"Don Giovanni" - a new Mozart with Currentzis In the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the production center Classica Viva, conductor Teodor Currentzis, the Musica Viva orchestra and eight excellent soloists from the world's opera stages closed the season with a concert performance of Mozart's Don Giovanni in the ancient style, in a vibration-free manner and with baroque vocals.

Palestinian ministers arrested in response to Israeli kidnappings Yesterday, the Israelis responded to the kidnapping of 19-year-old Israeli corporal Gilad Shalit by counter-arresting a number of Palestinian leaders. The sudden attack by militants on an Israeli checkpoint, which led to the death of two soldiers and the capture of Corporal Shalit, was a great humiliation for the Israeli army. Now the Palestinians are humiliated.

G8 foreign ministers meet in Moscow The main topic of yesterday's meeting in Moscow of the G8 foreign ministers was Tehran's nuclear program.

Experts are alarmed by chaotic amendments to election legislation The political action club “November 4” discussed the rapidly changing electoral and party legislation at its regular meeting. Most experts agreed that the amendments adopted by the State Duma to abolish the “against all” column and return to early voting do not correspond to the entire previous logic of legislative development.

Mufti demands to initiate a criminal case against the Rostov newspaper The Chairman of the Main Spiritual Directorate of Muslims of the Rostov Region, Mufti Flyur Arslanov, appealed to Governor Vladimir Chub, Prosecutor of the Rostov Region Anatoly Kharkovsky, as well as Presidential Envoy to the Southern Federal District Dmitry Kozak with a request to give a legal assessment of one of the publications in the newspaper “Evening Rostov”.

United Russia wants to provide the president's successor with its party card State Duma Speaker and United Russia leader Boris Gryzlov told reporters yesterday that the party will nominate its candidate for the 2008 presidential elections. He emphasized that “a party president is a generally accepted practice” and similar experience is used in most countries, including the G8 countries.

The intelligence services of St. Petersburg are preparing to receive G8 leaders The police and special services are actively clearing St. Petersburg on the eve of the G8 summit. All employees of security structures are extensively checked and interviews are conducted with them. Some of the private detectives, as well as ordinary citizens, were instructed to immediately hand over their weapons for temporary storage. Special passes have already been prepared for St.

The government allowed the ruble to become convertible The government is lifting restrictions in currency legislation that it itself introduced three years ago. Then, in 2003, the president, in his annual message to parliament, for the first time set the task of achieving the conversion of the ruble. The Ministry of Finance responded to this task with a new version of the law on currency regulation and control.

Films from the out-of-competition program of the XXVIII MIFF Not a single self-respecting international festival can do without films from different parts of Asia, and Moscow is no exception. Not all of the films shown in the out-of-competition program have already found their Russian distributor, but in any case it makes sense to remember at least a few titles and, if necessary, find and watch these films without fail. “Men at Work” (Iran, 2006, Mani Haghighi).

A local plane was lifted in the Far East Certification tests of the new Su-80 aircraft for local airlines began in Komsomolsk-on-Amur. Yesterday, the first test flight lasting one hour took place on the territory of the Komsomolsk-on-Amur Aviation Production Association named after Yu.A. Gagarin (KnAAPO), part of the Sukhoi Holding Company. The aircraft was flown by Sukhoi Design Bureau test pilots Yuri Vashchuk and Alexey Lilye. The flight went as usual.

On the screens of Moscow - an ideal domestic film for the middle class The film “Communication” was composed by Avdotya Smirnova, widely known as the co-host of the TV show “School of Scandal.” First she wrote a script, which, following her other works - “Giselle’s Mania”, “The Diary of His Wife”, “The Walk” - was to be shot by director and producer Alexey Uchitel. And then I took up directing, and as it turned out, it was not in vain.

Arcelor shareholders will choose a company to merge today In Luxembourg, the fate of the steel deal of the year will be decided today: shareholders of Europe's largest metallurgical company Arcelor at an extraordinary meeting must choose with whom to merge - with the world's largest Dutch Mittal Steel in terms of production volume or with the Russian Severstal. Strictly speaking, the meeting is considering a deal with the head of Severstal, Alexei Mordashov.

Monday, July 3 FIRST CHANNEL 5 . 00, 9.00, 12.00, 15.00, 18.00, 23.40 News 5 . 05 First program 6 . 00 Good morning 9 . 20 "Revenge of the Altai Princess." Doc. movie 10 . 30 Detectives 11 . 00 Malakhov + 12 . 20 Hourly roads 13 . 30 Love and deceit 14 . 00 No complexes 15 . 20 "DETECTIVES". Series 16 . 30, 0.40 Doctor Kurpatov 17 . 00 Let them talk 18 . 10 Criminal Russia 18 . 50 "LOVE IS LIKE LOVE." TV series (S) 19 . 50 Federal Judge 21 . 00 Time 21 . 30 "IN THE RHYTHM OF TANGO".

The first agricultural census since Lenin's times starts in Russia Tomorrow, July 1, the All-Russian Agricultural Census (ARC) begins. The first in 86 years. The Federal State Statistics Service, together with the Ministry of Agriculture and regional administrations, will have to survey more than 60 thousand agricultural enterprises, 254.5 thousand farms (peasants) and 22.6 million personal subsidiary plots, 32.3 thousand individual entrepreneurs, as well as 80 thousand .

In the center of Russia (in the warm part of the cyclone), the average daily temperature was 6-7 degrees higher than normal. The weather will change in the next 24 hours. An anticyclone is moving to the north of European Russia. Northern winds blowing along its eastern edge carry cold arctic air. With a north or northeast wind during the day, the temperature will drop to +19...+24°C.