CLUBS News from Helsinki: Alamaailman Vasarat , Eternal Erection , Underwater Sleeping Society , Bleak (Finland). Alamaailman Vasarat translated into Russian means “Hammers of the Lower World”. Six Finns, armed with a brass section, piano, cellos and drums, play enchanting, picturesque and dashing pieces. Ikra , 21.00.

The President of Kazakhstan buried the Trans-Caspian gas pipeline Azerbaijan, which, in alliance with the United States and the European Union, is trying to revive the project of laying the Trans-Caspian pipeline to organize the transit of Central Asian gas to Turkey and further to Europe, received a crushing blow. One of the key potential suppliers of raw materials - Kazakhstan - has actually refused to discuss this idea.

Russian Transport Minister Igor Levitin has decided to carry out a long-awaited change in the leadership of the Federal Air Transport Agency (Rosaviation) in professional circles. He sent Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov a proposal for the appointment of Evgeniy Bachurin (pictured) as head of the agency, who now holds the post of deputy head of Rosaviatsiya (before that, he worked for several years as commercial director of Aeroflot).

The prosecutor's office declared it a crime to test vaccines on children The scandalous story of conducting clinical trials of new vaccines on Volgograd children received new developments yesterday. Previously, the prosecutor's office was able to see in the actions of the employees of the departmental clinical hospital (OKB) of the Volgograd-1 station, subordinate to JSC Russian Railways, where the ill-fated tests were carried out, only signs of illegal entrepreneurship.

Banks will not have their fines reduced for violating the anti-money laundering law The Central Bank does not approve of the idea of ​​abandoning the practice of revoking licenses from banks due to violations of the law on money laundering. The regulator informed bankers about this in a letter addressed to the President of the Association of Russian Banks (ARB) Garegin Tosunyan.

LUKOIL agreed to invest in railway infrastructure LUKOIL is again ready to help Russian Railways and itself in expanding the Vysotsk direction in the Leningrad region.

The Belarusian opposition wants to hold a conference this fall, which would also be attended by representatives of the authorities and European structures. The leader of the United Civil Party, Anatoly Lebedko, told Vremya Novostei about this. In his opinion, the conference could mark the beginning of negotiations on the democratization of the country.

EMI will put its catalog on the iTunes online store The famous British record company EMI Group Plc. decided to keep up with the times by announcing the transfer of some of its products to digital format for sale via the Internet. She agreed on this yesterday with the American corporation Apple Inc. According to Reuters, EMI will offer a "significant number" of audio recordings from its catalog without copy protection for sale on Apple's iTunes online store and other audio portals.

Why did the Israeli Prime Minister need Arabs? Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is ready to begin negotiations with leaders of the Islamic world. It is symbolic that he announced this on the eve of the Passover holiday (Jewish Passover), which began yesterday evening, symbolizing the exit of the Jews from Egypt described in the Old Testament. "Without a doubt, there is a significant gap between the views of Israel and Muslim countries.

Novak Djokovic did not give a single game at the Masters in Miami In world men's tennis, there has not been such an interesting, exciting in terms of plot and unpredictability of a major tournament for a long time as the Masters with the largest prize fund for competitions in this category of $3.45 million in Miami. The last two years have been dominated exclusively by world number one and two Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.

After the dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada, the situation is heating up On Monday evening, Viktor Yushchenko signed a decree dissolving the Verkhovna Rada and scheduled new elections to the Rada for May 27. Deputies of the Rada and the government led by Viktor Yanukovych refused to implement the decree of the President of Ukraine, considering it unconstitutional.

Hit Iran this Friday - 'poker game' The situation of 15 British military personnel (seven sailors and eight marines) detained by the Iranians in the Persian Gulf on March 23 is becoming increasingly uncertain. London claims that it is “not negotiating” on them at all, since the sailors should be released without preconditions. But, according to a Vremya Novostey source in the Foreign Office, both sides are involved in active diplomatic contacts.

On the eve of round anniversaries in Moscow, they remember the remains of the city’s founder The idea to disturb the ashes of Yuri Dolgoruky began preparations in Moscow for the celebration of the 860th anniversary of the Russian capital. The proposal to return to the city the remains of the same man whom the townspeople know very well by sight, because every day they pass by his bronze image on cars and trolleybuses, was voiced by Moscow City Duma deputy Ivan Novitsky. Mr.

Ricarda Merbet sang songs by Richard Strauss in the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra subscription A subscription concert of the Bolshoi Theater Symphony Orchestra took place in the Great Hall of the Conservatory. By tradition, the evening was graced by the Moscow debut of a European star. In December there was Ruth Cizak, who sang Mozart’s concert arias, which are not common among us, in an exemplary manner. Now - Ricarda Merbet.

The Central Bank will buy less currencies on the domestic market This year the Bank of Russia will buy currencies on the domestic market by $40 billion less than in 2006. This was stated yesterday by the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank, Alexey Ulyukaev. This is due to a decrease in the positive trade balance.