The official symbol of the decoration of Moscow during the celebration of the 60th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War will be a poster with the Order of Victory. According to the chairman of the Moscow Advertising, Information and Design Committee, Vladimir Makarov, during the Victory Day celebrations, the capital will be decorated with 200 kilometers of electric garlands.

802 3 min. ... On April 12, 1961, the world's first manned spacecraft, Vostok, was launched into space with Yuri Gagarin on board. After 43 years and 359 days, on April 6, 2005, the head of the Federal Space Agency of the Russian Federation, Anatoly Perminov, said that the domestic cosmonautics does not have enough money. Currently, the state allocates 18.5 billion rubles to finance space programs.

from the control of Israeli and Palestinian leaders 938 6 min. ... provocation Yesterday, Israeli police arrested a group of Jewish radicals who were trying to break into the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, sacred to Jews and Muslims. A day earlier, Israeli soldiers shot and killed three Palestinian teenagers in the Gaza Strip, near the border with Egypt. These events caused a surge of anti-Israeli protests in the Palestinian territories.

catastrophe Last Saturday in Vologda, a Mi-2 helicopter belonging to a local flying club crashed near the building of the regional hospital on Poshekhonskoye Highway. According to the preliminary version, the car caught its propeller on a power line and lost control. A parachutist was killed while being transported by helicopter to the hospital. In total, according to various sources, there were from four to eight people on board.

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The head of VSMPO is ready to stop the mechanism for repurchasing his shares corporate conflict An unexpected turn appeared in relations between the shareholders of the titanium holding VSMPO-Avisma, which produces titanium rolled products.

(billion rubles) Money supply as of 03/01/05 4311.4 Monetary base as of 04/04/05 1673.8 Gold and foreign exchange reserves of the Central Bank as of 01.

Week calendar April 11, Monday The Moscow Meshchansky Court must retire to pronounce a verdict in the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev. The delegation of the European Commission will begin its visit to the North Caucasus, where it will visit Chechnya, North Ossetia and Ingushetia. The Ukrainian government will publish a list of enterprises subject to deprivatization.

1K 9 min. ... Private childhood Once upon a time, parents, as a rule, sent their children to the state kindergarten closest to their home, without particularly worrying about their safety and the qualifications of the teachers. Today, guided by the principle “All the best goes to the children,” many are inclined towards the option of a private preschool institution. However, in this case, the high cost of services does not necessarily determine their quality.

opera premiere At the New Opera, as part of the Russia-Italy festival, the premiere of the opera Anastasia took place, based on the famous apocryphal story about the daughter of the last Russian Tsar who miraculously escaped execution. It seemed to VARA Kommersant-Turova that the creators of the joint Russian-Italian project were entering into competition with the American cartoon of the same name.

Anatoly Chubais and Dmitry Ponomarev, Chairman of the Board of RAO UES of Russia and Chairman of the Board of NP ATS will make presentations at the VIII Russian Economic Forum in London on the topics “The final stage of reform of the Russian electric power industry” and “Liberalization of the wholesale electricity market in Russia.” Tatiana Ryskina, Chairman of the Board of the Russian Development Bank, will take part in the VIII Russian Economic Forum, held in London.

2K 11 min. ... Barrel brotherhood In March, the next, 32nd exhibition of hunting and sporting weapons, accessories and accessories for outdoor activities, IWA & OutdoorClassics, was held in Nuremberg (Germany). "Money" correspondent Sergei Golubtsov states: the space of the annual exhibition is almost 50 thousand square meters.

document Today, at a meeting of the government commission on budget plans, the draft main parameters of the financial plan for 2006-2008 are to be considered. The document is strictly classified. But Kommersant managed to find out some of its most important parameters. Implementing such a plan will not be easy. According to Kommersant's information, Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin submitted the final version of the financial plan for the period until 2008 to the government late on Friday evening.

Iraq marks two years without Saddam Last weekend, mass demonstrations took place in Iraq to mark the second anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime. The demonstrations took place under the slogans “No to Saddam!”, “No to occupation” and “Long live Islam!” Tens of thousands of demonstrators in Baghdad wore black, a color associated with the uniform of the so-called Mahdi Army, led by one of the most implacable opponents of the American presence in Iraq, Muqtada Sadr.

The concept of a national referendum first appeared in the 1936 Constitution of the USSR. In Art. 49 stated that “The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR... carries out a nationwide poll (referendum) on its own initiative or at the request of one of the union republics.” The only all-Union referendum in the USSR took place on March 17, 1991.