They danced “Petrushka” at the Bolshoi The last premiere of the season at the Bolshoi Theater was a ballet made for the Diaghilev enterprise 99 years ago. Mikhail Fokine's "Petrushka" was staged on the stage of the country's main theater by Sergei Vikharev, a St.

The Executive Committee of the Russian Basketball Federation (RBF) put an end to the scandalous story with the sensational audio recording made by unknown persons in the referee's locker room of the May matches of the quarterfinal stage of the playoffs "Dynamo" (Moscow) - "Lokomotiv-Kuban" (Krasnodar). Let us recall that the seven-minute audio file, posted on the Internet on the eve of the fifth, decisive match of the series (May 20), initially shocked the basketball community.

Loginov left the post of vice-president of the FLGR The ex-president of the Russian Ski Racing Federation (FLGR) Vladimir Loginov resigned last week from the post of vice-president of this organization. In mid-June, he voluntarily resigned as vice-president of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC). And earlier, after the Olympics in Vancouver, where the performance of Russian skiers was considered unsatisfactory, Loginov resigned as president of the head of the FLGR.

Dmitry Medvedev checked the Far East for proximity to the rest of Russia The development of the Far East - strengthening positions in the Asia-Pacific region, improving the state border, stopping the outflow of population and military exercises in the Pacific Ocean - President Dmitry Medvedev managed to cover such a wide range of problems during his trip to the region. Over three days, the head of state visited four cities in the Far East.

Russian citizens are not allowed into Moscow Seven years after the late Saparmurat Turkmenbashi the Great unilaterally tore up the Russian-Turkmen dual citizenship agreement, his successor, Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, ordered a new campaign to persecute dual citizenship holders. As the Turkmen Helsinki Initiative reported, on July 1, during passport control at Ashgabat airport, 12 passengers were not allowed onto the plane taking a morning flight to Moscow.

The Supreme Court began to recalculate northern payments for the third time The Supreme Court has been trying to sort out the payments of so-called northern bonuses for several years now. Last Friday, he postponed the consideration of the case of workers of the Segezha Pulp and Paper Mill (SPPM), who for two years have been trying to prove that they are underpaid, since the company's managers include northern bonuses in the minimum wage (minimum wage).

Senate Crisis Committee Criticized for Focusing Too Much on Goldman Sachs Experts say the Senate panel investigating the causes of the financial crisis may be seriously mistaken in viewing Goldman Sachs as the main villain on Wall Street and bypassing insurance company American International Group (AIG). During a hearing this week, the panel questioned 10 current and former employees of Goldman Sachs and AIG. The commission was interested in transactions between these two financial giants.

The results of the Norilsk Nickel shareholders' meeting are in doubt The forced partnership of Vladimir Potanin and Oleg Deripaska in Norilsk Nickel is clearly not a match made in heaven. Having put an end to one shareholder war in 2008 - between Mr. Potanin and his long-term partner Mikhail Prokhorov - RUSAL's purchase of a blocking stake in Norilsk Nickel almost immediately launched a new confrontation.

The State Duma deprives the traffic police of some supervisory functions The Russian traffic police may lose one of its functions - state technical inspection of cars. Last Friday, the State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill that transfers the right to conduct technical inspections from the traffic police to commercial structures.

The former prefect of the Southern District of Moscow and his deputy were arrested Last Saturday, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow issued a warrant for the arrest of the former prefect of the Southern Administrative District (SAD) of the capital, Yuri Bulanov, and a day earlier, the same fate befell his deputy Vyacheslav Shcherbakov. The officials were detained in the same case - embezzlement of 23 million rubles allocated from the city budget for housing repairs.

Belarusians will test the new rules in practice Local elections in Belarus scheduled for the end of April will serve as a dress rehearsal for the 2011 presidential campaign. Local elections will not have a serious impact on the balance of political forces. However, the EU countries will closely monitor their progress and, depending on the conclusions drawn, will already build relations with Minsk.

Cholera brought to Russia on a flight from India Summer imports of overseas infections are approaching their peak. Last week, the leadership of the Russian sanitary and epidemiological service announced that the second case of cholera importation had been registered since the beginning of this year. Just like the first time (at the beginning of June, this diagnosis was made to a young woman with an infant), the disease “flew” from India.

The Wimbledon hosts are again left with nothing Serena Williams and Rafael Nadal won the British Open singles title. In the decisive match, the American beat our Vera Zvonareva in two sets, and allowed her opponent to take only five games (6:3, 6:2). For the “dark-skinned lightning,” this success was the 13th at Grand Slam competitions and a repeat of her Wimbledon triumph eight years ago.

Western countries are rushing to open another front in the fight against terrorism At the international conference on Yemen, which will be held in London on January 27, Western countries will try to bring calm and security to this country with a united front.

Spies - separately, Russian-American relations - separately Moscow does not intend to succumb to the provocations of American intelligence services and follow the path of “symmetrical responses” in connection with the spy scandal that broke out last week. Dmitry Medvedev made this clear when he congratulated Barack Obama on Independence Day yesterday. The Russian president's message has an emphatically benevolent tone and personal character. Mr.