German performance by Alvis Hermanis at the NET festival The New European Theater Festival, which this year, in addition to the Ministry of Culture and the Mikhail Prokhorov Foundation, is supported by Raiffeisenbank, continues to show performances by European directors staged abroad. The last of the tour is a play by the Moscow favorite Alvis Hermanis, composed not at home in Latvia, but in Germany, at the Munich theater Kammerspiele.

In Afghanistan, votes were counted for two months Yesterday, Afghanistan's Independent Election Commission announced the results of the parliamentary elections held more than two months ago, on September 18. The commission disqualified 24 of the 249 candidates previously considered eligible for parliament. The election results in the eastern province of Ghazni remained unknown due to widespread irregularities.

Today, “Refuge” by one of the masters of the new European film generation, 43-year-old François Ozon, is being released. All his films are not alike: compare “Sitcom”, “8 Women”, “Swimming Pool”, “5x2”, “Angel”. But they develop common themes: the paradoxes of the female soul, the collapse of the idea of ​​family, death.

Rubin retained its chances of qualifying from the Champions League group Having scored only two goals in five matches of the Champions League group stage, both from the penalty spot, Rubin continues to qualify for the playoffs. After defeating Copenhagen 1:0, Berdyev's team is only one point behind the Danes. But it will not be easy to close this gap: to do this, in the final round, Rubin in Barcelona needs to play better than Copenhagen in the match with the Greek Panathinaikos.

Interior Ministry general suspected of corruption Yesterday the Ministry of Internal Affairs found itself at the center of another scandal. According to the SKP, on Wednesday in Moscow one of the main police supplies, Major General Vladimir Cheishvili, who heads the federal state institution “Central District Directorate of Material, Technical and Military Supply of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (FGU TsOUMTiVS) was detained.

Russian hydro generators reported profit growth Two domestic hydro-generating companies reported a significant increase in financial performance. Based on the results of nine months of this year, Irkutskenergo (controlled by Eurosibenergo, part of Oleg Deripaska’s En+) managed to achieve an increase in net profit by 137%. The net profit of state-controlled RusHydro increased by 10%.

CONCERTS "TV". The founders of Russian neo-romanticism, combining heavy electronic sound, comparable to Depeche Mode, and scandalous, dark lyrics. "B2" , 20.00. Zulya (Australia). World music star and winner of many music awards Zulya Kamalova lives in Australia, sings in different languages ​​(Tatar, Russian, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish, Gypsy) and is the most famous Tatar singer in the world.

The Belarusian opposition is alarmed by the West's desire to support Lukashenko Belarusian poet, prose writer, social and political figure and leader of the civil campaign “Tell the Truth!” 64-year-old Vladimir Neklyaev has officially become one of ten candidates for the presidency of Belarus in the elections to be held on December 19. He began his presidential campaign in Warsaw. Mr.

There will be no reduction in transport tax in Moscow in the near future The Moscow authorities are clearly not ready to reduce transport tax rates next year as a kind of compensation for the increase in excise taxes on gasoline. Yesterday's meeting in the Moscow City Duma showed that neither officials nor deputies are ready to give up this, although not the main, but quite significant source of income for the capital's budget. Although federal legislation will soon allow such a populist step.

Lokomotiv-Kuban is set to reach the Final Four of the Challenge Cup The next European Cup week began with matches of men's teams for the EuroChallenge trophy under the auspices of the continental branch of the International Basketball Federation. Russian clubs rarely play against each other in tournaments of such significance, so the meeting between Lokomotiv-Kuban (Krasnodar) and Dynamo (Moscow) in Group F stood apart.

Alexey Kudrin again raised the issue of creating a financial mega-regulator Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin said yesterday that the Council on Financial Markets will consider the issue of merging the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM) and Rosstrakhnadzor. “This is quite realistic, we are preparing this, this is an old idea,” Mr. Kudrin said. - We will move gradually.

The swimmers sent a second squad to Eindhoven The European Short Course Swimming Championships kicks off today in Eindhoven, Holland. Athletes from 35 countries will compete for 38 sets of awards - equally divided among men and women. The Russian team went to this tournament with the second squad. This is explained by the fact that the world short course championship will be held in Dubai in mid-December.

The Supreme Court of Ukraine decided: Naftogaz must give RosUkrEnergo 12.1 billion cubic meters of gas By winter, the Swiss trader of Gazprom and Ukrainian entrepreneur Dmitry Firtash RosUkrEnergo may return to the gas market.

CSKA is moving further away from the playoff zone After CSKA’s defeat in the next match of the Russian Hockey Championship from Riga Dynamo, a meeting was held between the team’s head coach and the club’s president, Vyacheslav Fetisov, at which they once again discussed how the team could get out of the crisis. It is possible that all this will end with a change of coach.

Who will VTB bring to the Bank of Moscow? The appearance of the first clear commentary on the changes in the fate of the Bank of Moscow showed that the upcoming transaction will be complex and that a variety of interests are “protected” in it. VTB, as Deputy Prime Minister and head of the bank's supervisory board Alexei Kudrin told reporters yesterday, is negotiating the purchase of the capital government's share in the Bank of Moscow. “We are interested in the entire package - 46%,” said Mr.