“Guilty Without Guilt” turned into a musical comedy When remade into an operetta, the first act of Ostrovsky's play (in which the main character is young and unknown to anyone, because she is not an actress, but simply a quiet provincial resident, Otradina, and not Kruchinina) is not entirely eliminated, but is somehow scattered in subsequent actions.

Vladimir Potanin must today determine the fate of the deal with OMZ Today, Interros, which owns about 70% of the shares of Power Machines, must decide whether to continue to merge with OMZ or wait until the authorities approve the sale of Vladimir Potanin’s stake in Power Machines to the German concern Siemens. Interros does not hide the fact that if the authorities approve the deal with Siemens, the shares will be sold to the Germans, and the merger with OMZ will not take place.

Russian Media Group bought another radio station StoryFirst Communications (SFC), whose main shareholders are Alfa Group and the Swedish concern MTG, is parting with its radio business. Yesterday it was announced that the deal to sell a 50% stake in the Maximum radio station to the Russian Media Group was completed, which last year already bought the first 50% stake in the popular station from MN-Radio. For SFC, the sale of Maximum became a disposal of non-core assets.

The command of the federal troops in Chechnya scouted out the pre-election landscape The press service of the regional operational headquarters (ROH) for managing the counter-terrorism operation in the North Caucasus played an unusual role yesterday: instead of the number of killed and captured militants, the public was presented with peaceful pre-election statistics. At the same time, ROSH referred to “public opinion polls conducted by sociological organizations in Moscow, St.

Rosneft predicts a technical default in 2007 State-owned Rosneft yesterday announced its development forecast for the next five years. In 2009, the company plans to produce 32.2 million tons of oil - one and a half times more than this year. However, in 2007, according to a pessimistic forecast, Rosneft risks exceeding the maximum permissible ratio between debt and pre-tax profit established by creditor banks. In other words, a technical default will occur.

What a joy! “Night Watch” has already been watched by more than one and a half million people, and the film’s grosses in the first week exceeded five million dollars, which is much more than the previous Russian box office champions.

The situation around South Ossetia continues to remain tense. Georgian State Minister for Conflict Resolution Georgiy KHAINDRAVA, in an interview with Vremya Novostei, spoke about what needs to be done after the Moscow round of negotiations, which took place on July 15. -- When will the new meeting of the co-chairs of the Joint Control Commission take place? — At the end of July, most likely in Tbilisi. It is necessary to continue negotiations to relieve tension in the conflict zone.

Price growth on the Moscow real estate market is slowing down In the summer, there was a noticeable slowdown in price growth on the Moscow real estate market. Thus, according to the analytical center “Real Estate Market Indicators”, in April housing prices increased by 3.5%, in May by 2.5%, and in June by only 0.6%. In the first half of July, apartment prices did not rise at all.

The difficult fate of the state symbol of Germany These days, the owner of one of the “puffs” (as the Germans commonly call brothels) in the Saxon city of Halle was forced to prematurely withdraw her goods from bidding at an online auction. There were 24 hours left before the end of the auction, and the buyer was ready to shell out over 17 thousand euros, but then some pranksters-hackers invaded the deal.

US athletes hit by doping scandals There are three and a half weeks left until the opening of the Summer Olympic Games in Athens. The composition of the Russian national team is practically formed, the names of our participants in most individual sports are known, in a few days the head coaches of teams in game disciplines must also finally decide who they will take to Athens. The composition of the track and field team will become clearer later, in early August, after the Russian Championships.

The second week of the elite cycling stage race Tour de France did not bring the five-time winner of the Great Loop, American Lance Armstrong, to first place in the general classification. Today the yellow jersey of the leader of the overall classification will be worn by the Frenchman Thomas Weckler for the next stage. But the gap between Armstrong, who follows Weckler, and his most important competitor, German Jan Ullrich, is almost seven minutes.

Bayer bought himself some medicine The German chemical and pharmaceutical concern Bayer AG has entered into a deal that may allow it not only to forget about the financial troubles of recent years, but also to significantly strengthen its position in Europe as a drug manufacturer. Yesterday, Bayer representatives announced the purchase of a division of the Swiss Roche Holding AG, which produces over-the-counter drugs. The transaction value is estimated at 2.38 billion euros.

Employees of the FSB Directorate for the Novosibirsk Region, together with the anti-drug smuggling department of the Novosibirsk Customs, seized an unprecedentedly large shipment of heroin. According to customs spokesman Alexander Malik, 237 kg of heroin was found in a shipment with juice packages. The entire operation took several weeks. First, the operatives received information about the impending delivery of a large shipment of heroin from Central Asia by rail to Novosibirsk.

Vladimir Putin identified those responsible for the tragedy in Ingushetia A month after the attack by Chechen militants on Ingushetia, which on the night of June 22 actually captured the city of Nazran and several other villages for several hours, President Putin yesterday finally resolved the dispute about the degree of guilt of certain departments and specific officials, whose fault is this unprecedented An emergency became possible.

In 2003, the company's income tax rate was 7% Last year, Sibneft actively continued to use tax optimization schemes. As a result, its effective income tax rate was, according to experts, “crazy low” and amounted to only 7%, compared with the 12% that the company paid in 2002 and the 24% established by law. Such data is contained in the company's US GAAP financial statements for 2003, published yesterday.