The Prime Minister presented the country's new chief railway worker The last of the three main natural monopolies in Russia was headed by a man from St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg residents Anatoly Chubais (RAO UES of Russia) and Alexey Miller (Gazprom) were joined by Vladimir Yakunin. Last Friday, his presentation as president of the company took place at the office of Russian Railways. Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov came specially for this ceremony. He briefly recommended Mr.

Last weekend, Spanish police carried out a special operation against criminal groups from the countries of the former USSR, codenamed “Wasp”. Tbilisi claims that the cleansing in Barcelona, ​​Alicante and Malaga affected only immigrants from Georgia. Eyewitnesses of the events said that masked police officers armed with machine guns burst into houses where Georgians lived at dawn.

Ukrainian “autocitizen” came into force Ukrainian car owners are starting to live by the same rules as Russians. Avtograzhdanka, which has been operating in Russia for almost two years, has fully come into its own in Ukraine.

Lithuanians did not believe the ethics and diploma of the Russian minister Today, Lithuanian Prime Minister Algirdas Brazauskas will accept the resignation of Minister of Economy Viktor Uspaskich. The head of the Labor Party, which is part of the government coalition, voluntarily leaves the cabinet and at the same time renounces his deputy mandate. Last Friday, Mr. Uspaskich sent relevant petitions to the head of government and the speaker of the Seimas.

Vacuum Cleaner Days took place at the Le Bourget Air Show At the aerospace show in Le Bourget, the “public day” coincides with the weekend. This means that the business part of the exhibition is over, the negotiations are completed, the VIPs have scattered to their countries, giving way to the curious public. At the entrance to the exhibition there are many kilometers of traffic jams, which are not quite usual even for Paris, which is constantly clogged with cars.

Russian figure skater Alexey Yagudin is an infrequent visitor to his homeland. After winning the Olympics in Salt Lake City, Yagudin ended his amateur career and began performing in the prestigious ice show Star's On Ice. In connection with his new job, the figure skater actually moved overseas, so meeting a St. Petersburger in Moscow, and even with journalist accreditation in the press center of the European Rhythmic Gymnastics Championships, was surprising.

Expensive raw materials could become a serious problem for Russia OPEC's decision to raise oil production quotas did not help bring down prices. Last Friday, on the New York Stock Exchange, quotes soared to $58.6 per barrel. This figure is 22 cents higher than the absolute record recorded in early April. A similar situation developed on the London Stock Exchange - a new record was set there at $57.97 per barrel.

Participants in the European Women's Chess Championship in Chisinau covered exactly two-thirds of the tournament distance. Following the results of the 8th round games, a sole leader emerged - Russian Elena Zayats. Only she, among the group of participants who shared first to seventh places before the start of this gaming day, managed to win on Saturday. Elena defeated the Georgian Ketevan Arakhamia-Grant with black pieces.

The company lost a lawsuit for almost half a billion dollars. YUKOS's creditor banks are not giving up attempts to collect the debt. Last Friday, a London court satisfied the demands of global banks led by Societe Generale and recognized that Yukos must pay them $482 million for a $1 billion loan issued in 2003.

CLUBS Spoken words. Another event to present the book in a new format - on stage. Today the play “Mystery of the Tsam” will be shown, which will combine several works by Andrei Bychkov , including his novel “Dipendra”. In addition to Andrei Bychkov himself, the performance will feature Ilya Kormiltsev , who will read poetry, Antonio Gramsci with improvisations on ancient Chinese motifs, and saxophonist Sergei Letov. VJ Antishanti will be responsible for the video art. Bilingua , 20.00.

Premier League snipers can only dream of the Golden Boot A significant event took place in the next round of the Russian Championship. The goal was scored by Dmitry Sychev. The success of the main striker of the Russian team was rejoiced by the entire stadium. Of course, the goal scored by Sychev against Alania was his second in the 13 matches that Lokomotiv played in the current championship. Let's hope not the last.

TENNIS. 20--26. British Open. "Wimbledon" . This is the only Grand Slam tournament where Sunday of the first week of play is a day off. Only in rare cases were the organizers of Wimbledon forced to break this tradition. This happened last year too, when due to frequent rains in the first days of the tournament the entire schedule was disrupted. Only men's and women's singles matches will take place on Monday. From Tuesday, participants in doubles tournaments will also take to the courts.

The Germans win the Confederations Cup amid a barrage of criticism The first semi-finalists have been determined at the Confederations Cup. As expected, the first two places in Group A were taken by the national teams of Argentina and Germany. The teams will find out which of them will be first and who will be second in a head-to-head match. This meeting will be of a principled nature - the loser in the semi-finals will most likely go to Brazil.

The Moscow Film Festival began in a businesslike manner Nikita Mikhalkov, president of the Moscow International Film Festival, this time was without a scarf - a hitherto unchanged attribute of the opening ceremony. The tuxedo, the bow tie - everything was there, but the scarf was missing. Attentive observers should have already concluded from this fact alone that there have been changes in the regulations.

Premieres of the Radio Theater Workshop Radio “Culture” (91.6 FM) declared June as the month of premieres. Marina Bagdasaryan’s project has started working, which seems to me to be the most important radio project of recent times. Yes, I look from my bell tower: what has to do with the theater is important. But I will try to prove that my view is not so subjective. The task of “Culture” is simple: to breathe life into the art of radio theater, which has pretty much faded in recent years.