The Russian Orthodox Church calls for the creation of a new body to assess the behavior of businessmen The Russian Orthodox Church proposed creating a body that would monitor how entrepreneurs comply with moral and ethical standards.

"Robbers" at the Pushkin Theater Vasily Barkhatov is very nice. And the first impression of him is young, lively, funny, with always disheveled straw hair, completely unlike the director of pompous opera houses like the Mariinsky, despite the fact that it was with large productions on such stages that he earned himself a name and nominations for the Golden Mask.

—What is the history of your relationship with Schiller’s drama? Why "Robbers"? “I’ve been meaning to do this play for a long time, but I still didn’t understand what to talk about.” Putting on stage the film “Brigade”, which already exists, the same story about how several decent young men are going to go into the forest to rob people, did not appeal to me. But then I came across a striking modern trend - the expression of aggression and rebellion in the form of artillery.

After the financial Pentagon, US senators will take up healthcare US President Barack Obama intends to begin his working day today by signing the country's $636 billion military spending bill for the next fiscal year, which began on October 1. The delay in passing the Pentagon budget is due to the position of the Republican minority in the Senate.

CSKA will play with Sevilla in the Champions League The opponents of CSKA and Rubin in the spring stage of the European Cups have become known. The army team will play the former club of their former coach, Sevilla, in the 1/8 finals of the Champions League. “Rubin” in the 1/16 finals of the Europa League faces a test from the “red demons” - “Hapoel” from the capital of Israel. The army team took second place in the group and therefore ended up in basket number two.

At the beginning of 2010, Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov will likely be given official permission to become the owner of the New Jersey Nets club of the National Basketball Association. So far, it is known for certain that the team will move to Brooklyn (moves of NBA teams are not uncommon) and that the new owner of the club wants to get one of the main stars of the league - Cleveland Cavaliers forward LeBron James.

The State Duma on Friday took the first step towards a revolution in a single industry - the television advertising market. The Lower House adopted in the first reading amendments to the law “On Advertising,” which, according to their authors (the bill was introduced by United Russia deputies Irina Yarovaya and Sergei Neverov), should prevent monopolization in the television advertising distribution sector.

Residents of Moscow and the Moscow region united against the construction of new markets near the Moscow Ring Road The action to liquidate the Cherkizovsky market in Moscow, it seems, could develop into a large-scale campaign to combat new trading platforms.

Homeowners will be able to achieve recalculation of payments only in the new year Russians will have to significantly overpay this year to the tax service for the real estate they own by right of shared ownership. Apparently, the new mechanism for calculating property tax for individuals, when the calculation will take into account not the full inventory value of the apartment, but only the value of the share owned by the taxpayer, will begin to operate only after the new year.

World leaders have not agreed on a joint fight against global warming Despite the incredibly high level of representation at the UN Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, which brought together leaders of more than a hundred countries, the results of their brainstorming turned out to be more than modest.

On the supremacy of international law The meeting of the presidents that took place on November 22 in Munich and the negotiations at the level of the heads of foreign affairs of Azerbaijan and Armenia that took place on December 1 within the framework of the 17th meeting of the OSCE Ministerial Council in Athens , as well as the joint statement adopted as a result of the foreign ministers of Russia, France, and the US First Deputy Secretary of State and the foreign ministers of Azerbaijan and

Vladimir Putin and Alisa Freundlich launched the unfinished tanker "Kirill Lavrov" The new Arctic tanker Kirill Lavrov was launched on Friday by St. Petersburg shipbuilders. This important ceremony for the superstitious shipbuilders of the Admiralty Shipyards and their offspring was attended by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. In fact, the ship is not ready yet and requires finishing work. A year ago, during Mr. Putin’s next visit to his hometown, the keel of the ship took place.

The former leader of Yabloko made a keynote speech at the party congress Yesterday, the 15th congress of the Yabloko party, which took place over two days, ended in the village of Moskovsky.

In Sochi, a storm washed ashore the stern of a Moldovan cargo ship Last night, a force five storm that broke out on the Black Sea off the coast of Sochi, first broke the motor ship Aras-1 in half, and then threw the stern of this cargo ship onto one of the main Sochi beaches - Primorsky. The more than 40-meter part of the ship was just a couple of tens of meters from a popular beer restaurant.

VOLLEYBALL. December 21-22. “Final Four” of the Russian Cup among women's teams named after Givi Akhvlediani. Omsk. December 23. "Match of Stars" of Russian women's volleyball named after Valentina Oskolkova. Omsk. December 24--27. “Final Eight” of the Russian Open Cup among men's teams named after Konstantin Reva. Kaliningrad.