“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.

The referendum extended the political life of the Bolivian President Bolivian President Carlos Mesa, 50, celebrates victory in a referendum that was fateful for both him and the country. Among the five questions, the main one was how to manage the national treasure - natural gas. About 75% of voters spoke on Sunday in favor of increasing taxes on gas exporting companies and for greater state control in the fuel and energy sector.

Yuri KOCHETKOV, Marketing Director of the Housing Legal Center company: -- The fall in purchasing activity due to statements by a number of politicians and officials has led to a noticeable weakening of price growth in the apartment market recently. Nevertheless, the economic situation is quite favorable, and citizens’ savings are growing. All this will lead to the effect of accumulated demand, and I expect increased price growth in August-September.

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 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.

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.

Yuri Baluevsky appointed Chief of the General Staff A change of scenery at the theater of war. Yesterday, by decree, the President of Russia removed from his duties the Chief of the General Staff, Army General Anatoly Kvashnin, who had held this post for seven years. The “brain of the army” will now be led by Colonel General Yuri Baluevsky, Kvashnin’s former first deputy.

The election campaign in Ukraine (presidential elections will take place on October 31) is taking strange forms. Yesterday, one of the candidates, leader of the Brotherhood organization Dmitry Korchinsky, came to submit documents to the Central Election Commission in an armored personnel carrier under a red flag with the image of Christ.

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.

Banks count losses and trophies Yesterday, the largest Russian banks - Sberbank, Vneshtorgbank (VTB) and Alfa Bank - summed up the results of the July crisis in the banking sector. In fact, VTB President Andrei Kostin and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alfa Bank Mikhail Fridman spoke about the results - they each held a press conference (Sberbank simply issued a press release). It turned out that banks experienced the mini-crisis (as Mr. Kostin put it) in very different ways.

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.

Our junior teams performed excellently at the European Basketball Championships in their age categories. The girls' team, led by St. Petersburg specialist Kira Trzheskal, defeated the Spanish girls in the final match in Bratislava - 77:59. While we are already accustomed to the successes of young Russian basketball players, high results from juniors are very rare. All the more pleasant are the silver awards won by the team of head coach Andrei Burov in Pyrgos (Greece).

Senators and experts recommend allowing private owners into the state's strategic infrastructure Today it has become a common opinion that the state is a bad owner. Members of the government also agree with him, including the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, German Gref, who expresses similar thoughts in almost every speech. Thanks to privatization, the number of enterprises with state capital is constantly decreasing.

Moscow wants to talk and show even on overseas shores At the height of the holiday season, the head of the Federal Agency for Press and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Seslavinsky, decided to stand up for his compatriots who, leaving their homeland for a while, remain on a hungry ration of information. Considering that without regular viewing of Vesti, the Vremya or Segodnya programs on the overseas coast, Russians feel infringed on their rights, Mr.