The Milan player's ultimatum expires in a week The Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs hopes that the brother of the famous Georgian football player, Milan player Kakha Kaladze, medical university student Levan, kidnapped on May 23 last year in Tbilisi, will be released in the near future. As Deputy Minister Shota Asatiani told the Prime News agency, the information received by the operational investigation group gives hope.

Germany is still waiting for a new champion Last weekend, the Bundesliga almost lost the intrigue that has been so characteristic of it in recent years. If Bayer had won against Werder Bremen with Borussia Dortmund drawing, Leverkusen would have won the “salad bowl” for winning the Bundesliga for the first time in their history.

Governors also want to manage tobacco money The struggle continues to change the tobacco excise tax system. Yesterday, the association of manufacturers "Tabakprom" created a working group that will study all options for reform, and a general meeting of the association will be convened in May to find a compromise.

I would really like to create something like a reminder for the reader who first opened the book of the prose writer Pavel Ulitin (1918-1986). By some signs you can understand that such a reader already exists or is about to appear. It seems his time has come. Half a century late, but that’s how it is. We do not know when Ulitin began to write “his own” special prose.

The Ministry of Taxes and the Federal Tax Service summed up the results of joint patrolling of the tax area Illegal VAT refunds have been identified as one of the most vexing issues facing tax departments. This was announced at a joint board meeting of the Ministry of Taxes and Duties and the Federal Tax Police Service held yesterday. At the same time, the Ministry of Taxes and Taxes reported that some progress was achieved in this matter.

Russians in the Balkan Wars The wars that rocked the Balkans throughout the 90s are, thank God, over, although their echoes continue to echo loudly. The tenth anniversary of the beginning of the Bosnian conflict, marked in the first half of April, made us think again about what happened in the center of Europe at the end of the twentieth century.

Vladimir Strekozov was elected deputy chairman of the Constitutional Court. This is what his colleagues decided yesterday. Mr. Strekozov was ahead of the other candidates already in the first round of voting, although all the judges were included in the ballots, with the exception of the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, Marat Baglay. Mr. Strekozov replaced Tamara Morshchakova, whose mandate recently expired.

The Russian Orthodox Church explained what proselytism is On Palm Sunday, April 28, Russia will demonstrate that it is capable of defending its spirituality and traditional Orthodox way of life from the alien liberal mentality and expansion of the West.

The Russian junior made a splash The Russian national team under the leadership of Ravil Iskhakov took second place at the Junior World Championship (for players under 18 years of age) in Slovakia. Our guys showed cheerful hockey, winning the hearts of local fans, who gave the Russians even more ardent support than their compatriots.

Robot Prayer The most radical of Moscow art fairs, Art Moscow, opened yesterday. Its participants traditionally shock the average person with their unpredictability and dissimilarity to what the general public is accustomed to consider art. However, attitudes towards modernism are also changing among Russian culture, which is generally very conservative. For example, Sergei Shutov’s installation “Abacus” was nominated for the State Prize.

Hockey. NHL. Stanley Cup. First round . “Ottawa” – “Philadelphia” – 3:0 (series score 2-1), “Los Angeles” – “Colorado” – 3:1 (1-2), “Phoenix” – “San -Jose" -- 1:4 (1-2). For the third time in the series against Ottawa, Philadelphia hockey players failed to score a single goal during regulation time. The “Centers” also couldn’t get close to the visitors’ goal for a long time in the third match of the series.

A memorandum of cooperation in the development of gas resources in Eastern Siberia and the Far East and the creation of an export channel to Asian markets was signed by the head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, and the Plenipotentiary Representative of the President of the Russian Federation for the Far Eastern Federal District, Konstantin Pulikovsky. Separately, a cooperation agreement was signed with the authorities of the Khabarovsk Territory.

Dmitry Rogozin regretted joining the Council of Europe The head of the Russian delegation to PACE, chairman of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Dmitry Rogozin, delivered an unprecedentedly harsh criticism of the Council of Europe yesterday in Strasbourg.

Sverdlovsk court punished newspaper for gay scandal The Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg issued a verdict in the case of the scandalous newspaper “D.S.P.”, which in September last year published the article “The White House Has Become Blue,” suspecting the Prime Minister of the Sverdlovsk Region, Alexei Vorobyov, of having a non-standard sexual orientation.

The meeting of the “five” began with disagreements Nobody doubted that the Caspian summit, which opened yesterday in Ashgabat, is doomed to become nothing more than a new opportunity for bilateral meetings of the leaders of the five states of the region. But hardly anyone could have imagined that the main problem of the Caspian Sea - tense relations between individual coastal countries - could be publicly exposed already during the plenary meetings of the “five”.