The Duma denied foreigners the right to acquire Russian citizenship in exchange for investments Only three deputies voted yesterday for a bill on granting Russian citizenship in a simplified manner to people who have invested money in the Russian economy.

Our young talents are lost on the way to the top of hockey Our team is the world champion in hockey! A fairly forgotten phrase is relevant again, as in the era of the almost endless victorious march of players with the abbreviation “USSR” on their chests. Only now the country’s “gold reserve” is replenished not by the main team, but by juniors and young people.

Corrie Sanders intends to defeat his second brother Late Saturday evening, Ukrainian heavyweight Vitali Klitschko will step into the ring at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. It was in this hall last summer that he suffered a very controversial defeat from Briton Lennox Lewis and was unable to take possession of the most prestigious championship belt in the world of professional boxing according to the WBC organization.

The mayor's office again blames Mosenergo for the incident in the metro. Yesterday's accident in the capital's metro, when due to a power surge during rush hour traffic was stopped on the section of the Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya line from Belyaevo to Oktyabrskaya, gave the capital's authorities a new reason for reproaches against Mosenergo OJSC.

Yerevan and Baku are preparing to resume direct dialogue Today, the new American co-chair of the OSCE Minsk Group (MG) on Nagorno-Karabakh, Stephen Mann, arrives in Baku. Before that, he visited Yerevan, where he met with President Robert Kocharyan and held consultations with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Ashot Ghulyan.

NASA refuses to increase the duration of orbital missions The US National Aerospace Agency yesterday seriously complicated the lives of its Russian colleagues who were planning to patch up the space industry budget through commercial projects. NASA leaders said they are not currently ready to change the work schedule on the ISS from six-month missions to year-long missions in orbit.

The population keeps money in real estate The price boom in the capital's real estate market has also begun to worry the Moscow authorities, whose activities in the real estate and construction markets are becoming increasingly interested in the antimonopoly service.

Cult musician David Sylvian created a real sensation at the Moscow Youth Palace Who would have thought that the former vocalist of the neo-romantic group Japan, whose solo work has a pronounced experimental character, would sell out the MDM? Nevertheless, month-long lively conversations about “Sylvain coming” made the work more effective than any sophisticated PR. Which, by the way, didn’t exist at all.

The government is preparing to discuss questions instead of answers Today the government intends to devote its meeting (it will take place on Wednesday, and not on Thursday, as usual) to privatization and pension reform. If you believe the information from the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, privatization was completed “on the money” last year. Moreover, we exceeded the plan almost twice. Instead of 51 billion rubles. 91.3 billion were transferred to the treasury.

Kim Jong Il asks China for help Pyongyang hermit Kim Jong Il arrived on a visit to China. Since Monday, the Secretary General of the Workers' Party of Korea and the Chairman of the State Defense Committee of North Korea has been visiting Beijing. The purpose of the trip is clear - the North Korean leader needs economic assistance and political support from his giant neighbor.

Nikolay Davydenko in Monaco went further than Ferrero himself Today at the ATP Masters Series tournament in Monte Carlo with a prize fund of 2 million 425 thousand euros, second round matches will be held. Two of our tennis players - Nikolay Davydenko and Marat Safin - successfully passed the first round hurdle.

One government is not enough for the prime minister Yesterday, Mikhail Fradkov transformed the Government Entrepreneurship Council into the Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship and personally headed the new body. Under the Kasyanov government, the Entrepreneurship Council was used as a club for meetings between top cabinet officials and representatives of big business. Who will participate in the work of the Competitiveness Council under the Fradkov government remains a mystery.

CLUBS Gold Blade (ex-Membranes; UK). Punk rock. “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 23.00. Manana Menabde (Germany). An ethnic Georgian who lived in Moscow for a long time and has now moved to Berlin, Manana sings lyrical Georgian songs, and between them tells various old stories. April 21 in “Project O.G.I.” , 22.00. April 23 at Cool Train , 11:30 p.m. Jah Division .

Watch from April 22 in Moscow cinemas "American Splendor" (Sheri Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini, 2003, USA). One of the most remarkable and unusual American independent films is based on comic books - but not the ones that immediately come to mind.

In India, the largest democracy on earth, early four-phase parliamentary elections began yesterday. There are 670 million voters in India. Yesterday, 150 million of them in 14 states and two union territories elected 142 out of 543 deputies. The next rounds of elections will take place on April 26, May 5 and May 10. The ruling Hindu party Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), led by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee, is considered the favorite.