The best program of October, in my opinion, was the next episode of “Temporarily Available” (“TV-Center”) with Mikhail Kozakov, who turned 75 years old. The master was, despite his years and some ill health, brilliantly aphoristic, demonstrating the charm of his mind. Which is rare among actors. And not only among them. I would like to note another serial battle between two federal channels for the viewer: “Russia” showed the premiere of “Isaev”, “First” responded with “Admiral”.

Georgia will broadcast to Russia Georgia is preparing an ideological trip for Russia. According to local media, it is planned to create a new Russian-language channel here - “First Caucasian”. His appearance on air should be expected at the beginning of 2010, which was confirmed to Vremya Novostey by sources in television circles. The signal should supposedly be received on Russian territory, namely in the regions of the North Caucasus.

Renault is not ready to invest in AvtoVAZ The French concern Renault, which the Russian authorities persistently advised to financially support AvtoVAZ, said yesterday that it supports the restructuring of the car plant, which is close to bankruptcy, but refuses Moscow’s requests to inject large amounts of money into the enterprise. Patrick Pelata, the operating director of Renault, which owns a blocking stake in the Russian auto giant, spoke about this in Paris.

Williams Jr. won the final WTA tournament American tennis player Serena Williams won the final WTA tournament for the second time in her career. If in 2001 her compatriot Lindsay Davenport withdrew from the competition before the final, which made Serena’s task easier, this time in Qatar in the decisive round Williams beat her older sister Venus in two sets - 6:2, 7:6 (7:4) . The 28-year-old American finishes the current season as the first racket in the world.

In the northwestern regions there will be no precipitation in the next two days. Temperatures at night are -3...-8оС, in the Leningrad region in some places up to -11оС, during the day mostly -2...+3оС. In the center of Russia on Tuesday there will be mostly no precipitation, the temperature in the morning is -2...-7оС, in the afternoon -3...+2оС. On Wednesday, air from the south will approach the center of Russia, there will be more cloudiness, and there will be light snow in places.

Oleg Mitvol considers the repeal of his decisions “part of an information attack” The Moscow leadership kept its promise to “correct” the prefect of the Northern Administrative District Oleg Mitvol.

When creating the NTV channel, a then revolutionary principle for constructing news programs was declared: “If our team wins an important football match or a grandiose rock concert takes place, we will broadcast it as the first issue.” Then even the official “Vremya” and “Vesti”, in the event of the Russian team’s victory, dared to start the news like that. But nothing more.

The national holiday will again be marked by nationalist rallies Tomorrow in Russia they will celebrate the Day of National Unity, which, according to established tradition, will be held under the sign of the “struggle for the interests of the Russian people” on the part of radical nationalists from the “Movement against Illegal Immigration” (DPNI) and the “Slavic Union” (SS).

Sychev is back in the national team The head coach of the Russian national team, Guus Hiddink, announced the names of the players who were called up for the play-off matches with the Slovenian team. Changes in the list are minimal: instead of Rubin forward Alexander Bukharov, Lokomotiv forward Dmitry Sychev will again appear in the national team.

I didn't like it. As expected, no attempt was made to analyze the surrogate of the October elections in any “talk” program—it would be hard to call them socio-political. There has been a new turn in the segregation of the information flow - officialdom is being crowded out by “other” news: the death of Yaponchik, the fake Latvian meteorite, the reconciliation of the Orbakaite-Baysarov family.

The 17th anniversary of the Ossetian-Ingush conflict coincided with the anniversary of the Soviet deportation of Karachais The conflict in the Prigorodny district is not a date that is usually celebrated. Meanwhile, this was the first case of mass bloody clashes on the territory of post-Soviet Russia, a prologue to both Chechen wars and partly a harbinger of the current aggressive xenophobia in big cities.

Vladimir Putin used the visit of his Danish colleague to lobby for an EU gas loan to Ukraine Yesterday, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin received his Danish counterpart Lars Lekke Rasmussen at the government residence on Vozdvizhenka Street. During the conversations between the heads of government and the press, it became obvious that although the prime ministers represent a wide range of common interests, they still place emphasis on different things.

The month passed under the sign of three TV series: “Isaev”, “Admiral” and “Deni Baysarov”. The latter is a documentary chronicle. But this is no less entertaining than the one that tells about the private life of the historical character Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak, who was shared and not shared on the television screen by two beautiful and noble women. Two equally respected families, the Baysarovs and Orbakaite - Pugacheva, shared the boy Denis and...

On the eve of November, competition on the air of “Isaev” (RTR) and “Admiral” (Channel One) seems to be a relevant preamble to the Day of National Harmony, which replaced November 7. If everything is clear with the victory over the Polish conquerors in the 17th century, then with the revolution of 1917 and the Civil War there cannot be such clarity. The drawn-out and overly costumed “Admiral” causes me sharp rejection due to its uniqueness.

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