New performances by Alvis Hermanis in Riga There is no need to explain to anyone how much we love Alvis Hermanis’s performances. And it’s not a matter of formal recognition - three years ago his Riga “Long Life” received the “Golden Mask” for “Best Foreign Performance Shown in Russia”, and two weeks ago Hermanis’s first production in Moscow - “Stories of Shukshin” - I took three “Masks” at once.

Boston won for the second time in a row Hockey. NHL. Playoffs. Conference semi-finals. Eastern Conference. “Boston” – “Philadelphia” – 3:2. The score in the series is 2--0. Western Conference. "Chicago" - "Vancouver" - 4:2. The series score is 1--1. Boston won its second straight victory over Philadelphia in the NHL playoffs. The visitors came back from a one-goal deficit twice, but at the end of the third period Boston's Milan Lucic scored the winning goal.

No Translations festival took place in Moscow As part of the “Artresidence” program, a multi-genre festival was held, which presented music, choreography, theater, and visual arts. It took place throughout the holidays and was supported by the directorate of the “Open Stage” project of the Moscow Department of Culture, ArtRaum, DEI, ArtExhibit, as well as philanthropists Artak Ohanyan and Gayane Igityan. The forum emblem is funny and symbolic in its own way: “...”.

Russia and the United States want, but cannot, achieve nuclear zero The review conference on the implementation of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), which opened at the UN headquarters in New York, will last until May 28. This is the eighth conference, and such forums have been held every five years since the NPT entered into force in March 1970. Now all members of the UN are its participants, except Israel, India, Pakistan and North Korea.

The prison system only responds to the president The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, dismissed from the investigative bodies the deputy head of the department’s division for the Moscow region, Alexander Filippov, and the head of the department for investigating corruption cases, Valery Ivarlak.

Iran received a reprieve thanks to one of the Security Council members The UN Security Council will not tighten sanctions against Iran until the end of January for its refusal to suspend nuclear development. The reason is that China opposes tightening sanctions, and it chairs the Security Council this month. However, in February, when the reins of power pass to France, the situation will certainly change.

Russia is developing an engine for flights to distant planets The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) abandoned the ambitious Constellation program, the ultimate goal of which was flights to the Moon and Mars. This happened in February 2010. And recently, the head of Roscosmos, Anatoly Perminov, said that Russian space programs do not provide for the opening of a settlement on the Moon and manned flights to Mars in the coming years.

The death of the President of Poland, who was flying to Katyn to honor the memory of the Poles killed there 70 years ago, shocked the whole world and our television too. TV, in fact, has become accustomed to the fact that terrible events occur with frightening regularity, and usually maintains an enviable calm. But here they reacted adequately: there were no delays with information, empty words and inappropriate entertainment programs.

Serious changes await the Georgian army On January 26, NATO headquarters in Brussels will host the first negotiations this year with Georgia, the delegation of which will be headed by Deputy State Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration Elena Khoshtaria. The State Minister's Office told Vremya Novostey that a few days after this, a delegation of the North Atlantic Alliance will visit Tbilisi with its ideas, after which a cooperation plan for the current year 2010 will be approved.

Viktor Yanukovych and Yulia Tymoshenko will compete for the presidency Already by yesterday evening, when the first round of presidential elections in Ukraine, the fifth in the entire post-Soviet history of the country, was ending, their most predictable outcome began to emerge: none of the 18 candidates received half the votes to count on victory in the first round.

March 30 -- April 30, 2010 “Politicians through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of “Vremya Novostei” and the “Medialogia” company, are ratings of the political figures most discussed in the federal press and on air on central television channels. “Politicians through the Eyes of the Media” are published weekly: during the month you can familiarize yourself with the ratings of Russian governors, deputies, ministers and heads of foreign states and governments.

The adoption of Russian children by Americans will not be stopped US citizens will not be deprived of the right to adopt children from Russia. The recent incident with eight-year-old Artem Savelyev, whom an American adoptive family sent alone on a plane with a note about refusal of adoption attached to the child, contrary to expectations, did not lead to a ban on the transfer of Russian orphanages to overseas care.

As I understand it, in April we will be praising Leonid Parfenov for the film “Zvorykin-Muromets”. And one could also praise for the advertisement of VTB Bank, where it is no less organic and convincing. What I definitely won’t praise Parfenov for is the premiere of “Zvorykin” in the pretentious “Pioneer” cinema for a VIP public. It gathered there in a strong composition - from Vladislav Surkov and Alexander Voloshin to Pyotr Aven and Alexander Mamut.

Seven games of the world chess championship match between Viswanathan Anand and Veselin Topalov were played in Sofia. The world champion from India leads with a score of 4:3. Since the match has crossed its equator, it’s time to take some stock. Let us note that the fight takes place only on the fields of closed openings, which suits both opponents, since it corresponds to the logic of the match strategy: play for a win with white, for a draw with black.

April has become truly “Polish”. At first, the Kultura channel showed Andrzej Wajda’s film Katyn, which had been reaching the Russian audience for a long time, and a few days later there was a terrible plane crash near Smolensk, which killed almost the entire leadership of Poland, led by President Lech Kaczynski.