46 3 min. ... Avignon continues Drama theater is boring Modern dance is cruel, but interesting As already reported, the 51st Avignon Festival opened in the dramatic part with the production of Lessing's play "Nathan the Wise". The play obviously had a head start - it is about tolerance and humanity, which are now welcomed: the heroes of the play, representatives of Judaism, Islam and Christianity, unanimously come to the conclusion that none of the religions has priority.

18 1 min. ... Illegal collection justified Yuri Yakushev, representative of the plaintiff, lawyer of NAP: “There was hope for a favorable outcome.” After we receive a reasoned court decision and analyze it, we will immediately file a cassation appeal within the prescribed period.

41 1 min. ... Unicom Unicombank is trying to hush up the scandal caused by the Central Bank The press conference of the management of Unicombank, held yesterday, confirms the conclusions that they are trying to put the brakes on the scandal surrounding the statement of the Chairman of the Central Bank Sergei Dubinin. According to the head of Unicombank, all disagreements with the Central Bank come down solely to different interpretations of the rules of the Russian language.

1K 2 minutes. ... School The roof of the barracks collapsed on the sleeping cadets 11 people died. Disabled people will receive benefits Last night the roof of their barracks collapsed on the sleeping cadets of the Tomsk Higher Command Military School of Communications. 11 cadets were killed, another 40 were wounded and maimed. The school management had long been aware of the emergency condition of the barracks, but they did not take any measures.

21 2 minutes. ... Football An unclear diagnosis of Russian football Sports school graduates beat the Olympic champion The 18th round of the Russian football championship again brought the four-time national champion Spartak Moscow into sole leadership.

14 1 min. ... The prime minister became the president of the hockey team Prime Minister becomes president of hockey team Prime Minister of Tatarstan Farid Mukhametshin became president of the major league hockey team "Ak Bars". This became known yesterday after an extraordinary meeting of the hockey and sports club. The elections of the new president took place without the direct participation of Farid Mukhametshin, since he was on a business trip in London at the time.

65 2 minutes. ... Problems of the City project Albert Reichman may leave the Moscow City project The developer did not fulfill his obligations The largest Moscow construction project - the international business center "Moscow City" - looks like it will soon part with the investor on whom great hopes were pinned. As Kommersant-Daily learned, the participation of the famous developer Albert Reichman in the project is in question.

268 3 min. ... Meat Campomos sandwiches could contain British beef She was eaten three months ago New details are emerging of a scandal involving the smuggling of British beef to Russia through Belgium (Kommersant-Daily wrote about this yesterday). As it turned out, in March 42 tons of such meat were received by one of the largest Moscow meat processing enterprises, Campomos. There is every reason to believe that this batch contained beef infected with spongiform encephalopathy.

94 2 minutes. ... RUOP disarmed Luber Edison's weapons cache found It would be enough for a whole group On Wednesday, employees of the RUOP of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation in Moscow detained the “authority” of the Lyubertsy criminal group, Eduard Volkov, also known under the nickname Edison. At his home, RUOP officers found a whole warehouse of small arms, more than 2 thousand pieces of ammunition and 4 kg of explosives.

106 1 min. ... Rosneft continues to lose staff Rosneft continues to lose staff Alexander Putilov's team is leaving As Kommersant-Daily already reported, last week, at the suggestion of the president of Rosneft, the company's first vice president, Rair Simonyan, resigned. At the same time, it was suggested that Simonyan’s departure was only the beginning of larger personnel changes at the oil company. And then it became known that a group of top managers of Rosneft had resigned.

48 2 minutes. ... Chernomyrdin Chernomyrdin brought the country's chief veterinarian to Brussels Viktor Chernomyrdin's visit to the headquarters of the European Union has two goals: to finally achieve the promised end to discrimination against Russian exporters on the European market and to clarify the issue of supplies of British beef to Russia. The position that Viktor Chernomyrdin adheres to in negotiations with the EU is tough: obligations must be fulfilled.

59 2 minutes. ... LUKOIL placed Eurobonds The second step of Russian companies into the Western capital market The Russian oil company LUKOIL announced the completion of an international bond issue for $125 million. After Russia received an international credit rating and issued Eurobonds, raising funds on the Western capital market became very popular among both regional authorities and corporations. The reasons for the popularity of European securities among domestic companies are transparent.

189 3 min. ... Presidential project "Gifted Children" "New names of the planet" under the control of the capital's professors As part of the presidential project "Gifted Children", the fifth summer creative school "new names for the planet" was opened in Suzdal. One hundred and eighty children from different regions of the country will take master classes from leading teachers of the Moscow State Conservatory named after P. I.

912 5 minutes. ... Abdujaparov. Doping. Strange circumstances of Abduzhaparov's disqualification Popular cyclist caught doping 6 times this year The inglorious end of the Tour de France cycling race by the popular Uzbek rider Jamolidin Abduzhaparov does not seem to be an out of the ordinary fact. Many famous athletes were caught doping, and Abdu was just one of the losers. But there are three circumstances that made the Abduzhaparov case very intriguing.

20 2 minutes. ... Minsk is raking in banks for itself Belarusian banks will go to the state And all his debts will be forgiven Belarus is expecting another round of the campaign to strengthen the role of the state in the country's banking system. The Ministry of Economy is considering a draft resolution of the Council of Ministers of Belarus, according to which shares of banks owned by state-owned enterprises will go to the state when the latter are privatized.