James Brown spoke at the Kremlin Black soul music megastar James Brown needs no publicity. Even among new rockers, bikers and politicians, and even if he performs in the well-worn Kremlin Palace.

The scammer collected money from his victims through arbitration Law enforcement agencies of the Khabarovsk Territory announced the disclosure of a kind of unprecedented scam, the victims of which were not only private companies in Vladivostok, but also judges of the arbitration court of the Khabarovsk Territory. The investigation materials have already been transferred to the court, and the fraudster, who tried to earn 7.5 million rubles, now faces five to ten years with confiscation.

Candidates for Krasnoyarsk governors accuse each other of unwashing voters The lack of hot water in Krasnoyarsk suddenly became one of the most significant factors in the campaign for the election of the governor of the region. So the election headquarters of the three main candidates for the leadership of this region will obviously be forced to take certain measures.

Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducted the world premiere of Boris Tishchenko's Dante Symphony Rozhdestvensky canceled his concerts all year. The caustic tone of the master's rare public statements was associated with his scandalous departure from the Bolshoi Theater, although he himself explained what was happening with the poor readiness of the musicians. The conductor's return to local stages was shrouded in fog.

Napster's persecutors became its saviors On Monday, the Californian company Napster Inc., which was the first in the world to provide a service for the free exchange of music files between Internet users, declared itself bankrupt. Due to protests from record labels, the company was forced to close its website and go to bankruptcy court for protection from creditors.

Yesterday in Moscow, Mikhail Davydovich Mashkovsky, academician of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, honorary chairman of the Pharmacopoeial Committee and the All-Russian Scientific Society of Pharmacologists, member of the presidium of the Pharmacological Committee, died in Moscow at the age of 95. In 1934, Mashkovsky graduated from the 2nd Moscow Medical Institute. N.I. Pirogov. In 1941, the young pharmacologist went to the front.

Today Safin will play in the quarterfinals of Roland Garros In the fourth round of the men's singles competition at the French Open, Russian Marat Safin met with Frenchman Arnaud di Pascual. Our tennis player played this match, gradually improving as the game progressed, which reflects the score of the match - 3:6, 6:4, 6:3, 6:2. Today in the quarterfinals Safin will have to fight against another Frenchman - Sebastian Grosjean.

Nuclear workers decided to enlarge the Kalinin NPP The project for completing the fourth power unit of the Kalinin NPP was recently presented by Minatom to the leadership of the Tver region. This will be a VVER-1000 type unit, 15% of which was already built in the Soviet years. It remains to invest about $800 million, which Rosenergoatom plans to take from the investment component of the electricity tariff.

An An-2 plane of Murmansk Airlines crashed yesterday at the Lovozerovo airfield, about 130 km from Murmansk. The plane was supposed to deliver a group of schoolchildren to the regional center - since this area is one of the most inaccessible in the region, communication with it is maintained mainly by air. At about 2 o'clock in the afternoon, the An-2 took off, but a few seconds later there was a loud bang and the aircraft's engine stopped.

Taiwan has found a new weapon against China Zhang Jun-hung, a member of the Taiwan Legislative Yuan (parliament), is known as an active fighter against the authoritarian power of the Kuomintang. From 1979 to 1987 he was in prison, after his release he was secretary general and acting. Chairman of the opposition Democratic Progressive Party (DPP). During the 2000 presidential election, which was won by DPP candidate Chen Shui-bian, he headed the party's commission on election strategy.

The main problems at Kinotavr so far have been sexual Three of the first five films shown at Kinotavr were made in the comedy genre and were devoted to the problems of youth sex. The youngest heroes are in Denis Evstigneev’s film “Let’s Make Love”: a seventeen-year-old freshman named Tyulen has yet to part with his innocence, a task he solves with the help of his friends throughout the film.

Pyotr Latyshev and the Ural governors persuade Austrian businessmen to invest in the Urals A representative delegation of the Ural Federal District, led by Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy Pyotr Latyshev and with the participation of all the district governors (except Eduard Rossel), arrived in Austria yesterday. The purpose of the visit is to tell the Austrians about how good life is in the Urals and to offer them investment projects.

Gennady Seleznev suggested that the communists change their leader The Duma is now headed by a completely independent speaker. Gennady Seleznev is no longer a communist or even a member of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation faction, from which he was expelled yesterday.

In the capital of Karachay-Cherkessia yesterday, an attempt was made on the life of deputy of the People's Assembly of the Republic Arasul Atabiev. As a result, the people's representative himself and his driver were killed, and an employee of the local prosecutor's office who happened to be nearby was seriously wounded. According to the local Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mr. Atabiev, at about 11 a.m.

Vladimir Putin called on India and Pakistan to live together The Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia (CICA), which took place yesterday in Almaty, was as much doomed to success as an attempt to embrace the immensity. For ten years, the President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, with enviable tenacity, sought the right to declare Alma-Ata the Asian Helsinki - the birthplace of a new Asian security system.