In the United States, interest in President Barack Obama's upcoming trip to Moscow on July 6-8 is acquiring feverish features comparable only to the early 1990s, when the Bill Clinton administration began to establish special relations with Russia. Each local “thinking center” has either already held or is planning events dedicated to the visit.

Russian analysts predict a second wave of the financial crisis The specter of a second wave of crisis has wandered from Europe to Russia: the domestic expert community discussed this threat at a round table of the same name. After a heated discussion, analysts jointly issued a disappointing forecast - a second wave cannot be avoided, and it will begin in September-October, when banks will face a peak in loan defaults.

Just three weeks ago, the singer’s 80th birthday was noisily celebrated throughout the country; she had just talked about the program of the two-month anniversary tour of her ensemble “Russia” throughout the country, starting from Vladivostok, she only dreamed of singing a new song by Pakhmutova and Dobronravov and cried , reading a book of letters from fans addressed to her, published for the anniversary. Now she is gone.

She was born in 1940 in Solingen, studied at Folkwangschul and, after a couple of years of training in America, returned to Germany, to the troupe of her teacher Kurt Jooss. In 1973 she settled in Wuppertal and worked there until the end, turning the filthy town into a world center of choreography.

Yves Sussman exhibition at Ravenscourt Gallery This year, the media forum, held as part of the Moscow International Festival and introducing new visual genres, video art and media art, celebrated its tenth anniversary. On this occasion, art director Olga Shishko invited several leaders of world video art to the capital of Russia, including the American Eve Sussman.

“Antichrist” is coming to Moscow screens There is so much nonsense surrounding this film that I just want to tell you how it was made. This picture consists of a prologue, an epilogue and four chapters: the first is called “Sorrow”, the second is called “Pain”, followed by “Femicide” and “Three Monks”. The three monks in the medieval legend represent sorrow, pain and despair, followed by death. There are two heroes - husband and wife.

Kazakhstan returned Russian teenagers illegally detained by lost border guards to their parents The Karabalyk district court of the Kustanai region of Kazakhstan, as Vremya Novostei learned, released two Russian teenagers involved in a drug smuggling case that became the subject of a border dispute between Russia and Kazakhstan.

The state is trying to maintain housing construction during the crisis Yesterday's meeting in the Kremlin of the Council for the Implementation of National Projects, chaired by President Dmitry Medvedev, was devoted to the interim results and further prospects of the national project “Affordable and Comfortable Housing”. In times of crisis, housing construction takes on special importance.

Casino owners are trying to circumvent legal prohibitions Only 17 of the 104 gambling establishments operating in the center of the capital (which, like all other Russian casinos, were supposed to close on July 1) removed their property and cleared the premises they occupied. Prefect of the Central Administrative District of Moscow, Alexey Alexandrov, complained yesterday about the sluggishness of casino owners.

Western airlines and airports are rapidly reducing the number of employees in contact with passengers. The role of traditional help desks is increasingly being played by call centers, sometimes located in another city, and sometimes in another country. And instead of the usual check-in and baggage handling services, various self-check-in systems are appearing - via the Internet and without it. Ryanair has announced its intention to send 100% of its passengers' check-in online.

The Ministry of Defense accused the Air Force of inefficient spending of funds Theft of 660 million rubles. revealed another inspection of the Russian Air Force, organized by a commission of the military department. This was reported yesterday by the RIA Novosti news agency, citing “a high-ranking source in the Russian Ministry of Defense.” According to the source, inspectors discovered significant violations in the financial, economic and business activities of the Air Force.

New rules of the Federal Financial Markets Service may lead to the liquidation of half of NPFs Yesterday, minimum capital requirements for professional participants in the securities markets, including management companies and non-state pension funds (NPFs), came into force. New rules of the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM), according to experts, could lead to the liquidation of about half of NPFs.

Never before in recent years has the topic of joining the World Trade Organization caused such a lively reaction as now, in the early summer of 2009. A considerable part of domestic business is puzzled - they have not really been explained why the process of Russia’s annexation, into which so much time and effort was invested, was actually interrupted. The WTO members with whom we are negotiating, as well as many economic experts, are at a loss.

The tense situation around North Korea will last for a long time. An arms race in the region is now inevitable, with emphasis on the creation of national and regional missile defense systems. The processes of consolidation in the region of alliances and military-political structures led by the United States will accelerate. With the participation, of course, of their close partners - Japan, Australia, South Korea.

Russia is drawing Turkey into its gas pipelines The new Minister of Energy and Natural Resources of Turkey, who is also the co-chairman of the Russian-Turkish intergovernmental commission, Taner Yildiz, decided to show that his ambitions extend beyond the ambitions of his predecessors. Before him, many tried to make Turkey a gas distribution hub on the way to Europe, but not everything worked out.