Moscow officials have not learned to save The strict austerity regime introduced at the capital's mayor's office at the end of last year, apparently, caused a reaction completely opposite to what was expected among officials accustomed to prosperity.

Nikita Mikhalkov, chairman of the RF IC, whose powers, as he put it, “ended, but did not stop,” considers it necessary to convene a congress at the end of March with the participation of all walking and bedridden, healthy and sick members of the union. He is confident that 80% of filmmakers will support him. He will tell you what at the congress.

Tax adventures of a Liechtenstein prince in Germany Interstate relations between Germany and Liechtenstein, which have recently become very complicated due to the difference in tax regimes, are experiencing another stage of testing. This time, German tax detectives swung at the holy of holies of the Alpine princely house: they opened an investigative case against the native son of the head of the dwarf state Hans Adam II - Prince Max von und zu Liechtenstein.

Boozer returns to Utah lineup Basketball. NBA. Regular season. "Utah" - "Atlanta" - 108:89, "New York" - "Indiana" - 123:119, "New Jersey" - "Philadelphia" - 98:96, "Denver" - - Boston - 76:114, Sacramento - New Orleans - 105:112, Clippers - Golden State - 118:105. The Jazzmen from Utah beat Atlanta on their own floor, winning their fifth victory in a row.

According to the new city master plan, GAZ may leave Nizhny Novgorod In Nizhny Novgorod, a nationwide discussion has begun on a new master plan for the development of the city until 2030.

South Korea hopes Russia will bring its neighbors to reason The North Korean Space Technology Committee reported yesterday that the DPRK "is making large-scale preparations for the launch of the experimental communications satellite Gwangmyeonsong-2 (Shining Star-2"). It is planned to be launched into orbit using the Eunha-2 (Milky Way-2) launch vehicle, which will launch from a test site in Hamgyong Puk-do province.

Europeans called the rulers of the largest empire of the Indian peninsula in the 16th-18th centuries the Great Mughals. The Mughals are the Mongols who have lost the “n”. The founder of the Babur dynasty, whose family went back to Genghis Khan and Timur (Tamerlane), half belonged to this nation. The emperors (padishahs) who took over what is now Afghanistan, Pakistan and India in the 17th century were the richest rulers in the world. Of course! The nature of India is generous.

The exhibition “Treasury of the World. Jewelry art of India in the era of the Great Mughals." Since 2001, the exhibition has already visited London, New York, Paris, and Berlin. The exhibition will arrive in St. Petersburg in August.

Former adviser to the head of the Federation Council was shot dead in Moscow In the north of Moscow on Sunday, retired FSB Major General Alexander Rogachev, who at one time served as an adviser to the Speaker of the Federation Council (SF) Yegor Stroev and was his son-in-law, was shot dead. The intelligence services have so far only stated that, by all indications, he was the victim of a contract killing, but they hardly commented on specific possible versions of the assassination attempt.

A moral tale was staged at the Children's Musical Theater “Cinderella” at the Sats Children's Musical Theater is a performance at room temperature. Not hot and not cold, not good and not bad. The great score is set within the framework of an elementary fairy tale and is completely ready for use. Here we must immediately warn you that your reviewer, in principle, is distrustful of “children’s” ballet performances - ballet as such is obviously not a children's spectacle.

Tatyana Golikova calls for the return of groups and money to disabled people Since 2010, Russian disabled people will again be able to work and look for work without fear that their initiative will be punished with the ruble.

January 20 -- February 20, 2009 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of “Vremya Novostei” and the “Medialogia” company, are ratings of political figures who are most actively discussed in the federal press and on central TV channels. The ratings reflect both the total number of publications per month and the level of information favorability for each political figure.

Associations of writers, artists, composers, photographers, theater workers, filmmakers, journalists - once powerful and enviable organizations - are today in a rather deplorable state. And the point is not only that, according to the current law, the state does not have the right to support them as public organizations, but also that in a changed society they have lost their functions. Why are they needed? Interest in creative unions has increased sharply in recent months.

Vladimir Putin asked not to overshadow the Olympic holiday Russia will “vigorously” fight against the use of doping by domestic athletes and “intensively” prepare for the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi so that it will be a holiday “for the entire Russian people,” Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said yesterday at a meeting of the Presidium of the Presidential Development Council physical education and sports and the Olympic Games in Sochi. The Olympics also promises to be economical.

The heiress of the ex-governor of the Oryol region voluntarily left the Federation Council Marina Rogacheva, the daughter of the ex-governor of the Oryol region Yegor Stroev, who represented the region headed by her father in the upper house, voluntarily resigned. This kicks off the process of wiping out the protégés of the four governors who were dismissed by President Dmitry Medvedev last week from power.