Hugo Chavez did not notice Medvedev's quarrel with Lukashenko The signing of an agreement on the construction of the first nuclear power plant by Russian companies in Venezuela was one of the most important results of Friday's negotiations between President Dmitry Medvedev and his colleague Hugo Chavez. After the meeting between the presidents of Russia and Venezuela, Mr. Medvedev noted that “tectonic changes” had occurred in relations between the two countries.

The President entrusted Moscow to Sergei Sobyanin On Friday evening, after six days of deliberation, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev decided on a candidate for the post of mayor of Moscow from the “list of four” submitted to him on October 9 by United Russia. There was no sensation: the president chose the highest-ranking official from the list, Deputy Prime Minister and head of the government apparatus Sergei Sobyanin.

To the 70th anniversary of the creation of the largest Warsaw Ghetto in Europe The ghetto first appeared in Europe, namely in Venice, back in the 16th century. This was the name of the area where, since 1516, the place of isolated residence of Jews was determined (apparently, Shakespeare’s Shylock already lived in the ghetto). According to one version, the word “ghetto” itself comes from the “cannon factory” located nearby, which is how the entire area was nicknamed.

A colleague, an art critic, invited me to the Art Moscow exhibition - to explore, as he put it, a new cultural space. By the expression “cultural space,” I, of course, mean something completely different from what an art critic does. I immediately imagine a huge parallelepiped of the Central House of Artists on Krymsky Val, the “cultural spaces” of which are very familiar to me. For ten years now, I have been going there for one week a year as if I were going to work.

Bulgaria does not see Romania as a competitor for gas pipeline construction Following a one-day visit to Bulgaria, the head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, said that “serious progress has been made regarding the implementation of the South Stream project.” According to him, this week an agreement will be signed on the development of a feasibility study for the Bulgarian section of the project and the creation of a joint venture.

Sanitary authorities insist on mandatory vaccination of catering workers against hepatitis A new sanitary restriction, which the Moscow territorial department of the Federal Service for Supervision of Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare is preparing to introduce, should make the capital's public catering safer.

September 15 -- October 15, 2010 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of “Vremya Novostei” and the “Medialogia” company, are ratings of political figures who are most actively discussed in the federal press and on central TV channels.

CONCERTS "Three O's." The Intuitive Music Ensemble celebrates its 25th anniversary. “School of Dramatic Art” , 20.00. Trio by Ivan Farmakovsky. Igor Butman Club , 20.30. CLASSIC Concert dedicated to the works of G. Mahler and A. Berg. G. Mahler, A. Schnittke, A. Berg. Taking part in the concert are P. Soldatikov (violin), I. Saenko (viola), A. Zarubina (cello), A. Trushkova (piano), V. Avtomonov (baritone). Chamber orchestra of the Ampire Style association consisting of: A. Lyubimov (piano), Y.

St. Petersburg operatives were suspected of torturing suspects Another scandal about the arbitrariness of police officers is breaking out in St. Petersburg. As Vremya Novostei learned, the SKP department for the Moskovsky district of the city put two police officers from the same district on the wanted list. Investigators suspect them of extorting testimony through monstrous torture, which ended in the death of one of the detainees.

At the beginning of the week, in the north-west of the European territory of the country, the weather will be determined by another powerful and extensive cyclone approaching from the west. In its front part there is windy weather with precipitation. In the middle zone the weather will remain without precipitation for a couple of days, during the day +1...+6оС, in the Smolensk region up to +8оС, in the Bryansk and Oryol regions +6...+11оС.

Sarkozy will respond to Medvedev's idea in the presence of Merkel The Normandy resort of Deauville in France will host a two-day Franco-German-Russian summit today and tomorrow.

"An Ordinary Miracle" became a musical Gennady Gladkov and Yuliy Kim, who 30 years ago came up with six songs for Mark Zakharov’s film, composed 15 more, and added a few lines to the old ones. As a result, there was enough music for a three-hour performance, and starting last weekend, the story of the Princess and the Bear is sung at the Dubrovka Theater Center every day, except Mondays.

Korstin was the first to score in the Premier League Basketball. Russian Championship. Women. Premier League. 1st round. "Spartak" (M) -- "Sparta and K" (Vidnoe) -- 56:79, "Dynamo-GUVD" (Novosibirsk) -- "Spartak" (St. Petersburg) -- 70:67, "Vologda" -- " Dynamo (Kursk) - 71:89, Spartak (Noginsk) - UMMC (Ekaterinburg) - 28:83, Dynamo (M) - Nadezhda (Orenburg) - 69:67.

Once again the game results were too predictable The main event of the next round of the Russian football championship is new excitement about betting on games. Leading bookmakers removed the game "Terek" - CSKA from the line, refusing to accept bets after too many believed in the successful game of the army team on a foreign field. After they bet a total of about a million dollars on the Moscow team, everyone suspected something was wrong.

At least 14 people died as a result of flooding in the Tuapse region In the Tuapse district of the Krasnodar Territory, mourning was declared today for the victims of the severe flood that hit the region on Saturday night. According to the Hydrometeorological Center, a month's worth of precipitation fell there in just 24 hours, as a result of which all the rivers overflowed their banks. Almost 20 settlements were in the flood zone.