With the new AvtoVAZ and General Motors engine, a motor factory for Togliatti cars will be built. The price of a car with a new engine will increase by about $ 1,000. According to AvtoVAZ dealers, any increase in cars for cars can greatly affect sales. At the same price with foreign cars AvtoVAZ products in the domestic market every year are crowded with used and new foreign cars. In 2004 alone, the share of LADA cars in total sales decreased from 47% to 42%.

At the English company ITE, Russian tour operators arranged a demarche. They are unhappy with the organization of the International Exhibition “Travel and Tourism”/Mitt 2005 and intend to organize an alternative to the next spring. The Russian Union of Travel Industry (RST) supported the initiative, but experts doubt that the new Intermarket exhibition will be able to become a serious MITT competitor.

The contemporary art of Russia and Poland at the exhibition at the HCCSI was the second part of the Moscow -Warsaw exhibition opened in the State Center for Contemporary Art. If in the Tretyakov Gallery explore artistic parallels until the end of the twentieth century, then the art of the last five years is shown here. The project is called PS behind the red horizon.

Shpak is looking for extra money in the Ryazan regional court, a process began on the claim of the State Duma deputy Igor Morozov, who requires the abolition of the results of the governor's elections held in March last year. Then in the second round the plaintiff lost to the ex-head of the Airborne Forces George Shpak, and now he accuses the governor of illegally financing the election campaign.

The Mariinsky festival was opened, Petersburg, possessing one of the best ballet troupes in the world, does not need a separate choreographic festival. In the Mariinsky Theater, ordinary performances are sometimes more artistic than pathos art projects. But the festival is a good reason to lure the stars. Therefore, five years ago he was nevertheless established.

The Chevrolet Evanda sedan will have to look for a niche after General Motors bought a South Korean Daewoo company, several new products appeared on the CHEVROLOT brand: a budget Aveo, more expensive Lacetti and Evanda business class sedan. The correspondent of the newspaper Alexei Aksenov tested the American-Korean Chevrolet Evanda. The Russian premiere of Chevrolet Evanda took place last fall at a car dealership in St. Petersburg.

New York showed the concepts of car dealership in New York (New York International Automobile Show) until April 3. This year, it has more than a thousand concepts and serial models from 40 leading automobile manufacturers of the world. The New York car dealership is inferior in importance to other international shows, firstly, because most models have already been shown earlier, and secondly, the premieres are focused on the American market.

Viktor Yushchenko will not come to Moscow for the celebration of Victory Day - he said this on Saturday to Ukrainian journalists: "I will feel inconvenient if veterans are gathering in Kyiv, and I will stand on another rostrum somewhere." And the press service of the President of Georgia stated on Sunday that the question of the visit of Mikhail Saakashvili to Moscow for celebrations dedicated to Victory Day was not yet decided.

For industrial espionage, the California court ordered Toshiba Corporation to pay 456 million dollars of Lexar Media. The Japanese manufacturer secretly resell the license for the production of memory cards to the competitor Lexar. In addition to a monetary fine, industrial espionage can cost a TOSHIBA business for the production of memory cards. According to experts, it is estimated at $ 80 billion.