The pre-Olympic season has opened The Alpine Ski World Cup stage that took place last weekend on the Austrian Sölden track can be considered the real opening of the winter sports season.

CONCERTS Zhanna Bichevskaya. Theater "Fest" , 19.00. Silver Quintet. Russian-German project. Igor Butman Club , 20.30. Ash. The repertoire of song arrangements by A.-K. Jobima, Brazilian classics, as well as works by group leader Igor Nadezhdin in Portuguese. "Forte" , 21.00. CLASSIC “The Moscow International Paganini Violin Competition presents...”. G. Verdi, N. Paganini, Vietang. Moscow Symphony Orchestra conducted by P. Kogan. Soloist Kyoko Yonemoto (first prize, Japan). Conductor P. Sorokin.

The defendants in the case of Vladimir Barsukov pointed to a witness In the Moscow City Court yesterday, the debate between the parties in the scandalous case of Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin), an authoritative businessman from St. Petersburg, whom the intelligence services consider the leader of the Tambov criminal community, ended. Several criminal cases of fraud and contract killings were brought against him and his associates.

September 23 -- October 23, 2009 “Politicians through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of “Vremya Novostey” and the “Medialogia” company, are ratings of political figures who are most actively discussed in the federal press and on central TV channels.

The fashion for open source is beginning to fade, says Nikolai PRYANISHNIKOV, President of Microsoft in Russia. In his opinion, at the state level, despite all the temptingness of using open source software, technological neutrality should be observed. Mr. Pryanishnikov told our correspondent about the specifics of Microsoft’s work in the domestic market and the situation with the distribution of the company’s products.

A North Atlantic cyclone will enter the European territory of Russia from Scandinavia, which will determine the weather in the next few days. In the northwestern region, precipitation in the form of drizzle and rain, on Wednesday with sleet, on Tuesday afternoon +3...+8оС, in the Pskov region up to +11оС, on Wednesday with the arrival of cold arctic air at the rear of the cyclone, the temperature drops to 0 ...+5оС.

Terrorist attacks will not interfere with elections in Iraq Russian President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday sent a telegram to Iraqi President Jalal Talabani strongly condemning the bloody terrorist attacks in the Iraqi capital: “I received with indignation and pain the news of the criminal explosions in Baghdad on Sunday, October 25, which resulted in the death and injury of hundreds of people.” The Russian leader emphasized that “any manifestations of terrorism against civilians, state and

"A Just Russia" promises to defeat corruption as soon as the party is headed by Dmitry Medvedev The Anti-Corruption Council of the A Just Russia party met yesterday to prepare recommendations for the upcoming presidential address to the Federal Assembly, and at the same time talk about whether the head of state’s anti-corruption plan is working.

The DIA has changed its forecast for the growth rate of bank deposits The Deposit Insurance Agency (DIA) has raised its forecast for the growth of deposits in 2009 from 14-18 to 20-22%. According to the heads of the state corporation, in the conditions of the financial crisis, citizens are forced to wean themselves from loans and save more.

Tonight the head of the Israeli opposition, Tzipi Livni, arrives in Moscow. Tomorrow she is scheduled to have lunch with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The guest will discuss issues of Middle East settlement and the Iranian nuclear problem. She will also touch on one more topic: the report of the UN commission headed by Richard Goldstone.

A commission is being created in Georgia without Russia's participation In the coming days, a monitoring group for the Pankisi Gorge will be created in Georgia, which will include parliamentarians, foreign diplomats accredited in the country, experts and journalists. The initiative comes from the opposition party Christian Democratic Movement. Its deputy Nikoloz Laliashvili confirmed to Vremya Novostei that he will officially announce this, perhaps today.

The mayor's office no longer considers Cherkizovsky a market Cherkizovsky market is closed again. And this time, as stated yesterday in the prefecture of the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow, finally and irrevocably. “By the resolution of the interdepartmental commission, signed on October 20 by Yuri Luzhkov, the Cherkizovsky market is excluded from the plan for organizing retail markets in the capital,” the prefecture’s press service told Vremya Novostei.

The Grand Prix was awarded at the Mikhailovsky Theater The new ballet competition, which has just ended in St. Petersburg, is a complex and cunning undertaking. The Mikhailovsky Grand Prix is ​​a student competition, that is, future graduates of ballet schools compete in it.

One of them was presented to Dmitry Medvedev Military exercises in Kaliningrad, which Supreme Commander-in-Chief Dmitry Medvedev attended in September, gave him sad thoughts. The state of affairs in the defense-industrial complex requires the close attention of the state, otherwise not only the country’s defense capability, but also its prestige in the international arena will soon be under threat.

Interbudgetary relations between the federal center and Moscow are becoming increasingly scandalous The Ministry of Finance and the Moscow government agreed to provide a loan to the capital budget in the amount of 16.5 billion rubles. Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin yesterday authorized the allocation of money to Moscow to cover the city budget deficit, which reached 26.8 billion rubles.