Evgeny Mironov plays Lopakhin in Nyakroshus’s play “The Cherry Orchard” Yesterday, the play “The Cherry Orchard” staged by Eimuntas Nyakrosius took place for the last time on the stage of the Taganka Actors’ Commonwealth theater. The next episode can be expected no earlier than December.

May appear in the Moscow region LUKOIL may build an oil refinery in the Moscow region. True, a final decision has not yet been made - during 2004 the company must prepare a feasibility study for the project and only then decide whether it is worth starting. However, if LUKOIL nevertheless approves the construction plan, the Moscow Refinery will have a strong competitor, especially since the enterprises’ capacities will be comparable.

The Moscow City Election Commission allowed Yuri Luzhkov to be quoted free of charge The Moscow authorities again made it clear that they do not intend to blindly implement federal legislation, this time electoral legislation.

President Congratulated the famous songwriter Mikhail Tanich on his 80th birthday. “A man of difficult fate, you have come a long way in life, you have managed to reveal your rich creative potential,” the congratulations say, in part.

The failure of the WTO conference played into Russia's hands The WTO conference in Cancun, Mexico ended inconclusively. This is the general assessment of both the participants of the concluded forum and the experts and journalists who closely followed it. Rich and less developed countries could not agree on a number of key issues related, for example, to the preservation of agricultural subsidies in the US and EU, measures to combat bureaucracy and corruption.

The Kremlin Cup prize fund will not be divided equally From September 29 to October 5, the traditional international tennis tournament Kremlin Cup starts in Moscow, which this year, according to the President of the All-Russian Tennis Association Shamil Tarpishchev, promises to be special.

The bill on deposit insurance has reached its first reading Tomorrow the State Duma will consider a bill on insurance of deposits in banks, which has become the personification of the entire banking reform - broadly conceived and almost failed by the authorities. The government believes that the law will easily pass at least the first reading.

Candidates for governor of the Leningrad region are sorting things out in court The current governor of the Leningrad region, Valery Serdyukov, failed yesterday to get rid of his main rival Vadim Gustov in the elections of the head of the region scheduled for September 21.

Vladimir Putin will travel from Sochi to Yalta Today, as the Vremya Novostei newspaper learned the day before, the Russian President will travel from Sochi to the country's largest children's health center, Orlyonok. It is located on the Black Sea coast in the Tuapse region, between the city of Tuapse and the resort village of Dzhubga. From Sochi to Orlyonok is about four hours by car, but the president will fly there by helicopter.

Seventeen Limonovites face up to two years in prison In the pre-trial detention center of the city of Vilnius, 17 “Limonovites” (members of the National Bolshevik Party) are waiting for the materials of the pre-trial investigation of the incident that occurred on Sunday to be transferred to the court. Then train traffic on the Moscow-Kaliningrad route was interrupted for an hour and a half.

“Toy Soldiers” became a good sign for the “New Drama” festival Every theater critic at heart considers himself a master of deduction, able to reconstruct (or, more interestingly, predict) the overall picture from several known facts. True, unlike Sherlock Holmes, critics tend to rejoice precisely when their expectations are not met; when a person, seemingly figured out down to the last thread, manages to make some unpredictable, puzzling artistic gesture.

Expert opinion The efforts of government departments to implement the Defense Industry Reform and Development Program, as well as the action of market forces, are beginning to bear fruit. Recently, the process of consolidation of the Russian military aircraft industry seems to be accelerating.

Politicians passed over the terrorist attack in Magas in deathly silence Another truck with explosives was blown up yesterday in southern Russia. This time, another suicide bomber brought him to the capital of Ingushetia, Magas, to the walls of the newly rebuilt building of the local FSB Directorate, which is part of the complex of government buildings of the republic.

Pop diva wrote a book of fairy tales for aunts Millions of Madonna's fans are somewhat amazed by the new hit of the settled pop diva. Instead of a new video or song, born Louise-Veronica Ciccone decided to please the audience with a fairy tale of her own composition. The singer, who in recent years has been mainly involved in raising her own children and housekeeping, wrote a book called “English Roses” - the first of a series of five volumes.

CLUBS The Tiger Lilies (UK). The first part of a two-day concert. The trio The Tiger Lilies - Martin Jacques (accordion, voice), Adrian Stout (double bass) and Adrian Huge (drums and percussion) - are extremely famous in Russia. Their style is called street opera, cabaret rock and post-punk. But no one has been able to determine exactly what style the three crazy Englishmen play in. The trio's texts are distinguished by shockingness.