A month before the Golden Mask festival At yesterday's press conference of the Golden Mask 2010 festival, the names of the special prize winners were announced (these are actors, officials, businessmen: Vera Vasilyeva, Vladimir Zeldin, Ivan Romashko, Mikhail Prokhorov, Vladimir Kozhin, Anatoly Pavlov), and the name of the play was announced - winner in the competition “Best foreign performance shown in Russia in 2009”: it was “Lipsink” shown at the Chekhov festival by Robert Lepage (Canadian

Tehran accuses Washington, London and Tel Aviv Iranian authorities reported on February 23 an operation to forcibly land a Boeing 737-300 passenger aircraft belonging to the Kyrgyz airline Istok-Avia and operating a flight of the Kyrgyzstan company on the Dubai-Bishkek route.

Premiere of Halevi’s “The Jewess” at the Mikhailovsky Theater The performance, even before it began, has already become a sensation. Or rather, the sensation was that it did not start on the appointed evening of the premiere - at half past five an unknown nationalist called the theater and announced that the performance would not happen, because first the building would explode.

Vladimir Putin reminded business of responsibility During yesterday's visit to Khakassia, Vladimir Putin inspected the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station. The head of government said that the repair of the station is being carried out in full accordance with the schedule, adding that RusHydro will receive 10 billion rubles this year. for restoration work and 3.5 billion rubles. - for the completion of the spillway.

Today Moscow says goodbye to film director Vladimir Motyl, the author of ten films, two of which - “Star of Captivating Happiness” and “Zhenya, Zhenechka and Katyusha” - have become classics, and the third, “White Sun of the Desert,” is a national treasure. Shortly before his death, Vladimir Yakovlevich MOTYL talked with Dmitry SAVELYEV. — Vladimir Yakovlevich, you are known as an avid traveler. They say that the entire Soviet Union has been traveled far and wide.

Major Evsyukov sentenced to life imprisonment Yesterday, on the fifth day after Denis Evsyukov was sentenced to life imprisonment in the Moscow City Court, neither party appealed the court verdict. Although the intention to do this was announced by the lawyers of the ex-chief of the capital’s Tsaritsyno police department, who shot visitors to a supermarket in the south of Moscow in April 2009.

BIATHLON. Men. Individual race 20 km. 1. Emil Egle SVENDSEN (Norway) - 48 min. 22.5 sec. (including penalty minutes 0+0+0+1). 2. Ole Einar BJORNDALEN (Norway) - lag 9.5 seconds. (0+1+0+1), Sergey NOVIKOV (Belarus) - 9.5 (0+0+0+0). Two silver awards were presented; no bronze was awarded. Mass start 15 km. 1. Evgeniy USTYUGOV (Russia) - 35.35.7 (penalty loops 0+0+0+0). 2. Martin FOURCADE (France) - 10.5 (2+0+0+1). 3. Pavol HURAYT (Slovakia) -- 16.6 (0+0+0+0). Women. Individual race 15 km. 1.

CONCERTS Fay Victor (vocals, USA). "Union of Composers" , 20.30. "Che's Orchestra" Presentation of the album “Premonition of Year Zero”. Club-theater "Workshop" , 21.00. Unfinished Quintet, or Quasi-Psychedelia. Vladimir Martynov, Hermes Zaingot, Roman Miroshnichenko, Tatyana Grindenko. Ensemble Opus Posth, RM-Project. New academic music. CC "Dom" , 20.00. CLASSIC Sergey Roldugin (cello). S. Barber, A. Dvorak, P.I. Tchaikovsky.

For Chechens and Ingush, February 23 remains a tragic date At the end of February, many working citizens had another unexpected vacation dedicated to Defender of the Fatherland Day, formerly known as the Day of the Soviet Army and Navy. Due to tradition, this date, in general, has long ceased to be a professional holiday for the military and has turned into a strange gender counterbalance to “women’s day” on March 8th.

The Taming of the Shrew was danced at the Musical Theater Before the curtain was still closed, theater director Vladimir Urin came on stage and made a speech. Such speeches are said at funerals, when only good things are remembered about a person. The director recalled Dmitry Bryantsev, a choreographer who served as the chief choreographer of the Musical Theater for two decades.

The second place of Russian figure skater Evgeni Plushenko became a topic of heated debate between his supporters and opponents. In the Canadian Russia House, a few days after the competition, Vremya Novostey correspondent Olga ERMOLINA spoke with 2006 Olympic champion and two-time Olympic medalist Evgeni PLYUSHCHENKO. — Now that several days have passed since the competition and passions have gradually subsided, how do you evaluate your performance at this Olympics?

“Sobbing” by Krzysztof Bizet at the Praktika Theater “Praktika,” one of our main “new drama” theaters, is not afraid of harsh drama, but, on the contrary, has a taste for it and raises it to the banner. But even on this stage, the play “Sobbing” by 40-year-old Pole Krzysztof Bizet, at once dry and emotional, harsh and scary, immediately began to look like one of the best in the repertoire.

Russian sprinters took third place in the team race Russian skiers won two bronze medals in team sprint races in skating style. But if the third place of Irina Khazova and Natalya Korosteleva can be regarded as an unconditional success, then from Nikolai Morilov, Korosteleva’s brother, and Alexei Petukhov, the coaches had the right to expect awards of higher value.

At the beginning of next week, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will consider a report unfavorable for Tehran at its meeting. It claims that the agency, due to a lack of cooperation from Iran, cannot confirm that all nuclear material there is used only for peaceful purposes. This was the first report on the Iranian nuclear issue prepared under the new IAEA Director General Yukiya Amano.

On Defender of the Fatherland Day, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev took part in the solemn ceremony of returning the Eternal Flame from Victory Park on Poklonnaya Hill in Moscow to the Alexander Garden. On December 27, 2009, the Eternal Flame was moved to Poklonnaya Hill in connection with work to restore engineering and technical communications in the Alexander Garden.