In connection with the planned approval by the Georgian parliament on October 12 of a new version of the constitution, which strengthens the institution of the prime minister, the opposition has intensified in the country. One of its leaders, Zurab Nogaideli, will spend this week in Moscow in negotiations with Russian politicians and representatives of the Georgian diaspora.

The government has allowed the import of unregistered drugs into Russia Russians with rare hereditary diseases, who previously did not have access to vital medications for them, will now be able to be treated and live in peace. The problem of treating a number of serious diseases in our country should be solved by a government decree signed recently by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin regulating the procedure for importing the latest medicines.

Joël Pomerat directed Pinocchio at Praktika The last thing that can be said about the Joël Pomre Theater, with its disturbing plays and dark, introverted performances, is a theater for children. The strange Frenchman’s productions, starting with “The Merchants,” which the NET festival brought three years ago, and up to “This Child,” then staged at Praktika, in one way or another concerned children, but were never intended for them.

The first ladies of Russia and Poland prayed together for the victims of the disaster Events were held in Smolensk and Katyn yesterday in memory of the victims of the plane crash that occurred exactly six months ago on April 10. Then, while landing at Severny Airport in difficult weather, a Tu-154M plane carrying members of the Polish delegation, traveling to participate in mourning events in Katyn, crashed. There were 96 people on board, including President Lech Kaczynski and his wife Maria.

Sunday's matches on the courts of Melbourne thinned out the lineup of Russian participants in the Australian Open. Losses were inevitable: immediately two pairs of the fourth round turned out to be completely Russian. And both were not without sensation. The first to take to the court were Nadezhda Petrova and the third racket of the tournament, Svetlana Kuznetsova. Petrova the day before ruined the triumphant return to Australia of Belgian Kim Clijsters.

Almost a month has passed since the start of the “Best Private Investor 2010” competition ( www.investor.rts.ru ), organized by the RTS Stock Exchange. The number of participants has already reached 920 people and their number is growing every day. There are still two months of competition ahead, but the contestants have already chosen investment strategies and exchange instruments that, in their opinion, work most effectively in the current market situation.

Mezhprombank, which lost its license last week, will not soon be able to repay its debts to its creditors. “The bankruptcy of the bank could lead to losses for a number of organizations, both very large and small, that kept their funds in it,” said Gennady Melikyan, first deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia, on Friday. Mezhprombank owes the Central Bank itself about 32 billion rubles. The Central Bank pledges the shipbuilding assets of the bank's owner, Senator from Tuva Sergei Pugachev.

The prime ministers of Belarus and Russia will meet in the midst of the conflict The next meeting of the Council of Ministers of the Russian-Belarusian Union State will take place on October 15 in Moscow. This was confirmed by Belarusian Prime Minister Sergei Sidorsky. The meeting will take place during a period of serious aggravation of relations between Russia and Belarus. The heads of government will discuss about 30 issues, most of which relate to economic cooperation. According to Mr.

A record number of regional elections were held in Russia on Mental Health Day About eight thousand elections at various levels took place throughout the country yesterday, on a single voting day on October 10. It became the largest election day in the entire history of this institution, said the Chairman of the Central Election Commission, Vladimir Churov, emphasizing that about 30 million people were included in the voter lists. That is, almost a third of the entire Russian electorate.

Russian teams ruled the roost in the VTB United League The victory of the capital's army team ended the first championship of the VTB United League, the decisive stage of which took place in Kaunas, Lithuania. Despite the fact that teams from five countries of the former USSR took part in the tournament, it still ended in a purely Russian get-together. All three of our clubs reached the Final Four, two representatives of the Super League met in a fight for the title.

Speed ​​sales have begun on the pharmaceutical market Foreign pharmaceutical companies have actually stopped supplying medicines to Russia, however, a shortage of medicines is not expected this year. A message from the Federal Customs Service released at the end of last week notes that in September, supplies of medicines from abroad decreased by $1 million 406 thousand, or 3.6 times, compared to August.

Bundesteam coach beat Guus Hiddink's team again The next qualifying matches for the 2012 continental championship took place in Europe. There were some sensations. Estonia defeated the powerful Serbian team. In our group “B” , the Slovak team, which won in Moscow, hoped to take three points in Yerevan. As Vladimir Weiss did not warn about the inadmissibility of underestimating the opponent, the conviction that the Armenian team can be defeated with one left hand remained stronger.

TENNIS. January 25--31. Australian Open. Second week. Melbourne. The men's and women's singles quarter-finals will take place tomorrow and Wednesday. Over the next two days, all participants in the decisive fights for the title will be determined. Finals schedule. January 29. Women. Couples. January 30. Women. Singles. Men. Couples. January 31st. Mixed Men. Singles. HOCKEY. January 25--28. KHL is the Russian Open Championship. Regular season . January 30. "Match of Stars" Minsk (Belarus).

Vladimir Putin convinced Silvio Berlusconi to work for South Stream The news that participants in the Nabucco gas pipeline project are once again postponing the final investment decision seems to have forced Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to speed up the topic of another project - South Stream. On Friday, the head of government had a conversation about this with Gazprom Chairman Alexei Miller, and on Saturday, at a meeting in St.

Reforms have finally quarreled IMF shareholders For the annual meeting of the Board of Governors of the International Monetary Fund, which took place over the weekend in Washington, Institutional Investor magazine featured a portrait of IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn on the cover under the headline “The Man Who Could Be President.” The theme of the continuing presidential ambitions of Strauss-Kahn, one of the most popular politicians in France, has been heard for a long time.