Watch from May 26 on Moscow screens “Zhmurki” (Russia, 2005, Alexey Balabanov). Deliberately kitschy, raspberry-colored (like the jackets of the new Russians of the recent past) and quite a bloody criminal farce “for those who survived the 90s.” There is not a single unknown actor in the cast: Nikita Mikhalkov, Alexey Panin, Dmitry Dyuzhev, Sergei Makovetsky, Viktor Sukhorukov, Igor Yasulovich, Dmitry Pevtsov, Renata Litvinova - and this is only the very beginning of a completely Homeric list.

Judges overturned half of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's sentence Today is the eighth day since the verdict in the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev is announced in the Meshchansky District Court of the capital. Yesterday the judges until the evening talked about only one episode out of 11 incriminated against the defendants, although the day before they managed to consider four.

American experts debunked seven myths about nuclear terrorism The Russian Council on Foreign and Defense Policy and the American Harvard University presented to the public a 120-page report with the energetic title “Secure the Bomb 2005: New Global Imperatives.” The report, considered the first targeted work on the topic of nuclear terrorism, was prepared by Harvard professors Matthew Bunn and Anthony Weir.

Dmitry Kozak returned Adygea to the legal field Yesterday, after a difficult, lengthy conversation with the Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Southern Federal District, Dmitry Kozak, the head of Adygea, Khazret Sovmen, canceled his scandalous decree of May 18 on the early dissolution of the republican parliament. There, in Maikop, the plenipotentiary representative and the president of Adygea hastened to declare that the political conflict in the republic had been settled.

Chelyabinsk United Russia members are going to resolve their conflict in Moscow The intervention of the federal leadership of United Russia brought the conflict in the Chelyabinsk regional branch of the party (the newspaper Vremya Novostey has repeatedly written about this conflict) to a new level: the losers of the next round of the struggle for control over the regional branch of the party, the Afghans, are preparing walkers for a meeting with the President of Russia Vladimir Putin and United

Criminal prosecution of Yukos drags down European economic performance Yesterday, banking group Institute of International Finance (IIF) released a report predicting that the deterioration of the business climate in Russia, caused by the Yukos affair, will lead to a further slowdown in economic growth throughout Central and Eastern Europe. According to IIF estimates, the total GDP of the region's countries will grow by 5% in 2005 versus 6.2% in 2004. And, apparently, the process will continue.

Maria Sharapova defeated her compatriot with great difficulty The defeat of last year's French Open winner Anastasia Myskina in the first round of the current tournament was almost followed by another sensation yesterday. The second racket of the competition, Maria Sharapova, only at the cost of colossal effort, tipped the scales in her favor in a duel with her compatriot and almost the same age as Evgenia Linetskaya - 6:7 (3:7), 6:2, 6:4. Linetskaya loudly announced herself only this season.

Andrey Kozlov calls on bankers to reconsider their credit policy The Central Bank is starting another full-scale project to reduce the risks of the banking business.

Russian business is looking for ways to dialogue with the state The tired topic of the relationship between business and government suddenly became the subject of discussion again.

The other day, 58-year-old Jordanian Prince HASAN BEN TALAL, the younger brother of the late King Hussein and uncle of the current King of Jordan Abdullah II, visited Moscow. His Highness came to the Russian capital at the invitation of Galina Vishnevskaya and Mstislav Rostropovich, who were celebrating their golden wedding. It turned out that the prince had been friends with the star couple for 12 years and was now waiting for the musicians to visit Jordan.

European transport workers reached Russia The session of the European Conference of Ministers of Transport (ECMT) opened yesterday in Moscow with the personal participation of two Russian prime ministers - the current and the former. The extraordinary attention shown at the highest political level to this industry event is explained by the fact that of the 89 ECMT sessions held so far, this is the first on Russian soil.

Head coach of the Russian national team Yuri Semin yesterday decided on the list of players who will take part in the 2006 World Cup qualifying match with the Latvian team. This match will take place in St. Petersburg on June 4, and on June 8, the Russian team in Munchengladbach will play a friendly game with the hosts of the upcoming world championship, the German team.

Giro favorites Cunego and Basso stuck in the mountains Participants in the prestigious Giro D'Italia stage race still have about a quarter of the distance left to cover the second most important stage race on the international calendar, the total length of which is 3,500 km. Yesterday's day off was preceded by a series of difficult mountain stages in the Dolomites.

Operators and subscribers: new rules of the game The other day, the government approved another by-law to the federal law “On Communications” - “Rules for the provision of local, intrazonal, intercity and international communication services.” The document promises both operators and subscribers a lot of interesting things. Now, when moving into an apartment where a telephone is already installed, the new owner does not have to re-pay for its connection, as was the case before.

Russia and Georgia became closer, but did not agree Russian military bases in Batumi and Akhalkalaki will leave Georgia in 2008. But during tense two-day talks in Tbilisi, which ended yesterday, the parties were unable to agree on the main thing: whether this will happen in early 2008, as Georgia insists, or whether the wording will be more vague at Russia's request - "during 2008." What happened behind closed doors at the Georgian Foreign Ministry for almost seven hours?