Two exhibitions of the parallel program of the Moscow Photo Biennale The current photobiennale is an anniversary one. It is useful to talk about problems that have been brewing for ten years. In my opinion, the main thing is the lack of invited curators with a clear strategic plan and goals. Olga Sviblova, of course, carries out a great cultural mission: she regularly introduces Muscovites to the main names in world photography.

Britain is ready to leave Airbus for good money The British defense group BAE Systems is negotiating the exit from the shareholders of the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus. It is assumed that the 20% stake in Airbus, currently owned by the British group, may be purchased by another shareholder of the concern - the European aerospace group EADS, which already controls 80% of Airbus shares.

Performances by Evgeniy Marcelli at the Golden Mask It doesn’t often happen that two works by the same director, created in the same theater, end up together on the Golden Mask shortlist. This year, please, The Cherry Orchard and Miss Julie, made by Evgeniy Marcelli at the Omsk Drama, were shown in a row in Moscow.

Candidates for Italian Prime Minister tortured voters with abuse Yesterday parliamentary elections began in Italy, which will continue today, and the pre-election race finished on Saturday. The law says that one day before the vote, campaigning must cease: speeches by opposing leaders, rallies and demonstrations are prohibited. On Friday, 69-year-old Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi completed his election campaign in Naples.

FOOTBALL. April 12. Russian Cup. Quarterfinals. Return matches. CSKA - Rubin, Torpedo - Zenit, Dynamo (M) - Saturn, Lokomotiv - Spartak (M). Russian Championship. Premier League. 5th round. April 15. "Zenith" - "Luch-Energia". April 16. "Lokomotiv" - CSKA, "Rubin" - "Spartak" (M), "Moscow" - "Spartak" (Nch), "Torpedo" - "Wings of the Soviets", "Shinnik" - "Amkar", "Tom" - "Saturn". An unprecedented event: on Wednesday four matches of the Russian Cup will take place in Moscow.

Forecast for the coming days In the north-west of the European territory of Russia, in the zone of influence of the Atlantic cyclone, it is still cool, the temperature at night is about 0°C, and during the day no higher than +4...+9°C, at this temperature the precipitation is appropriate - from sleet to rain. In the center of Russia, with a wind from the south, it is much warmer: at night 0...+5оС, and during the day +9...+15оС.

The Swedes released Andrei Zamyatnin, but did not apologize Russian biologist Andrei Zamyatnin, 29, who was accused of espionage in Sweden, was released from custody on Friday. The first thing Andrei did when he left the gates of the Kronoberg detention center was to ask the Russian consular officials who met him for a phone to call his family in Moscow. He looked happy and a little confused and, it seems, he himself did not expect such a swift and happy ending to the protracted story.

The head of the administration of a “model agricultural city” is not allowed to comply with federal law Valentina Lyagutskaya, the head of the administration of Nekrasovka, one of the largest villages in the Khabarovsk Territory, filed a claim with the regional arbitration court against the authorities of the Khabarovsk rural district.

"Antibodies" on Moscow screens The Berlin police are triumphant: they have finally caught, albeit almost by accident, a brutal maniac child killer named Gabriel Angel. He is responsible for many heinous acts, including, apparently, the murder of a little girl in a village near the capital. No one doubts that this is the work of Angel... except for the weak village policeman Michael - the only person with whom, for unknown reasons, the killer is ready to talk.

Russians trust their national currency most of all The ROMIR Monitoring company on Friday published a study on the currency basket of Russians’ savings. The picture turned out to be this: 46% of respondents save money in rubles, only 10% of the population prefer dollars, and only 4% of Russians trust the euro currency as a store of value. Although, of these three currencies, investments in euros are now the most profitable.

Novy Urengoy played away matches better than home ones Tomorrow all participants in the semi-final series of the playoffs of the Russian men's championship will be known. In two pairs of the first round of the knockout tournament, the maximum format was needed to determine the winner. The fifth matches will be played in confrontations between Fakel (Novy Urengoy) and Neftyanik Bashkortostan (Ufa) and Iskra (Odintsovo) and Dynamo-TTG (Kazan).

In Russia there is no system of inclusive education for young disabled people A meeting of the Russian Public Council for the Development of Education (ROSRO) held in Moscow was devoted to the problem of accessibility to full-fledged education for children with disabilities. Opening it, the rector of the Higher School of Economics, Yaroslav Kuzminov, cited data according to which about 5% of children in our country are physically or mentally disabled.

The Ministry of Industry and Energy intends to abolish Rosenergo For the first time in its two-year history, the government of Mikhail Fradkov will decide the issue of liquidating one of its structures. The Ministry of Industry and Energy is planning to get rid of one of its three constituent agencies, Rosenergo, and at the end of last week sent a draft of its new structure to the government. A source in the ministry told Vremya Novostey about this.

The center began preparing the anniversary of the Caspian capital of Russia A series of celebrations of city birthdays reached Astrakhan, which local residents, despite its modest size, proudly call the Caspian capital of Russia. True, the 450th anniversary of the city will come only in two years, but gifts for the future birthday boy have already begun.

Recently, the Russian-British TNK-BP has increasingly had to work with state-owned companies - Rosneft and Gazprom. On a parity basis with Gazprom, it controls Slavneft, whose commodity flows, as it became known recently, were divided. And together with Rosneft he plans to work on the large East Siberian Verkhnechonskoye field.