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.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

The Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (START I) expires this Saturday. It was signed at the end of July 1991. Now experts are working on the possible signing of a new agreement as early as December this year. The negotiations are so difficult that both sides decided to keep them secret.

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 11th non/fiction intellectual book fair has opened An entrance ticket to the Central House of Artists, where the International Fair of Intellectual Non/Fiction Literature traditionally takes place, costs two hundred rubles. The price is not exactly extortionate (we pay more in a decent cinema), but it does give rise to sad thoughts.

The Board of Directors of General Motors fired the head of the concern, Fritz Henderson. The board of directors of the American General Motors dismissed the president and chief executive of the automaker, Fritz Henderson. GM Chairman Ed Whitacre will take his place on an interim basis. Mr. Henderson's resignation, as reported by Bloomberg, followed a discussion of the results of his work at the board of directors.

Moscow is creating a chain of world-class hotels with the help of the heir to a cosmetics empire The Moscow authorities have decided on a partner and investor who will help the city create a hotel company, for whose hotels the leaders of the main Russian city will at least not have to blush. The head of the complex of property and land relations in Moscow, Vladimir Silkin, said yesterday that the Russia Real Estate Fund LP fund, which is being created in the city, will become a co-owner. As Mr.

The most terrible sight of the month is the broken train of the Nevsky Express, torn up rails and the search for those killed as a result of this monstrous terrorist attack. Of all the channels, Vesti 24 provided the most and most complete information (including live broadcast). That's why it is, in fact, a 24-hour news channel. Others, mostly with federal coverage, at first did not even think of changing the broadcast schedule, removing entertainment programs from there.

A new temperature record has been set in Moscow The abnormally warm autumn weather in the Russian capital will continue throughout the first week of December. Yesterday, weather forecasters recorded the highest temperature for the second day of winter and promised that the warmth would last in the capital region for the first half of the month.

RFPL clubs get acquainted with the regulations The leaders of Russian clubs are overcome by a thirst for reform. At the general meeting of the Russian Premier League, where the new regulations of the Russian Championship were discussed, many innovations were proposed, including some very unexpected ones. “I even had to shout and postpone the discussion to December 15th. Otherwise we would never have finished,” admitted RFPL President Sergei Pryadkin.

The month passed under the sign of intense confrontation between the country's two main television channels. First, “Isaev” against “Admiral”. Then the future Stirlitz lost on points to the White Guard Kolchak. In response, “Russia” launched the battle-tested series “Liquidation” with Odessa resident David Gotsman. “First” responded with “Zhurov”, which, however, did not live up to the channel’s rating hopes.

The first military scientific analysis of the five-day conflict with Georgia has appeared in Russia Several dozen books have already been published in the West in August last year about the five-day war between Russia and Georgia, which the Russian authorities call a peace enforcement operation. Each has its own aspect - political, political science, ideological, philosophical, prognostic and even economic. There was only no purely military assessment.