Sevmashpredpriyatie launched the first Russian submarine First Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov was present yesterday in Severodvinsk at the launching of the first Russian nuclear submarine and at the laying of the world's first floating nuclear power plant. Both vessels will become the flagship of the corresponding series.

"March of Dissent" in St. Petersburg took place in the presence of the President Sunday's “March of Dissent” in St. Petersburg, which gathered about one and a half thousand people, ended in a mass brawl between riot police and the opposition. Dozens of people were beaten with batons, several people were hospitalized, and more than a hundred were detained.

The Russian Table Tennis Federation (FNTR) has taken a serious step towards winning the competition for the right to host the 2010 World Championships in Moscow. In our capital on an introductory visit on the eve of the May Congress of the International Table Tennis Federation in Zagreb (Croatia), where the final choice will be made, the ITTF vice-president, 1977 world champion Frenchwoman Claude Bergere and the executive director of this organization Jordi Serra visited.

Khabarovsk City Hall hired free financial consultants Starting this year, all financial decisions of the Khabarovsk city authorities will undergo mandatory “public examination.” According to Khabarovsk vice-mayor Valery Kazachenko, the idea of ​​creating a commission of so-called people's auditors belongs to mayor Alexander Sokolov. But the people's auditors will still be professionals.

Mikhail Gorbachev defended Russian ideas about democracy from German ones Mikhail Gorbachev explained to the Europeans why Russia will not have the same democracy as theirs. The ex-president of the USSR shared his thoughts on this matter in Kaliningrad at a meeting of the coordinating committee of the Russian-German forum “St. Petersburg Dialogue”.

I’ll be honest: I’m always especially happy when a non-Moscow team wins the Russian championship in a popular team sport. Not because I am against the capital. It’s just that such a victory, let’s be honest, is indifferent to Moscow: only the fans of CSKA, Spartak or Dynamo are happy about it. If a non-capital team wins such a championship, it turns into a triumph for the entire city, and sometimes the entire region.

CLUBS Big band of Igor Butman. “Igor Butman Club” , 20.00. CONCERTS Cesaria Evora (Cape Verde). Evora, as has long been known not only to music lovers, but also to the general public, is the queen and founder of the morna vocal style, “the black Edith Piaf,” as many call her. Drawing African-Brazilian ballads will be played today in the Kremlin Palace , 19.00. "Musical Rarities".

How Contemporary Art Supports the Ruins of a Great Utopia It’s always like this in Russia: the more abomination there is around, the more elevated the “dreams” of the intelligentsia become. All she wants is escapism to escape reality! During the Saturday massacre of the demonstration of dissent, the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra gave a brilliant concert in the Great Hall of the Conservatory at an inopportune time (three o’clock in the afternoon). Gergiev played Mahler's Fifth.

The special forces did not wait for the end of the third trial In the most high-profile case of war crimes against civilians in Chechnya - the so-called Captain Ulman case - another scandal has broken out.

So far, only Ferrari and McLaren drivers are on the podium. Ferrari driver Felipe Massa won his third Formula 1 race, becoming the third winner in three races this season after Kimi Raikkonen and Fernando Alonso. McLaren's Lewis Hamilton, who finished second in Bahrain, finished on the podium for the third time, something no Formula 1 debutant had ever achieved before. Kimi Raikkonen finished third, allowing Ferrari to close the gap with McLaren, the leader in the Constructors' Championship.

Russians prefer that the authorities fight rising prices by increasing wages The inflation rate in Russia is decreasing from year to year. For example, in the first three months of this year it was 3.4%, while for the same period last year it was 5%. At the end of last year, the growth in consumer prices for the first time in Russian history did not exceed a single digit value and stopped at around 9%. This is projected to not exceed 8.5%.

Last week, Russian President Vladimir Putin once again demanded that the government pay special attention to strengthening the ruble exchange rate. At a meeting with members of the Cabinet of Ministers, he emphasized that the dynamics of the strengthening of the national currency could “cut off” the positive dynamics of growth in the processing industries, because, despite a slight slowdown in the rate of strengthening of the ruble, its growth rates are still higher than expected.

On Saturday, April 14, the deadline by which North Korea was supposed to shut down the Yongbyon nuclear reactor passed. In mid-February, six negotiators on the Korean nuclear issue - the two Koreas, China, Russia, the United States and Japan - agreed that Pyongyang would shut down the reactor within 60 days in exchange for economic assistance. However, North Korea refused to fulfill the agreement until the United States unfroze the $25 million it owned in one of the banks in Chinese Macau.

Premieres of the Mariinsky Ballet Festival The seventh festival opened with two evenings combined into the “Russian Project”. Under the pompous title there is a quasi-theoretical basis, which, like almost any curatorial text, does not explain the content of what was undertaken, but imitates it.

Estonia did not allow Nord Stream to explore the Baltic Sea Estonia has rejected a request from the operator company Nord Stream, which intends to build the Nord Stream gas pipeline from Russia to Germany along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, to conduct a study of the country's maritime economic zone.