of the young star Alexei Cherepanov, count the defeat to Chekhov’s Vityaz, and deal with clubs that traditionally cheat with budgets. And there were many more minor cases, like the scandalous interview of Maxim Sushinsky or the appearance on the ice during warm-ups of an undeclared Lokomotiv hockey player.

The Russian Museum opened the exhibition “Neoclassicism in Russia. 1909--1932" The exhibition, prepared by curators Vladimir Lenyashin and Vladimir Kruglov, is a continuation of the work of the museum, which has long made a name for itself by organizing large-scale exhibitions in large areas - impressionism, symbolism, futurism. The main question that the viewer should ask himself is: how did neoclassicism coexist with the avant-garde?

The fall in global oil prices over the month was the sharpest in the last quarter of a century. Today, the global oil market is expected to reduce production by 1.5 million barrels per day in accordance with the decision of OPEC . Experts do not predict any sharp price fluctuations, since, in their opinion, the demand for energy has already begun to decline in the US and European markets. In addition, cutting production by 1.5 million barrels only removes excess oil from the markets, they say.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev addressed a message to the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation at noon today. This is the first message to parliamentarians from the new President of Russia. This year, for the first time, the announcement of the President's message took place in the largest and most solemn hall of the Kremlin Palace - Georgievsky.

Deputies allowed the Cabinet of Ministers to change the 2009-2011 budget without agreement with the Duma The State Duma considered the budget for 2009-2011 on Friday in the third and final reading . Despite the economic situation, no emergency redistribution of money between items occurred; a surplus for next year is still planned at almost 2 billion rubles.