Protesting Yeniseiskaya miners face dismissal For eight days now, 175 miners have been on hunger strike in Chernogorsk (Republic of Khakassia). The miners are demanding payment of their wage arrears - a total of about 4 million rubles. The management of the Yeniseiskaya mine claims that this week the required amount will finally arrive in the company’s accounts. So the miners will receive their salaries.

Festival “Russian style. Estate. Jazz" in Arkhangelskoe We have all sorts of jazz events, but this has probably never happened before. Jazz fest in the Arkhangelskoye estate includes almost three dozen participants, two days off and concerts from five in the evening to midnight. In general, not some banal jazz concert in a cramped Moscow club, but a huge open-air in the charmingly beautiful Arkhangelsk, where musical life, by the way, existed not only during the time of Nikolai Yusupov.

How the FFMS will use its new powers The Russian Presidential Decree of May 20 gave the Federal Service for Financial Markets the right to engage in rule-making activities. In an interview with Interfax on Friday, the head of the Federal Financial Markets Service Oleg Vyugin said that by May 24 the service will be largely staffed. The period of inter-power in financial markets is thus coming to an end.

Hockey. NHL. Stanley Cup. Semi-final. “Tampa Bay” – “Philadelphia” – 2:1 (series score 4:3). Tampa is having a super season. In the previous ten years of their existence, the Lightning made the playoffs just once. That same year, Tampa not only finished the NHL regular season in second place, but also won the title of best team in the Eastern Conference, defeating Philadelphia in seven games in the semifinal series.

Quentin Tarantino is today's Pinocchio. The masters of culture again decided to stick their long noses into big politics. The results of the Cannes Film Festival became a demonstration of the deep crisis of mind and taste in modern humanity.

Zurab Zhvania will meet with businessmen in Moscow Georgian Prime Minister Zurab Zhvania, arriving in Moscow today, is going to resolve issues related to the preparation and holding of the first conference of Russian business in Georgia. The event will take place on May 27-29 under the patronage of President Mikheil Saakashvili, the Russian delegation should be headed by Minister of Economic Development German Gref.

CSKA doesn't score, but spends Abramovich's money generously No sooner had the break in the Russian Championship arrived than the teams' forwards took a vacation. In eight matches of the 13th round, only nine goals were scored. Again, without waiting for the break, and with it the pre-application period, the clubs had already opened a transfer war. As always, the army was the first to go into battle.

In Cannes, marginalized people were encouraged and excellent students were given a ride The Cannes festival ended with a real sensation: for the first time in history, the Palme d'Or went to a documentary filmmaker. Documentarians around the world can celebrate their victory. Fahrenheit 9/11, Michael Moore's anti-Bush propaganda film, has overshadowed all the festival favorites, including Wong Kar-wai's 2046 and Emir Kusturica's Life Is Wonderful.

The North Caucasus republics opposed “wild” mountaineering On Saturday, on Elbrus, in the area of ​​the base camp of the missing climbers from Ulyanovsk, the bodies of two more people were found. The head of the Elbrus search and rescue team, Boris Tilov, believes that these are the bodies of Ulyanovsk residents, the search for which has been going on for more than a week. Let us recall that earlier, on May 18, the bodies of two people were found, most likely from the same ill-fated group.

Directors of RAO UES did not approve the system of motivation for the work of individual managers Last Friday, the Board of Directors of RAO UES of Russia considered several issues of a scandalous nature. First of all, this is a war with Khakassia over the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station - RAO informed the directors that the power plant will be re-registered in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, which will deprive the republic of almost half a billion rubles a year.

The Operetta Theater is now playing the musical “Romeo and Juliet” Freezing in the wind on Kamergersky Lane, a hundred meters from the Operetta Theater, high school girls sip beer and shout in unison the murderous Belle - a hit from the last production from the Metro Entertainment company Alexander Weinstein and Katerina Gechmen-Waldek.

Fundamental changes are taking place in the global oil market. Exporters of raw materials are no longer satisfied with the price range of 22-28 dollars per barrel, which two years ago they considered optimal both for themselves and for consumers. The growth of the global economy, the war in Iraq, and speculative games are just an incomplete set of factors that have pushed up oil prices.

German Gref held a reception for the population on personal issues On Friday, at nine in the morning, citizens gathered in the government reception building who wanted to personally tell the Minister of Economic Development German Gref about their painful situation. The minister treated this event informally. The meeting lasted forty minutes longer than planned, so that due to communication with the people, Mr. Gref was almost late for the opening Russia-European Union summit.

People of Abramovich and Stepashin think differently Last Friday, the Board of the Accounting Chamber reviewed the results of an audit of the budget execution of the Chukotka Autonomous Okrug for 2003 and the current period of 2004. For some reason, the practical bankruptcy of the region became news to the inspectors. Mr. Abramovich himself, who was personally invited to the rendezvous to “present claims” by Sergei Stepashin, did not come.

The State Duma on Friday adopted in the second reading amendments to the law “On the organization of insurance business”, which postpone until July 1, 2007 the introduction of a ban on combining life insurance activities with reinsurance of property insurance risks. This is the second delay recently granted to insurers: on March 17, in the first reading, the Duma adopted an amendment postponing the entry into force of this ban until December 31, 2004.