Heavyweight exhibitions of the Russian Museum There are two of them - “Heaven in Art” and “Hymn to Labor”. Both take place in the Benoit Corps. Created by the aspirations and efforts of the museum staff, based on the rich funds of the first-class repository of the country's domestic art. The exhibitions “Heaven in Art” and “Hymn to Labor” occupy two enfilades on the first floor of the building.

The complete ban on grain exports from Russia lasted two weeks Yesterday it became known that on August 30, two weeks after it came into force, the Russian government adjusted its own decree on a complete ban on grain exports until the end of the year due to an unprecedented drought. Russia became the only grain exporting country affected by drought to take such a step. Now the White House has provided a number of exceptions to the embargo.

America guarantees retribution to rating agencies Changes in financial laws will allow the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to pursue rating agencies abroad if their poor decisions impact the United States. Thus, the regulator may resume prosecution of the international agency Moody's, which began back in 2007. The SEC's investigation found that Moody's Europe failed to cut inflated estimates of $1 billion in CPDO bonds out of self-interest.

The airline presented an invoice to the Moscow government Aeroflot filed a claim against the Moscow government for 112 million 299 thousand 120 rubles. This is the amount the airline estimated its damage from traffic jams that arose at the end of June on the road from Moscow to Sheremetyevo Airport, when the capital authorities started repairing the overpass at the 24th kilometer of the Leningradskoye Highway.

Atmospheric fronts stretching from the Siberian cyclone through the Urals to the Don cut the territory of Russia into two parts - cold and warm. The cyclone will cover the north-west of European Russia, the Central region, and the Black Earth region. In the North-West region on Thursday and Friday there will be heavy rains, with winds increasing in places up to 15-20 m/s, and the wind from the northern quarter will be cold. Air temperature at night +5...+10оС, during the day +8...+15оС.

The priority project of the federal ministry became an “unauthorized construction” Parliamentary hearings are planned to be held in the Legislative Assembly of the Nizhny Novgorod Region in September. The subject of the parliamentarians' hearing will be a property dispute between investors and federal officials. Recently, representatives of the Nizhny Novgorod department of Rosimushchestvo re-registered several large unfinished construction projects in Nizhny Novgorod as federal ownership.

Moscow's main investment programs will be aimed at construction In the next three years, capital economists, apparently, intend to bring construction companies out of the crisis, first of all, in the hope that construction will pull other sectors of the economy along with it.

The Regional Duma vested powers in the new Kaliningrad governor On Monday, Russia's westernmost region gained a new governor: Nikolai Tsukanov, the leader of the local United Russia party and head of the Gusevsky district. True, the current governor, Georgy Boos, has also remained in office for now; he intends to serve until the end of his term of office and even present to the public a report on the results of his five-year plan at the end of September.

Deportation of Roma has become a European problem The deportation of Eastern European Roma from France became a major European scandal this summer. Since the beginning of the year, the French authorities have sent home about 8.3 thousand Roma; in August there were over a thousand of them. In all cases, the expelled Roma, mostly Romanian and Bulgarian, stayed in France for more than three months, but did not find work.

The 23rd Moscow International Book Fair has opened The main show of domestic book achievements (and at the same time more or less accidentally grabbed foreign ones) is an inevitable, official and predictable event. The time and place of the meeting cannot be changed: the opening is on the first Wednesday in September, now coinciding with “Schoolchildren’s Day,” in the hangars of the All-Russian Exhibition Center (in the old and simple way - VDNKh).

Georgia will not be able to return refugees based on the UN decision The upcoming 65th session of the UN General Assembly, according to Vremya Novostei, promises to become a new platform for diplomatic confrontation between Tbilisi and Moscow. President Mikheil Saakashvili will speak in New York on September 23. He plans to criticize Russia more harshly than last year for violating the rights of Georgians.

Dmitry Medvedev opened the country's first presidential cadet college Yesterday Dmitry Medvedev visited Orenburg. The main purpose of his visit was the opening of the first presidential cadet college in Russia. Speaking at the traditional ceremony for September 1, the head of state recalled that back in the 19th century a cadet school was created in Orenburg, and a little later a Cossack cadet school. During the Soviet years, an anti-aircraft missile military school was established there.

Our basketball players defeated China and reached the playoffs of the World Cup In the fourth round of the group stage of the men's basketball world championship in Turkey, the Russian national team defeated China in Ankara - 89:80. Thanks to this success, head coach David Blatt's team earned a spot in the playoffs ahead of schedule, the day before the end of the preliminary stage. It is still unknown who they will meet in the 1/8 finals.

Militants tried to disrupt negotiations with Israel “Terror is an obstacle to peace; terrorists will not be able to win,” Israeli President Shimon Peres said yesterday at a festive assembly in a Jerusalem school. The September 1 holiday in Israel coincided with the start of long-awaited Palestinian-Israeli negotiations in Washington.

Serbia is ready to yield to the West on the Kosovo issue One of the main controversial issues at the session of the UN General Assembly opening on September 14 in New York promises to be the problem of Kosovo.