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.

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.

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

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.

To the external border of the union state Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko yesterday discussed with his Russian counterpart Dmitry Medvedev the agenda of the meeting of the Supreme State Council of the Russian-Belarusian union state, scheduled for early February. It is expected that one of the issues will be the complete removal of customs barriers between the two countries. The issue will be discussed by the Union Government on Friday.

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.

Kirilenko requires surgery Basketball. NBA. Regular season. "Washington" - "Phoenix" - 87:103, "New York" - "Houston" - 104:98, "Miami" - "Atlanta" - 95:79, "Milwaukee" - " Minnesota - 83:90, Oklahoma City - New Jersey - 94:85, New Orleans - Philadelphia - 101:86, Clippers - Portland -- 88:113. Utah's Russian player Andrei Kirilenko may need surgery on his injured leg. As X-rays showed, the source of Kirilenko’s pain is a small fragment of bone.

The authorities are preparing a new program to support mortgage borrowers Today, President Dmitry Medvedev will hold a meeting in the Kremlin with the leaders of the State Duma factions. According to Vremya Novostey, we will talk about the social aspect in overcoming the economic crisis, and it is possible that the head of state or his guests will come up with new initiatives.

The best stories of 2008 have been named The award for the best story, named after Ivan Petrovich Belkin, was founded at the end of 2001 by the Znamya magazine and the Eksmo publishing house. The mechanism of its functioning was subject to the great principle of Ostap Bender: Gasoline is yours, ideas are ours . Eksmo's gasoline (cash component) was enough for four years, during which Belkin's laurels were awarded to Sergei Babayan ("No Return" - 2001), Marina Vishnevetskaya ("A.K.S.

Civil aircraft designers are brought under one roof The United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) decided to organize a single design center to conduct work on all current and future projects in the field of civil aviation. This will be one of the intermediate steps towards the creation of the National Aircraft Manufacturing Center (NAC) in the Moscow region town of Zhukovsky, stipulated by the decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin dated February last year.

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.

The Supreme Court found the life sentence of Leonid Nevzlin legal The life sentence of fugitive oligarch Leonid Nevzlin came into force. Yesterday, the Supreme Court rejected the complaint of the lawyer of the former largest shareholder of the Yukos oil company, who asked to cancel the verdict of the Moscow City Court passed last August on charges of Mr. Nevzlin in a series of contract killings and attempts, and to drop the criminal case.

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.