The updated law “On Shared Construction” will not stop the protests of defrauded shareholders Trying to prevent new protests by defrauded participants in shared-equity construction, the authorities are urgently correcting mistakes that have led to the emergence of communities of offended co-investors in almost all regions of Russia.

Millhouse Capital will mix alcohol business with publishing The Millhouse Capital investment fund, which manages the assets of Roman Abramovich, Evgeny Shvidler and their associates, as the company told Vremya Novostey, acquired a 60% stake in the Kurier publishing house, which specializes in publishing magazines about alcohol. The new owner intends to invest several million dollars in the development of these publications over the next three years.

Vladimir Putin divided power in universities From now on, rectors and presidents will manage domestic universities. Vladimir Putin approved yesterday amendments to the federal law “On Higher and Postgraduate Professional Education,” thereby ending the era of autocracy in higher education.

The impression from television this season is depressing and heavy. NTV saw off the stars with traditional stories about their bright future in the documentary genre. The departure of the last star of the “old” NTV, Mikhail Osokin, closed a page of Yeltsin’s history... Did Vladimir Gusinsky know how it would end when he launched a serial production about cops?

Television critics about the results of the year The television season has come to an end. The presenters of the final Saturday-Sunday programs say goodbye to the audience until September. Most channels go into summer hibernation, leaving reruns and a few pre-autumn samples on air. How was the outgoing season? What are the trends and patterns? Which programming decisions have brought success to television and which have failed?

The administration of Chelyabinsk took out a loan secured by the city hall building In the coming days, the building of the Chelyabinsk administration will be laid. On Tuesday, the competition commission decided that Promstroybank will receive administrative buildings as collateral for issuing a loan in the amount of 350 million rubles. If the city hall does not pay off its obligations, its employees will have to vacate their offices.

The XVI International Festival “Message to Man” opened in St. Petersburg This is the only film screening of non-fiction, short fiction and animated films in the country, which includes an international competition, an international debut competition and a national documentary competition “Window to Russia”, each competition with its own jury. The Grand Prix costs (and has always cost) $5,000.

Financial markets froze yesterday in anticipation of statements from the head of the US Federal Reserve System, Ben Bernanke. Speaking before the Senate Banking Committee in Washington, he said inflation remains the number one enemy of the American economy. “Persistently high inflation will harm the real sector of the economy, and reversing this trend will cost us dearly,” the Fed chairman is confident.

The Lithuanian helped Dudayev and collected weapons Lithuanian parliamentarians Rytas Kupcinskas and Saulius Pecheliunas appealed to the Prosecutor General of the Republic Algimantas Valantinas with a demand to begin a pre-trial investigation into the strange activities of reserve lieutenant colonel Vytautas Eidukaitis in Chechnya. The occasion was the lieutenant colonel’s book “Children of the Lone Wolf. War diary". It was published in 2001, but only now caught the eye of deputies.

At the tennis competition with a prize fund of 175 thousand dollars in Cincinnati (USA), Serena Williams returned to the WTA tour, who, due to injury, had not competed in official matches since January, after participating in the Australian Open. It seems that during the forced downtime, the American missed tennis a lot, got rid of the consequences of her injury and still managed to get into the shape necessary for a successful performance.

Arctic air from the northwest will continue to penetrate the European territory of Russia, and cold atmospheric fronts will help it in this, as well as cold accumulated at an altitude of about 5 km. On one of the cold atmospheric fronts, which has passed to the south, a cyclone will form, which will bypass Moscow to the south and east. Arctic air will come from the northwest, and very hot air will be forced out to the east of the European territory of Russia, into the Volga region.

Russian pilots received King Hussein's sword at the Farnborough Air Show Assessments of the Farnborough 2006 international aerospace show vary greatly in different media. There is no unanimity among analysts in the field of aviation and space technology. Therefore, Vremya Novostey columnist Nikolai POROSKOV, who is in Farnborough, inquired about the opinion of the exhibition participants themselves.

The mayor of Samara will be changed with the help of the people On Wednesday, deputies of the Samara City Duma nevertheless scheduled the election of the city mayor for October 8 (the newspaper Vremya Novostei wrote in detail about the struggle over the method of electing the city mayor in its issue on July 19) . Of the 25 deputies present at the meeting, 23 voted in favor of setting this date, two abstained.

This year's television season turned out to be velvety: a sea of ​​films and TV series, hot sports battles and a rich entertainment program. It is worth noting the success of specialized channels - the entertainment STS (with its “sitcoms” and “dramedy”) and “Sport” (during the Olympics it came in fourth place in Russia and third in Moscow).

CLUBS Kenny Garrett Quartet (USA) consisting of Kenny Garrett (saxophone), Benito Gonzalez (piano), Kristopher Funn (bass), Jamire Williams (drums). The main jazz alto saxophonist of the last two decades in the world is coming to celebrate the eighth anniversary of the main jazz club in Moscow. The beginning of his career already foreshadowed triumph - he began in the Duke Ellington orchestra, then came to New York and played in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers.