CLUBS "Can!!!". Festival of contemporary Belarusian music. Ikra , 20.00. The Bad Plus and Wendy Lewis (USA). As part of the CityJazz project. “16 tons” , December 5, 21.00. "Moral Code". “B2” , December 5, 23.00. “Leningrad” at the birthday party of the “B1 Maximum” club, December 5 and 6, 20.30. Jazz-bass theater of Alex Rostotsky with the Splashes program. Igor Butman Club , December 6, 20.00. Zhanna Aguzarova. CDC MAI , December 6, 20.00. “My leg cramped!” Mezzo Forte , December 6, 20.00.

Yesterday , Tomislav Nikolic, who is fighting for the post of President of Serbia, finally arrived in Moscow to meet with Russian politicians. The candidate from the Serbian Radical Party (SRP) and the winner of the first round of elections was waited in Russia for almost two days. It took Nikolic this long to decide to visit the Russian capital.

In the next 24 hours, the weather in the north-west of European Russia will be determined by the Atlantic cyclone. In its sphere of influence there will be precipitation, heavy in places, and the daytime temperature will be 0...+5°C. Wet and windy weather will continue in the north-west of the region over the weekend, with prevailing temperatures around 0°C. Southern winds will bring new portions of warm air to the center of Russia on Friday.

"Eldest Son" in "Tabakerka" All the events of Vampilov’s play actually take place in May (there is a line “I’ll arrive at the end of June - in a month and a half”). But this is not a southern May, it’s more than cold, and two sleepyheads who were late for the train, trying to warm up in someone else’s entrance, are seriously freezing.

Cigarette packs will read "Smoking kills" The State Duma adopted the draft law “Technical Regulations for Tobacco Products” in the third reading. The regulation reduces the maximum permissible tar and nicotine content in a cigarette and increases the size of warning labels on cigarette packs about the dangers of smoking. At the same time, a ban on the use of the words “light” and “superlight” in the names of cigarettes will not be introduced.

In times of global financial crisis, Germany is ready to retain its role as the economic “locomotive” of the European Union, Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel said yesterday in the Bundestag. She addressed members of parliament with a government statement, which focused on analyzing the current economic situation in Germany, Europe and the world ahead of the EU summit, which will take place next week in Brussels.

NATO is waiting for Putin to visit There are still more than two months until the NATO summit in Bucharest, scheduled for April 2-4, but preparations for it are already in full swing. The event will be the largest in the history of the North Atlantic Alliance. The arrival of 3,000 participants from 49 countries is expected. 26 of them are members of NATO, and 23 participate in the Partnership for Peace program. 3,500 journalists will cover the discussions.

Russia and NATO began to restore relations In the near future we can expect the resumption of consultations between Russia and the West on key issues of international security. First of all, this concerns the deployment of elements of the American missile defense system (ABM) in Poland and the Czech Republic , as well as the fate of the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE).

On Friday morning, Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II died at his residence in Peredelkino at the age of 80. Presumably, the cause of his death was a heart attack. The day before, Alexy II performed his last liturgy, when he congratulated the Russians on the feast of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple and on the beginning of the Nativity Fast. On Thursday, he performed a solemn service in the main church of Russia - the Assumption Cathedral of the Moscow Kremlin.

Experts on the Prime Minister's economic strategy Vladimir Putin, during his “direct line,” covered the current global economic crisis in detail and from different positions: the Prime Minister explained how the crisis affected the economy and citizens, and on behalf of the state promised support to everyone. Vremya Novostey columnist Yulia MIRONOVA asked experts whether it is possible to judge the government’s anti-crisis course from the prime minister’s answers and how adequate Mr.

The Kaliningrad real estate market began to feverishly due to the crisis The authorities of the westernmost region of Russia have officially announced that by the end of 2008, as much housing as planned will not be built and put into operation in the region. The crisis is being blamed for everything, which affected the production of building materials, as well as the local mortgage market. The construction boom in the westernmost region of the Russian Federation began in 2006.

CSKA suffered its first defeat in the Euroleague CSKA basketball players started the second round of the ULEB Euroleague with a misfire in Milan, Italy - 79:80. In the meeting with the Armani Jeans team, which the “red-blues” defeated on their site in October (90:64), the Muscovites this time were unrecognizable. The failure happened after a long break, and before that the guests' advantage reached even two dozen points.

Yuri Luzhkov does not trust condom manufacturers Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov was actively involved in the fight against the spread of AIDS in the territory entrusted to him. The mayor announced his vision of this serious problem at the Second International Scientific and Practical Conference of HIV/AIDS in Developed Countries, which was held yesterday at the City Hall on Novy Arbat in the presence of foreign guests.

On January 30, the Supreme Court of Belarus will hold hearings on the case of liquidation of the opposition Communist Party. The Ministry of Justice filed such a claim in court. In August, the activities of the Communist Party were suspended for six months. According to the Ministry of Justice, the communists ignored this decision and continued to engage in politics.

Deputies returned to discussing amendments to the law on traffic rules The Duma Transport Committee yesterday unexpectedly returned to discussing the bill, which had been in a “frozen” state for several years. We are talking about amendments to the law on road safety , which were introduced on January 24, 2006 by the leader of the Russian Motorists Movement, Viktor Pokhmelkin, when he was a deputy of the State Duma of the previous convocation.