Gala concert "Fanny Elsler invites" Tatyana Kuznetsova reports An unusual gala concert of “world ballet stars” will take place at the Maly Theater. It is called “Fanny Elsler Invites” and will be entirely in the spirit of romanticism. For the “inviting” Fanny Elsler danced in the middle of the century before last and was the main competitor of the well-known Maria Taglioni.

CAR-Art salon Dalthonik from Notre Dame The audience wants beauty. To shine and caress the eye. The artist Charles Mayer as a real official from art understands this well. And the National Association of Autonomers that once headed by him supplies fans of auto -fee at a completely automobile price. Charles Mayer did his fascination with cars from the process of learning at the illustrator-designer.

"Rasputin" at the Variety Theater premiere ballet At the Variety Theater, the New Imperial Russian Ballet troupe presented the Moscow premiere of the ballet “Rasputin”. TATYANA KUZNETSOVA has not seen such an ingenuous spectacle for a long time. By the beginning of the performance, all that was left of the Orthodox picketers (see Kommersant on March 31) were a couple of exalted old women and quite sane men.

To the shores of Antarctica on Explorer II Gennady Iosefavicius went I visited the south. Not in the south, where it’s warm and pleasant—I would brag about a vacation on the beach—but in the very, very south, in Antarctica. The thought of setting foot on Antarctic ice has haunted me for a long time.

for the debts of Vladislav Babii 67 3 min. ... Last Wednesday, the Khabarovsk Regional Arbitration Court completed hearings in the case of Alfa Bank OJSC and Familia LLC. The bank demanded to recover 11.5 million rubles from the company. in solidarity with Kontrfors-DVTorg LLC, which failed to fulfill its loan obligations, and its other guarantors. Familia filed a counterclaim to invalidate the guarantee agreement, a copy of which was presented to the court by Alfa Bank.

advertising market Yesterday, the Moscow government unexpectedly canceled the competition for the right to place advertising for five years on all city passenger transport - buses, trolleybuses and trams. According to members of the tender commission, “until further order of the mayor,” the competition was postponed, since its organizer, the State Unitary Enterprise Mosgortrans, violated the rules for conducting tenders.

Pictures from the conference The Russian business and political elite moved last week to the Swiss city of Gstaad for the XI International Business Conference of the Rosbusinessconsulting agency (RBC) Senator Lyudmila Narusova and First Deputy Prime Minister of Dagestan Gitinomagomed Gadzhimagomedov Photo: VALERY LEVITIN, Kommersant Lawyers Natalya Barshchevskaya and Pavel Astakhov Photo: VALERY LEVITIN, Kommersant Chairman of the Board of Directors of YUKOS Viktor Gerashchenko with a lady

combat readiness Today, in the Strategic Missile Forces (RVSN), in accordance with the order of the Minister of Defense, work will begin on the final elimination of weapons of two divisions stationed in Kartaly (Chelyabinsk region) and Kostroma. In total, according to Kommersant's information, by 2010 the number of missile divisions will be reduced from 15 to 10, and the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) on combat duty will most likely decrease from the current 496 to 313.

bankruptcy 197 2 minutes. ... Yesterday in Irkutsk, at the regional interdepartmental commission on state control over the production and circulation of alcohol, the general director of the Bratsk Wine and Vodka Factory (BVZ) Makhabbet Shukurov said that the management of the enterprise filed an application with the arbitration court of the Irkutsk region with a request to declare the plant bankrupt. As Mr.

Vesti 20.00 The main story is natural disasters in Russia. Genre: reportage. The intonation is tense. “In the east of the country, the first month of spring ends with heavy snowfalls and cold weather, and in the south of Siberia and the European part a flood has begun,” the presenter reports. Pictures from Kamchatka and Sakhalin are given. “Half a month’s worth of precipitation in a few hours,” says a reporter about the situation in the region.

The first structure of the Alfa Group, the Alfa-Eco company, which then traded in raw materials (in particular, petroleum products), was founded in 1989. Today, the group’s main activities are financial services, oil and gas production, telecommunications, and retail. The group controls Alfa Bank, the AlfaStrakhovanie company, and more than 90% of the shares of the Perekrestok supermarket chain. Through a consortium with Access/Renova, Alfa Group owns a 25% stake in the oil company TNK-BP.

share capital Yesterday, the Bank of Russia announced the adoption of an instruction according to which the purchase of any number of bank shares must be agreed upon with the Central Bank. Previously, it was necessary to agree with the Central Bank only on the purchase of a stake of more than 20% of shares. And the acquisition of a stake of less than 5% did not even require informing the Central Bank. However, a number of banks did not wait for instructions from the Central Bank.

De Grisogono presented his minute repeater Ekaterina Istomina reports The house of De Grisogono has finally released a watch with a truly classic complication: the minute repeater. The new watch has a very beautiful name - Occhio Ripetizione Minuti. Their pre-Basel presentation took place back in February, at the Geneva chalet of Fawaz Gruosi and Caroline Scheufele. The official show of Occhio Ripetizione Minuti took place yesterday as part of the Basel Salon of Watches and Jewelry.

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Alexander Chikunov, member of the board of RAO "UES of Russia", will hold a round table on the topic "Results and prospects for the reorganization of the holding's regional energy companies." Igor Ishchenko and Franz Bonwelkel-Andersen, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Russian Utility Systems and Minister-Counselor of the Danish Embassy in Moscow, will sign an agreement between the Russian company and the Danish Government Heat Supply Council, within the framework of which RKS expect to attract