79 1 min. ... OPERA, BALLET, MUSICAL Kremlin Palace "Sleeping Beauty". P. Tchaikovsky / 19.00 - Bolshoi Theater production New Opera Theater "Boris Godunov". M. Mussorgsky / 19.00 Great Hall of the Conservatory Lyubov Kazarnovskaya (soprano) / 19.00 THEATER Moscow Art Theater named after. A. Chekhov "N 13". R. Cooney / 19.00 Theater "Pyotr Fomenko Workshop" "He was a titular councilor." N. Gogol / 19.00 Theater p/r O. Tabakov "Fathers and Sons". I. Turgenev / 19.00 Theater "Lenkom" "Marriage".

The current motorsport year began unpleasantly - with the cancellation of the iconic Dakar and the equally famous Safari rally. Then there was the first stage of Formula 1, in which only six pilots reached the finish line. And now the turn of the World Rally Championship came - only nine WRC crews saw the checkered flag at the Argentine race. Sergey Kommersant-Smirnov Weekly concentrate Apparently, we will not soon find out the true reason for the cancellation of the legendary Dakar.

The President promised that changes to the Constitution will pass through parliament Yesterday, the Presidential Secretariat unveiled a plan for constitutional reform, according to which changes to the Constitution will be approved by parliament. Meanwhile, the Party of Regions (PR) does not believe that the president has abandoned the idea of ​​adopting a fundamental law in a referendum.

CRIF collector enters the market As Kommersant has learned, the CRIF group, which manages the largest collection agency in Italy, is creating a subsidiary company in Russia. Starting this fall, she plans to begin collecting overdue debts. According to market participants, banks may prefer CRIF's subsidiary to Russian collectors for reputational reasons, but it will take several years for the Italian company to develop its business.

Yulia Tymoshenko decided not to run for president In Strasbourg yesterday, Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko spoke at a session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE).

"Metallurg" (D) - "Dynamo" 0:1 (0:0) (Gioane, 68). The first match is 1:2. "Metallurg" (D) - "Dynamo" 0:1 (0:0) (Gioane, 68). The first match is 1:2. “Shakhtar” – “Chernomorets” 3:0 (1:0) (Luis Adriano, 4; Kravchenko, 72; Dulyai, 74). The first match is 2:1. In the 19th minute, de la Haza (Chernomorets) was sent off for a second warning. In the 63rd minute, Luis Adriano (Shakhtar) missed a penalty (goalkeeper). The Dynamo-Shakhtar final will take place on May 7 in Kharkov.

territories The cottage market in the Leningrad region is developing as rapidly as infrastructure projects on its territory. And they develop completely separately. Developers are not aware of the authorities' plans, and the authorities do not take into account the developers' plans. At the same time, a major infrastructure project (for example, road construction) can either dramatically increase or decrease the attractiveness of a property.

Gazprom will rewrite its investment program Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov yesterday signed a decree on the transfer of the Chayandinskoye field to Gazprom without a competition. Gazprom press secretary Sergei Kupriyanov said that in the summer the monopoly will make changes to its investment program, including those related to the company obtaining the right to develop the Chayandinskoye field. The monopoly must pay 8-10 billion rubles for the license.

In Altai, bread prices increased by more than 6% over the month, reports the republic’s Ministry of Economic Development and Investment. From March 16 to April 16, bread prices increased from 11 rubles. 50 kopecks up to 12 rub. 26 kopecks Thus, since the beginning of 2008, bread prices in Altai have already increased by 24% - by 2 rubles. 40 kopecks The rise in bread prices is associated with an increase in selling prices of flour producers, RIA Novosti reported on April 17.

67 6 min. ... Thursday, April 17 Sport 6.45, 9.00, 13.00, 16.35, 20.40, 23.30 "Vesti-sport" 7.00, 8.00 "Exercise with a champion" 7.15 "Dunno in the Sunny City." Cartoon 7.35 "Baby Scooby-Doo." Animated series 8.15 "Own Team" 8.45 "Master of Sports" 9.10 "Way of the Dragon" 9.40 Freestyle motocross. Stage of the Red Bull X-Fighters series in Mexico 10.40 Skiing. Grand Prix "Sprint Tour" in Khanty-Mansiysk. Sprint 12.35, 15.15, 23.40 Shooting. World Cup. Broadcast from China 13.10 Billiards.

As Reuters reports on April 17, the British company Park Plaza Hotels has signed an agreement to open 20 new mid- and high-class hotels in Russia in the next four years. An agreement to manage the hotels for the next 20 years was concluded with a private Russian company, Ferens Management Limited, owned by RSG. The hotel capacity will be 3,500–4,000 rooms. Park Plaza will also assist Ferens in planning new hotels and finding locations for them.

Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili demanded that Russia reconsider measures to expand cooperation with the unrecognized republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, since they violate the sovereignty of Georgia. The republic's Foreign Ministry, in turn, accused Russia of attempting to annex Georgian territories and asked for help from the OSCE, NATO, the UN, the Council of Europe and the European Union.

Townhouses Incom Corporation announced the launch of a low-rise, economy-class development project in the Moscow region. The volume of investment in the construction of the Little Scotland village will amount to about 3.5 billion rubles. The new village will be one of the largest projects of this kind being implemented in the Moscow region: the total volume of housing stock will exceed 100 thousand square meters. m.

On April 17, the Moscow City Court changed the sentence against the former head of Minatom Evgeny Adamov, accused of fraud, and sentenced him to 5.5 years of suspended imprisonment, instead of actually serving his sentence in a colony. Mr. Adamov is appealing this decision. “I will appeal the court’s decision and seek an investigation against the people who allowed this legal situation to happen,” said Mr. Adamov.

The office of the Gallery group was also searched Law enforcement agencies became interested in the business of the main competitor of the outdoor advertising operator News Outdoor Russia (NOR), whose office they searched in February. Yesterday searches took place in the Gallery group, the second largest outdoor surveillance operator in Russia after NOR.