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.

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

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 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).

In industrial society, starting from the end of the 18th century, new religious, philosophical, social and technological prerequisites emerged, on the basis of which the improvement of man was identified with the improvement of his physical abilities.

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

The Control Chamber of Georgia transferred to the Prosecutor General's Office the materials of the inspection of the Ministry of Defense for 2005-2006, when Irakli Okruashvili was the head of the military department, the Tbilisi newspaper Alia reported yesterday. According to the publication, we are talking about the misuse of 250 million lari ($147 million).

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.

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.

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.

Famous cyclist exonerated in doping case An eight-day race along the Paris-Nice route began the next season of the Pro Tour cycling road series, in which two dozen elite teams participate. The day before yesterday, the Spanish police, for lack of evidence, stopped the investigation into the case of Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes, who was suspected of supplying the world's leading cyclists with illegal drugs.

Yesterday, Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Ali Larijani called on Russia to fulfill its obligations on the construction of a nuclear power plant in Bushehr and the supply of nuclear fuel for it on time. The Russian federal agency Rosatom announced on Monday that it would delay fuel deliveries to Tehran due to insufficient Iranian funding for the construction of the nuclear power plant. According to the Russian side, Iran stopped payments on January 17, 2007.

Mikhail Fradkov is going to find oil in Eastern Siberia using inspections Transneft did not have time to build 15% of the Eastern Siberia-Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline, and the government was already thinking about how to actually fill it. Visiting one of the construction sites in the Yakut city of Neryungri yesterday, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov harshly criticized subsoil users for not rushing to develop the subsoil of Eastern Siberia.

The Stavropol governor may pay with his position for an alliance with United Russia The possible resignation of the Governor of the Stavropol Territory, Alexander Chernogorov, became perhaps the main intrigue in the “debriefing” after the regional elections on March 11.