To the music of the twentieth century, the Moscow Easter Festival will first go beyond the borders of Russia on Easter evening, April 19, in the Great Hall of the Conservatory, the grand opening of the VIII Moscow Easter festival will be held. His program is much more modest than last year: there are no opera productions of the Mariinsky Theater, nor concerts of his ballet stars. The soloist Mariinka Anna Netrebko will perform as part of the festival program only in St. Petersburg.

10:08 // 04/16/2009 In the infectious department of the Kirov hospital, according to the updated data, 59 people who were removed the day before from the Blagoveshchensk -Moscow train, RIA Novosti was told in the medical institution. The interlocutor clarified that among them 52 citizens of China and seven Russians (guide, translator and doctors who examined the patients). "All people delivered the day before are with us. Their condition is satisfactory," he said.

The State Duma Committee on Construction and Land Relations is being prepared in the regiment of state corporations, I recommended that the draft law "On the Russian Roads State Company (abbreviated - Avtodor Civil Code). This is already the second attempt to conduct a document through parliament. The bill was introduced to the State Duma by a group of deputies of United Russia.

14:29 // 04/16/2009 The French tourist filed a statement to the guitarist of the popular German Tokio Hotel Tom Kaulitz, who accuses him of beating during a brawl, RIA Novosti , citing the Hamburger Abendblatt newspaper, to the police of the German Hamburg.

15:55 // 04/16/2009 Russian citizens should refrain from visiting Pakistan due to the threat of terrorism, said on Thursday the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Andrei Nesterenko. "In Russia, they are extremely concerned about the frequent terrorist attacks in Pakistan. The terrorists are brazenly and openly wrapping in the camp, seek to intimidate the population as much as possible and cause dissatisfaction with the authorities.

11:20 // 04/16/2009 The health of residents of the Kirov region, where on Wednesday, more than 50 citizens of China were removed from the Moscow -Blagoveshchensk train and hospitalized with suspected atypical pneumonia, nothing threatens, the press center of the governor and the regional government said, RIA Novosti reports.

Russians are in wait for the poisoning of alcohol and alcohol psychosis more than a thousand people died in Moscow during January-March due to the use of poor-quality alcohol. This sad statistics were announced on Wednesday by the head of the capital's department of the consumer market and services, Vladimir Malyshkov. It is hardly worth calculating that in view of the "crisis" reduction in income, the inhabitants of our country will drink less.

A short list of the Literary Prize “National Bestseller” was announced to the 9th season of the National Bestseller, the most influential of alternative literary awards, joined the climax. On Thursday, a short list of 2009 was announced, consisting, as always, of six books. The results of the jury, as is often the case in National Best, turned out to be somewhat unexpected.

22:00 // 04/16/2009 The Association of Lawyers proposes to create a list of universities that will be allowed to train lawyers and lawyers, the Minister of Education and Science of the Russian Federation Andrei Fursenko told RIA Novosti . Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday, at a meeting with members of the Presidium of the Association of Lawyers, announced the need to improve the quality of education that future lawyers receive at universities.

In Pskov, they discuss the fate of historical monuments at the meeting of the State Patriotic Club on the topic “Preservation and development of historical heritage, the cultural potential of the Pskov region and the north-west of Rus'”, which was held today, a round table was dedicated to the discussion of the draft federal law “On Amendments to the Federal Law“ On Cultural Heritage Objects (Monuments of History) of the Peoples of the Russian Federation ”.

Sotheby's auction is auction for painting, icons and objects of decorative and applied art of Russian origin on April 22 at the Sotheby's auction in New York will once again take place “Russian trading”. They put up painting XIX-early XX centuries, a unique collection of icons and objects of decorative and applied art from the collection of the imperial family. On April 17, a betrayal exhibition will open to visit.

The book is the best gift. This is as true as the fact that time is the best doctor. That is, in some cases, it is true, but in most cases-still not. A gift is a holiday. And the holiday is the first thing carelessness. You can’t call the book the embodiment of carelessness. Especially in Moscow. The reader (we see it in bookstores) for the most part concentrated and frowned, with vertical folds behind the middle of the glasses.

20:00 // 04/16/2009 Dutch lawmakers are going to offer the exiled Tibetan leader Dalai Lama to visit the Parliament of the Netherlands, despite the warnings of the Chinese authorities, who stated that such a proposal could worsen relations between the two countries.

13:50 // 04/16/2009 Moscow mayor Yuri Luzhkov once again promised to clear Moscow of "cancer tumors"- casino by the first of July, RIA Novosti reports. According to federal law, by July 1, 2009, all gambling establishments should be closed in Russia. "The casino has grown like cancer tumors. More than two thousand establishments are already closed, about 500 remained, but they will be closed," Luzhkov said at a meeting at the city hall with the public council of the city of Moscow.

In Russia, on April 23, a third part of the famous youth kinuzik “Cool musical: graduation” enters the DVD. According to the plot, the heroes end the last class. Soon they will have to settle in colleges in different cities, which means that the future of their friendship is in question. At the American box office, the film occupied the upper line of the box office for two weeks in a row, collecting more than $ 65 million in the first two weekends.