The safety margin of old-school teachers is running out Applicants entering universities today will receive diplomas according to the new rules. The Ministry of Education and Science plans to make domestic universities virtually unrecognizable by 2008 and radically revise the system of training personnel in higher education. The corresponding amendments to the law “On Education” have already been developed by Andrei Fursenko’s team and proposed for discussion by the Cabinet of Ministers.

New flight to America opens The American airline Delta is opening a new route this week between its home airport in Atlanta (Georgia) and Moscow. This airline is the only American carrier flying to Russia. Until now, it had only one non-stop flight in the Russian direction: New York - Moscow. On this route, Delta competes with Aeroflot, which in addition to New York also flies to Washington, Los Angeles and Seattle. The presentation of the new flight will take place in Moscow on June 2.

The guilt of Mikhail Khodorkovsky was recognized by the court as fully proven The “trial of the century” in the case of ex-head of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky and head of MFO Menatep Platon Lebedev may end today. The defendants' lawyers stated this with confidence. In addition, last Friday it was decided to provide round-the-clock enhanced security for the Meshchansky Court building over the weekend and organize emergency security measures on Monday.

Safin advances through the Roland Garros tournament bracket At the French Open, six of our girls played fourth-round matches yesterday. Even before the start of the seventh playing day of the women's singles tournament, it was clear that the Russians guaranteed themselves at least a couple of places in the 1/4 finals, as Nadezhda Petrova and Elena Bovina, Elena Dementieva and Elena Likhovtseva played each other.

Reducing Russian politics to a set of “projects” composed in the quiet of offices leads to the fact that instead of responding to real political processes, we have an endless surreal performance. During a recent meeting between Russian rockers and Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration Vladislav Surkov, the idea was born to hold a rock festival in Grozny. Recently, information appeared about its possible participants. Among them are the very popular groups “Bi-2”, “DDT”, “Night Snipers”.

Forecast for the coming days In the northwestern region, the weather on May 30 and 31 will be determined by a cyclone moving from the west. There will be short-term rain in places, thunderstorms are possible on May 31. Temperature at night +4...+10оС, during the day +15...+21оС. In the center of Russia, in the zone of the cold atmospheric front, short-term rains are expected, and thunderstorms will occur in places during the day.

The mortgage lending market, which the Russian authorities had been trying unsuccessfully to breathe life into for many years, finally really started working in 2004. Obviously, the matter is not only in the status of a “national project”, which the mortgage received from the lips of the country’s President Vladimir Putin, and not only in the legislative framework that the government and parliament formed in a few months.

Theater named after Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko opened the season with a new fire On Friday night in Moscow, a new major fire occurred in the building of the Academic Musical Theater named after. Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko on Bolshaya Dmitrovka Street, 17. In June 2003, it already burned once, and since then the theater has been undergoing reconstruction.

Half a century ago, on June 3, 1955, difficult negotiations began in London on restoring diplomatic relations between the USSR and Japan. Their result was the declaration of 1956, with the adoption of which the state of war between the two countries ended. That document promised that after the signing of the peace treaty, the USSR would transfer the island of Shikotan and the Habomai archipelago to Japan.

State support for mortgages is provided through the Housing Mortgage Lending Agency. AHML refinances banks by purchasing their rights to claim mortgage loans and taking on the corresponding risks. The Agency's General Director Alexander SEMENYAKA told Vremya Banks about his view on the development of mortgages and the relationship between AHML and commercial banks - market participants. -- How do you assess the current dynamics of issuing mortgage loans? What factors hinder this process?

Raikkonen gave victory to Alonso due to suspension problems Fernando Alonso's victory at the European Grand Prix significantly strengthened his leading position in the Formula 1 individual standings. Nick Heidfeld from the Williams team repeated the success of a week ago and finished the race in second place, and Rubens Barrichello finished third, breaking Ferrari's long streak of failures.

John McCain and his colleagues will visit Bishkek and Andijan Today a group of US Republican senators arrives in Bishkek for a one-day visit. According to Vremya Novostey, their goal is to demonstrate support for the new Kyrgyz leadership and make sure of its desire to hold honest and fair presidential elections scheduled for July 10. Undoubtedly, the topic of the American military presence in Kyrgyzstan will occupy a special place in the negotiations.

Stars of the White Nights opened with the premiere of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde The intentions of director Dmitry Chernyakov, who staged “Tristan” at the Mariinsky Theater, according to him, were as follows.

The crisis that erupted a year ago demonstrated how fragile the banking system remained six years after the hurricane of 1998 and inconsistent attempts by the central bank and government to reform and strengthen this area of ​​the economy. As it turned out, what was done was not enough to qualitatively increase the level of trust of Russians in the services of the banking sector.

Last Friday it became known that Yukos paid almost half of the taxes that the state requires from it. The director of the Federal Bailiff Service, the chief bailiff of Russia, Nikolai Vinnichenko, who arrived in Khabarovsk, told Interfax: “Our service carries out the decisions of the tax authorities on the collection of the debt of the YUKOS company into the federal budget. Currently, 392 billion rubles have been recovered.” The balance of outstanding debt is RUB 59 billion.