The Central Bank intends to exclude Cyprus from the list of offshore countries The Central Bank of Russia may soon exclude Cyprus from the list of offshore zones. This was announced last Friday by First Deputy Minister of Finance Alexey Ulyukaev.

Michael Nyman and the Russian premiere of his opera British composer Michael Nyman attended the premiere of his opera “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat” (1986) with the Moscow public. The laconic (a little over an hour) score for seven instrumentalists and three vocalists, staged by the Little World Theater and directed by Natalia Anastaseva, was played in the Artplay design gallery - among furniture and puddles, into which the advanced audience was constantly diving knee-deep.

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, the first case of human death from rabies has been recorded in a long time. Pensioner Nikolai Sytyanov, a resident of one of the villages in the Volodarsky district, was bitten by a sick fox that ran into the farmstead. There are no final results of the examination on the cause of death yet, but doctors have little doubt that it was rabies. Every year this virus infects about two dozen people in Russia and about a thousand worldwide.

The powers of the St. Petersburg governor, as the newspaper Vremya Novostey has repeatedly predicted , were terminated ahead of schedule yesterday. But instead of transferring power to Plenipotentiary Representative Valentina Matvienko, as planned in the Kremlin, Vladimir Yakovlev surrendered the city to jesters on Sunday. True, only for one day - during the St. Petersburg carnival parade. The governor resisted for many months, repeating that he would decide how long he would remain in power.

As the Vremya Novostey newspaper learned, in the near future the capital’s government will have to defend in court its right to recreate the Moscow Hotel . Experts of domestic architecture are unhappy that from the many surviving sketches of the architect Shchusev, one of the unsuccessful options was chosen. According to professionals, the ensemble of Theater Square will be destroyed by the “imperial character” of the facade of the new “Moscow”, which it was decided to recreate.

Bartabas presented a new batch of miracles Before the start of "Horses of the Wind" there is an announcement on the radio. Turn off mobile phones (obviously), don’t take photographs (also obviously, the horses get scared), and “due to the fact that Tibetan monks are participating in the performance, applause is prohibited until the end of the performance.” However. If monks participate in a play, they should be prepared for some kind of reaction from the audience, no?

Washington began collecting evidence for a strike on Tehran Having dealt with Iraq, the first country in the trio of “axis of evil” defined by Washington, America is preparing to take on Iran. Tomorrow, a meeting of American leadership will take place at the White House to determine a strategy towards Tehran.

The Cannes Film Festival has come to an end Man is strange: two hours on a park bench alone with himself can fly by unnoticed, but at the same time in a cinema alone with a bad film it drags on for an eternity - after just five minutes you begin to feel a ache in the pit of your stomach, your whole body hurts, irritation and frustration comes up in a lump in my throat. If you knew how often you had to experience something similar at the 56th Cannes Film Festival...

The position of the capital's authorities regarding the order of the Ministry of Health on changing the rules for the sale of medicines in pharmacies was commented on by Moscow City Duma deputy Lyudmila STEBENKOVA to the Vremya Novostei newspaper. -- Does Moscow support the new industry standard, which actually puts an end to the practice of selling medicines through pharmacy kiosks?

Moldova offered to pay with industrial assets In 2003, Gazprom must collect 40 billion rubles from debtors. (about $1.3 billion) - this is exactly the amount included in the company’s budget for this year. Since consumer debt continues to grow within the country as a result of the reorganization of the gas sales system, the fulfillment of this line can only be achieved at the expense of debtors from the CIS.

Aeroflot has a new chairman of the board of directors On the third attempt, the board of directors of Aeroflot carried out last Friday the directive of Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov to elect the chairman of the board, Alexander Zurabov. Two previous meetings scheduled for May 5 and 16 did not take place. Formally, due to lack of quorum.

High school graduates count their losses “So the holidays are over, and I didn’t kill anyone today, and I didn’t stab anyone to death...” This old joke came to mind when, as they say, the last bell rang. Indeed, during the last bell celebration last Saturday in the capital, only 14 graduates were hospitalized, and 35 students sought medical help. A representative of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate reported that in general the holiday passed without incident.

French Open starts in Paris Today in France, on the courts of Roland Garros, the second Grand Slam tournament of the season starts. Almost all the participants have already gathered for this most prestigious competition, which has the status of an unofficial world championship on clay, and are waiting for the start signal.

Having won the fifth match of the final series of the Russian basketball championship against the Perm Ural-Great, CSKA regained the title of national champion three years later. The final score of the series is 4:1 in favor of the army team. Yesterday, Ivkovic's team achieved a decisive advantage in the first quarter of the match, and by the final siren, despite all the appeals of Perm coach Sergei Belov to the referees, the gap reached almost thirty points - 91:64.

Soon in Belarus only the head of state will be able to be called president. The government issued a decree according to which the word “president” should be excluded from the list of names of heads of organizations. Now the presidents of banks, firms and associations will have to rename themselves as chiefs, managers, directors, managers and chairmen. Government officials refer to the instructions of the administration of the head of state.