This week, on July 23, presidential elections will take place in Kyrgyzstan. The rivals of President Kurmanbek Bakiyev, who is running for a second term, will be five people. Among them, the most famous is the leader of the opposition Social Democratic Party Almazbek ATAMBAEV, who served as Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan from March to November 2007. He spoke about his chances of winning and his health over the phone last weekend to Vremya Novostei columnist Arkady DUBNOV.

The Latvian Parliament is in a hurry to equate Nazism and Stalinism At the end of last week, the Latvian Parliament supported a bill introducing a Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Nazism and Stalinism. Latvian parliamentarians assigned urgent status to the document on the introduction of a new memorable date. This means that instead of the usual three, he will face only two votes.

The Chairman of the Moscow City Court explained where the talk about corruption comes from Long periods of consideration of cases in courts, the poor quality of some court decisions and inadequate security for judges are problems that the Moscow Themis still has to deal with. The Chairman of the Moscow City Court, Olga Egorova, told reporters about this last Friday at a briefing dedicated to summing up the results for the six months. Ms.

The play “Icarus” was shown at the Chekhov Festival Those who at the last Chekhov Festival fell in love with the Canadian circus performance “Rain”, and at this one admired the nostalgic and wonderful “Fog”, staged in the same circus “Eloise” by the same Swiss Daniele Finzi Pasca, rushed to his one-man show “Icarus”, full of happy expectations.

Sculptures by Antony Gormley in the Garage At a lecture on the work of Mikhail Vrubel, Professor Mikhail Allenov shows the artist’s late drawings made from the window of a psychiatric hospital. The professor draws attention to the fact that the ordinary landscape from the window becomes evidence of that same silent scream that is shocking in the famous manifesto of expressionism - “The Scream” by Edvard Munch. All nature, the crowns of trees, the contours of objects - a bundle of exposed nerves.

The number of patients with swine flu has approached the psychological threshold The A/H1N1 influenza virus finally broke through into Russia and began to spread throughout the regions after a rather long period of “waiting.” In recent days, several cases of infection have been recorded in our country.

Adebayor has registered in Manchester Arsenal striker Emmanuel Adebayor has signed a five-year contract with Manchester City, the city's official website reports. The 25-year-old Togolese forward will wear number 25 at the new club. According to unofficial information, City paid £25 million for Adebayor's transfer. “I was very warmly welcomed to the new team,” said the team newcomer.

Russia reached the World League final thanks to help from China The Russian men's volleyball team, having only illusory chances of getting into the final tournament before the last weekend of the intercontinental round of the World League, was still able to win a ticket to Belgrade, where on July 26 the winner of these anniversary, already 20th competitions, will be determined.

CSKA beat the championship leader The Moscow army team drew the right conclusions from a series of failures, which included a recent defeat in the Russian Cup from the first division club Ural, a draw with Terek and two defeats from Kuban and Moscow. CSKA came out of the black streak in Kazan. Having beaten the national champion Rubin, Zico's team is now half a step behind the leader in terms of lost points. Event.

Compositional triads in new performances of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater The Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater prepared a very interesting premiere at the end of the season - if all three one-act acts included in the “Choreographic Masterpieces of the 20th Century” program are danced as they should, the evening will become one of the main ballet events of this year.

Chairman of the Central Election Commission Vladimir CHUROV, immediately after returning from Vienna from the last seminar “Bodies Responsible for Organizing and Conducting Elections,” shared with Vremya Novostei correspondent Natalya ROZHKOVA his impressions of sharing experience in organizing election campaigns with European and American colleagues. —What can you say about the Vienna seminar in which you took part?

Today all contenders for Opel will be announced The story of the sale of a controlling stake in Opel is nearing its end. As the Munich Sueddeutsche Zeitung has learned, today all applicants for the purchase of the German automaker must submit “contracts ready for signing.” The favorite of the race is still the consortium of the Austrian-Canadian Magna, Sberbank and GAZ.

The State Council drew the image of an ideal young man Young people - people aged 14-20 years - make up 27% of Russia, that is, slightly less than a third of the population. The meeting of the State Council on Friday was devoted to how the authorities interact with this future of Russia. President Dmitry Medvedev demanded that work with youth be included in one of the 270 criteria for assessing the effectiveness of regional authorities.

Sergei Ivanov from Katyusha won the Big Loop stage Cyclist of the Russian Katyusha team Sergei Ivanov won Saturday's stage of the most prestigious stage race of the international calendar, the Tour de France. Sergei spent almost the entire 200-kilometer distance between the cities of Colmar and Besançon in the early breakaway group of a dozen participants, and closer to the finish he made a stunning leap in speed, leaving his fellow travelers.

Demonstration performances of cars from the most prestigious series took place in Moscow A car show with the participation of Formula 1 cars - Bavaria Moscow City Racing - swept through the center of the capital on Sunday. Especially for these races, road workers built an impromptu four and a half kilometer long track right next to the Kremlin walls. Three Formula 1 teams agreed to participate in the Moscow races this year. Among them is the British McLaren, which has 12 championship titles.