CLUBS New York Voices and Igor Butman Big Band. A joint concert of the famous jazz vocal quartet and one of the best Russian big bands. New York Voices have been around for about 18 years, taking the best traditions of their great predecessors Lambert, Manhattan Transfer and others and introducing elements of Latin American melodies and rhythms, classical and pop music into the classic jazz sound.

The German concern has created a joint venture with the main supplier of Russian Railways The German concern Siemens, after a failed attempt to create a joint venture with a monopolist in the power engineering industry - the Power Machines company - chose Transmashholding (TMH), which controls 80% of the country's railway equipment market, as a partner in the joint venture.

The Ministry of Economic Development did not find a compromise with Gazprom The Ministry of Economic Development, after a two-month pause, announced that it would insist on an 11 percent indexation of gas prices in 2006. According to the director of the department of macroeconomic forecasting of the ministry, Andrei Klepach, tariffs for the services of natural monopolies for the next year will not be higher than those that the government proposed previously. Those.

Parents do not like the struggle of the Moscow authorities for the financial purity of schools The mass dismissal of directors of schools and kindergartens in the capital, which occurred at the end of last week, caused heated debate among both employees of educational institutions and parents. On the one hand, the struggle of city officials for the transparency of financial relations between the school and parents is correct and noble.

A new computer virus has alarmed all of Israel An unprecedented scandal is breaking out in Israel. Police say it is the largest computer crime in the country's history. Famous Israeli writer Amnon Jaconte told law enforcement that chapters of his unpublished book were being published on the Internet without the knowledge of the author. Jaconte suspected that someone had broken into his computer and thus gained access to the book.

Nikolay Davydenko defeated the best dirt biker in the world At least four Russians will compete in the quarterfinals of the men's and women's singles tournaments at the French Open in Paris. The match between Marat Safin and Spaniard Tommy Robredo lasted for five games and ended late yesterday evening. If Safin won, he would go up against Nikolai Davydenko in the quarterfinals.

The Jazz Festival in Arkhangelskoye will be held this year too Last year the festival “Russian Style. Estate. Jazz" turned out to be a real surprise both for lovers of all kinds of parties and open-air, and for lovers of the actual improvisational music of the modern domestic sense. This year the concept has not undergone any changes.

Brussels officials reminded of democracy A few months ago, French President Jacques Chirac said that a country that rejects the constitution of the European Union is, in fact, leaving it.

Scientists agreed to reforms at the Russian Academy of Sciences It took representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science and the leadership of the Russian Academy of Sciences a little more than nine months to finally agree on full agreement on the issues of reforming scientific institutions. Unexpected and almost incredible news about reconciliation with government officials was announced yesterday by Vice-President of the Russian Academy of Sciences Valery Kozlov.

The delegation of American senators that arrived in Tashkent on Sunday spent only a few hours there. None of the official representatives of the leadership of Uzbekistan received Senators John McCain, Joe Sununu and Lindsey Graham. The US guests were forced to limit themselves to meetings with the leaders of four opposition parties - Erk, Birlik, Ozod Dekhkan (Free Farmers) and the Agrarian Party - none of which is registered by the Uzbek authorities.

Russian contemporary dance theaters in search of their path “3petiX” - in a sort of intricate way, the troupe “Po.V.S.Tantsy” writes the name of its performance “Triptych”. The name of the performance of the Iguana Dance Theater troupe - “Popupgrade” can also be deciphered only by personally asking the director what it means. (Nina Gasteva delivers a monologue about how her theater transforms pop cultural symbols.) Contemporary dance in both Moscow and St.

The persecution of the Russian oil company continues to work for the authorities The seemingly endless trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev is coming to an end. Over these one and a half years, the trial has become a landmark for many, and some concepts such as “Basmanny justice” have become household names. This is not surprising, because the YUKOS case has been and is being actively discussed by the Russian and foreign media, the expert community, and politicians.

The head of Mosenergo went to the prosecutor's office for questioning The Moscow prosecutor's office, which is investigating the cause of the massive power outage that occurred on May 25 in Moscow and four neighboring regions, yesterday summoned the head of Mosenergo, Arkady Evstafiev, for questioning as a witness.

Americans engage in arbitrariness with Sunnis A double terrorist attack occurred yesterday in the predominantly Shiite town of Hilla, 100 km south of Baghdad - with an interval of 20 seconds, suicide bombers activated their suicide belts. At least 27 people were killed and about 120 were injured. The first explosion occurred in a crowd of five thousand police officers protesting against the disbandment of their unit.

Forecast for the coming days Due to the cyclone, inclement weather is expected in the northwestern regions in the next two days. Rain of varying intensity will fall almost continuously throughout Tuesday and Wednesday. The cyclone will also ruin the weather in the central region; rain there will begin during the day, first in the west, and then spread throughout the entire territory; thunderstorms with gusty winds are possible.