The festival "Ecology of the Soul" has ended in Riga The Baltic premiere of Sergei Solovyov's film "Anna Karenina" ended the first film forum "Ecology of the Soul" in Riga, which opened a week before with the presentation of "Burnt by the Sun 2" by Nikita Mikhalkov.

According to documents from the Stalin archive The famous correspondence of the leaders of the Big Three during the Great Patriotic War is a textbook source on the history of the anti-Hitler coalition and allied diplomacy of the war years. However, with the exception of Franklin Roosevelt's correspondence with Winston Churchill, which was studied and commented in detail by the famous American historian Warren Kimball, relatively little is still known about how these messages were written.

The government bought an additional issue of VTB for 180 billion rubles The state, the main contender for an additional issue (SPO) of VTB shares, contributed 180 billion rubles. as payment for papers. It is expected that during this transaction the state share in the bank will increase to 85.5%.

July 28 -- August 28, 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.

Responsible officials of the Accounts Chamber received real sentences The Moscow City Court yesterday announced the verdict in the case of two senior employees of the Accounts Chamber (AC) of the Russian Federation, accused of receiving a large bribe.

The first matches in Example were played in Spain The last of the big five European football championships to start the season were the Spaniards. We are already waiting for the start of the tournament, in which Barcelona, ​​which is winning everyone, and Real, which is buying everything, are playing. However, in terms of purchasing elite players, the “royal” club has a competitor in the person of Manchester City. Where there is a horse with a hoof, there is a crayfish with a claw.

The Atlantic cyclone spoiled the last days of summer in the north-west of European Russia with rain, sometimes heavy. In the next 24 hours, under its influence, there will again be short-term rains in places at a prevailing daytime temperature of +16...+21oC. On September 2, the rains will stop, and the temperature will rise during the day to +20...+25оС.

Angela Merkel leaves the "sleeping car" In Germany, less than a month before the Bundestag elections (September 27), the election campaign is gaining momentum. Based on the results of the upcoming vote, the name of the Federal Chancellor for the next four years will be known. The main contenders for this post are the leader of the Christian Democrats, the current Chancellor Angela Merkel, and the Social Democratic Foreign Minister Frank Walter Steinmeier.

The fifth biennale of contemporary art “Momentum” opened in Norway Without a doubt, there is a symbolic pattern in the fact that your observer was lucky enough to attend the V Momentum Biennale in Norway immediately after his visit to the VI Biennale of Contemporary Art in the Volga village of Shiryaevo.

Opponents of the construction of a new Gazprom office in St. Petersburg continue protests On September 1, Okhta Center LLC, the contractors for the construction of Gazprom's new high-rise office in St. Petersburg, which is causing sharp protests from citizens, will hold another public hearing on this tower. The day before, opponents of construction decided to hold another series of street protests. “No” to Gazprom’s criminal ambitions! No to corrupt officials! “No” to the destroyers of St.

The Russian Prime Minister outlined his version of the reasons for the outbreak of World War II Today's speech by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at the commemorative celebrations in Gdansk on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the start of the Second World War will perhaps be a key event for the future of Russian-Polish relations.

Markets fell from east to west The more hopes for a global economic recovery grow, the more acutely the markets perceive any negative data. It's even worse if bad news comes from key markets. Yesterday such news came from China and immediately turned markets from Shanghai to New York into bearish markets. Information that the increase in lending in August could be half that of July led to the most rapid fall in Chinese stocks in the last 14 months. Industrial Bank Co.

They want to keep school No. 1 in Beslan unchanged The German company Knaukassel presented the mothers of Beslan with a project for the reconstruction of the school, where five years ago the worst terrorist attack in the modern history of Russia took place. All these years, the government of North Ossetia was deciding what to do with the dilapidated building. The option proposed by the German builders satisfied everyone. They are going to mothball the school in the form in which it is now.

Oleg Tabakov spoke about the plans of the Art Theater The gathering of the troupe began with an ovation: the acting people greeted Oleg Pavlovich Tabakov entering the hall. The same portion of applause (if not more) went to two employees of the Moscow Art Theater, who were arrested at the beginning of the summer while investigating the so-called financial scandal in the theater.

Medals of the Russian Championship in Beach Willing were played out in Primorye The Russian beach volleyball championship, which has the largest possible geography, has ended in Primorye. The preliminary stages of the national championship took place in Anapa, Smolensk, Maikop, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Obninsk and in the far west of the country, in Kaliningrad, and the medals were played in Vladivostok.