The 70-year-old founder of jazz rock amazed Moscow with his energy Joe Zawinul, a legendary musician who played with Miles Davis and Adderley in the 60s and founded the famous jazz-rock band Weather Report, performed in Moscow. There hasn’t been an event of this magnitude on the capital’s jazz and rock scene for a long time. To some extent, it can probably be compared with the Jethro Tull concerts that took place that same weekend .

He had to negotiate the murder with a policeman An unprecedented trial of 32-year-old Anatoly Norkin began in Khabarovsk. The regional prosecutor's office accuses him of encroaching on the life of regional judge Vladimir Golovizin. To carry out his plan, the man even hired a contractor and promised him 5 thousand rubles for the work. Anatoly Norkin wanted to take revenge on the regional judge for his younger brother, whom Vladimir Golovizin sentenced to six years in prison for robbery.

The St. Petersburg festival and competition “Golden Mask” is over. Awards have been handed out. The offended and triumphant went home. Our newspaper already reported on the main results of the festival in yesterday's issue, and today we bring to your attention a story about the awards ceremony, which was held for the first time at the Mariinsky Theater. From St. Petersburg - our correspondent Dina GODER.

The composition of the participants in the annual LG Football Cup, the games of which are scheduled in Moscow on August 19 and 20, is still unknown. So far, besides the Russian team, only the Cameroon team has confirmed its participation in this tournament. It was planned that the Ukrainian national team would also come to Moscow.

On April 12, the 7th Congress of Russian Chess Players took place at the Dagomys health complex. Representatives from 74 regions of the country took part in the congress - a kind of record for such forums. Chairman of the State Duma Committee Alexander Zhukov was unanimously elected as the new president of the Russian Chess Federation.

Communists may support the candidacy of Pavel Krasheninnikov The Duma Council yesterday officially launched the nomination of candidates for the post of Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia. The two main contenders - the current commissioner Oleg Mironov and the member of the SPS faction, the chairman of the State Duma Legislation Committee Pavel Krasheninnikov - have already beaten a number of factions and deputy groups.

On Tuesday, April 15, the Primorye sanitary services banned all business and tourist travel to the provinces of Guangdong, Shanxi, Sichuan, Hunan, Guangxi, as well as to the cities of Beijing and Hong Kong. These are the most disadvantaged regions of the neighboring country in terms of SARS. Vladivostok travel companies, whose main source of income is organizing trips to China, are on the verge of collapse.

Far from Moscow The persistent statements of the Moscow government about the need to move industrial facilities from the center of the capital may result in a change of registration for ZIL. Yesterday, Deputy Minister of Economy and Industry of Tatarstan Sergei Mukhin said that Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and the President of the Republic Mintimer Shaimiev approved a protocol in March, which de facto provides for the transfer of ZIL production facilities to KamAZ.

The government is not abandoning attempts to improve the taxation system for agricultural producers. The actual failure to introduce a single agricultural tax in the regions forced developers to look for new options for a simplified taxation system, which, they are convinced, will appeal to both the villagers and the state. The main goal of tax innovations, they say in the Ministry of Economic Development, is not to increase the budget revenue base, but to accustom farmers to pay taxes.

The opera “Ruslan and Lyudmila” at the Bolshoi Theater promises many surprises The opera premiere, which is considered “like no other” at the Bolshoi Theater, will take place very soon - on April 23, 25 and 27. On this occasion, a new press conference was convened - this time without Anatoly Iksanov.

The Russian subsidiary of Citigroup began issuing loans to Russians Citibank yesterday launched its first project for lending to individuals. The conditions he proposed were unsecured loans from 32 thousand to 320 thousand rubles. for a period of one and a half to three years at 22% per annum, as well as the fundamental reluctance to lend to clients in foreign currency, surprised experts.

This time the list of those awarded the “Golden Masks” in the opera category looks unusually strict and laconic. Almost all the awards went to one performance - “Madama Butterfly” by Puccini at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theater.

German Gref re-introduces to the government an economic development program until 2005 It is expected that today the Ministry of Economic Development will submit to the government a revised version of the draft program for the socio-economic development of Russia for the medium term (2003-2005). Sources in the ministry told the Vremya Novostey newspaper correspondent about this.

Moscow officials want to adjust the city informatization program Information technology has finally reached the capital's officials. At yesterday's meeting of the Moscow government, Mayor Yuri Luzhkov approved the city's target program "Electronic Moscow" for 2003-2007. Although not ahead of the curve, having skipped ahead of the federal Electronic Russia program and several advanced regions, Moscow also began to develop “information and communication technologies” at the city level.

Canadian scientists have announced they have deciphered the genome of the virus that causes SARS. The version that it is a coronavirus and its closest “relatives” are the causative agents of avian bronchitis and mouse hepatitis have been confirmed. Moreover, the staff of the Genome Sciences Center (GSC), one of the divisions of the regional Cancer Agency in Vancouver, managed to do this in record time: in just six days.