NLMK will buy a stake in American Winner Steel Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works announced yesterday that it is going to buy another asset in the United States. We are talking about the Pennsylvania independent company Winner Steel, whose capacity allows it to produce 1.2 million tons of galvanized sheets per year. However, now they are only half used.

Premiere of the play “Balzaminov” at the Satyricon Theater Director Marina Brusnikina took three plays by Ostrovsky, the main character of which is the poor and impossibly stupid official Balzaminov, who dreams of finding a rich bride, thoroughly shortened them and staged them in one evening.

The referendum opened the way for women to have an abortion Residents of Portugal voted in favor of abortion in a referendum held on Sunday. This is what the residents of the country decided, where almost 80% of the adult population recognizes themselves as practicing Catholics.

Russia and India are trying to increase each other's economic growth rates If two states at the stage of rapid economic growth join forces, the potential of each of them will increase significantly. India's GDP is approaching a trillion dollars, and Russia's has already reached this mark. It is rapid economic growth that explains the increased activity in Russian-Indian relations recently.

Yesterday, the names of two Taiwanese state-owned enterprises officially changed: China Post became Taiwan Post, and China Petroleum Company became Taiwan Petroleum Company (CPC Taiwan). President Chen Shui-bian and Premier Su Zhenchang took part in the sign changing ceremony. Chen said this is just a small step toward "transforming Taiwan into a complete state" and called for a fight against the old thinking of the Kuomintang, when the word "Taiwan" was perceived negatively.

CONCERTS Symphonic Chapel of Russia , conductor Valery Polyansky , soloists Elena Semenova (soprano), Lyudmila Kuznetsova (mezzo-soprano), Andrey Kuznetsov (tenor), Oleg Dolgov (tenor), Alexander Kiselev (bass). The program includes Schumann's Symphony No. 4, Schubert's Mass No. 6 for soloists, choir and orchestra. Tchaikovsky Concert Hall , 19.00.

Alu Alkhanov responded to Ramzan Kadyrov President of Chechnya Alu Alkhanov and Secretary of the Security Council of the Republic German Vok yesterday launched a counter-offensive in an information battle with the team of Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov regarding the latter’s further promotion. For the prime minister to become president, President Alkhanov must resign early.

There is progress in the Korean nuclear negotiations Last night, media around the world anxiously awaited news from Beijing that a long-awaited agreement had been reached at the six-party talks on the DPRK nuclear issue. It had already passed midnight in the Chinese capital, and the outcome of the meeting of delegations remained unknown.

Chronicle of sporting events Russian tennis player Nadezhda Petrova won her first championship title this season. In the final of the women's tennis tournament in Paris with a prize fund of 600 thousand dollars, the Muscovite defeated the Czech Lucie Safarova - 4:6, 6:1, 6:1. According to Petrova, experience, which was on the Russian woman’s side, played a key role in the fight with her 20-year-old opponent.

Football is being played again in Italy Italy, which in addition to the title of world champion in football can also bear the title of world champion in football scandals, has resumed its championship. Well-known events in Catania forced the authorities to take a number of tough, sometimes even unpopular, measures. All matches must start at three o'clock in the afternoon, thereby breaking the Italian tradition of leaving the central match of the tour for dessert. But that's not so bad.

Protest sentiments were encouraged at the Grammy ceremony The forty-ninth Grammy ceremony, held in Los Angeles, turned out to be loud not only musically, but also in a purely political sense. The Academy decided to honor with as many as five gramophone statuettes the notorious all-girl stadium country trio Dixie Chicks, whose members in 2003 declared that not only were they against the war in Iraq, they were generally ashamed of their Texan origins - the same as President Bush.

The Central Election Commission launched the campaign campaign for regional elections The head of the Central Election Commission, Alexander Veshnyakov, proposes, in the current state of the party system, to abolish the electoral deposit and the collection of signatures in support of parties for the registration of parties in regional elections. He came to this conclusion after observing the registration process for the legislative elections on March 11, 2007.

One of the most active investigators during the German Autumn of the 1970s hunting for RAF terrorists was Klaus Pflieger. Today he is the Prosecutor General of the Supreme Regional Court in Stuttgart and in this capacity participated in the decision to release Brigitte Monhaupt from prison. Prosecutor General Klaus PFLIGER spoke about his experience in fighting left-wing terrorists in an interview with Vremya Novostey.

They have carne vale in Latin - “meat, goodbye”, we have meat-free or cheese week, Maslenitsa, and here and there the last week before Lent, when you can no longer eat meat, but fish, cheese, milk, butter and eggs It's still possible. And although in this pre-Lenten week the church no longer holds weddings, and there are no weddings, here and there they have fun from the heart.

The state got rid of shares in Conversbank The management company Renaissance Capital-Finance became a shareholder of Conversbank , part of the international financial group of the same name. Yesterday, Renaissance acquired the state's stake in the credit institution - 14.26% - for 335 million rubles. Market participants consider this core investment of the company to be very cheap and believe that the purchase was made only for further resale.