Alvis Hermanis staged a play about a Latvian healer at the New Riga Theater The premiere of Alvis Hermanis’s next documentary play, “Martha from the Blue Hill,” came at a difficult time for Latvia: the government had just changed here, a wave of discontent swept through, during one of which tractor drivers drove to the building of the Riga Diet and put out a coffin with cow heads.

Tennis players are not recommended to miss tournaments At a representative tennis tournament in the American Indian Wells last night, Moscow time, quarterfinal matches for women and matches of the top 16 round for men were played. If we analyze the meetings held before, then among the Russians the greatest successes were achieved by Igor Andreev, Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova and Dinara Safina.

Sberbank is preparing for massive loan defaults In anticipation of an increase in overdue loans, the largest Russian bank, Sberbank, is increasing its reserves for possible loan losses. As a result, the net profit of the financial institution, according to its president German Gref, will decrease significantly at the end of 2009. The most pessimistic option is a reduction in profits to several billion rubles; in 2008, this figure exceeded 100 billion rubles.

Cuban boxer promises to knock out Vitali Klitschko On the evening of March 21 in Stuttgart, Germany, at the Hanns-Martin-Schleyer arena, the 37-year-old World Boxing Council (WBC) world heavyweight champion, Ukrainian Vitali Klitschko, will make a mandatory defense of his title in a fight against 35-year-old Cuban Juan Carlos Gomez nicknamed Black Panther.

Reliance on the financial sector has crippled the economy of Foggy Albion On the eve of the anti-crisis summit of the heads of the G20, which will be held on April 2 in London, the British media published very disappointing data on the state of their own economy. Referring to a report by the International Monetary Fund, the press said that Great Britain would suffer more than other developed countries from the financial crisis.

United Russia wants to help the president remove governors who are objectionable to the party “United Russia” has little opportunity to present to the president its candidacies for the posts of heads of regions, which is provided for by the amendments to the law “On the general principles of organizing legislative and executive bodies of state power of the constituent entities of the Russian Federation” and the law “On political parties” considered yesterday in the State Duma in the second

CLUBS Pavel Kashin. KZ "Mir" , 19.00. Asia (UK). A quarter of a century after the creation of the band, the legendary members of the original Asia lineup Geoff Downes, John Wetton, Steve Howe and Carl Palmer got together again to release a new album, Phoenix, and give several concerts in world capitals, including Moscow. State Central Concert Hall “Russia” , 20.00. St. Patrick's Day. The best performers of Irish and Scottish music from Moscow and St.

"Monsters vs. Aliens" on Moscow screens Despite the menacing title, under which an advertising slogan like “Whoever wins this battle, humanity will lose” would look great (as in Alien vs. Predator), this is not a horror film at all, but a rather cheerful cartoon about an ordinary girl, Susan.

E.ON Ruhrgas opens its second representative office in the region in Doha One of the leading European players in the gas market, the German concern E.ON Ruhrgas, is expanding its presence in the Middle East. Yesterday it was announced the opening of a new, already second, representative office of the company in the region. An office in Doha, Qatar, has been added to the E.ON Ruhrgas office in the capital of the UAE, Dubai, which has been operating since 2007.

Moscow offers a four-hand game A miracle did not happen, there was no breakthrough in resolving the Transnistrian conflict during a trilateral meeting of the presidents of Russia, Moldova and the leader of the unrecognized Trans-Dnieper Moldavian Republic (PMR) in Barvikha near Moscow. And, as it turned out from comments by high-ranking Russian officials, given on condition of anonymity, no one expected such a breakthrough.

For North Korea, a missile is more important than American food Recently, North Korea informed the Americans that it was refusing food supplies agreed upon in May 2008. The reasons for the decision were not stated. The non-governmental organizations “Mercy” and “Poor Relief Fund” were engaged in delivering food. “Our humanitarian assistance has nothing to do with the progress of the six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear issue.

Meningitis epidemic is being prevented in Komi Before Rospotrebnadzor had time to report the end of the influenza epidemic in most regions of Russia, local epidemiological problems began. The first outbreak of an infectious disease this year that resulted in human casualties was the infection of several school-age children in Pechora with the meningitis virus. Two days ago, in this city, located in the Komi Republic, two girls, 11 and 16 years old, fell ill and died in the district hospital.

Researchers have learned to “read” memories Scientists from the Wellcome Trust Center at University College London say our memories are recorded in a regular, not chaotic, order. According to an article in the journal Current Biology, Demis Hassabis and Eleanor McGuire have already closely studied the role of a small region of the brain known as the hippocampus, which plays a critical role in the process of spatial orientation, the emergence of memories and the imagination of future events.

A commission of the Public Chamber headed by Nikolai Svanidze has just visited Dagestan and tried to study the situation with respect to human rights on the spot. The focus of this problem, as almost everywhere else in the North Caucasus, is the relationship between believers and the police. The police are closely interested in Muslims who disagree with the official muftiate in matters of faith.

Investors were promised fabulous profits and life, like in the United Arab Emirates The Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow began considering the case against the organizer of the largest financial pyramid in recent years, 41-year-old Konstantin Polyanichko. According to investigators, for three years he accepted money from citizens, promising to invest it in fictitious investment programs that were supposed to bring fabulous profits of up to 800% per annum.