Major officials visited big business Members of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) have spent the last year trying to prove their loyalty to the authorities. Yesterday showed that this policy has borne fruit. At the first meeting of the RUIE board of directors this year, a troop of federal officials landed.

One hundred and seventy-five years ago Nikolai Leskov was born Leskov spoke most clearly about his life’s work at the beginning of a series of stories about the righteous. Here, intending to die (“for the forty-eighth time”), the “great Russian writer” explains to his younger brother why in his play he presented all the titled persons in an unsightly form: “I, brother, write what I see, but I see only nasty things.

On September 2, when his 75th anniversary was celebrated, the composer willingly shared his plans, organized a grandiose gala concert “The Creation of the World Continues” at the Mikhailovsky Castle, and on February 2 he ended up in intensive care with a severe stroke, from which he never recovered. His last film work was the music for Eldar Ryazanov’s film “Andersen”.

Politicians and security officials took up non-canonical illustrations The flashes of “cartoon battles” that swept across the Middle East, Central Asia and Europe and, as it seemed, bypassed Russia, still did not pass without consequences for our country. The enthusiasm with which representatives of the domestic political elite began to draw lessons from the scandal and prevent possible interfaith tensions suggests the start of a new campaign.

The new Loko coach lost his first match Minus 15 on the street, plus 15 thousand at the stadium. In such conditions, the new head coach of Lokomotiv, Slavoljub Muslin, had to make his debut. The Serb failed to pass the first exam - Lokomotiv lost to Spanish Sevilla in the first match of the 1/16 finals of the UEFA Cup in Moscow with a score of 0:1. But there is still an opportunity to fix everything in the return meeting in a week.

The European Commission suspects the largest air carriers in Eurasia of price fixing Several of the largest air carriers in Asia and Europe immediately came to the attention of the antimonopoly authorities of the European Union.

The Prosecutor General's Office does not rule out a political version of Sarsenbaev's murder Yesterday in Almaty they said goodbye to Altynbek Sarsenbayev, one of the leaders of the Kazakh opposition. His body, as well as the bodies of the security guard and driver Sarsenbaev, with tied hands and bullet wounds to the back of the head and back, were found on February 13 on the outskirts of Alma-Ata (see Vremya Novostey of February 14) .

Sergei Ivanov fought off hazing Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov yesterday was forced to become a guest of the State Duma’s government hour. The parliamentarians wanted to hear from the head of the military department what he was going to do to eradicate hazing in the troops.

The Moscow City Duma approved a mechanism for expelling beggars with babies The approaching spring has put Moscow City Duma deputies in a lyrical mood and made them remember the most precious thing in every person's life - children. And even about strangers.

Viktor Vekselberg is looking for a partner for the international integration of SUAL Yesterday it became known that SUAL abandoned the idea of ​​creating, together with the British Fleming Family & Partners, an international mining and metallurgical company based on SUAL's assets and Fleming's assets in Africa. The owners of SUAL agreed to terminate the agreement signed in January 2003.

Small business told German Gref about their deepest desires Yesterday, small businesses had a not-so-frequent opportunity to talk about painful issues with those on whom their fate directly depends. “Archimedes said: give me a point of support, and I will move the earth. So you have such support,” Sergei Borisov, president of the all-Russian organization of small and medium-sized businesses OPORA, greeted Minister of Economic Development German Gref at a meeting of the presidium.

At the Olympics in Turin, a real “uniform boom” began. This time the German team had problems with equipment. If athletes from Russia hastily cover up extra sponsor logos with adhesive plaster, then Olympians from Germany will have to change their headgear altogether. The reason for the urgent sewing of new caps was that the sponsor of the German Olympic team mixed up the order of the colors of the country's national flag, namely yellow with red.

Speculators inflated the Russian stock market Speculators ruled the Russian stock market yesterday. Thanks to them, the daily turnover on the MICEX amounted to 83 billion rubles. ($2.95 billion), which is a historical maximum for the entire existence of the exchange since March 1997. At the same time, during the session, trading in Mosenergo shares was suspended on the RTS due to a price drop of more than 10%, and on the MICEX - Rostelecom, on the contrary, due to an increase of more than 20%.

Berlin cartoonist threatened with death The “cartoon confrontation” between the West and the Islamic world has also engulfed Germany. German journalists demonstrate their free-thinking, the faithful demonstrate the inviolability of Islamic shrines. Among the latter were the players of the Iranian national team, which is due to arrive in Berlin for the World Cup in the summer. The other day, the Berlin liberal newspaper Tagesspiegel added fuel to the fire of Muslim protest.

Bureaucratic procedures hinder the solution to the problems of deceived co-investors Once again, Vladimir Resin, the first deputy mayor and head of the capital's construction complex, promised yesterday to put an end to housing pyramid construction in Moscow. From his statement it followed that all deceived co-investors would receive the housing due to them, and unscrupulous builders who failed to fulfill their obligations to shareholders would be punished.