The Domodedovo Air Service in-flight catering factory has entered into an agreement with the world's largest manufacturer and operator in the field of in-flight catering - LSG Sky Chefs, whose shareholder is Deutsche Lufthansa AG. For three years, the Russian company will use the partner's consulting services and know-how - from logistics and personnel training to building relationships with clients.

Today the Russian public is celebrating the half-century anniversary of the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences - IMEMO RAS. In 1956, after the 20th Congress of the CPSU, he became the successor to the Institute of World Economy and World Politics, headed from 1925 to 1948 by the famous academician and economist Evgeniy Varga.

The government has approved approximate income and expenses for the next three years The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade again lacked money. The main parameters of the financial plan for 2007-2009, approved yesterday at a meeting of the budget commission chaired by Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, in the opinion of the country's chief economist German Gref, recklessly fix the minimum investment expenses.

The Prosecutor General of Turkmenistan repented to Turkmenbashi live The Prosecutor General of Turkmenistan, Kurbanbibi Atajanova, who was sent into retirement on April 10 “for health reasons,” was finally defeated, slandered, called an “oathbreaker,” accused of “moral failure” and placed at the mercy of Turkmen law. The same one that she has been vomiting with the permission of the “father of the nation” since 1995.

The division of capital functions between Russian cities is becoming a fashionable topic Experts who gathered on Tuesday at a meeting of the discussion club “On the return of part of the capital’s functions to St. Petersburg”, for the most part, believe that the transfer of the Constitutional Court to St. Petersburg is a trend towards decentralization of power. Moreover, it is positive even taking into account financial, transport and human costs.

The liquidators of the consequences of the accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant received personal attention from the President yesterday. In his representative office in the Kremlin, Vladimir Putin presented eight liquidators with the Order of Courage, four with the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, second degree, and eight with the medal for saving the dead.

Yuri Luzhkov obliged officials to monitor the number of schoolchildren in classes Yesterday, the capital's mayor, Yuri Luzhkov, called on the “whole world” to fight truancy, proposing to divide responsibility for the attendance of poor students at schools among local authorities.

Watch from April 27 on Moscow screens “My heart stopped beating” (France, 2005, Jean Audiard). An excellent film by an excellent French director Audiard (“See People Fall”, “The Self-Proclaimed Hero”, “Read My Lips”), a remake of James Toback’s little-known, but certainly classic independent film “Fingers” with Harvey Keitel.

The national carrier is only interested in Dalavia Aeroflot management does not support the idea of ​​consolidating all state assets of Russian civil aviation around this airline. The project for such consolidation by introducing state assets into the authorized capital of Aeroflot was formulated in a letter that Rosimushchestvo sent to the Ministry of Transport on April 4 of this year.

Privatization in Russia should end with the emergence of 30-40 state holdings There are at least three more years left until the end of privatization, Svyazinvest will not be sold this year, and it is desirable to create 30-40 large state holdings in strategic industries in the country. Yuri Petrov, who headed the Russian Federal Property Fund (RFFI) two weeks ago, announced this at his first press conference in his new capacity.

On the day of his 54th birthday, Vladislav Tretyak headed the FHR Yesterday, at an extraordinary conference of the Russian Hockey Federation, State Duma deputy, head of the Duma Committee on Physical Education, Sports and Youth Affairs Vladislav Tretyak was elected president of the Russian Hockey Federation. No one doubted that it was Tretyak who would lead one of the country’s key sports federations. The elections were held on a non-alternative basis.

The Georgian opposition has been boycotting parliamentary sessions throughout April. Street protests will resume in May. One of the opposition leaders, Republican deputy Ivlian KHAINDRAVA, spoke about the reasons for the escalation of the confrontation in an interview with a Vremya Novostei correspondent. - The gap between society and government is becoming more and more obvious. But the government has withdrawn into itself and does not respond to people’s concerns.

The state of the 30-kilometer Chernobyl exclusion zone 20 years after the accident and what work is being carried out in it was discussed in an interview with Vremya Novostey by the Minister of Ukraine for Emergency Situations and Overcoming the Consequences of the Chernobyl Disaster Viktor BALOGA . -- How relevant is the problem of radioactive soil contamination in Ukraine and especially around the plant?

Russian mortgage bank revealed its owners - MIAN and Sobinbank Russian Mortgage Bank announced a change of shareholders. The controlling stake - 50.61% - now belongs to the Technopolis-Project holding, which includes the MIAN group of companies, and Sobinbank owns 49.39% of the shares. Market participants, however, believe that these structures were previously the owners of the Russian Mortgage Bank, it’s just that now it was decided to officially declare this.

Tonight the ensemble of Brian IRVINE - if not the most famous, then certainly the most eccentric Irish composer of our time - will perform at the House of Music. His work is both a smart and hooligan mishmash of classical strings, rap, rock 'n' roll bass guitar and everything else that comes to hand. On stage, he and his musicians behave in such a way that if the audience behaved this way, they would definitely be removed by security.