Khodorkovsky is again looking for a way out Mikhail Khodorkovsky, who outlined a seven-point program for saving liberal values ​​in his now famous article “The Crisis of Liberalism in Russia,” began implementing the plan. In accordance with points No. 1 (“comprehend a new strategy for interaction with the state”), No. 2 (“learn to look for the truth in Russia, and not in the West”) and No.

CLUBS Zbigniew Namyslovsky (saxophone), Joachim Menzel (piano), Arkady Ovrutsky (bass) and Dmitry Sevastyanov (drums). Tour of the legendary Polish saxophonist and composer, who has been personifying Polish jazz for thirty years. Namyslovsky's original style was usually distinguished by a combination of Slavic folklore motifs and modern chamber jazz, but recently Namyslovsky's music has increasingly gravitated towards the mainstream. April 15 and 16 at Le Club , 20.00.

Retired Latvian leader Einar Repse decided to try his hand at painting Former Latvian Prime Minister Einar Repse, who claimed that his government would last at least four years, but lasted in power for only a little over a year, took up his brush. A month after the resignation of his cabinet, an exhibition of works by the retired prime minister of the republic opened. True, not in the capital of Latvia, but in the small port city of Liepaja.

Yesterday South Africa held its third general election since the end of the racist apartheid regime in 1994. 20.6 million voters were supposed to vote for 400 members of parliament, who would then elect the country's president. This will apparently be the current head of state, Thabo Mbeki, the successor to the founder of democratic South Africa, Nelson Mandela. The ruling African National Congress (ANC), led by Mbeki, has the greatest chance of winning: 60% of voters were ready to vote for him.

The city authorities agreed to introduce a religious elective in schools The Moscow Department of Education capitulated to supporters of teaching the history of religion in school. As Lyubov Kurneshova, first deputy head of the department, said at a press conference yesterday, it is possible that already in the next academic year such an elective will appear in the schedule of city schoolchildren.

The Prosecutor General's Office has completed the investigation into the case of "werewolves in uniform" Lawyers for the country's main "werewolves" - MUR officers Yuri Samolkin, Igor Ostrovsky, Evgeniy Taratorin, Nikolai Demin, Alexander Breshchanov and Vadim Vladimirov - have already received the final versions of the decisions to bring their clients as defendants.

The only thing missing from the CSKA collection is the Russian Cup The capital's army basketball team yesterday took another step towards adding to the club's already impressive collection of trophies. On the first day of the “Final Four” of the Russian Cup on the floor of the Perm Sports Palace “Hammer”, the “red-blues”, having met stubborn resistance throughout three quarters of the match, defeated “Khimki” - 91:75.

Government Develops a Strategy for the Development of the Banking System for 2004-2008, which involves the mandatory withdrawal of the state from the capital of the largest banks. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov. According to him, the strategy spells out, in particular, such issues as strengthening the rights of creditors, creating a credit history bureau, and improving the bankruptcy procedure of credit organizations.

His name is Grigory Marchenko Yesterday there was a high-profile resignation in Astana. First Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of Kazakhstan Grigory Marchenko announced his resignation from his post. The country's president, Nursultan Nazarbayev, accepted the resignation and appointed Mr. Marchenko as his assistant. This news came as a complete surprise not only to the Kazakh elite.

Mikhail Fradkov made his first strategic speech as prime minister There is such a joke. The boy asks his dad: “Who is Karl Marx?” Dad replies: “Son, this is an economist.” “How’s Uncle Zhora?” - the boy asks again. “No, Uncle Zhora is a senior economist.” Yesterday, in the Federation Council, Mikhail Fradkov’s first attempt at writing as a “senior economist” of Russia took place.

Tokyo's quest for independence stumbled due to the Iraq crisis For a week now, Japan has been worried about three of its citizens who were captured on April 8 in Iraq by militants from a previously unknown group.

Forecast for the coming days April often brings surprises, and in recent days the weather has changed dramatically. It was still quite warm on Saturday, but on Tuesday winter inadvertently showed up: a sharp north wind blew, in the afternoon it snowed several times, and at times quite large snow pellets fell. The precipitation was short-lived, but quite intense. The falling snow melted quickly, since the earth's surface had time to warm up in the previous days.

Oleg Vyugin does not like the “shura-muras” of PARTAD At a meeting of the board of directors of the Professional Association of Registrars, Transfer Agents and Depositories (PARTAD) held yesterday in the State Duma, members of the community shared their vision of the functioning of the securities market with the head of the Federal Service for Financial Markets, Oleg Vyugin, who was present.

Moscow Easter Festival is in full swing The artistic director of the Easter Festival and its main figure Valery Gergiev with the Mariinsky Theater orchestra played the first three concerts. Over the course of three days, four of Prokofiev’s seven symphonies (First, Second, Third and Sixth), three instrumental concertos (violin concertos by Sibelius and Stravinsky and Rachmaninov’s Second Piano), one symphony by Rachmaninov and one “Gypsy” by Ravel were performed without respite.

The main accused in the kidnapping of Sergei Kukura outlined his version of what happened In the scandalous case of the kidnapping of the first vice-president of LUKOIL Sergei Kukura, a new suspect has appeared. Until recently, the prosecutor's office of the Smolensk region, which is now involved in this investigation, believed that this crime was organized by local authorities Yuri Statsenko, nicknamed Stets, and Igor Ryabokon (Harris).