There is no need to introduce Andrejs Žagars in Russian capitals for a long time. In 1996, as director, he headed the Latvian National Opera - and soon brought it to the leaders of the Eastern European opera process. Over the past ten years, LNO has been one of the most successful, interesting and dynamically developing companies.

Watch from July 22 on Moscow screens “Inception” (USA, 2010, Christopher Nolan). A fantastic thriller, the plot of which is built around the ability of some individuals to penetrate the dreams of other people and extract from there (or, conversely, introduce) valuable information.

The Constitutional Court recommended changing the methodology for calculating alimony from individual entrepreneurs Yesterday, the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation called on legislators to clarify the difference between the income of an individual entrepreneur and his profit, having considered the case of alimony worker from Yeisk Liparit Hmayakyan. The bailiffs simply ruined Mr.

Three friends from the police, the prosecutor's office and the Federal Penitentiary Service were accused of extorting money from someone else's suspect The capital's department of the Investigative Committee, as Vremya Novostei learned, has completed an investigation into another scandalous case against law enforcement officers.

The final tournament of the World League starts in Argentina Six men's national teams will compete for the title of World League champion over five days in the Argentine city of Cordoba. The final tournament of the largest commercial volleyball competition starts today with the participation of teams from Russia, Brazil, Italy, Cuba, Serbia and the home team.

Drought and crop failure raise inflationary expectations among officials The drought, which destroyed a significant part of the grain harvest in the Southern Urals, the Volga region and the Central Black Earth Region, can spur inflation, providing the planned indicators of 6-7% with an additional 1.5-2 percentage points. Such concerns were expressed by the President of the Russian Grain Union (RGU) Arkady Zlochevsky.

During the spring session, out of 250 laws, the Federation Council rejected five The upper house of the Russian parliament went on vacation. On Monday, July 19, members of the Federation Council held the final meeting of the spring session, finally adopted another package of bills and said goodbye to each other and to journalists for two months.

And entered into negotiations with Ashgabat In recent days, changes have begun to occur in the fate of residents of Turkmenistan who have Russian-Turkmen citizenship and are therefore in the position of “second-class” citizens in their country. The Vremya Novostei newspaper twice this month (see Vremya Novostei, July 5 and 9 ) reported on the harassment suffered by some of these citizens, who, starting on July 1, tried to fly from Ashgabat to Moscow.

Nowitzki signed a contract with Dallas Dallas leader Dirk Nowitzki, who became a free agent at the end of the season, signed a new contract with this NBA club. The details of the agreement are not disclosed, but, according to preliminary information, the deal was valued at $80 million. It was also reported that the term of the new contract is for four years. Note that the 32-year-old German basketball player spent his entire career in Dallas.

Vnesheconombank: from anti-crisis measures to development projects Vnesheconombank has succeeded not only as an anti-crisis firefighting tool, but also as a development institution, believes Vladimir Dmitriev, chairman of the state corporation “Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs”.

Dmitry Medvedev intends to enlist Finland's support in the fight for a visa-free regime with the EU Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is expanding the geography of his trips to neighboring Finland. In April last year, he paid a state visit to the country's capital, Helsinki, and the city of Porvoo. This time, Finnish President Tarja Halonen invited him to her summer residence “Kultaranta”, which means “Gold Coast”, in Naantali, in southwestern Finland.

BP will be fined another $18 billion According to the conclusion of a special commission of the US administration published yesterday, which is responsible for eliminating the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a new leak of hydrocarbons discovered a day earlier in the area of ​​the emergency well is “natural” in nature and is not related to the installation of another plug. However, British BP's joy in the absence of technical problems at the moment may be overshadowed.

Amid news about the successful placement of Spanish government bonds, the euro rose above $1.3, reaching a new almost three-month high. However, information that appeared yesterday that one of the German banks failed stress tests again forced the euro to decline. Spain placed one-year bonds worth 6 billion euros ($7.8 billion) at 2.221% per annum (July 15 - at 2.303%). Demand almost doubled supply.

The Public Chamber asks the government to expand the list of needy settlements The government clearly underestimates the number of problematic single-industry towns. By focusing only on supporting the strategically important motor city of Tolyatti or Pikalev, which has demonstrated the ability to violently protest, officials risk losing control of the situation in small settlements, whose residents can find work at one or two city-forming enterprises.

The first round of the chess super tournament of six grandmasters has ended in Dortmund. Contrary to expectations, the main favorite, nine-time winner of these tournaments Vladimir Kramnik, does not show his former dominance. Only in the fifth round did he manage to win his first victory, moving into the 50 percent zone.