Russia and China have expanded the scope of the gas agreement During Vladimir Putin's visit to China, Gazprom Chairman of the Board Alexey Miller and CNPC President Jiang Zemin signed a framework agreement on the basic conditions for the supply of natural gas.

Guus Hiddink looks through the reserve and tests the waters While the Russian national team is preparing to finish its performance in the qualifying group for the 2010 World Cup with its second squad in a match with Azerbaijan, its head coach Guus Hiddink is thinking about his future. The Dutch specialist’s contract runs until the end of the year, but if Russia gets to the world championship, it provides for an extension for another six months.

From October 16 to 19, Moscow will host the 3rd International Contemporary Film Festival 2morrow When two years ago, the president of the 2morrow festival (popularly known as “Zavtra”) Ivan Dykhovichny and program director Alexey Medvedev at the first press conference formulated the concept of a new forum: to create a comfortable space for auteur cinema and, if possible, to catch the “new wave” of world cinema, - it seemed like a wonderful utopia.

Eduard Kokoity said that he is supported by Medvedev and Putin President of South Ossetia Eduard Kokoity held a seminar on Monday at Moscow State University “Development of Russian-South Ossetian relations - a factor of stability in the South Caucasus.” At first it was planned to hold it in the building of the Higher School of Public Administration, on the periphery of the university territory.

Exposition “Care” in the Exhibition Hall of Armenian Lane The main project of the Moscow Biennale is breaking attendance records. This in itself, a gratifying fact, still has a negative consequence: truly interesting chamber exhibitions have little chance of being seen and appreciated. The task is to pay attention to them. In particular, to the exhibition of the young curator Maria Chekhonadskikh “Care”. First of all, “Care” is a radically new project for the modern Moscow art scene.

Active repentance will free taxpayers from criminal punishment The State Duma intends to make changes to the Tax, Criminal and Criminal Procedure Codes, as well as to the Law “On the Police”. These changes will give a chance to avoid criminal punishment for those who were convicted of tax evasion for the first time, fully admitted their guilt and voluntarily transferred underpaid funds to the budget.

The most famous Russian thief in law was buried with the state flag In Moscow, at the Vagankovskoye cemetery yesterday, the funeral of Vyacheslav Ivankov, the most famous Russian thief in law, also known by his nickname Japanese, took place. This man was certainly extraordinary.

Hillary Clinton promised not to ignore Russian civil society US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who is on a visit to Moscow, yesterday managed not only to talk with her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, but also to meet with representatives of Russian civil society specially invited by her.

The Baltic House festival ended with Andrei Zholdak’s performance “Life with an Idiot” “Baltdom” ended with a performance by Andrei Zholdak - I couldn’t imagine anything better. Indeed, what else can you dream of: the festival will end, and the trail of noise and discussions will continue to follow it for a long time.

Chechnya and Ingushetia confirmed their reputation as models of electoral discipline Yesterday, the Chechen Election Commission updated data on the results of the municipal elections on October 11. According to new data, the turnout was not 86.1% of voters, as previously assumed, but 90.8%. The Republican Election Commission brought the voting result closer to the one predicted by the President of the Republic Ramzan Kadyrov some time before the elections.

But he trusts Russia Today, President of the Czech Republic Vaclav Klaus (pictured) will visit Moscow on a one-day working visit. He agreed on this trip with Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev during the May Russia-EU summit in Khabarovsk, when the Czech Republic presided over the European Union. Negotiations between the Russian president and his Czech colleague, who speaks good Russian, will be devoted primarily to economic cooperation.

Prokunin and Timofeeva were disqualified for two years Russian biathletes Andrei Prokunin and Veronika Timofeeva, whose doping samples contained erythropoietin (EPO), have been disqualified by the Anti-Doping Committee of the Russian Biathlon Union (RUB) for two years. All athletes' results shown since March 19, 2009 have been cancelled. The disqualification comes into force on April 6, 2009. “The athletes admitted their negligence.

The GAZ Group intends to commission a new engine plant by 2010 The GAZ Group announced yesterday that it is ready to borrow money for the construction of Russia's first plant for the production of diesel engines that meet international quality standards. Loan in the amount of RUB 5.8 billion. one of the group's enterprises, Avtodiesel, needed it. The money will be issued by Vnesheconombank (VEB) for a period of ten years, but only after the collateral has been agreed upon.

Recent research shows that the boundary between sleep and wakefulness is arbitrary It would seem that it would be easy to distinguish a sleeping person from a waking person, but, as the results of recent research indicate, the boundary between sleep and wakefulness is not nearly as clear as we thought. This spring, Sleep Medicine magazine wrote about two Italians who never slept in the usual sense of the word.

Pharmaceutical market participants were not allowed to participate in lawmaking The latest version of the bill “On the Circulation of Medicines,” which was submitted exactly a week ago without much publicity by the Ministry of Health and Social Development to the government for consideration by First Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov, is not liked by either Russian or Western representatives of the pharmaceutical community.