The Theater Olympics opened with the play “Harlequin, Servant of Two Masters” by Giorgio Strehler Reviewing this masterpiece of the great Italian is as stupid as the long-lived play of the Blue Bird Art Theater: everything has already been written before you, and there seems to be nothing to add. It is impossible not to write about Strehler’s performance, because even now, many years later, it amazes the imagination.

Liberals are still losing the battle for licenses to lobbyists On April 19, the government sent to the State Duma the final draft of the law “On Amendments and Additions to the Law “On Licensing of Certain Types of Activities.” This is a key document in a package of bills aimed at de-bureaucratizing business activities. No one in the White House hides the fact that after lengthy interdepartmental coordination, the bill turned out much worse than expected.

Traffic on the Domodedovo Highway in the Moscow region was interrupted for several hours on Saturday. Transport had to be stopped because at about four o'clock in the afternoon, on the 27th kilometer of the Domodedovo highway, a gas pipeline ruptured, and about three tons of gasoline spilled onto the road. Any spark could cause the fuel to ignite, so traffic police inspectors hastily stopped traffic. Experts shut off the pipeline, but the remaining gasoline continued to flow for some time.

Yuri Polyakov headed Literaturnaya Gazeta The latest issues of Literaturnaya Gazeta were signed for publication by acting. editor-in-chief Anatoly Druzenko. It was clear that editor-in-chief Lev Gushchin was leaving Literaturka.

Member of the Board of Directors of RAO UES of Russia, Minister for Antimonopoly Policy and Entrepreneurship Support of the Russian Federation Ilya Yuzhanov will vote at the annual meeting of shareholders for those ADR owners who have not stated their position. The board of directors of RAO made this decision on Friday.

Mikhail Kasyanov's current visit to the West along the Hannover-Berlin-Stockholm route will be very difficult. The point is Berlin's stubborn stance on debt. German officials, especially from the financial bloc, are literally playing back the liberal position of their chancellor, who supported Moscow’s idea of ​​​​converting debts into investments. Even during the meeting in St.

Traders will take care of production themselves At least every second piece of jewelry is smuggled into the country or produced illegally. “There cannot be legal retail gold for less than $15 per gram,” said Sergei Bogomolov, commercial director of North-West Jewelry Trade JSC, at the Professional Associations of Jewelers conference.

Lewis lost all his titles at once What happened yesterday in the ring of the Carnival City center in Johannesburg, South Africa, is already being called one of the biggest sensations in the history of professional boxing. British heavyweight Lennox Lewis lost his WBC, IBF and IBO world champion title after losing by knockout in the fifth round to American Hasim Rahman. It was impossible even to imagine such an outcome of the fight, which had already been dubbed “Thunder in Africa”.

Today, a group of developers of the federal target program “Electronic Russia” will submit their project to the government. Andrei Yakovlev, vice-rector of the Higher School of Economics, which is coordinating the project, spoke about its main proposals to the Vremya Novostei newspaper. The concept of the program originated in February last year during a discussion of the prospects for the development of the Russian economy at the Center for Strategic Research.

An unexpected turn occurred in the investigation into the preparation of an assassination attempt on the governor of the Kemerovo region, Aman Tuleyev. In relation to one of the accused - businessman Mikhail Zhivilo - the case has now been separated into separate proceedings. Thus, first the criminal case of the famous biathlete Alexander Tikhonov and his brother Viktor will be brought to court.

The Russian National Orchestra gave a concert in memory of the victims of Chernobyl The Russian National Orchestra, with the support of the Chevron Neftegaz company, holds similar charity concerts every spring in the Vrubel Hall of the Tretyakov Gallery. Regularly, year after year the hall is filled with the same people, whom you can hardly see at the RNO subscription concerts - they simply cannot afford them.

It is known that De Beers has such serious disagreements with US antitrust laws that its directors are prohibited from appearing in this country. Europe, it seems, has also joined the persecution of the monopolist. The European Commission, in a statement on April 18, said it had launched an investigation into the legality of the joint venture between De Beers and LVMH, the world's largest luxury goods retailer.

The opening of the Theater Olympics on Teatralnaya Square amazed Muscovites and guests of the capital in two senses. On the one hand, it is gratifying that the street performance with fireworks, fountains and flying drummers took place at all.

Leaders of the “bears” consider the restructuring of the Duma untimely The Duma redistribution of portfolios is apparently postponed until the fall. In principle, no one in the Duma objects to the reduction of committees (from 28 to 12), the plan of which was put forward at the end of last week by the People’s Deputy group. But the final word remains with the Unity faction: its opinion will certainly predetermine the mood of the parliamentary majority.

Despite the fact that the state is going to challenge the court's decision, which a month ago declared the results of the loans-for-shares auction for the sale of 20% of the shares of the Novorossiysk Shipping Company (Novoship) null and void, officials decided to strengthen control over this company. Until now, there has been parity on the Novoship board of directors between management and government representatives.