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Arizona's last godfather dies A retired mafia boss, 97-year-old Don Bonanno, nicknamed Banana Joe, has died in southern Arizona. He was the only one of the legendary cohort of founders of the Italian mafia in the United States who managed to live to see his gray hairs and die peacefully, surrounded by two sons, a daughter, 14 grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. "He is the last of an era that made the history of this country," said gangster son "Bill" Salvatore.

The government is forced to negotiate with pro-government factions in the Duma The spring session of the Duma has clearly reached the home stretch, where deputies are usually required to be super-speedy and super-agreed in mastering the wave of government bills, and the government is required to make extra efforts to extinguish the critical spirit of Duma members. Signs of the finish appeared yesterday.

The installation complex of the cosmodrome could collapse from old age A government commission headed by Minister of Industry, Science and Technology Ilya Klebanov arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome yesterday to investigate an emergency at one of the installation and testing complexes, where the roof collapsed on Sunday.

Nothing prevents the sale of shares of the Eastern Oil Company The conflict between the two oil companies Yukos and TNK for control of the gas company Rospan, previously owned by Gazprom and Itera, was declared over yesterday. Now TNK is unlikely to continue to interfere with Yukos in the purchase of shares in the Eastern Oil Company, put up for auction by the Russian Federal Property Fund (RFFI).

BASKETBALL . Russian Championship. Men . Super League "A". 33rd round . CSKA - Lokomotiv (Mineralnye Vody) - 90:87. "Avtodor" (Saratov) - "Ural Great" (Perm) - 62:76. "Khimki" - "Spartak" (St. Petersburg) - 97:92. "Arsenal" (Tula) - "Samara" - 72:96. The leaders are : Ural Great - 61 points (32 games), UNICS (Kazan) - 61 (33), CSKA - 57 (33), Lokomotiv - 55 (32).

A night march of football fans along Old Arbat ended the celebration of the victory of the CSKA football club over St. Petersburg Zenit, the match between them took place on Sunday at Luzhniki. Before the game and immediately after it, in the area of ​​the stadium, the police managed to prevent clashes between CSKA and Zenit fans, who are famous for their aggressiveness.

"Kandahar" will soon be released in Moscow The film by the classic Iranian cinematographer Mohsen Makhmalbaf comes to our screens at an unfortunate moment. The international fashion for Iranian cinema is gradually fading, and the most famous Iranian films of past years, at best, appeared on video here, and even then in small editions, and are almost unknown to the public.

In the first final match of the Women's Handball Cup Winners' Cup, Togliatti's Lada, led by Russian national team coach Evgeniy Trefilov, lost on the road to the Romanian club Olchim from the city of Rymnicu-Valcea - 27:32. The return match will take place on May 18 on the banks of the Volga. In order to take the trophy, Lada needs to achieve any victory with a difference of six goals or win five, but on the condition that Oltchem scores less in Tolyatti than Evgeniy Trefilov’s team in Romania.

The Krasnoyarsk Regional Court issued a verdict yesterday in the case of the murder of Catholic priest, Polish citizen Jan Fratskevich. The defendant, 36-year-old Alexei Kornilov, received 18 years in prison. According to the investigation, Kornilov, who previously had five convictions, met Yan Fratskevich while in prison through correspondence. After his release, he decided to go to the priest as an assistant, but, as it turned out, not in order to take the right path.

Yesterday, a working meeting between the chairman of the board of the concern, Alexey Miller, and the president of Rosneft, Sergei Bogdanchikov, took place at Gazprom. The parties discussed the state of affairs and prospects for the development of a joint venture of two companies - CJSC Sevmorneftegaz, created to implement an agreement to join forces in the development of five large fields in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous District and on the Barents Sea shelf.

About 25% of the shares of CJSC Tver-Pivo, which owns the Tver JSC Afanasy-Pivo, one of the 20 largest Russian beer producers, passed to the new owner. As the company told the Vremya Novostei newspaper, “on the eve of the May holidays, the purchase of shares from former and current employees of the company was organized at a price significantly higher than their nominal value.” Experts believe that about $1.5 million was spent on purchasing the shares.

The harsh law did not allow the Englishwoman to leave the world with dignity Last Saturday, Diana Pretty, a 43-year-old English woman who unsuccessfully defended her right to a dignified voluntary death in the courts, died in the Lugon shelter, 50 km north of London. She unwittingly turned into a martyr symbol of the movement to legalize euthanasia - the right of the hopelessly ill to die by their own choice.

The prosecutor's office revived the case of the sale of aircraft carriers and helicopters The Main Military Prosecutor's Office of Russia has resumed the investigation into a number of criminal cases that were opened in the late nineties regarding the sale abroad of decommissioned military equipment from Far Eastern military units.

“Duck Hunt” was staged at the Moscow Art Theater Lately, when I come to the theater, I increasingly begin to feel not like a critic, but like a failed director. This is the wrong feeling. The critic must take the work of art for granted - analyze it, put it into context, guess the motives and unravel the symbols. He is not obliged to tell the artist how to draw the heel. He is obliged to explain to the viewer why the heel is drawn this way and not otherwise.