Forecast for the coming days The North Atlantic cyclone leaves the north-west of the European territory of Russia under the influence of cold Scandinavian air. On Tuesday and Wednesday there will be short-term rain in places, during the day it will not be warmer than +15...+20оС. The central regions will be located near the atmospheric front.

Saparmurat Niyazov suggested that Vagit Alekperov begin to repair the plant LUKOIL is seriously preparing to work in Turkmenistan. Yesterday, the head of the company, Vagit Alekperov, met with Saparmurat Niyazov for the second time in a month. As the Turkmenbashi press service reported, Mr. Niyazov proposed to LUKOIL to reconstruct the country's largest Seydi oil refinery.

CLUBS John Nekoa Quintet (South Africa). "Le Club" , 20.30. JVL Big Band. Jazz. JVL , 21.00. “Kira ugh bend.” "Schwein" , 22.00. Igor Ivanushkin - Spirit of Mangomery . Jazz. Cool Train , 21.00. "Trepanga" . Cabaret chanson. "Project O.G.I." , 22.00. CONCERTS "I love you, life." Concert in memory of Georg Ots. Orchestra of the New Opera Theater. Conducted by Eri Klas.

"United Russia" switches to contractual relations with regional branches of the party and governors United Russia is actively involved in the struggle for seats in the next Duma. One of the areas of the party’s election strategy will be social programs in the regions.

If anyone decided that our literary magazines took a time out in April-May, then they are mistaken. Everything is fine. It’s me who does a poor job as a reviewer, and the magazines come out as usual. And, as if by agreement, the chorus prophesies unprecedented changes for Russian literature. Did you know, for example, that we have a ton of bright new critics?

Japan increases gas purchases from Sakhalin-2 The operator of the Sakhalin-2 project, Sakhalin Energy, has come close to selling the entire volume of gas on a long-term basis. Over the past week, it sold 0.8 million tons to three Japanese companies.

London watched her agony from the sidelines The current version of the EU constitution has received another blow, a significant one, although still not fatal. London inflicted it. Yesterday, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw announced in Parliament that the UK was postponing the referendum on ratification of the European Constitution, which had been scheduled for spring 2006. “Right now we don’t see any point in continuing the process,” Jack Straw explained succinctly.

CSKA won the Russian basketball championship for the 12th time CSKA basketball players again, for the third season in a row and the twelfth time in the post-Soviet period, became national champions. In the fourth match of the final series, the best team of Russia in the capital's Dynamo Sports Palace on Lavochkin Street defeated the home team - 99:84. However, the army team was not too pleased with the next championship.

Under the new coach, the national team immediately set an anti-record Last week, Russian volleyball teams played their first matches at the national team level under the leadership of new head coaches - foreign specialists.

Syrians are following in Gorbachev's footsteps, but not so fast The Syrians, concerned about pressure from the United States, decided not to wait for reforms to come to them from the outside, and began to change their lives themselves. “New thinking for the benefit of progress” - under this almost Gorbachev-like slogan, the 10th congress of the ruling Syrian Arab Socialist Renaissance Party (PASV, or Ba'ath in Arabic) began work in Damascus yesterday.

The fascist publisher was again found guilty, but left without punishment Yesterday, the Timiryazevsky Court of Moscow once again found the editor of the Rusich magazine, Viktor Korchagin, guilty of inciting national and religious hatred, but released him from punishment “due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for the crime - two years” and dropped the criminal case. Immediately after this, Mr.

The Prosecutor General's Office terrifies the oligarchs Deputy Prosecutor General Vladimir Kolesnikov, who in recent years has earned a reputation as the “in-house oracle” of Russian justice, ended the past week with a new batch of exciting “predictions.” Summing up the results of the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev in the “Sunday Evening on NTV” program, he directly made it clear that the Prosecutor General’s Office is not going to stop there in the fight against the oligarchs.

Bombardier is trying to establish itself in Russia Canadian aircraft manufacturer Bombardier is considering the possibility of locating in Russia a branch of its subsidiary SkyJet, which organizes business class charter flights around the world. This step, as Leo Knaapen, a spokesman for Bombardier's business aircraft division, told Vremya Novostey, is dictated by the growing demand for air transportation of this level in Russia.

The names of the new prize winners have long been known not only in Russia Long-promised by the authorities, material confirmation of the postulate about the importance of both high art and high technology for the Russian state has finally taken the form of a document, sealed as a guarantee with the presidential autograph. Vladimir Putin signed yesterday decrees on awarding State Prizes for 2004 in the fields of science and technology, literature and art.

But he still lacks good films Whatever they say about the updated version of Kinotavr, which changed owners in the year of its sixteenth anniversary, one thing is obvious - the festival has matured. The center of the festival crowd remained on the beach, but the Kinotavr regulations offered an alternative to the usual informal communication between filmmakers. In the evening, in the beach setting of the Rotunda cafe, discussions began on the films participating in the competition program.