The Nabucco project has been moved from a dead point to the political plane The summit on the Nabucco gas pipeline that ended yesterday in Budapest finally transferred this project to the category of political ones. European conference participants recognized that it was time to turn a blind eye to commercial problems and disagreements between stakeholders and finally formalize political agreements on the project.

How do former blockade survivors live? 65 years have passed since the complete lifting of the siege of Leningrad. At the beginning of the 21st century, only a few are able to fully feel all the pain and all the happiness of this date. 900 days of hell. The blockade survivors themselves still cannot explain where they got the strength to overcome hunger and fear every day, every hour, every second. They say that sometimes even hope for a better outcome disappeared.

Kaczynski and Yushchenko cannot live without each other Yesterday's statement by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski that Ukraine and Georgia could become NATO members only in the “very distant future” will seriously spoil the mood of the participants in today's meeting between Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his Ukrainian counterpart Viktor Yushchenko.

The situation with vacancies in the positions of mentors in the country's classical and beach volleyball teams that arose after the end of the Olympic cycle is gradually approaching resolution. Yesterday two important events occurred in this regard.

Today in Strasbourg, the session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) will hear three reports on the implementation of its resolution “On the consequences of the war between Georgia and Russia,” approved in October 2008. Based on the results of the current discussions, it is planned to adopt a new document.

Avangard is back in the spotlight Omsk “Avangard” seems to have decided to set a record for the number of unpleasant news from the camp of its team. This time, the center of events was the club captain Alexander Svitov, who, after a home defeat in overtime from Novokuznetsk Metallurg, attacked the referee and will now miss seven matches of the regular season. In addition, the club, it seems, has already completely refused to trust Wayne Fleming and is negotiating with some European specialists.

Nikolay Roshchin staged Leonid Andreev's play about a terrorist Three circumstances force me to go to this performance. Firstly, the director's name. Ten years ago, Nikolai Roshchin, being an actor who had just graduated from GITIS, staged an entertaining Bruegel play “The Beekeepers” in the spirit of physics theatre, which has traveled a lot to festivals over the years. Then - curious, dramatic, with masks - “The Deer King” by Gozzi at RAMT.

From “rootless cosmopolitans” to “killer doctors” On January 28, 1949, the Pravda newspaper published an article “About an anti-patriotic group of theater critics.” In fact, she gave the official go-ahead to a mass campaign against the so-called “rootless cosmopolitans.” The final stage of Stalin's repressions began, which aimed not only at persecution on ethnic grounds, and, possibly, the deportation of an entire people, but also the promotion of another large-scale purge in the highest

Vladislav Surkov on fine-tuning the Russian political system The fine-tuning of the Russian political system will be completed by the summer. All changes proposed by President Dmitry Medvedev in the political block of the message to the Federal Assembly are either already in the State Duma or will arrive there in the very near future.

Chechen students are being tried for plotting an assassination attempt on Kadyrov Yesterday, the Moscow City Court began the trial of three natives of Chechnya, who are accused of preparing an assassination attempt on Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov. According to investigators, Lors Khamiev, Umar Batukaev and Ruslan Musaev planned to blow up a car filled with explosives in Moscow on May 9, 2007, but the day before, FSB officers managed to uncover the plot.

Strauss-Kahn and Zoellick criticize the G20 The pace and quality of the fight against the crisis, which is demonstrated by the world's largest economies, caused seemingly concerted criticism from the leadership of two leading international financial organizations - the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Watch from January 29 on Moscow screens “Operation Valkyrie” (USA, 2008, Bryan Singer). Based on real events, a political thriller from the director of “X-Men”: North African veteran von Stauffenberg (Tom Cruise), who has lost an eye and an arm, returns to Berlin, where he becomes involved in a conspiracy against the Fuhrer. A beautiful, but sometimes unconsciously comical film. Moreover, seeing so many goodies in their respective uniforms in one sitting is quite a hallucinatory thing.

The government has calculated the size of the anti-crisis nest egg Prime Minister Vladimir Putin does not want to live in economic negativity and is looking for reasons for optimism in Russia. Yesterday, at a meeting of the government presidium, he demanded reports from ministers - apparently, pre-verified and designed to instill anti-crisis hope in compatriots after the protracted New Year celebrations and the gas scandal with Ukraine and the EU.

The Holocaust is "total evil" Yesterday in different countries of the world they remembered the victims of the Holocaust - the mass extermination of Jews and ethnic minorities during the Second World War. 64 years ago, on January 27, 1945, Soviet troops liberated prisoners of the largest Nazi death camp, Auschwitz, located in Poland, 70 km from Krakow. 1.5 million people died there, mostly Jews from Germany, Poland and other central European countries.

The US wants to set Arabs and Israelis on the right path George Mitchell, whom new US President Barack Obama appointed as his special envoy to this explosive region, arrived in the Middle East yesterday. The first point of the trip was Cairo, where the former senator is scheduled to meet with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Foreign Minister Ahmad Abu Al-Gheit. As the US Embassy in Israel confirmed to a Vremya Novostei correspondent, Mitchell will leave Egypt for the Jewish state.