Roman Viktyuk directed The Master and Margarita We had the right to expect everything from Viktyuk’s performance: that the premiere of the troupe, the long-legged handsome man Dmitry Bozin, will play Margarita, that Satan’s ball will be turned into a homoerotic show, that Pontius Pilate and Yeshua will experience an unhealthy attraction to each other, that the performance will become a hymn to vice, or, on the contrary, an act of repentance by a sinful but spiritually sensitive director.

The American Postal Department is rescued in Novosibirsk Russian scientists intend to help American postal workers. Now the Institute of Nuclear Physics in Novosibirsk has begun to develop a unique device that will allow post office workers to disinfect all correspondence. First Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Gennady Mesyats stated this at a press conference yesterday.

The defense industry was asked to curb its appetite The reform of the military-industrial complex has become one step closer. The Presidium of the State Council and the Security Council at a joint meeting yesterday approved the concept for the development of the defense industry until 2010. Its essence is the concentration of production by creating 40-50 specialized holdings on the basis of 800 defense enterprises (about half of the entire defense industry).

The Kuntsevo Intermunicipal Court of the capital on Tuesday began considering a criminal case against the famous television journalist Sergei Dorenko, accused of hooliganism with the use of a weapon. A representative of the prosecutor's office read the indictment to the defendant.

An unprecedented case of hostage-taking and the subsequent escape of a terrorist occurred yesterday in Vladikavkaz (North Ossetia). The criminal not only managed to escape, but also took with him 2 million rubles. At about three o'clock in the afternoon, a young man broke into the premises of a children's clinic on Pushkinskaya Street. Threatening with two F-1 grenades, he declared 18 people hostage, including four children, and demanded $5 million for their release.

Suspended director runs airline The general director of Domodedovo Airlines, Alexander Akimov, who was removed from office on the initiative of the Ministry of Property, but continues to actually manage the company, yesterday promised to recover from officials the material damage that they caused to the employees of the airline by removing Akimov. He also intends to challenge the decision to dismiss him in court.

Moscow is losing money on the growth of housing construction Yesterday, the Moscow construction complex reported to the Moscow government on its achievements based on the results of three quarters of this year. The statistics satisfied the officials - the annual housing construction program was completed by 80%.

At the World Fencing Championships, foil fencer Valentina Yusheva brought the second medal to the Russian team. Let us remind you that the first award, and the highest one at that, was won two days earlier by our saber fencer Stanislav Pozdnyakov. In the semi-finals, Yusheva lost to the German Sabine Bau - 9:15. In fencing, battles for third place are not held, and bronze awards are awarded to two athletes who are one step away from the final. Italian Valentina Vezzali won this discipline.

Premiere of the film "Wow trip" A cross between a thriller and horror under the playful title “Wow Ride” (originally Joy Ride) begins with nonsense, a trifle, a trifle.

French authorities fight terrorism and hooliganism Today, deputies of the French National Assembly must adopt a draft law to guarantee the safety of citizens. The idea of ​​this code has long been hovering in the French corridors of power, but after the explosions in America on September 11, its relevance has increased many times over.

Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Valery Malyshev, against whom a criminal case is being investigated, was temporarily removed from his post by order of Governor Vladimir Yakovlev on Monday. The mayor made this decision at the request of investigators from the North-West Department of the Prosecutor General's Office, who in July of this year charged the official under Article 290, Part 4 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - receiving a bribe on a large scale.

DaimlerChrysler monopolizes Mercedes imports A Mercedes car in Russia is a special car. Status and iconic: the legendary businessman Boris Berezovsky made his first real money from importing these very cars. In the table of ranks of official car dealers, companies involved in the supply of new Mercs occupy the first lines. But their business is over. At least in the form that existed until now.

The main news was the establishment of an additional nomination that received the rank of an independent award - the Tovstonogov Prize, with the wording “For outstanding contribution to the development of theatrical art.” The first winner of the award was Moscow director and teacher Pyotr Fomenko (who headed the Leningrad Comedy Theater for several years in the seventies). It was approved by the jury unanimously. And as the Union of Theater Workers of St.

The company's largest producer of rolled aluminum products is under threat of shutdown The Siberian-Ural Aluminum Company (SUAL) may be adversely affected by the explosion that occurred last Friday in one of the workshops of its Kamensk-Ural Metallurgical Plant (KUMZ, Sverdlovsk region).

By the end of November, the Federal Energy Commission will prepare and submit for government consideration the parameters of the tariff policy for the services of natural monopolies for 2002, Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko said yesterday. According to him, the document will name the timing and specific indicators of tariff increases. “Producers and consumers should know what to focus on,” Interfax quotes Mr. Khristenko.