This month, the TV channels did not exactly please, but they offered several notable premieres. One of the most discussed was the new animated program “Personality Cartoon,” where cartoon celebrities try to make something similar to the jokes of the “ProjectorParisHilton” hosts. The humor of the “cartoons” still leaves much to be desired. But even he is good in comparison with what happened in the new NTV film “The Pinochet Couple”.

The city authorities will surprise citizens with new prices for utilities Despite the fact that yesterday the Moscow City Duma finally approved the parameters of the capital's budget for 2010, deputies still do not know how the city's tariff policy will change in the new year. At least the chairman of the budget and financial commission of the Moscow City Duma, Igor Antonov, told Vremya Novostey yesterday that the mayor’s office has not yet submitted “official tariffs” to Duma financiers.

Sergei Mironov received visitors Today, Prime Minister and leader of the United Russia party Vladimir Putin will hold another television direct line with the people. But in Russia, it is not only the head of United Russia who communicates directly with the population. The other day, the chairman of the Federation Council, leader of A Just Russia, Sergei Mironov, held a personal reception for citizens. True, most of the visitors turned out to be members of his own party.

In November, television developed activity on a trajectory between science and humor. The premieres of the humorous programs “The Pinochet Couple” on NTV and “One for All” on Domashny once again indicated the crisis of the modern comic principle on TV. Another actress who has the gift of transformation and farce is Anna Ardova. Another farcical duet - in this case, Evgeny Pisarev and Yuri Chursin. Next to the dream factory there is a humor factory.

The city authorities do not want to spend money on publishing the general plan Apparently, most Muscovites will never be able to familiarize themselves with the urban planning plans of the capital’s officials. Yesterday, deputies from United Russia, ignoring the protests of the communists and the comments of the prosecutor's office, adopted in the first reading the draft updated general plan of Moscow until 2025 and the rules of land use and development.

Russia and the USA will take advantage of the experience of the 1970s The Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START-1), signed by Moscow and Washington in 1991, expires on December 5. On the eve of this event, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov announced that Russia and the United States manage to sign a new agreement by the specified deadline.

Review of the classics Of the discs with Schnittke's music published for the 75th anniversary of his birth, we will highlight two. One is dedicated to film music, the other is the first recording of the last, Ninth Symphony, which has been in the air for about ten years.

Germany has not yet repaid its debt for the First World War The German financial agency, which resolves the problems of loans and state debts, reported unexpected news. It turns out that Germany has not yet paid for its defeat in the First World War (1914-1918). According to the Treaty of Versailles, signed in France in June 1919, the Germans were required to pay 132 billion gold marks to the victors as reparations, a huge amount at that time.

The trial in the scandalous case of beating in Sokolniki has begun in Moscow The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow yesterday began the hearing of the case of Vsevolod Ostapov, accused of using violence against a police officer from the Sokolniki police station.

The festive corporate events of various departments - from the internal affairs bodies to the Ministry of Transport - with which the first and second channels so love to fill their network, responded at the end of November with a real, genuine misfortune. Once again it became clear that government services do not guarantee ordinary citizens either peace of mind or life itself. The crash of the Nevsky Express, however, did not really affect our permanently entertaining TV.

In Russia you have to laugh - this is the attitude TV gives us. Laugh mischievously, giggle dirty, laugh, laugh through tears and with sadness in your eyes. The world survived because it laughed, so we must survive. All channels compete with each other to see who can out-laugh whom. Everyone has their own funny face reflected in a distorting mirror. Today, the good thing about humor on our TV is that you can experiment endlessly.

The Ministry of Health and Social Development summed up the results of the first year of the wage system reform Officials from the Ministry of Health and Social Development, who oversee the reform of the wage system for federal public sector employees, which started on December 1, 2008, reported on the first successes. Over the nine months of 2009, the average salary of a public sector employee in Russia increased by 18%, reaching 25,311 rubles.

Siberian oil will flow to Asia The volume of oil refining in the country is falling; a slight decrease is expected this year - by 2.7 million tons. The head of the Ministry of Energy, Sergei Shmatko, announced this yesterday in the State Duma. However, according to him, the situation will change dramatically in six years - during this time it is planned to increase the depth of oil refining in the country by almost a third, building 60 new installations.

Moscow was introduced to Jean-Claude Galotta 2010 will be the Year of France in Russia, and for domestic choreography lovers this will give the opportunity to look at several interesting projects (among them, only a joint Russian-French performance at the Bolshoi has been loudly announced so far: Angelin Preljocaj will stage “Apocalypse” with our artists in the fall and will be lucky enough to show it around the world).

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