56 2 minutes. ... "The Barber" will open Cannes Out of competition The official program of the Cannes Film Festival has been announced. It will open at the Festival Palace on the Croisette on May 12 with a screening of Nikita Mikhalkov’s out-of-competition film “The Barber of Siberia.” The competition will feature 23 films, including “Moloch” by Alexander Sokurov. The period of pre-Cannes spring fever and always dubious forecasts is over.

7 1 min. ... Indices of leading stock exchanges as of April 23 (points) (at the close of trading) DJIA* 10727.18 (+145.76) FTSE-100 6428.00 (+14.40) CAC-40 4262.43 (-29.42) DAX-30 5195.42 (-23.40) Nikkei-225 16923.25 (+257.37) *As of April 22.

123 3 min. ... Zalgiris is the best in Europe again Without Sabonis, but with the Americans The Zalgiris era has arrived again in European basketball. On Thursday, the famous Lithuanian team, which in the 80s was one of the strongest on the continent, became the winner of the next Euroleague. In the final, the club from Kaunas beat last year's title winner, the Italian Kinder.

103 4 min. ... The President gave Vladimir Kolesnikov 15 days To deal with Krasnoyarsk colleagues The federal authorities are not abandoning attempts to make a demonstration region out of the criminalized Krasnoyarsk Territory.

39 2 minutes. ... Lazio barely held off Lokomotiv On Thursday, Lokomotiv Moscow dropped out of the race for the Cup Winners' Cup. The return semi-final match of the railway workers with the Roman Lazio ended with a score of 0:0. But in terms of performance, Lokomotiv was even closer to success than the leader of the Italian championship. Kommersant correspondent ALEXEY ZHUK reports from Rome. It is a pity that most of our fans were not able to see this historic meeting.

55 1 min. ... Milosevic did what Lewinsky couldn't Clinton's ratings have dropped The influential American newspaper Washington Post published the results of a survey of Americans regarding how their president copes with his job. It turned out that Milosevic's intransigence did what the Monica Lewinsky revelations failed to do: Clinton's popularity fell to its lowest level in two years. A Pew Research Center for the People & the Press poll of 1,000 U.S.

52 1 min. ... Basketball Euroleague Munich. The final. "Zalgiris" (Lithuania) - "Kinder" (Italy) 82:74 (45:30). Bauie, 17; Edney, 14; Zidek, 12 - Rigaudeau, 27; Skonočini, 15; Nesterovich, 12. Match for 3rd place. "Olympiacos" (Greece) - "Timsystem" (Italy) 74:63 (43:28). Komazec, 13; Vuktsevich, 12, Papanikolaou, 9 - Yarich, 17; Karnišovas, 14; Mulomerovic, 11.

65 1 min. ... The Central Bank will pay for failed banks But only with their money The Central Bank has prepared a document that will allow depositors who won a case in court against the banks that froze their deposits to receive their money through cash settlement centers (RCCs) of the Bank of Russia. This practice existed before, but was stopped at the beginning of 1999, which significantly complicated the implementation of court decisions.

204 1 min. ... "Lazio" - "Lokomotiv" 0:0 (1:1) "Lazio:" Marchegiani - Negro, Nesta, Mihajlovic, Pancaro - Lombardo, Couto (Almeida, 46), Nedved, Stankovic - Vieri (Boksic, 87), Mancini (de la Pena, 76). “Lokomotiv”: Nigmatullin - Lavrik, Chugainov, Arifullin, Cherevchenko - Gurenko, Smertin, Loskov, Kharlachev (Maminov, 66; Borodyuk, 84) - Dzhanashia, Bulykin. Judge Anders Frisk (Sweden). Rome, 30,000. Newspaper "Kommersant" No. 70 dated April 24, 1999, p. 11

129 2 minutes. ... Our punks are pale toadstools Two exhibitions in the Big Manege, which opened as part of the Fashion and Style in Photography festival, are dedicated to the most avant-garde trends of the last forty years. But if the exhibition of British photography “Look at me” describes avant-garde ideas from the inside, then the special projects of domestic photographers only copy them from the outside.

57 2 minutes. ... Export of currency is limited Yesterday, the Duma approved a restriction on the export of cash currency outside Russia. It is very likely that by the summer holiday season, new rules will already be in effect in the country: take with you no more than $5 thousand. Yesterday's discussion in the Duma of amendments to the law "On introducing amendments to the Russian Federation Law 'On Currency Regulation and Currency Control'" was a turning point.

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1K 3 min. ... Maniac teacher raped children for 20 years The Moscow City Court sentenced 50-year-old pedophile Nikolai Konstantinov to 15 years in prison. For almost twenty years, the criminal raped and corrupted minors. His victims were not only girls from boarding school #8, where he at one time worked as a night teacher, but also his own children. With details - ALEXEY SOKOVNIN.

85 1 min. ... "Chernobyl" will come on Monday On Monday, computers are at risk of being attacked by another virus. It is called "Chernobyl" - both because of the degree of damage it can cause (erase all information on the hard drive, destroy the BIOS), and because it is activated on the anniversary of the Chernobyl accident. The new virus, officially called CIH or "space filler", was first spotted in Asia last summer. Since then, it “comes to the surface” on the 26th of every month.

162 2 minutes. ... Art goes into fashion Photo festival in Moscow The First International Festival "Fashion and Style in Photography", established by the Moscow House of Photography and the Moscow City Hall, opened in Moscow. The top of the festival was the exhibition “Look at Me”, provided by the British Council and exhibited at the Manege Central Exhibition Hall.