The painting "Black Square" Casimir Malevich will be acquired by the state from the lenders of "Inkombank" at the personal funds of the head of the Interros holding company Vladimir Potanin. According to the Echo of Moscow radio stations, a source close to the Ministry of Culture of Russia, Potanin has long been supporting in the implementation of various projects to the Hermitage Museum, which acts as an official representative of the state when buying a picture.

The Association of Bikers "Night Wolves" opens the biker season on Saturday April 27 in Moscow. According to RIA Novosti , the first part of the program will be completely devoted to sports. The organizers plan to hold the races of scooters, enduro motorcycles (mixed class cars), four -wheeled all -wheel drive and road motorcycles. In the competitions that will be held in the Nizhny Mnevniki area, near the Molodezhnaya metro station, athletes who are at the international level will take part.

The premiere of the musical Alexander Kolker "Game" based on the Sukhovo-Kobylin play "The Wedding of Kretschinsky", in which Spartak Mishulin will play the role of Rasplyuev, will take place on Friday at the Satire Theater, RIA Novosti reports. The most popular artist who recently celebrated his 75th anniversary has been working in this theater for more than 40 years, where he played a lot of roles. Most of all, he is known as Carlson, in the image of which for three decades entered the stage.

After an almost two-week break, shootings resumed on the Livano-Israeli border in the Farm Shebaa Farm. The Chizballah militants were the first to violate the ceasefire at the junction of the borders of Syria, Lebanon and Israel, which was achieved after a visit to the Middle East of US Secretary of State Colin Powell. According to reports received here, they fired at the positions of the Israeli troops from mortars at nearby altitudes and border guards.

Scientists from the UK believe that the first three months of 2002 have been around the world the warmest January, February and March since the start of registration of air temperature since 1860. The global air temperature rose 0.71 degrees Celsius higher than the average temperature for 1961-1990. Indirect data, for example, the rings of trees trunks, indicate that these three months were the warmest in the thousands of past years, the Computer reports.

Deputy Andrei Wulf (SPS faction) intends to present to Gennady Raikov a fascist flag at the State Duma meeting on behalf of the Russian gays for the initiative of the deputy association “People’s Deputy” to introduce criminal punishment for homosexuality. About this, as RIA Novosti reports, Wulf told reporters on Friday.

On Friday, about 700 people took part in the farewell ceremony with the famous Norwegian traveler Tour Heyerdal, who died on April 18. Among those present were the king of Norway Harald and his wife, members of the Norwegian government and numerous traveler fans, Interfax reports. “He tested his theories in practice, did not allow his opponents to stop himself, he won respect all over the world,” said Norway Prime Minister Highle Magne Bonnevik in a farewell speech.

Without consciousness from the knockout blow received during the battle five days ago, the 21-year-old Philippine professional boxer Manuel Saas died. The rating 10-raundal duel of Sayas and Alex Escaner in the city of Tarlaca, in the north of the Philippines, was stopped at the 9th round. After the judge counted for ten seconds, Saas was immediately taken to the hospital, he notified the supervisor of the local boxing body Virhilio Delos Reyes.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov agreed with the Russian Union of beekeepers on the creation of apiaries in the forests of the capital, in particular in Losin Island and Izmailov. He announced this on Friday at a meeting of the board of the Department of Nature Management and Environmental Protection of the Government of the city and the Ecological Council under the mayor, Interfax reports.

The World Hockey Championship started today in Sweden from the match of the national teams of Germany and Japan, which took place in Jencheping. The Japanese, who do not fly out of division "A" only for commercial reasons of the international federation, once again clearly proved that they could not compete even with the Elite coutine of hockey. The Germans easily won - 9: 2. The forward "Ak Bars" Jan Benda made 3 assists. Soon the first match with the participation of the Russian team ended.

According to the CNN television company, the United States sent additional troops to Pakistan in preparation for new military operations against Al-Qaeda in Asia. A senior American military told the television company that the troops sent to Pakistan will not yet take part in hostilities. So far, their task is to study the situation and work with representatives of the Pakistani army. According to the military, the Pakistan government is in the know and approves the actions of the United States.

During his last speech before the court, the head of Microsoft Bill Gates admitted that there is an opportunity to create a simplified version of the Windows system for personal computers. This was written by Financial Times in the material, the translation of which is published on the website inopressa.ru . Nine US states are opposed to Microsoft, which requires the computer giant to create a simplified Windows version - without Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player.

In Kamchatka, an earthquake of 5.8 points on the Richter scale occurred. It was recorded at 20:15 local time (11:15 Moscow time) of the Kamchatka experimental and methodological seismological party station. The focus of the earthquake was located in the south of the Kronotsky Gulf at a depth of about 40 km under the bottom of the sea. In Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, remote from the epicenter by 205 km, the strength of the push reached 2.5-3 points. There are no victims and destruction.

The shareholders of the world's largest tobacco company Philip Morris COS. voted for changing the name of the company on Altria Group Inc. They also appointed senior financial director Lewis Kamilieri as president and general director, RIA Novosti reports. Philip Morris does not intend to change the name of his units, including tobacco Philip Morris USA. According to the former CEO of Jeffrey Baybl, the deadline for changing the company's name will be determined later.

The new law in Estonia allows you to fine or put smoking pregnant women in prison. The corresponding Code comes into force in the fall, reports the Baltic Internet portal DELFI . "For damage to the fetal woman in the womb caused by the use of any substance or something else, the mother can be punished with a monetary fine or imprisonment of up to five years," the document says.