Business card 23 1 min. ... Eduard Artemyev is a composer, one of the pioneers of Russian electronic music, born in 1937. He is widely known as the creator of music for films by Andrei Tarkovsky, Andrei Konchalovsky, Nikita Mikhalkov, Alexander Proshkin, Karen Shakhnazarov and others. His works are heard in such famous films as “Solaris”, “Stalker”, “Slave of Love”, “One among Strangers, a Stranger among Ones”, “City Zero”, “Driver for Vera”, “Doctor Zhivago”, “Legend” N17"...

In the second edition of the draft federal law “On the Free Port of Vladivostok”, the presentation of which took place at the end of last week at a series of meetings in the capital of Primorye, the list of municipalities that form the territory of the free port has been expanded - from seven to twelve.

The Sverdlovsk Legislative Assembly will consider the return of elections of “strong mayors” in the region The Sverdlovsk Legislative Assembly Committee on Regional Policy and Local Self-Government (LSG) considered bills that would return the single-headed system of government to Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturye. Most committee members abstained from voting. This allows the laws to be considered at the next parliamentary meeting on April 7. The expert believes that projects will be rejected there.

One of the most traditional sources of financing for lessors has always been bank loans, but amid the crisis, access to credit resources has been significantly limited. Some lessors claim that many banks have stopped working with leasing companies altogether. The deterioration of the funding situation inevitably leads to a decrease in the volume of leasing business, an increase in the cost of leasing products, and the withdrawal of some companies from the market.

Former deputy head of Yekaterinburg Viktor Konteev will serve his sentence in one of the colonies of the Sverdlovsk region, the press secretary of the ex-official Ilona Starodubtseva told the Interfax-Ural agency. “Now he is in one of the regional colonies,” she said. On June 11, 2014, the Kurgan Regional Court sentenced him to 18 years in prison in a maximum security colony and a fine of 500 thousand rubles for organizing two murders, extortion and receiving a bribe.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting of the department’s board that information superiority in the modern world is becoming a “factor of military strength.” Photo: Dmitry Korotaev, Kommersant / buy photo “It is no secret that traditional views on the conduct of armed struggle and the processes of directing military operations, on the further construction and use of armed forces, their technical and technological equipment are currently changing.

UAC will receive 100 billion rubles. from the state The state will additionally capitalize the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) by 100 billion rubles. As Kommersant learned, the money is mainly intended for Sukhoi Civil Aircraft CJSC (SCAC), the manufacturer of the SSJ-100 aircraft. The company's debt already reaches $1.75 billion, and problems with SSJ became one of the reasons for the resignation of UAC head Mikhail Pogosyan.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe intends to decline Russia's invitation to take part in the celebrations in Moscow on May 9 to mark the 70th anniversary of the Victory. This was reported by TASS on March 30 with reference to Japanese media. The prime minister's decision, they said, will be officially announced during April. Shinzo Abe reportedly takes into account the fact that the leaders of the United States, France, and Germany refused to participate in the celebrations in Moscow on May 9.

A new earthquake with a magnitude of 6.1 occurred in the Solomon Sea near the southern coast of the island of New Ireland (Papua New Guinea), Interfax reports with reference to the Geophysical Service of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. According to seismologists, the epicenter of the earthquake recorded at 03:15 Moscow time on Monday had coordinates of -5.16 degrees south latitude and 152.60 degrees east longitude and was located approximately 50 km from the coast.

The exhibition “Contemporaries of the Future. Jewish Artists in the Russian Avant-Garde. 1910-1980” opened at the Jewish Museum - the first attempt to combine several generations of the main creators of the movement on a national basis.

The head of the Russian Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN), Viktor Ivanov, proposed differentiating the degree of responsibility for drug possession. He made a corresponding statement at a conference in Yekaterinburg on Monday.

The meeting between the foreign ministers of Russia and Iran, Sergei Lavrov and Mohammad Javad Zarif, took place as part of negotiations on the Iranian nuclear program in Lausanne, TASS reports on March 29. It lasted about half an hour. Sergei Lavrov held bilateral meetings yesterday with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and US Secretary of State John Kerry.

An exchange of prisoners between the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) and Ukraine may take place next week, DPR Human Rights Commissioner Daria Morozova reports. “We have received a list of 19 people whom Ukraine can transfer to the DPR.

As Vitaly Maslik, director of the transport department of the Omsk administration, announced today, from May 1, an automated fare payment system will be introduced in municipal transport - electronic travel tickets. It will reduce the cost of the trip by 1-3 rubles. depending on the tariff. An unlimited monthly pass for schoolchildren will cost 680 rubles, for citizens without benefits - 1,500 rubles.

You can be fined tens of thousands of euros for speeding in Finland. Finnish businessman Reima Kuisla received a ticket for €54 thousand for driving at a speed of 103 km/h in a zone with a limit of 80 km/h. There is no mistake - in Finland, the punishment for violating traffic rules and a number of other illegal actions depends on the welfare of the offender: half of the daily income is multiplied by a certain number of days.