CLUBS Ska-jazz Review. The group is a union of musicians from the ska-punk band Spitfire and the ska-afro band Marksheider Kunst. Their repertoire includes compositions by such musicians as Skatalites, Sonny Rollins, Lee Morgan, AC Jabim, Desmond Dekker, R. Alphonso. "B2" , 22.00. Konstantin Serov (guitar) will perform a jazz program as part of the “Guitar Le-festival”. Le Club , 20.00.

Cher performed in Moscow “My show is both a concert and a circus,” Cher said from the stage of the Kremlin Palace. Fortunately, this was indeed the case. Ballet, aerialists, a string of translucent outfits on the eternally young singer, even some kind of artificial elephant wandering around the stage and amusingly shaking its head - we probably haven’t seen such a pop circus since the days of Michael Jackson.

The capital's special services uncovered the "jewellers' conspiracy" Five of the largest jewelry stores in Moscow recently lost their goods. Jewelry worth $5 million was seized by employees of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District (GU MVD for the Central Federal District) as part of a large-scale investigation into illegal supplies of gold from Turkey to Russia.

Mikhail Fradkov identified a government agency for media licensing The Federal Service for Supervision of Compliance with Legislation in the Sphere of Mass Communications and the Protection of Cultural Heritage, which was almost the latest to be established, is expanding its powers.

Fradkov is in no hurry to sell power plants On the eve of the last meeting of the Board of Directors of RAO UES of Russia in its current composition, which will be held on Friday, all interested parties continue to wonder whether the government will issue a directive regarding the mechanism for the sale of wholesale and territorial generating companies (WGCs and TGCs), and if it does, then what it will be written in it.

As the Vremya Novostey newspaper learned, on June 24 there will be a Russian-Ukrainian meeting at the level of deputy prime ministers (Deputy Prime Minister Mykola Azarov is leading the negotiations on the Ukrainian side, the meeting place is being specified), where the problems of creating a Common Economic Space (SES) of Russia will be discussed , Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus. Why do Ukrainian producers want to join the SES?

Representatives of the Ministry of Labor refused to pay their contractors “for free” The Moscow prosecutor's office yesterday brought charges of embezzlement against the head of the department of financial and economic support of the former Ministry of Labor, Tatyana Markeeva. The official and her deputy Anatoly Golubenko, who was arrested back in March for bribery, are suspected of embezzling almost 30 million rubles.

Kabakov opened an exhibition in the main museum of Russia Ilya Kabakov nevertheless came to Russia, one might say to his homeland - the artist was born in 1933 in Dnepropetrovsk, lived until 1988 in Moscow. At the press conference, the artist admitted that even to him what was happening seemed like a waking dream. What can we say about the viewers who have already stopped dreaming about Kabakov’s visit and his exhibition - too many years have passed.

The Rostov Duma considered even the presidential envoy a potential threat to the city's security The Duma of Rostov-on-Don was the first in Russia to develop and adopt a city security concept. The deputies clearly classified the dangers that threaten the peaceful life of citizens; they are divided into six main groups.

"Union of Right Forces" in search of a leader and allies On Saturday, June 26, the Union of Right Forces will gather at a congress to discuss its future fate. There are two main issues on the agenda - the party course and the search for a new leader. Interest in the upcoming event was added by the recent statement by Boris Nadezhdin, a member of the presidium of the political council of the party, about the possibility of uniting the Union of Right Forces with the right wing of United Russia.

The Belarusian parliament on Tuesday rejected amendments to the electoral legislation aimed at liberalizing it. 71 deputies voted against, only eight people were in favor of adopting the amendments. The parliamentary elections, which will take place on October 17 this year, will be held under the old law. The debate in the usually quiet Belarusian parliament was heated. Probably for this reason, many journalists accredited to the lower house of parliament were not allowed to attend the meeting.

Ukrainian sailors, former captain of the Navstar-1 tanker Nikolai Mazurenko and his senior assistant Ivan Soshchenko, were subjected to severe torture and abuse in the Iraqi Abu Ghraib prison, where the Americans put them for smuggling diesel fuel, a VN correspondent was told in the press. -the service of the Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Nina Karpachova.

The militants who attacked Ingushetia spoke Chechen and Russian On the night of June 22, several settlements in Ingushetia were attacked by militants. Fighting took place in the village of Sleptsovskaya, the city of Karabulak and in the former capital of the republic - Nazran. Special operations with shooting in these places have been carried out before - so we have more or less gotten used to night shooting here.

Investors are wary of the growth of Gazprom's capital investments Deputy Minister of Economic Development Andrei Sharonov, speaking yesterday at the Neftegaz-2004 exhibition, recalled: by 2020, $180 billion of capital investments should be invested in the gas industry. And he called on the state to stimulate the “flow” of oil “windfall profits” into the implementation of large-scale gas projects.

Recently, the Institute for the Economy in Transition opened a Laboratory for Judicial Reform and Constitutional Economics. It was headed by Petr BARENBOIM, vice-president of the Federal Union of Lawyers, member of the board of the International Bar Association. —You are known as a lawyer and legal scholar, but here both judicial reform and the not very clear “constitutional economics” arose.