Why Gazprom is devouring the oil industry Last week, the Moscow office of BP (British Petroleum) underwent another search. Regular "troubles" between BP and TNK-BP, in which the British corporation owns 50% of the shares, are obviously related to the persistent desire of Gazprom to get a controlling stake in TNK-BP. If this happens, the configuration of the Russian oil and gas industry will change dramatically, and the next step may be...

In the spring, it broke through: first, the Kazan TTG won the volleyball Euroleague, then CSKA won the basketball one, football Zenit took the UEFA Cup, and the Yekaterinburg VIZ won the same prize, but in futsal. And finally, the hockey team after 15 years becomes the world champion. Golden rain just some! No, many of these prizes have been won by Russian clubs-teams before, but everything is somehow separate.

Andrei Illarionov went into politics Andrei Illarionov, a well-known economist, president of the Institute for Economic Analysis, a former adviser to ex-president Vladimir Putin, announced the creation of a new political entity - the Liberal Charter Union. The New Times found out the details What kind of community is this “supporters of the Liberal Charter”? First came the word.

A world famous artist for some, a vandal and a hooligan for others. The New Times tells about the outstanding master who paints the walls of the houses of the English capital, the brawler and provocateur Banksy Thanks to London, the Bristol guy, who bears the nickname Banksy, has gained worldwide fame. Under the cover of night, wearing a hood over his head, armed with spray paint, he marks the body of the city.

Manuel de Oliveira celebrates 100th anniversary under the Palme d'Or An early birthday. One hundred years of Manuel de Oliveira will be celebrated only on December 11th. However, Cannes, which have been awarding and loving him for the past half century, did not wait and presented the honorary Palme d'Or to the world's oldest director right now. Until now, this prize, the so-called "Palm of Palms", has been awarded only twice - to Ingmar Bergman and Woody Allen.

What do the railroads want? invisible protest. On Monday, May 26, a large conference of locomotive depot workers has been scheduled: they will decide whether to hold a new strike. And on the same day - a rally of railway workers, right in front of the building of Russian Railways in Moscow.

The oligarchs go underground Business on fear. $ 200 thousand on the table - and anyone can get a personal underground bunker with full radiation, biological, chemical and other protection. The company promises to be profitable. Who and why in an era of stability and order needed bomb shelters, The New Times figured it out Year 201… Russia's war with NATO.

On the nose - summer. It's time to go sailing. What are the yachts and who uses them for recreation? The New Times asked this question and found an answer to it “Well, Khristofor Bonifatievich, shouldn’t we add sails?” It was a smart offer. I agreed. "Trouble" was going well before, but then it flew like an arrow. And so our journey began. A.S. Nekrasov "The Adventures of Captain Vrungel" Undoubtedly, the most important, most famous domestic yachtsman of our time is Roman Abramovich.

Yakemenko suffered a hardware defeat Mutko muddied Yakemenko. Vladimir Putin's famous phrase that "Vitaly Mutko messed up something" did not prevent the latter from becoming the Minister of Sports. Regular meetings of the former leader of the Nashi movement, Vasily Yakimenko, with the ex-president did not help him save the barely created State Committee for Youth Affairs, which turned from an independent body into one of the agencies within the Ministry of Sports.

As a child, I heard the word "Jew" addressed to me many times. From the intonation it was obvious that this was something shameful. Then it turned out: nothing terrible, just nationality. It is useful to clarify the meaning of words. In recent years, I have heard the word “marginal” hundreds of times (in my address and in the address of my political associates).

Guus Hiddink comments on the Champions League final "Two mini-teams of the world played, consisting entirely of stars." The head coach of the Russian national team was undoubtedly one of the most competent spectators among the 84,000 people who gathered at Luzhniki for the Champions League final.

On May 30, 2008, Russian academicians must elect their president. However, all this has little to do with science and its progress. It is believed that Mikhail Kovalchuk is striving for power in the Russian Academy of Sciences, who at one time was already thrown "black balls" at the academy Normally, there are three candidates: the current president is Yuri Osipov, academicians Vladimir Fortov and Valery Chereshnev.

Oh sport, you are a myth! The enchanting victories of Russian athletes in popular mass team sports - football, hockey, basketball - delight and surprise. What's happening? Is economic growth in Russia accompanied by successes in sports? The country "rises from the knees", and with it the "acrobats of the ball and washers" rise with it? Or more complex and long-term processes worked: for example, the corresponding sports schools have been revived, a truly talented generation grew?

Enterovirus under the electron microscope A recalcitrant virus. The epidemic of enterovirus infection, which has already engulfed 19 Chinese provinces, can not only overshadow the upcoming Beijing Olympics, but also spread throughout the world. This is what epidemiologists fear most. The chief state sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko appealed to the Russians to temporarily stop traveling to China.

USSR - USA. 1980 In 1964, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy declared that “Our preeminence at the Olympic Games must be our national interest. During the Cold War, sporting achievements are of great importance in foreign policy. Kennedy and the US government had good teachers: the Soviet Union skillfully used sports for world influence.