CLUBS Festival "Alternative 19: music in real time." Moscow has not yet had time to move away from the electronic grinding and ethno-rock gashes of the two Kurekhin festivals, when they are replaced by an even more extreme action - the most avant-garde and radical experiments of musicians from different countries, collected into one festival by the first connoisseur of the world avant-garde, Dmitry Ukhov.

Yesterday it became clear that Georgian-Russian relations will be difficult this year too. The topic of the Pankisi Gorge returned to the agenda. Yesterday, the Georgian Foreign Ministry accused Russia of preparing a preventive strike on the gorge. “Russia is looking for a pretext for a preventive strike and is preparing an excuse for this,” the Georgian Foreign Ministry said.

The Prosecutor General quickly persuaded the government to reconsider adoption practices On Wednesday, a Chicago court sentenced 33-year-old American woman Irma Pavlis, who killed her six-year-old adopted son from Russia in a fit of rage, to 12 years in prison. Yesterday, the General Prosecutor's Office took up the task of protecting Russian orphans from foreign adoptive parents.

Sverdlovsk legislators rebelled against the VGTRK reform Sverdlovsk legislators decided to change the reform of the All-Russian State Television and Radio Company. They are against strict centralization of power in regional branches. The struggle began after layoffs began at the already reorganized Sverdlovsk State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, which led to a reduction in regionally produced children's and art programs on television and radio.

Croatian President retained for second term Yesterday, the current president of the country, 70-year-old Stipe Mesic, won the second round of the presidential elections in Croatia - he had 66% of the votes. His rival, the country's Deputy Prime Minister, 51-year-old Jadranka Kosor, scored 34%. President Mesic was supported by the center-left from eight parties. And Ms.

The man who knows where to look for Bin Laden has been caught A man has been arrested in Pakistan who may know where Osama Bin Laden is. This is one of the leaders of the international terrorist network Al-Qaeda, Abu Faraj al-Libi. This 41-year-old Libyan is known by the nickname Libyan. He was one of the FBI's top ten most wanted men. US President George W. Bush yesterday called al-Libi's arrest a "decisive victory in the war on terror" and praised Pakistani intelligence agencies.

Liverpool reached the Champions League final Two out of four. That's exactly how many trophies Chelsea won this season, which the Blues can consider already finished. The "Aristocrats" won the championship gold and the Premier League Cup. But with the FA Cup, and most importantly, with the Champions League, Roman Abramovich’s club will have to wait at least one year. Another English team, Liverpool, will play in the decisive match of the main European club tournament.

The Bakhrushin Museum dedicated an exhibition to the theater of the Great Patriotic War The Bakhrushin Museum began preparing for the exhibition “Theater-Front Diary,” by the way, even before the start of the war. Perspicacious museum workers asked actors who went to the front to keep diaries of performances and performances.

Vyacheslav Ivankov’s case was returned to the prosecutor’s office The case of the famous thief in law Vyacheslav Ivankov, nicknamed Yaponchik, has returned to the prosecutor's office.

For more than six months, the Bush administration has been conducting an intelligence operation in Iran to identify three dozen targets, including nuclear facilities, missile bases and chemical weapons. The task of American spies is to find out what can be destroyed with precision weapons or commando raids. Journalist Seymour Hersh reported this in the American magazine The New Yorker, citing a source in the Pentagon.

The 1st International Ukrainian Documentary Film Festival was held in Kyiv Family connections The documentary film festival in Kyiv appeared on the initiative of Alexander Rodnyansky, who organized it in memory of his mother, Larisa Rodnyanskaya, whose Kontakt studio for many years was perhaps the main producer of documentary films in Ukraine. Two years ago Larisa Rodnyanskaya complained: “We need to go to festivals and communicate.

The longest conflict in the Pacific has ended The island of Bougainville, part of the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, has gained autonomy. The island will now be governed by its own government in accordance with its own constitution. The ceremony in the city of Arawa, the administrative center of Bougainville, drew a line under the longest civil war in the Pacific.

Relations between Palestinians and Israelis have deteriorated again, this time after the election of Mahmoud Abbas as the new head of the Palestinian Authority. This calls into question Israel's promise to hand over eight cities in the West Bank to full control of Palestinian security forces.

Russia lays claim to Georgian ships and manganese Today, the favorites of the tenders announced by Georgia at the end of last year should be determined, the contenders for the Ocean Shipping Company (formerly the Georgian Shipping Company) and the Chiaturmanganets plant. There are also Russians among the contenders.

An unpleasant incident marred the celebrations held yesterday in Riga on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of the proclamation of Latvian independence. An official delegation led by President Vaira Vike-Freiberga came to lay flowers at the Freedom Monument in Riga.