At the Central Music School, the new school year will begin without first-graders Everyone in musical circles has known for a long time that the Central Music School is doing badly. Since the forced move from the old building in Sobinovsky Lane to the distant Karbysheva Boulevard, the school has lost many brilliant teachers. Its reputation as a “forge of talent” is now fairly tarnished both by numerous internal scandals and by a noticeably decreased level of professional training for children.

At the World Junior Football Championship (under 20 years old) that ended in Argentina, the hosts of the tournament celebrated success. In the final, Jose Pekerman's team broke the resistance of the Ghana team during the first quarter of an hour and confidently controlled the game in the remaining time, increasing the score to 3:0. Before this meeting, the Argentines dealt with the teams of Finland (2:0), Egypt (7:1) and Jamaica (5:1) in the group tournament.

US citizen John Tobbin, convicted in Russia for drug possession, may be released in early August. By that time, he will have served half of his sentence and will be eligible for parole. Tobbin can be released only if he behaves well in the zone. So far, representatives of the Ministry of Justice say, he behaves well and does not violate the rules.

The working group on corporate governance will think Proposals to improve corporate governance in Russian companies were carefully polished yesterday. A working group under the State Duma Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship discussed the disclosure of information by issuers. Members of the group rehabilitated the idea of ​​​​creating a unified information database on all transactions with securities and proposed assigning the status of “public” to especially open companies.

The board of directors of Aeroflot airline yesterday appointed an extraordinary meeting of shareholders for September 6. The closing date of the register of shareholders entitled to participate in the meeting is July 23, 2001. As executive secretary of the board of directors Anatoly Brylov told a correspondent of the Vremya Novostey newspaper, the decision on the extraordinary meeting was made at the request of Carroll Trading SA, which owns 10.39% of the shares.

Oleg Deripaska will receive $125 million in the West Russian Aluminum announced yesterday that it had agreed with a number of Western banks to provide a syndicated loan in the amount of $125 million. This is the second major deal between Rusal and Western banks. The pioneer among Western financial institutions was the German WestLB, which opened a $170 million credit line to Russian Aluminum last November.

Will be held accountable for last year's explosions in Pyatigorsk and Nevinnomyssk The investigation into the criminal case regarding the terrorist attack in Pyatigorsk, committed in October last year, was completed by the Directorate of the General Prosecutor's Office for the North Caucasus. Let us recall that then, on the same day, three explosions occurred simultaneously on the territory of the Stavropol Territory, organized on orders from Chechnya.

The 5th All-Russian Festival of Visual Arts closed in the former pioneer camp, now a children's center, "Orlyonok". Its program includes works of feature and animated films, television programs, and computer programs. This year another category was added - “photography”. Everyone competes with everyone. There is a “Children's Creativity” competition for children aged 11 to 17 years. There are “Directors of the 21st Century” - for young filmmakers, students of VGIK.

The Russian Prosecutor General's Office has brought a new charge against the former first deputy general director of Aeroflot, Nikolai Glushkov. It was put forward in connection with the consolidation of two criminal cases in which Glushkov is involved: abuses at Aeroflot and escape from custody. Glushkov is charged with large-scale fraud, laundering illegally acquired funds, failure to return foreign currency from abroad and escape.

The first stage of the most prestigious cycling race, the Tour de France, has ended. The fastest 194.5 kilometers between Saint-Omer and the northern port city of Boulogne-sur-Mer was the German Eric Zabel from Telekom. The experienced racer covered this distance in 1 hour 55 minutes and 15 seconds. With a finishing spurt, he left behind Romans Weinstein from Latvia and the Frenchman Jimmy Kasper.

The finale of the spring session in the Duma is not going as the Kremlin and the White House expected. The Land Code and a block of bills on pension reform risk falling out of the presidential-government package. Some Duma members would like to deal with these issues in the fall, and in conciliation commissions.

Moldova and Ukraine quarreled over eight kilometers “Not an inch of land for Ukrainians!” - under this slogan, pickets took place at the walls of the Chisinau parliament. This is the first protest action addressed to the new Moldovan communist government. Its essence lies in the border redistribution, which is becoming increasingly scandalous. The government commissions of Moldova and Ukraine agreed more than a year ago where one country ends and the other begins.

The Cassation Board of the Supreme Court of Russia intends on Thursday to finally decide what the FSB should do with anonymous appeals from citizens, or, more simply put, denunciations. More than ten years ago, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR prohibited the security forces from accepting anonymous letters for consideration.

Foreign bankers learn to count in Russian International Moscow Bank (IMB) announced yesterday that it will complete the takeover of Bank Austria Creditanstalt (Russia) (BAKAR) by the end of the year at the latest. IMB says that as a result, a powerful universal bank will appear on the market.

Kathryn Bigelow's new film on Moscow screens The double murder featured in Kathryn Bigelow's The Weight of Water actually occurred on the Isles of Shoals in New England on March 6, 1873. One of the women, inhabitants of a fishing village, was strangled, the other was hacked to death with an ax. Then they found someone to blame and punish, but much remained unclear.