The government decided to completely restore the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station Yesterday, at a government meeting, the electric power industry investment program for 2010 was discussed. This question has acquired a completely new meaning in light of the tragic events at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station. The crisis also affected the electric power industry: electricity consumption has fallen and will reach pre-crisis levels no earlier than 2012-2013.

The festival-school “Territory” continues in Perm Students from all over the country walk around the city of Perm wearing identical T-shirts and branded canvas bags on their shoulders. They sleep in the middle of the day on giant poufs in the PERMM Museum of Contemporary Art and with a hundred vowels “Bitter!” they greet the wedding, stunned by such attention, who arrived in a soft lilac limousine on the square in front of the theater.

CONCERTS Quest Pistols . Ukrainian aggressive pop: elements of electro-rock and hip-hop in dance music. Ikra , 20.00. Maxim Leonidov . At the acoustic concert, songs from the new album “Wild Thing”, which is scheduled for release in November 2009, will be performed. “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 20.00. Trio by Daniil Kramer. Igor Butman Club , 20.30. CLASSIC Remember the Sound . Soloist R. Breker (trumpet). Ensemble The Georg Robert Jazztet conducted by J. Robert (Switzerland).

British youth will be invited to the temple with the help of fashionable music In order to call believers to Sunday prayers, the clergy of the Anglican Church in Great Britain resorted to tricks. As Interfax reports with reference to the British press, rap-style advertising specially created for young people will appear on commercial radio stations in Foggy Albion. Advertising, sung in recitative, is a poem consisting of inviting replicas-slogans.

Chinese communists discuss democracy and corruption A plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China opened in Beijing yesterday, at which two hundred members of this governing body will discuss behind closed doors the problems of strengthening party power. Foreign experts are closely monitoring the important personnel decision that must be made at the plenum.

Russia is trying to secure gas from the Sakhalin-Khabarovsk-Vladivostok pipeline In a month, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will travel to China, among other things, to give another impetus to cooperation in the gas sector.

Argentine del Potro wins US Open The US Open tennis championship, which presented many surprises over the past two weeks, also ended unpredictably. The winner of the tournament was Argentinean Juan Martin del Potro, who beat the first racket of the world, Swiss Roger Federer - 3:6, 7:6 (7:5), 4:6, 7:6 (7:4), 6:2. The tennis player, who turns 21 on September 23, gave himself a great birthday present.

Lawmakers want to fight moonshine producers A bill has been introduced to the State Duma that should hit moonshiners. Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Security, Deputy Chairman of the A Just Russia faction Gennady Gudkov proposes to clip the wings of the “people's alcohol industry” by levying fines and confiscating manufactured products and production tools.

Students played a novel by Alexei Ivanov The theater center “On Strastnoy” opened the season with a week of performances from the acting and directing course of Oleg Kudryashov from RATI. Since at the end of last year the main prize of the large student festival “Your Chance” went to the “curls” - their massive, six-hour performance based on “The Humiliated and Insulted”, which will now be played at Strastnoy every month as a reward, we decided to match this case with other course settings.

A mechanism has been found to increase the efficiency of the learning process A person constantly has to learn something throughout his life. This requires effective brain function. Every movement and every thought requires the transmission of certain information between groups of nerve cells. To increase mastery in any activity or learn something new, it is necessary either to increase the effectiveness of contact, or to ensure that as many brain cells as possible participate in it.

The city authorities will reduce the quota for foreign workers to a minimum Apparently, the crisis in the labor market will somewhat weaken the impact of the demographic situation on employment. At the very least, the developers of the city program to promote employment for 2010 expect that the natural decline in the working-age population, expected by Rosstat, will become a “stabilizing factor” in the capital’s labor market.

Russia received a ticket to the playoffs at Euro 2009 At the European Championships in Poland, the Russian men's team won its third victory in a row in the last round of the second group stage, beating Macedonia with a score of 71:69. This success meant reaching the quarterfinals and continuing the fight for medals and a ticket to the 2010 World Championships.

Rosobrnadzor wants some first-year students to retake the Unified State Exam The protracted public discussion on the fairness of the results of the unified state examinations received an unexpected continuation. Yesterday, the head of Rosobrnadzor, Lyubov Glebova, announced the regulatory body’s intention to selectively recheck the Unified State Exam results in those regions where the number of 100-point results was incredibly high.

Russians have the opportunity to save more for retirement By the end of the month, Russians must decide the fate of the funded part of their pension. So far, most citizens, the so-called “silent people,” have left their pension savings to the Russian Pension Fund (PFR), hoping that these savings will be invested in a conservative manner through the state management company, Vnesheconombank.

It was decided to fully spend the reserve fund in 2010 Budget fever has gripped the cabinet of ministers - very soon the financial plan is due to be submitted to parliament, and the government commission on budget plans meets every week. The last meeting took place yesterday, at which the 2010 budget took its final form.