In the year of its anniversary, the Literary Museum does not accept gifts, but makes The Literary Museum is associated with an antique jewelry secretary. Here is a building with exhibition halls on Trubnikovsky Lane. On ordinary days, one can only admire the austere beauty of its classic facades. Sometimes there are vernissages - the exhibitions are good, but more often they are small and modest. And you already come to terms with the fact that this is how it should be.

Residents of five-story buildings are promised not to be expelled beyond the Moscow Ring Road The mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, resolutely promises to stop the forced migration of Muscovites from the reconstructed neighborhoods within the city to remote residential neighborhoods.

Soon the fairy tale will tell... The beginning of the three-volume edition of the works of Zara Grigorievna Mints (1927-1990) “Blok and Russian Symbolism” was laid in 1999, when the book “The Poetics of Alexander Blok” (“Art - St. Petersburg”) appeared. A year later, the volume “Alexander Blok and Russian Writers” was published, and the third – now published – book “The Poetics of Russian Symbolism” had to wait several years.

President Yesterday, on Cosmonautics Day, I arrived at the Federal Space Agency (formed instead of the Russian Aviation and Space Agency). Vladimir Putin presented awards to Russian cosmonauts and figures in the Russian space industry, congratulating them on their professional holiday.

Bill Gates will have to fork out again Bill Gates continues to pay for his sins. Yesterday, Microsoft announced it had settled a three-year lawsuit with InterTrust Technologies over infringement of InterTrust's digital rights management (DRM) patents. The settlement cost Microsoft $440 million. The dispute erupted over developments related to the group of DRM technologies. These technologies produced a revolution in their time, laying the foundation for online trading of intellectual property.

CLUBS Quartet of Vladimir Akhmetgareev (trombone). Jazz. Le Club , 8 p.m. "The Flood" by K. Dragoon. Performance Center of Dramaturgy and Directing p / r A. Kazantseva and M. Grove. Directed by Olga Subbotina. In the roles of A. Osipov, M. Kondratyeva, N. Morgunova, M. Dorozhkin, A. Zuev. With the participation of the ensemble of electronic ethnic music "Volga". On stage "B2" , 20.00. CONCERTS Ibrahim Ferrer (vocals), Manuel Galban (guitar) and Cachaito Lopez (bass).

United States of America and Central Asia The situation in Iraq is clearly beyond the control of the coalition forces, but they have no way back. America cannot fail in Iraq, because the security of the United States for decades to come depends on control over the “Greater Middle East”, in the heart of which Iraq is located. One of the most famous American political scientists, former assistant to the US President for National Security, Zbigniew Brzezinski, writes about this.

Vladimir Bogdanov is going to receive foreign technologies for polyethylene production Surgutneftegaz has found new partners for the construction of a gas chemical plant. After the German companies to which the holding approached with a proposal to build a plant refused to participate in this project, Vladimir Bogdanov’s concern, AK&M reports, found partners that were quite atypical for the Russian market - Japanese Mitsubishi, Mitsui and Itochu.

Former suspects in the “cases” of Manevich and Listyev are no longer of interest to anyone The trial of one of the most sensational criminal cases of the late 90s - about a group of professional killers who were suspected of a series of high-profile murders - ended recently in the Lipetsk region. In the summer of 1998, all television channels showed footage of a special plane arriving in Moscow from Kyrgyzstan, with criminals on board.

The heads of 15 Russian contracting organizations involved in the Sakhalin-2 project yesterday published an open letter to President Vladimir Putin asking him to instruct the Prosecutor General's Office to verify compliance with Russian legislation during the implementation of the project as an oversight exercise.

Disabled children will soon participate in the Unified State Exam experiment Special conditions will be created for graduates of special schools for children with disabilities who decide to take the unified state exam. Tatyana Volosovets, head of the special education department of the Ministry of Education and Science, told reporters about this yesterday. According to her, for such schoolchildren the time allocated for completing tasks will be doubled and speech pathologists will be invited.

Japan promised US to stay in Iraq The Iraqi topic became central to yesterday's negotiations in Tokyo between US Vice President Dick Cheney and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Cheney's tour of Northeast Asia also includes visits to Beijing and Seoul. Initially, trade and global security issues were on the agenda of the Tokyo meeting.

The Sverdlovsk Railway is searching for a passenger train that left Moscow but got lost near the city of Labytnangi (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug). According to the schedule, it was supposed to arrive in the city on Monday morning, but the train never showed up at the appointed time. The head of the Labytnangi railway station, Alexander Yarosh, confirmed the information about the absence of the train. According to him, the delay was caused by weather conditions.

Football. Spanish Championship. 32nd round. Espanyol - Albacete - 1:1, Betis - Mallorca - 0:2, Racing - Athletic - 1:2, Villarreal - Deportivo -- 0:2, Real Sociedad -- Murcia -- 2:0, Zaragoza -- Valencia -- 0:1, Real -- Osasuna -- 0:3, " Valladolid - Barcelona - 1:3, Malaga - Atlético - 3:1, Celta - Sevilla - 0:0. The leaders are: Valencia - 69, Real Madrid - 67, Deportivo - 60. It seems that Real Madrid is in a deep crisis after being eliminated from the Champions League.

Vladimir Klitschko's entourage cannot accept defeat Last Saturday in Las Vegas, Ukrainian heavyweight Vladimir Klitschko lost by knockout in the fifth round to American Lamon Brewster, which shocked boxing fans around the world. The unexpected outcome of this fight for most experts and fans, as usual, gave rise to many versions. Sometimes quite unexpected. One of the versions is religious.