Azerbaijani President met with Turkish leaders At the end of this week, on November 14, an energy summit will be held in Baku. It will be attended by the presidents of the member countries of GUAM, a regional organization uniting Georgia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Moldova, as well as their colleagues from the Baltic countries, Poland, Romania and Turkey.

Russia disbanded loyal Chechen units Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Ground Forces, Colonel General Vladimir Moltenskoy, announced on Saturday the disbandment of the special Chechen battalions “East” and “West” , previously patronized by the GRU of the General Staff. Each of them will remain a rifle company, which, like previous battalions, will be part of the 42nd division of the Ministry of Defense, located in Chechnya on a permanent basis.

The opera start of the year will not be complete without Pletnev This coming Thursday, January 31, at the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, Mikhail Pletnev and his orchestra will perform Wagner for the first time, which has already intrigued the entire local musical community. In his usual (and unusual) repertoire preferences, he has so far avoided Wagner's mysteriously ardent scale.

An exhibition of Kandinsky Prize nominees and the Rozamira festival opened An exhibition of works by nominees for the most lucrative Russian prize in the field of contemporary art - the Kandinsky Prize - is being organized for the second time. The prize itself was established by the independent cultural foundation Art-Chronicle in 2007 in collaboration with Deutsche Bank.

Rangers want compensation for Cherepanov Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Islanders" -- "Pittsburgh" -- 3:4 (B) - - Malkin "P" (0+1), "Boston" -- "Buffalo" -- 3:1, "Washington" -- "Rangers" -- 3:1 - - Semin "V" (1+1), "Detroit" -- "New Jersey" -- 3:1 -- Datsyuk "D" (0+1) , "Toronto" -- " Montreal" - 6:3 - Kulemin "T" (0+1), Kovalev "M" (0+1), Markov "M" (0+1) , "Colorado" - "Nashville" - 1 :0, “Vancouver” – “Minnesota” – 2:0, “Los Angeles” – “St. Louis” – 5:3 – Frolov “LA” (1+1) .

Yuri Pogrebnichko staged the play by Jean-Luc Lagarce At the theater “About...” on the small stage of La Stalla, where after the fire of 2003 all the performances of the repertoire are staged, the premiere of “La Estrada” was released. The production turned out to be very strange, which is not news for the theater “Okolo...” in general and director Yuri Pogrebnichko in particular.

“Vremya Novostey” is following the conflict that flared up between the director of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Valentin Rodionov, and the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation, Alexander Sokolov. In response to the minister’s accusations of corruption against the leadership of the State Tretyakov Gallery, the basis for which was the selection of anti-aesthetic works from Mr.

Tragedy on a Russian nuclear submarine On Sunday night, at the Pacific Fleet training ground in Peter the Great Bay in the Sea of ​​Japan, an accident occurred on the new nuclear submarine Nerpa during factory sea trials, when the submarine was at depth. 20 people died, of which three were military personnel, 17 were shipbuilding workers.

World leaders need to overcome at least the crisis at the IMF US President-elect Barack Obama will not attend the emergency G20 summit in Washington at the end of the week. Explaining the reasons for this decision, the spokeswoman for Mr.

The new head of Ingushetia did not find the calm promised by his predecessor in the republic President of Ingushetia Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, appointed to this post at the end of October , yesterday for the first time defined his position regarding the state of affairs in the republic. As his press service reported, at a coordination meeting with the heads of the security bloc, he “harshly criticized” the work of law enforcement agencies.

The crisis helped the government demand the development of important laws in the banking sector A significant part of the government's plan to revive the financial sector and some sectors of the economy , approved last Friday by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, concerns the banking system. The document assumes a number of changes in Russian legislation by the end of this year.

FOOTBALL. Russian Championship. Premier League. Match of the 28th round. November 10. "Moscow" - CSKA. 29th round. November 16. "Saturn" - "Wings of the Soviets", "Spartak-Nalchik" - "Khimki", "Terek" - "Shinnik", CSKA - "Rubin", "Lokomotiv" - "Moscow", "Luch-Energia" "-"Spartak" M, "Zenit" - "Dynamo", "Tom" - "Amkar". According to the championship regulations, all matches of the penultimate and final round (29th and 30th) must start at the same time.

Belgorod and Kazan residents showed how to resist attacks The central match of the seventh round of the men's super league was the confrontation between the teams that won the European Champions League. Belgorod's Lokomotiv-Belogorye, which became the best club on the continent in 2003 and 2004, hosted the current trophy owner, Zenit Kazan.

"Red Belt" by David Mamet on Moscow screens Jiu-jitsu master Mike Terry (Chitel Ejifor) barely runs a small gym and flatly refuses to improve his well-being by performing in commercial tournaments.

The icons of world football have never, or almost never, become outstanding coaches. It is all the more interesting to see what Diego Armando Maradona will do as head coach of the Argentina national team. Strictly speaking, so far only one great football player has managed to become a great coach: the legendary defender Franz Beckenbauer, “Kaiser Franz,” won the World Cup with the German national team both as a football player in 1974 and as a coach in 1990.