Vasily Ivanchuk took precautions After the day off, the participants of the traditional, already fourth, prestigious international chess tournament Mikhail Tal Memorial, which traces its history back to 2006, moved from the capital’s National Hotel to the GUM showroom. It was here that all previous competitions dedicated to the memory of the eighth world champion were held. The first surprise of the second part of the tournament was a grandmaster on stage wearing a medical protective mask.

Following the major from Novorossiysk, two more former police officers criticized the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Yesterday, Russian Interior Minister Rashid Nurgaliev for the first time expressed his attitude to the public speech of Novorossiysk policeman Alexei Dymovsky, who through a video on the Internet appealed to Vladimir Putin with a request to restore order in the Russian police.

"Lada" refused to strike The Russian hockey championship in the KHL has resumed. Until the last moment, there was a danger that on November 11 there would be one less club participating in the tournament. The Togliatti Lada players were serious about going on strike, but at the last moment they changed their minds and decided to believe the promises of the super league leaders. True, Alexander Chebotarev, the general director of the Volga team, suffered.

In a list of 67 names of the world's most powerful people, first compiled by the American magazine Forbes, the ambitious French President Nicolas Sarkozy took only 56th place, behind almost all his European colleagues, including Russian Dmitry Medvedev (43rd). But Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin took third place, behind US President Barack Obama, who became the first, and Chinese leader Hu Jintao.

Saving the People's Garage program is difficult for the mayor's office The implementers of the capital’s “People’s Garage” program, which this year, as the mayor’s office hoped, was supposed to enter a new phase, apparently, again have no reason for rosy reports to the mayor’s office about the car storage spaces that are rapidly being snapped up by Muscovites.

Israel declassified Russian secrets of its intelligence services Details of two scandalous cases related to the special services and Russia became known yesterday in Israel. One of them involved the Israeli Shimon Levinson, who worked for the Soviet Union in the 1980s. The second case became scandalous quite recently: in September of this year, 58-year-old Israeli diplomat Shmuel Polishchuk was expelled from Russia.

Lebanese President Michel Suleiman met yesterday in Damascus with his Syrian counterpart Bashar al-Assad, continuing his course towards normalizing relations with the neighboring country, which cooled after the assassination in 2005 of prominent Lebanese politician Rafik Hariri , the father of the current 39-year-old Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri. President Suleiman has already visited Syria since the creation of Lebanon's first unity government in May 2008.

On November 13-15, the northwestern region and central zone of European Russia will remain in warm and humid air. At times there will be precipitation of varying intensity, the temperature in the northwestern region during the day will be about 0°C, in the center of Russia during the day +1...+8°C. In the south of Russia it will rain in places, in the southeast of the district up to +16°C, on the Black Sea coast +14...+19°C.

from November 16 to November 22, 2009 Monday, November 16 First 5 . 00, 9.00, 12.00, 15.00, 18.00, 0.30, 3.00 News 5 . 05 Good morning 9 . 20 Malakhov + 10 . 20 Fashionable verdict 11 . 20 Test purchase 12 . 20 Detectives 13 . 00 Plot 14 . 00 Other news 14 . 20 Understand. Forgive 15 . 20 "WEDGING RING". TV series (S) 16 . 10 Let's get married! 17 . 00 Federal Judge 18 . 20 Crime Chronicles 18 . 50 Wait for me 19 . 40 Let them talk 20 . 20 "SLEEPING AREA". Series 21 . 00 Time 21 . 30 "ZHUROV".

"2012" on screens in Moscow and around the world In 2009, having descended into the deepest copper mine on the planet, scientist Adrian Helmsley (Chiwetel Ejofor) is convinced that due to solar activity, irreversible changes have occurred in the earth's core, the planet is heating up from the inside, and very soon, or rather, in just over three years , in exact accordance with the ancient Mayan calendar, the world as we knew it will come to an end.

The Chinese authorities want to take 10% of the global car market through the export of cars and components Chinese authorities announced yesterday special measures to support automobile exports. By 2020, the Celestial Empire intends to occupy up to 10% of the global car market through the export of its cars and their components. However, what specific measures are being discussed has not yet been clarified.

From the President's Address to the Federal Assembly About the new strategy. My vision of the future is based on a deep conviction in the necessity and possibility of Russia acquiring the status of a world power on a fundamentally new basis.

Review of the classics Igor Stravinsky. Concerts in Moscow (Melody). In 1962, after many years of living abroad, Stravinsky came to the Soviet Union. The trip was preceded by several months of reflection and negotiations with friends: some, like Piotr Suvchinsky, were sympathetic to the idea, others not so much. Among the latter was a Moscow reporter for Newsweek magazine, who reported: “The famous Soviet composers who write using the so-called modern language are conformists...

The “Kings of Dance” project has started again in Moscow The project of Sergei Danilyan, first presented two years ago on the territory of the Bolshoi Theater, is showing three Moscow performances this year on the stage of the more comfortable Musical Theatre. Of the four “kings” of the first call, only Nikolai Tsiskaridze remained in the project. It's hard to say whether the producer thought Kings of Dance would turn into a long-term endeavor. Rather, I could only hope.

Memoirs as a step towards a new election campaign in the United States Sarah Palin (pictured) , former governor of Alaska and an unsuccessful but colorful contender for the post of vice president of the United States during the 2008 elections, does not allow herself to be forgotten. She will offer her help to Republican congressional candidates in Virginia and New York, but they will shy away from it.