Mikhail Shvydkoy does not want to quarrel with Nikita Mikhalkov The latest issue of the Russian cinematography bulletin “Kinoprotsess” for last year was published only now - with a slight delay. Kinoprotsess, a departmental publication funded by the Ministry of Culture, publishes documents, information about events in Russian cinema, expert opinions, interviews, and quotes from the press.

In the "Man vs. Machine" match, taking place in the capital of Bahrain, Manama, the world champion in classical chess, Russian Vladimir Kramnik, won his second victory in a row over the computer "Deep Fritz". Now the overall score is 2.5:0.5 points in favor of our grandmaster. There are still five games left before the end of the match. In the third match, Kramnik played with black pieces and forced “Deep Fritz,” who calculates three million options per second, to give up on the 51st move.

Luzhkov complains to Kasyanov about Abramovich The capital's mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, again accuses Sibneft of attempting to seize the Moscow oil market. The mayor said that the court of the city of Orenburg made a decision prohibiting the supply of oil by the Moscow Oil Company (MNK) to the capital's oil refinery.

“Break down doors, buy up stolen goods” was the title of my article dedicated to the visit of the Morcheeba group to our country.

Naval commanders fight - the fleet rusts Public scandals between Russian military leaders seem to be going from being extraordinary to becoming commonplace. And they are resolved only by the resignation of one of the conflicting parties. Just recently it was necessary to “separate” Marshal Sergeev and Army General Kvashnin, who publicly insulted each other.

Top officials of the state answered census questions On the first day of the All-Russian Population Census, Vladimir and Lyudmila Putin, together with their Labrador Koni, received census takers in Novo-Ogarevo. The president and his wife were interviewed by Daria Afonina, a second-year student at the Moscow University of Economics, Statistics and Informatics. Since the presidential couple was among the 25% of citizens responding to the extended census form, they were asked additional questions.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was divided into three generations Representatives of three generations of biochemists were awarded the Nobel Committee . The winners of the prize in chemistry were 85-year-old Virginia Commonwealth University professor John Fenn, 64-year-old Swiss Kurt Wüthrich, who works simultaneously for the Scripps Institute in California and the Zurich Federal Institute of Technology, as well as a 45-year-old researcher at the Japanese corporation Shimazu » Koichi Tanaka.

Two opposing trends that emerged at the end of last year are reasserting themselves. The radically updated ExLibris NG, in the genre of a manifesto, proclaims the advent of the era of “post-intellectualism.” They say, everyone has been sick of postmodernism for a long time, smart words, thoughts and books in general are tired, and therefore “let’s grunt”: it’s easier for us (the writers) and it’s funnier for the reader.

Vladimir Yakovlev was demanded to redo the financial plan of St. Petersburg St. Petersburg Prosecutor Ivan Sydoruk yesterday demanded that Governor Vladimir Yakovlev redo the city budget, which had already been adopted in the first reading. According to the prosecutor, this document is aimed at financing private firms, unknown enterprises and institutions, as well as deputies of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg.

Bush forced dock workers to ship cruise missiles President George W. Bush made a strong-willed decision to stop the labor conflict between port owners and dockers on the West Coast of the United States. The president took advantage of the Taft-Hartley Act of 1947, which gives him the power to ban strikes if they are “injurious to the security of the country.” This is what Richard Nixon did in 1971 (dock workers' strike) and in 1978 by Jimmy Carter (coal miners' strike).

Bespalov's success knocked on wood The very first day of the road cycling world championship, which started in Zolder, Belgium, brought Russia an award. Alexander Bespalov won the silver medal in the time trial race among young riders (in cycling these include those under 23 years of age). This may seem paradoxical to some, but the feeling of understandable joy among the leaders of the Russian team was mixed with a fair amount of anxiety.

On Wednesday, Alexander Lukashenko promised to sign the law on freedom of religion, already approved by the Belarusian parliament. This document, which assigns a dominant role to the Orthodox Church, may cause a split in Belarusian society.

OMK abandoned plans to produce “Russian size” pipes Rumors about the freezing of the Alliance-1420 project have been confirmed. United Metallurgical Company (OMK) has officially announced that it is suspending participation in a joint project with Severstal. Alliance 1420, which cost between $220 million and $300 million, launched in June last year. His main goal was to create a production of large-diameter pipes (1420 mm) in Russia.

Last night the first matches of the NHL championship took place Last night the next NHL championship started in North America. Our fans are particularly interested in the fate of Russians who moved overseas last summer. Ilya Kovalchuk’s phenomenal NHL debut last season shocked the public, and now similar feats are expected from the next batch of Russian recruits.

Zenit St. Petersburg midfielder Andrei ARSHAVIN, who has already become the leader of his club, does not yet have a permanent place in the Russian national team. He was called to Bor near Moscow to prepare for the qualifying matches with Georgia and Albania from the youth team, after the injured Krylia Sovetov midfielder, his namesake Andrei Karyaka, had to leave. — I learned about the call to the national team on Monday evening.