Watch from May 14 on Moscow screens “Angels and Demons” (USA, 2009, Ron Howard).

Russia is waiting for an invitation to the warehouse from Barack Obama Russian-American relations have entered a new phase of “reset.” The Kremlin announced an official visit of US President Barack Obama to Russia on July 6-8. 47-year-old Obama was invited to Moscow by his 43-year-old Russian colleague Dmitry Medvedev. Before this, they met on April 1 in London on the eve of a summit to discuss the global economic crisis.

Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital want to create an iron ore trading platform The three largest banks, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital, are planning to create a platform for trading iron ore, the Financial Times reported yesterday.

The International Congress of Journalists calculates the losses from the crisis Mass layoffs, which also affected the media, forced Russian journalists to talk not only about the financial crisis as a whole, but also about serious problems in their own professional community.

Parliamentary elections in South Ossetia do not look entirely equal in advance As expected by the Vremya Novostey newspaper, during the holidays the election commission of South Ossetia decided on who it would allow to participate in the elections of the new parliament of this republic, scheduled for May 31.

The investigation into the Euroset case is completed The Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor's Office (SKP), as Vremya Novostei learned, has completed an investigation into the scandalous criminal case against the former owner of the Euroset company Evgeny Chichvarkin ( pictured ) and seven of his subordinates - the company's vice president Boris Levin, the deputy head of the service security (SB) Andrei Ermilov, head of the economic security department Sergei Katorgin, SB employees Vitaly

Dmitry Medvedev was shown the achievements of Russian high technologies All achievements of Russian telecommunication technologies are presented at the Svyaz-Expocomm-2009 exhibition. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, as you know, is keenly interested in high technologies, and therefore could not ignore the exhibition of Russian telecom achievements.

City authorities are counting losses from a gas explosion on Ozernaya Street Only today the capital’s authorities plan to open traffic along Ozernaya Street in western Moscow, where on the night of May 10 a powerful explosion occurred as a result of a gas pipeline break. The fire that followed, which experts assessed as the largest in scale in the post-war history of Moscow, was extinguished only after 15 hours.

CLUBS Daytime and evening concert of the second semi-final of Eurovision 2009. SC "Olympic", 20.00. Trio by Daniil Kramer. Igor Butman Club , 20.00. CONCERTS Dominant Quartet . L. van Beethoven, B. Bartok, D. Shostakovich. As part of the quartet F.N. Do, E. Pogodina, A. Sazonkina, T. Egorova. Philharmonic within the framework of the Quartet Art festival, 19.00. Germany's Forgotten Romantics . Merkel, Hesse, Piutti, Rheinberger. Soloist A. Shmitov (organ). Taking part in the concert are A.

The educational standard will be filled with religious spirit State Duma deputies actually supported the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church and representatives of other major faiths who insisted on introducing the subject “Fundamentals of Orthodox (Islamic, etc.) culture” in schools. Last Friday, May 8, a bill was introduced into the lower house suggesting the possibility of including such a discipline in the state educational standard.

Israelis are offended by the Pope Today, on the third day of Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, it has finally become clear that his visit to the Holy Land did not contribute to the reconciliation of the warring forces in the Middle East. On the contrary, according to Israeli analysts, the visit of the head of the Roman Catholic Church largely exposed the antagonism of Muslims and Jews living in the region.

Moscow allocates additional funds for infertility treatment In difficult economic times, the Moscow government intends to maintain a craving for family values ​​and love of children among city residents. As the head of the city government’s health department, Andrei Seltsovsky, said yesterday, 150 million rubles will be allocated from the capital’s budget this year. for infertility treatment, including payment for the most expensive of all modern methods - in vitro fertilization (IVF).

Moscow region club fires management While Rubin, CSKA and Zenit were settling comfortably in the leading places, the Moscow region clubs Khimki and Saturn fell into the sediment of the standings. Having almost merged in the winter in kindred financial embraces, individually they were never able to appear as combat units. Having not decided to sacrifice one team in the Premier League then, the Moscow region now risks losing both at once. Resignation.

The scandal with the Minister of Internal Affairs of Ukraine provoked another crisis in the Rada The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Yuriy Lutsenko, submitted his resignation yesterday. This happened after a scandal that occurred a week ago at Frankfurt am Main airport. According to the German newspaper Bild, on May 4, Yuriy Lutsenko and his 19-year-old son Alexander were removed from a Frankfurt am Main - Seoul flight in a state of severe alcohol intoxication.

After meeting with Saakashvili, the Georgian opposition expands the geography of protest May 13 is a special day for every resident of Georgia, where football has traditionally been more than a sport. On this day in 1981, Dinamo Tbilisi achieved their greatest success by winning the European Cup Winners' Cup, at the time the second most important European club trophy.