The G20 summit did not change investors' view of the crisis The G20 summit made little impression on global investors and yesterday there was muted pessimism in global stock markets. According to analysts, there is no reason for growth in the near future, but one should not expect a sharp drop.

Ballets by Burlak and Ratmansky were shown at the Bolshoi Theater The first ballet premiere of the season at the Bolshoi is not just a premiere, but a symbol of the transfer of power. On December 31, Alexei Ratmansky will no longer be the artistic director of the Bolshoi Ballet; on January 1, Yuri Burlaka will take this position - and last Saturday, both choreographers presented a one-act piece each to the capital.

In 2008, Russian tennis players won 25 individual titles Last Sunday on the Shanghai court the match for the Masters Cup title between Serbian Novak Djokovic and Nikolai Davydenko ended the season of individual elite competition.

Energy workers propose lifting sanctions for gas shortages Some Russian energy generating companies have appealed to the government and Gazprom with a request to reconsider sanctions for gas shortages. As you know, supplies to power plants are carried out on a “take or pay” basis, and due to a significant drop in demand for electricity (due to warm weather and the shutdown of a number of large industrial consumers), generators risk losing significant amounts.

Deutsche Bank CEO Josef Ackermann “saw the light” European Financial Week opened yesterday in Frankfurt am Main. This is the 11th time such a meeting has been held, and its organizers are striving to turn it into something reminiscent of a “financial Davos.” According to the organizers, 10 thousand participants from 60 countries are expected. The central event will be the World Bank Congress, which will be held on Thursday.

Tatyana Golikova introduced the new head of the Federal Compulsory Medical Insurance Fund Last night, Minister of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova introduced the employees of the Federal Compulsory Health Insurance Fund (FFOMS) to their new head Andrei Yurin , who until recently headed the department of interbudgetary relations in the Ministry of Finance.

In the case of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs accused of bribery, a trace of “laundered” billions was discovered The Basmanny Court of Moscow recently extended the arrest of four defendants in the scandalous case of extorting 1.5 million euros from the first vice-president of Commercial Bank Industrial Credit Bank LLC (Increditbank) and the general director of the Spartak hockey club Pyotr Chuvilin.

Barack Obama promises to restore US moral authority CBS became the first in America to be interviewed by the winner of the November 4 presidential election, Barack Obama .

The government's legislative plan for 2009 has not been tested by the crisis The legislative activity of the government for the next year, 2009, is all the more relevant today, the more intense the economic and financial crisis flares up. However, the government presidium had to discuss the pre-crisis plan for the legislative activities of ministries and departments for 2009, since there is simply no other way.

The trial of the alleged participants in the murder of Anna Politkovskaya has begun Yesterday, preliminary hearings were held in the Moscow District Military Court in the case of the murder of Novaya Gazeta columnist Anna Politkovskaya . There are four people in the dock - former employee of the Moscow Organized Crime Control Department Sergei Khadzhikurbanov, brothers Dzhabrail and Ibragim Makhmudov, natives of Chechnya, and FSB lieutenant colonel Pavel Ryaguzov .

The radical left wants to forge the nation's intellectual elite Left radicals from among the non-systemic opposition have clearly become more active in attempts to unite and create new structures. At the end of last month, the “Left Front” was born, which included representatives of the “Vanguard of Red Youth” (AKM), the RCP-CPSU, the RKSM, the RCRP-RPK, the banned National Bolshevik Party, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the All-Union Communist Party of Belarus, and Labor Russia.

Russia and pan-European values “European Tolerance Week,” which began on November 9 in Brussels and ended on November 16 in Kaliningrad, became the starting point for a new program to develop tolerance and mutual respect in Europe. Russia, in which interethnic harmony serves as the basis of its existence, is one of the active participants in this process.

Films about Paris on Moscow screens The French Film Festival opened at the Formula Kino cinema. Europe" with the painting "Paris" by Cedric Klapisch. The French brought five more films to Russia, but they were not shown in Moscow. Having started in the capital, the festival will travel further to arrive in Vladivostok by December 9, and in Khabarovsk by the 12th, where the program will be presented in full.

On November 18, 1918, in Omsk, having overthrown the Socialist Revolutionary-Menshevik government, Admiral Alexander Kolchak came to power, proclaiming himself the Supreme Ruler of Russia. The high-profile title should not obscure the fact that Kolchak was only one of the leaders of disparate anti-Bolshevik forces.

The World Olympiad has picked up speed in Dresden On the starting day of the 38th World Chess Olympiad, held in Dresden, by force of circumstances, the most discussed topic was the news of a car accident in Moscow, in which FIDE President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov was involved. But when it turned out that everything had turned out relatively well, attention switched to the chess tables.