The Kaliningrad branch of Right Cause was not allowed to be headed by real oppositionists Last Saturday, a branch of the Right Cause party, a liberal Kremlin project, was re-established in the Kaliningrad region.

Gazprom asks to support planned price liberalization As the Vremya Novostey newspaper learned, as part of the fight for the abolition of gas price regulation since 2011, Gazprom a month ago sent a report to the Ministry of Energy, the Ministry of Economic Development and the Federal Tariff Service, justifying the need to switch to market pricing for industrial consumers. The monopolist's set of arguments is traditional for tariff discussions in recent years.

"Japanese Autumn" began with a ballet The traditional festival of the Land of the Rising Sun in Moscow this year, as always, offers a varied and interesting program. Until December, the Library of Foreign Literature is showing Japanese silent films; Contemporary cinema is shown at the Central House of Artists until October 10, and in November at the 35 MM cinema.

Dmitry Medvedev defended history and cultural heritage in the capital of Russian democracy On Friday, President Dmitry Medvedev continued his journey through ancient Russian cities, which he began on Monday in Yaroslavl, and arrived in Veliky Novgorod. But if in Yaroslavl they talked about today, about prospects in foreign policy and new rules of the game on the world stage, then in Novgorod they talked about the eternal - about Russian cultural heritage.

Dmitry Medvedev visited the first Russian business school Many distinguished guests, including the President of Russia, arrived at the first ceremony for presenting student cards to students of the first Russian business school Skolkovo. Dmitry Medvedev has headed the board of trustees of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo ever since, as First Deputy Prime Minister, he decided to create two business schools in Russia as part of the national project “Education”.

Lawmakers want to make cigarettes less noticeable State Duma deputies, concerned about the health of Russians, consider it necessary to remove cigarettes from smokers as much as possible.

August 18 -- September 18, 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.

The Russian Football Championship, if not deteriorating, is certainly not progressing. It still remains a fairly ordinary tournament, and the relatively decent budgets of three or four teams do not change the picture. Against this background, the achievements of the Russian national team under the leadership of Guus Hiddink look even more like a merit of the Dutch coaching genius, and not as a fundamental improvement in the quality of domestic football.

Now is the time to tackle climate change Climate change on Earth is happening faster than we thought just two years ago. Continuing with business as usual almost certainly means dangerous, possibly catastrophic climate change over the course of this century. This is the most serious challenge for the current generation of politicians.

Russia condemned the words of the Iranian President Moscow shamed Tehran for denying the catastrophe of European Jewry during the Nazi years, which claimed 6 million lives. First, this was done by the Foreign Ministry, and yesterday by President Dmitry Medvedev, speaking in an interview with CNN about the need to cooperate with Tehran on its nuclear issue.

Turkmenistan has completed flaw detection of gas pipelines Central Asia - Center At a meeting of the government of Turkmenistan, President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov heard a report from Deputy Prime Minister for the Fuel and Energy Complex Baymurad Khojamukhamedov on the completion of flaw detection of gas pipelines, which, according to the official version, should allow Gazprom and Turkmengaz to return to the conversation about supplies of blue fuel.

There are still shortcomings in the medical support of the KHL Another tragedy almost happened in the Russian Open Hockey Championship, after which it became clear that the medical teams present in the arenas during matches were completely unprepared for difficult situations. It’s good that the injury to player Martin Kariya from Dynamo Riga was not serious.

FOOTBALL. Russian Championship. Premier League. 23rd round. September 25. "Rubin" - "Amkar". September 26. "Zenit" - CSKA, "Moscow" - "Khimki", "Dynamo" - "Saturn". September 27. "Kuban" - "Wings of the Soviets", "Spartak-Nalchik" - "Rostov", "Terek" - "Lokomotiv", "Spartak" (M) - "Tom". The central match of the tour is the game in St. Petersburg between Zenit and the capital's army team. Both teams are vying for the prize, and in these clubs there were coaching resignations during the season.

The day after tomorrow, at the 64th session of the UN General Assembly, political discussions open with the participation of world leaders.

“Uncle Vanya” by Rimas Tuminas at the Vakhtangov Theater I don't want to argue with anyone. Not with those who believe that the best performance of Rimas Tuminas was the old Vilnius “The Cherry Orchard”, where an old house literally collapsed on the heads of the characters.