Manufacturers say the bottom has been reached in the mass software market Last weekend, Moscow hosted the next conference of ISDEF (Independent Software Developers Forum) - an organization that unites people (namely people, membership in the organization is only personal) from Russian software companies operating in the mass software market. Most of them represent not very large, but truly independent software companies.

Watch from October 8 on Moscow screens "Welcome to Zombieland" (USA, 2009, Ruben Fleischer). The main American hit of late is an action-horror comedy in the spirit of the English superhit “Shaun of the Dead,” which paid off on the first weekend. The heroes are forced to follow 47 rules of survival in a world overrun by the living dead. Paradoxically, very lively.

Gazprom brought the future of Russian figure skating to the World Gas Conference in Argentina Gazprom will become a “supplier of last resort” on a global scale, the head of the company, Alexey Miller, said at the World Gas Conference that opened yesterday.

The inhabitants of most of the European territory of Russia did not have time to rest from the invasion of one cyclone, but on the approaches to the western territories there was another powerful cyclonic whirlwind from the Atlantic. On Wednesday, bad weather will hit the northwestern regions, with rain there and sleet in Karelia. The rest of the area will experience the calm before the storm. On Thursday, most of the European territory of Russia will be attacked by a cyclone.

Moldovan speaker only helped relatives This Friday, a two-day summit of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) opens in Chisinau, at which Moldova will hand over the chairmanship of this organization to Russia. Dmitry Medvedev has already confirmed his participation in the event, but four of his colleagues - from Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan - will not be able to come. Prime ministers or their deputies will come instead.

Ashgabat does not allow its students to go abroad Turkmenistan and its President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov are now among the most fashionable topics in the world press. It depends on them whether the Nabucco gas pipeline will exist or not, whether it will be possible to achieve a peaceful division of the Caspian Sea , whether safe conditions for the delivery of hydrocarbons to world markets will be ensured, and much more.

The government is not yet ready to privatize large companies Yesterday in Novo-Ogarevo, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin personally corrected the list of state assets intended for privatization next year.

Israelis are showing Hamlet in Moscow Time does funny things with the names of theaters: the largest theater in Israel (five stages and a cafe, where performances also take place from time to time) is called the Chamber Theater. It must have lived up to its name in 1944, when five young enthusiasts banded together to perform plays in Hebrew.

Demonstrators are being dispersed in Istanbul and anti-crisis plans are being made In the Turkish capital, where the annual session of the boards of governors of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank is taking place throughout this week, the main discussion opened yesterday, in which the heads of delegations from around the world took part.

Moscow wants to revive housing cooperatives The Moscow authorities are developing a mechanism for financing the construction of social housing by those on the waiting list themselves. Apparently, officials fear that next year a lack of budget funds will not allow the city to fulfill its obligations to improve housing conditions for all categories of people on the waiting list.

Results of the Golden Minbar festival The winner of the fifth Kazan international festival of Muslim cinema "Golden Minbar" was the Iranian film "Light in the Fog" with a simple plot about a young woman who lives in a remote and almost deserted village, takes care of her decrepit father and cannot answer “yes” to the feelings of a local fisherman , because he remains faithful to the guy who went to war and probably perished there.

Latvia wants to save the budget at the expense of the Russians The Latvian authorities, faced with economic decline, are forced to reconsider their anti-Russian policy. The Latvian Parliament has begun work on changing the immigration law. The amendments are intended to simplify the rules for obtaining a residence permit for foreigners from countries outside the European Union. True, this will only affect those who invest in the Latvian economy and purchase housing in the country.

The Constitutional Court will decide whether parties can remove candidates from their electoral lists The first meeting of the Constitutional Court of Russia after the vacation took place yesterday in St. Petersburg. On the eve of the autumn election day, which is scheduled for this coming Sunday, the judges of the Constitutional Court decided to discuss issues of electoral law. Namely, to clarify how free political parties are to manipulate their members in elections.

The Central Election Commission is inclined to abolish the institution of collecting signatures Two complaints about refusals to register candidates for local elections were left unsatisfied by the Central Election Commission at yesterday's meeting.

Yesterday, employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District seized documents from the Department of Housing Policy and Housing Fund of Moscow. As Vremya Novostei was told by the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, initially the department's employees wanted to conduct a search, but the officials met the operatives halfway and handed over all the documents they were interested in.