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.

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.

The company is trying to reduce dependence on Gazprom The largest independent gas company NOVATEK announced a new production project. We are talking about plans to build a chemical plant in the Samara region, the cost of which is estimated at 1 billion euros. The company is already building the first stage of a gas processing plant in the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, to finance which it issued a $100 million bond issue last week.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

Yesterday, American President George Bush commented on the recently released CIA report warning about Bin Laden's plans to attack the United States. The document was sent to Bush a month before the events of September 11, 2001. Now Bush believes that there was “nothing about an attack on America” and the document was not specific: “Of course, we knew that Osama Bin Laden hated America.

Moscow will support the President of Ingushetia with money A week after the unsuccessful assassination attempt on the President of Ingushetia, Murat Zyazikov, the number one Chechen terrorist, Shamil Basayev, took responsibility for this act. Let us remind you that on the morning of April 6, on the way from Nazran to the presidential residence in Magas, the motorcade of the President of Ingushetia was attacked by suicide bombers in a car.

Roman Abramovich has a competitor in London Oligarchs from all over the world are drawn to London, as if they have honey there. Last year, Roman Abramovich gave the British capital a Russian season: he bought the Chelsea football club, won the honorary title of “Man of the Year”, was included in the list of the richest people in Albion and became a darling of the press.

Karzai is being tormented from the Afghan region The armed uprising against the Americans, which united Iraqi Shia and Sunni Muslims, incredibly inspired the famous Afghan Mujahideen Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. One of the most irreconcilable leaders of the resistance to Soviet intervention in Afghanistan, who led detachments of Afghan Pashtuns and became the country's prime minister in the first half of the 90s, 56-year-old Hekmatyar is today the most famous internal opponent of President Hamid Karzai.

Aviation leasing needs public finances The leasing company Ilyushin Finance Co (IFK) next week plans to appeal to the Russian government with a request to double its authorized capital. IFC General Director Alexander Rubtsov told reporters yesterday that the current authorized capital does not allow the company to increase the volume of transactions it finances for the leasing of domestic aircraft.