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 industrial successes of TV are visible and concrete. The entry of STS-Media to the stock exchange is proof of the managerial talent of Alexander Rodnyansky and the professionalism of his team, as well as confirmation of the new state of the television industry, ready to sell the dream.

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?

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

For the first time in years, channel executives stopped pretending that they were making great television for everyone and admitted that the audience had changed. The audience has become, to put it bluntly, less educated, more marginal, and less solvent. That is, those who cannot afford other forms of leisure are left watching the television screen. That is why there is such interest in low genres. This is what dictated much of the policy of channel managers.

We have the best television in the world, and this season is proof of that. Almost without exception, the latest domestically produced film premieres managed to be released on our channels, as well as many imported blockbusters. And what a competition of iconic TV series! “In the First Circle” (“Russia”), “Doctor Zhivago” (NTV) will undoubtedly remain in the annals of domestic television. “Talkers in formation” are experiencing a renaissance.