De Beers sells spent Kimberley deposit De Beers intends to sell its oldest mine, the company's mascot and symbol of the entire diamond mining industry, the Kimberley, as well as the Culinan mine and a number of other residual resource sites, tailings ponds and mothballed mines in South Africa. De Beers said in a statement that the company will now develop those properties that are “at the top of their game” or that promise promising future production.

CLUBS "Accident". Central House of Artists , 19.00. "Sanchez Thursdays": DJs Sanchez , Spirit , Cross , VJ Addams . Tech house. "Propaganda" , 21.00. CONCERTS "Jazz for beloved women." Academic chamber orchestra Musica Viva , as well as Igor Butman (saxophone), Oleg Butman (drums), Andrey Ivanov (double bass) and Mikhail Ivanov (piano). The concert is conducted by Vladimir Feyertag. Tchaikovsky Concert Hall , 19.00. "Ensembles of Virtuosos" .

Moscow authorities have calculated the maximum number of protesters per square meter of area The city authorities filled the term “sovereign democracy” with new content.

Yesterday, the head of the Politburo of the Palestinian organization Hamas, Mr. Khaled Meshal, who met the day before with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, flew from Moscow to Tehran for negotiations with the Iranian leadership. Neither Iran, nor Russia, nor the Arab countries consider Hamas a terrorist organization, although this point of view is shared by the United States and Israel.

The Ministry of Transport built a model railway The Ministry of Transport will today submit to the government for consideration the model of the railway transportation market developed by the department. A source in the Federal Agency for Railway Transport (Roszheldor), subordinate to the ministry, told Vremya Novostey yesterday that the document provides for the creation of two (and possibly more) large freight rail carriers by 2010.

The new head of the tax service continued the policy of the old A meeting of the Federal Tax Service held yesterday confirmed the assumption: the agency is becoming even more closed. An event as ordinary in its essence as the annual board meeting of the department would, by and large, not deserve a separate description if not for two circumstances.

The Ministry of Health and Social Development is changing its requirements for doctors to the exact opposite The fight against corruption among clinic doctors who promote certain medications to patients has returned to its starting point. The Ministry of Health and Social Development is preparing to cancel its order, which required prescribing preferential prescriptions based not on the brand names of specific drugs, but on their international nonproprietary names (INN) .

Special projects of the Second Moscow Biennale Today, in the Federation Tower of the Moscow City and in the new building of the Central Department Store, the main exhibition opus of the Second Moscow Biennale, prepared by a task force of curators working on call at art forums around the world, will open.

Igor Artemyev spoke out against the deal between Gazprom and SUEK The head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Igor Artemyev, said yesterday that he intends to attempt to block the deal to create a joint venture between Gazprom and the Siberian Coal Energy Company (SUEK) . “I personally oppose it. My attitude towards this deal is negative,” he told reporters. The FAS press service emphasized that Mr.

The prosecutor's office has begun decriminalization of Primorye The Leninsky District Court of Vladivostok yesterday decided to temporarily remove the mayor of the city, Vladimir Nikolaev, from office . Thus, the court satisfied the proposal of the Primorsky Territory prosecutor's office, which the day before announced the initiation of a criminal case against the mayor for abuse of official powers. The court began considering the prosecutor's office's submission on Tuesday, but then Mr.

"Paragraph 78" on Moscow screens We'll have to start with the banal. From the assertion that you still have to be the director Quentin Tarantino and the producers the Weinstein brothers in order to afford not to sacrifice a single meter of film and release films in two volumes. And that the precedent created by Kill Bill Volume 1 and Volume 2, if repeated under less exceptional circumstances, can only give rise to an incident.

German Henkel wins small World Cup trophy The first winner of the small personal World Cup trophy of the 2006/07 season was the German Andrea Henkel. Yesterday the competition resumed with the seventh stage in Lahti (Finland), and the German shooting skier won the individual race for the second time this winter. She retained her leading position and scored 140 points in the standings for this discipline.

They want to license mortgage brokers The majority of bankers support the need to license mortgage brokers, according to data from an expert survey of the National Agency for Financial Research (NAFI). According to representatives of the banking sector, this will help give the status of legally operating brokers, which will increase the public's trust in them.

The collapse of the Asian market will not weaken the investment attractiveness of Russia The collapse of the Chinese economic miracle has already led to the fall of all developing and developed stock markets in the world.

Small businesses want to compete on equal terms with large ones The forum of the All-Russian Organization of Small and Medium Businesses OPORA “Small and Medium Enterprises in the Development of Industry and Technology” began yesterday with the broadcast of President Vladimir Putin’s speech at a meeting of the Presidium of the State Council in Volgograd on February 19.