Rare readers finish reading “The Goblet of Fire” to the middle Harry Potter has a beginning, but Harry Potter has no end. It seems that billionaire JK Rowling has gone a little overboard with the volume of her endless series about a boy with a magic wand. The fourth book of the famous multi-volume series “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” turned out to be somewhat difficult for readers.

Watch from March 15 on Moscow screens “Letters from Iwo Jima” (USA, 2006, Clint Eastwood). The epic story of the legendary Battle of Iwo Jima, a turning point in the United States' Pacific campaign during World War II. A sort of mirror image of another Eastwood film released last year, Flags of Our Fathers, which told the same story from an American point of view. Unfortunately, our viewers will only be able to see the Japanese version of events, since “Flags” never made it to our theaters.

The next issue of Otechestvennye Zapiski, which recently went on sale, is dedicated to sports.

The State Duma will be proposed another bill in support of defrauded co-investors Another recipe for helping victims of construction pyramids was announced yesterday by the movement “Committee for Assistance to Victim Shareholders: Housing. Earth. People" (ZhZL).

Today, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), Muhammad ElBaradei, concludes his visit to Pyongyang.

The new president of Chechnya is forming a team The new President of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, decided not to wait for the inauguration, scheduled for April 5, and in the first six months after his confirmation in office, he made a number of personnel decisions. Yesterday, for example, the head of the Vainakh dance ensemble, Dikalu Muzakaev, became the new Minister of Culture of Chechnya instead of Movla Osmayev. But this is far from the main purpose of the last days.

Russia must become an intellectual superpower, not an energy superpower Today Russia is at a historical crossroads. In front of the country, like in front of the knight in the painting of the artist Vasnetsov, there is a fork in the road. One way is an energy empire. The other is a superpower of creation and technology. Moreover, in order to follow each of these paths, Russia has all the necessary and sufficient conditions.

The financial monitoring service intends to strictly monitor large cash transactions Russian banks will have to transfer even more information about their clients' transactions to the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring (FSFM).

The Ukrainian opposition, with the approval of the president, presented an ultimatum to the government Yesterday, the “orange” opposition represented by the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc (BYuT) and the presidential “Our Ukraine”, having read out a manifesto on overcoming the political crisis , left the Rada. They will not return to parliament until the ruling Anti-Crisis Coalition, which has “usurped power,” fulfills their demands, Ms. Tymoshenko promised.

CLUBS Anatoly Gerasimov (saxophone), DJs ZigZag , A. Nikolaev , Dima Yaponets . Soul, house, techno, disco. "Propaganda" , 20.00. Rock`n`Roll Radio : DJ Spirin . Disco, rock and roll. Ikra , 20.00. CONCERTS "Bang together." Musicians from the Netherlands Leo van Duselaar (piano) and Wieneke Jordaens (piano, organ) perform music by J.-S. Bach. The program includes partitas, prelude and fugue in E minor, toccata and fugue in D minor, Brandenburg Concerto No. 6, Suite No. 2.

An exhibition of cars from a government special garage was held in Moscow Vintage cars are a rather specific subject of interest. Their fans organize runs and parades of rare cars, and go to the corresponding exhibitions, of which there are several in Moscow every year. But then, inside one of these exhibitions, a culturally significant event suddenly arose.

The head of the district exceeded the demands of the opposition The heads of municipalities in Russia are suing, arguing with regional authorities, and even more often lately they are ending up in prison on new and old criminal cases, but this weekend an unprecedented case occurred in the Chelyabinsk region. On Saturday afternoon, the relatives of the head of the Kartalinsky municipal district, Alexander Rekunov, found him hanging in a noose.

Intervention within the framework of the Second Moscow Biennale: a submarine opposite the Kremlin Near the Bolshoi Kamenny Bridge you can see the hull of a submarine painted with an abstract pattern flashing with lights of different colors. This is the project “Secret Fairway” by Alexander Ponomarev, supported within the framework of the Second Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art by the French Embassy and the Louvre Museum. The artist creates a submarine fleet of the artistic community.

Nobel Prize-winning writer Gabriel García Márquez, on behalf of Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, will take part in negotiations to end hostilities between the government and rebels from the far-left National Liberation Army (ELN). The anti-American ELN was formed in Colombia in January 1965, its core consists of about four thousand rebels who are based mainly in rural areas and wage guerrilla warfare against the government and right-wing armed groups.

Abkhazia suspects Georgia of raid on Kodori Yesterday, an investigative commission consisting of representatives of the UN, the Georgian and Abkhaz sides, as well as Russian peacekeepers, began studying the incident in the Kodori Gorge of Abkhazia. Tbilisi continues to insist that late on the evening of March 11, several helicopters appeared from Russia and fired at six villages in the region - the only piece of Abkhazia remaining under Georgian control after the 1992-1993 conflict.