Today is the premiere of "The Birthday Girl" Judging by the relevant Internet sites, hunters for Russian brides are divided into two types: either these are puny French accountants with a bald head and the budget of the future family calculated down to the last penny, or Andorran shepherds, crazy from loneliness, who publish full-length photographs of themselves on the Internet, in swimming trunks, against the background of sheep.

Oil workers take the place of the military in Vietnam Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov continued his Asian tour following President Putin's historic visits by flying from Ulaanbaatar to Hanoi yesterday. Let us recall that at the end of 2000 and the beginning of 2001, the Russian leader visited Mongolia and Vietnam, where he tried, on a new market basis, to restore the atmosphere of fraternal cooperation that once reigned in relations between our countries.

Natalia Gutman received the Shostakovich Prize Last Monday at the Pushkin Museum. A.S. Pushkin Yuri Bashmet presented the Shostakovich Prize, established in 1994 by his charitable foundation, for the eighth time. Among the winners of the prize (its monetary value is 25 thousand dollars) are Gidon Kremer, Thomas Quasthoff, Valery Gergiev, Victor Tretyakov, Anne-Sophie Muter, Olga Borodina and Irina Antonova, awarded last year for creating the December Evenings festival.

Our tennis players performed surprisingly well on the next playing day of the Masters series tournament taking place in Key Biscayne. The third round match turned out to be incredibly difficult for Marat Safin, who was opposed by Peruvian Luis Horna, who was unknown to the tennis world and came out of qualification. Only at the cost of extreme efforts did Marat win 3:6, 6:3, 7:6 (7:3).

Built-in kitchen appliances are winning over the average buyer In the last two years, Russian consumers have again begun to buy large household appliances. Manufacturers of kitchen appliances claim that last year was the peak year for sales of built-in appliances - they “went to the people”, moving from the category of expensive pleasures to a product for the middle class. True, marketing agencies assess the development of the built-in market more cautiously.

Alexander Voroshilo, a singer of the Bolshoi Theater, remembered by the Soviet people for his concerts dedicated to party congresses, has been appointed director of the Moscow International House of Music on the Red Hills. Until recently, Mr. Voroshilo worked as the executive director of the Bolshoi Theater, but on March 15 he was relieved of this position. Moreover, the position itself was abolished.

The EU is not going to make concessions to our planes Today, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko, who is completing his visit to the Brussels headquarters of the European Union, is given the last chance to convince his partners to ease restrictions on the flights of Russian aircraft.

Hockey. NHL. Regular season. "Islanders" -- "Rangers" -- 4:2 -- Kvasha "A" (2+0), Lyashenko "R" (1+0), "Nashville" -- "Detroit" -- 3:3 -- Arkhipov "N" (1+0), Fedorov "D" (1+0), "New Jersey" -- "Florida" -- 3:1 -- Novoseltsev "F" (1+0), "Calgary" -- "Columbus" -- 6:1 -- Kravchuk "Kg" (0+1), "Philadelphia" -- "Toronto" -- 4:1. The Rangers, who lost with Pavel Bure for the third match in a row, can say goodbye to their dreams of the playoffs. Basketball. NBA. Regular season.

The long-awaited fight between Mike Tyson and Lennox Lewis will still take place. The heavyweights will meet on June 8 in Memphis, for which each will receive at least $12.5 million. The amount can be increased through various bonuses up to 20 million. In addition, Lewis’s lawyers have not yet given up on trying to insert a clause into the contract according to which their client can receive compensation for Tyson’s possible unsportsmanlike antics.

The federal center will help her with money Chechnya will soon have its own budget for this year. The government approved yesterday the rules by which the republic will approve its estimates of income and expenses. The draft budget, according to the new rules, is drawn up by the government of the republic, after which it is handed over to the head of the Chechen administration, that is, Akhmad Kadyrov.

Spanish comedian-scandal Leo Bassi, who came to Moscow during the Theater Olympics, began showing his new one-man show about the September 11 attacks in the 300-seat Madrid theater. The show is called “September 12,” and the objects of ridicule are the Taliban and kamikazes, who, according to the temperamental artist, completely lack a sense of humor. Outrageousness is an integral part of Bassi's aesthetics.

Objects of Tatiana Hengstler in the Gelman Gallery Two years ago, the exhibition “Salute Attraction” was held at the Zverev Center for Contemporary Art. The idea was successful: famous Moscow artists (among them were Aidan Salakhova and Sergei Shutov) were asked to create objects with which they could play and, through play, gain insight into the meaning of the work. The performance let us down.

Argentina's crisis deepens Argentina, which is experiencing an acute economic crisis, has overcome another milestone - the price of one dollar has reached 4 pesos in exchange offices (three months ago the rate was 1:1).

They want to give voters the right to make mistakes. A negligent parliamentarian should be deprived of his deputy mandate, believes the speaker of the Moscow City Duma, Vladimir Platonov, who developed the bill on the “Recall of a Moscow City Duma Deputy.” So far, the speaker’s initiative has not found support in the Moscow City Duma, and the capital’s deputies did not adopt the law at the last meeting.

The results of the competition for Channel 6 do not decide anything yet Today the winner of the competition for the right to broadcast on the sixth meter frequency (“sixth button”) will be announced. The two months that passed after TV-6 stopped broadcasting on the night of January 22 were very reminiscent of the election campaign, for example, to the State Duma.