Blitz portrait of contemporary art in St. Petersburg In the northern capital, in the Loft Floors exhibition space, a large-scale (53 artists are participating) exhibition of contemporary St. Petersburg art, “This is Luda,” has been launched. The exhibition poster features a collage from a Soviet manual on gymnastics: athletes show examples of different exercises. The reference to the Soviet past here is not a socialist artistic device.

Financial crisis biographer Andrew Ross Sorkin: Wall Street has the shortest memory in the world Lehman Brothers should not have been allowed to fail, and other companies should have been dealt with more harshly when they were bailed out. This opinion is shared by the author of the best-selling book on the financial crisis “Too Big to Fail,” New York Times columnist Andrew Ross Sorkin.

Difficult "updating" of the Transnistrian constitution As expected, before December 23, that is, before the next meeting of the Pridnestrovian Supreme Council, a conciliation commission consisting of representatives of the executive, legislative and judicial powers will be formed in Tiraspol on a parity basis. Its goal is to develop an agreed draft of a new constitution for the unrecognized Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic or a bill to amend the current fundamental law.

Performances about freedom and violence at the NET-2009 festival This year the festival brought a varied program - everything is in order with big names. Much cooler - fresh Jan Fabre, “Orgy of Tolerance”, Avignon event, profanity and scenes of violence, children under 21 are not allowed entry... The play begins with a masturbation competition. Two men and two women warmed up on stage while the audience was seated, jumping and stretching their muscles.

Heatley maintains leadership position Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Los Angeles" -- "Calgary" -- 2:5 - - Frolov "LA" (1+0) , "Rangers" -- "Florida" -- 2:3, "Carolina" -- "Tampa" - - 3:1 -- Samsonov "K" (0+1), "Ottawa" -- "Buffalo" -- 5:3, "Atlanta" -- "Pittsburgh" -- 2:3 - - Afinogenov "A" ( 1+0), Malkin "P" (1+0), "Toronto" -- "Washington" -- 2:1 (B) - - Ovechkin "W" (1+0), "Montreal" -- "Detroit" " -- 2:3 (B) -- Datsyuk "D" (1+0), " St.

Vladimir Putin and Yulia Tymoshenko reached a deal on economic issues The meeting of the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine in Yalta, contrary to expectations, brought a breakthrough on gas issues. Vladimir Putin agreed to formalize in writing the reduction in the volume of purchases of Russian fuel by Naftogaz of Ukraine in 2010 and Gazprom’s obligation not to impose sanctions for shortfalls at the end of the current year.

Exactly 20 years ago, on November 23, 1989, a column of thousands under the flags of independent Georgia tried to march into the capital of the South Ossetian autonomy, the city of Tskhinvali, to hold a rally there. The rally was supposed to protest against the decision of the South Ossetian deputies to upgrade the status of the autonomous region to an autonomous republic, which was adopted on November 10 and was regarded by the Supreme Council of Georgia as illegal.

FOOTBALL. November 24-25. Champions League. Group stage. 5th round . November 29. Russian Championship. Premier League. 30th round. Khimki - Lokomotiv, Rostov - Amkar, Krylya Sovetov - Tom, CSKA - Saturn, Zenit - Spartak M, Kuban - “Rubin”, “Spartak-Nalchik” - “Terek”, “Moscow” - “Dynamo”. Both of our teams continue to qualify for the Champions League playoffs, although Rubin has better chances.

The new president calls for people to go on vacation and work less On the first day of 2010, the new leader of the European Union, an organization that currently includes 27 countries, will take office. The intelligent and wise, but at the same time homely and little-known abroad Prime Minister of Belgium, 62-year-old Herman Van Rompuy, was elected Chairman of the European Council, that is, the meeting of heads of state and government.

The meeting between Putin and Tymoshenko overshadowed the summit of CIS heads of government After the midnight press conference of the prime ministers of Russia and Ukraine on Friday in Yalta, where Vladimir Putin made caustic remarks on the verge of a foreign policy foul regarding the meeting of the presidents of Ukraine and Georgia, the meeting of the heads of government of the CIS countries went almost unnoticed.

The State Duma clarified the methodology for conducting the All-Russian Census If at the beginning of autumn a large-scale study of the demographic and socio-economic situation seemed untimely to Russian officials, now government officials have urgently taken up the legal regulation of relations between the state and citizens in the census process.

The final ATP championship started on the banks of the Thames On Sunday in London, the final men's tournament, in which the elite of world tennis participates, kicked off with a match between Scotsman Andy Murray and Argentinean Juan Martin del Potro. Players in the top ten of the ATP rankings will compete for an unprecedented prize fund of $3.5 million. The current competition can be considered partly the debut of the English organizers.

The Russians took silver in the relay The first stage of the World Cup in cross-country skiing ended in Beitoshtolen, Norway, instilling confidence in the Russians. Its result was “silver” for the domestic relay quartet consisting of Maxim Vylegzhanin, Nikolai Pankratov, Alexander Legkov and Ilya Chernousov. Our three other fours - two women's and one men's - finished the race in the top eight teams.

"Twilight. Saga. New Moon" on Moscow screens At a school in Forks, Washington, preparations for graduation are in full swing. But 18-year-old Bella Swan (Kristen Stewart) has no time for him at all - all her thoughts, like a year ago, are occupied exclusively by her lover, classmate Edward Cullen (Robert Pattinson). He has milky white skin, golden eyes, is 109 years old, and is a vampire. True, the vampire is positive, coming from a family that has long abandoned bloody human sacrifices.

The Federation of Car Owners is transforming into a left-wing political movement The Federation of Car Owners of Russia, an organization that claims to be the instigator of protests by drivers (in particular, recent actions of those dissatisfied with the increase in the transport tax rate), will become a socio-political movement. This decision was made by the 5th Congress of the FAR, which ended yesterday in Novosibirsk.