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Yuri Pogrebnichko staged a play about the Russian man-god The February “Theater Playbill” assures that the new performance of the Theater NEAR Stanislavsky’s house “Russian nobleman-seminarian and citizen of the civilized world” (investigation of one strange murder in one act) lasts 1 hour 20 minutes.

Sergei Abramov promises to return to the post of Prime Minister of Chechnya in February The Chairman of the Government of the Chechen Republic, Sergei Abramov, underwent surgery in Germany on Monday. On the same day, he was already able to give a telephone interview to the Interfax news agency, announcing his firm intention to remain prime minister of Chechnya.

The scandalous trial ended in scandal Yesterday, the scandalous trial of businessmen Igor Poddubny and Evgeny Babkov ended in the Moscow City Court - the jury, by nine votes to three, completely acquitted them. The jury in this case had to be seated three times. The first was dissolved even before the verdict was rendered due to the illness of several assessors.

Gold miners lack infrastructure The President of ZAO Polyus, the largest Russian gold mining company, Evgeny Ivanov, yesterday at a conference organized by Adam Smith Conferences, voiced the main problems of the industry. More precisely, he formulated the tasks that he would like to involve the state in solving. First of all, gold miners expect the state to participate in the creation of infrastructure at those deposits that are not yet being developed due to inaccessibility.

He doesn’t need consultations with Moscow Yesterday it became known that Russian-Iranian consultations scheduled for February 16 in Moscow on the creation of a joint venture for uranium enrichment have been postponed for an “indefinite period.” As a representative of official Tehran said yesterday, the Iranian delegation will not arrive in Moscow.

Andrey Rappoport's team wants huge incentives for purchasing foreign power assets The management of Inter RAO UES, an electricity export operator, made a rather loud statement at yesterday's CLN presentation. The memorandum for the bond issue states that this year the company's managers intend to become owners of 15% of its shares.

Gref will protect business from judges, shareholders and managers The fiery speech of the Minister of Economic Development German Gref at the Council on Competitiveness, dedicated to hostile takeovers and the defiant independence of the courts (it got to the point, the minister complained, that judges did not even respond to his letters), was only the first sign. Yesterday, Mr.

Poland is looking for a new ambassador in Moscow Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Meller denied yesterday the sensational reports that appeared in the Polish press about the appointment of Krzysztof Zanussi as ambassador to Russia. The famous director speaks Russian fluently and has excellent contacts in Russian artistic and political circles. Zanussi himself neither confirmed nor denied the information that excited everyone, noting that such news should come from the Foreign Ministry.

A fairly strong drop in prices for most non-ferrous metals occurred yesterday on the London Metal Exchange (LME), the main trading platform for non-ferrous metals. According to Bloomberg, zinc fell the most - three-month contracts fell in price by 8.2% in the morning, to $2.02 thousand per ton, and this was the lowest price since January 12 of this year. By closing, however, the price had risen slightly - to 2,119 thousand dollars per ton.

New criteria for the distribution of grants within the framework of national projects have been determined Priority national projects continue to be amended on the fly. The education project was no exception. At a meeting of the interdepartmental working group held yesterday at the Ministry of Education and Science, it was decided to once again adjust the rules for the competition for the best schools and innovative universities.

Security services are looking for the “Nogai” underground For the third day in the villages and villages of the Neftekumsky district of the Stavropol Territory, the search continues for militants who could escape from the village of Tukuy-Mekteb, surrounded by special services in a triple ring. On February 9-10, a special operation took place there to capture an armed group of bandits.

The French Prime Minister came to Russia for pre-election ratings Yesterday French Prime Minister Dominique de Villepin arrived in Moscow on a two-day working visit. As the French Embassy told Vremya Novostey, the visit program is “very intense” and has an economic emphasis. The prospects for cooperation in the gas and aerospace sectors and in the field of protection of intellectual property rights will be discussed.

Svetlana Ishmuratova and Olga Pyleva won gold and silver It's been a long time since the Olympic Games started so successfully for us. The nightmare of Salt Lake City and the disappointment of Athens - and finally victories were achieved in Turin. Three awards of different denominations on the second day of the Games, and the same number on the third.

Vasily Aksenov is an uneven writer. Even within the boundaries of one text. And Aksenov’s ardent admirers (and I am close to this group) are unlikely to call many of his works “perfect.” Maybe something from the stories (for example, “Victory” or “Halfway to the Moon”) and “Overstocked Barrels”. There are lengths, repetitions, and failures of taste even in Aksenov’s best novels - “Burn,” “Say: Raisin,” “The Voltaireans and the Voltairians.” Do these flaws get in the way? How to say.