The court will help Yanukovych in bargaining with Yushchenko Yesterday, the Constitutional Court (CC) of Ukraine changed its political color - the chairman of the court, Ivan Dombrovsky, close to President Viktor Yushchenko, resigned of his own free will. His place was taken by Valery Pshenichny, close to the ruling parliamentary coalition.

The Kaliningrad government has figured out how to evaluate the work of municipal leaders In the Kaliningrad region, the regional government will evaluate local heads. No, municipal officials will not be seated behind their desks. Once a year, the regional cabinet of ministers will decide who worked poorly and who did well. The first, accordingly, will be given the “carrot”, and the second will be given the “stick”.

The crisis with medicines for beneficiaries has been eliminated in most regions Tensions in the provision of medicines to privileged categories of citizens are gradually subsiding - this was confirmed yesterday by the heads of almost all territorial departments of Roszdravnadzor, who gathered in Moscow at the invitation of the head of the Federal Service for Surveillance in Healthcare and Social Development Nikolai Yurgel.

The weather in European Russia will continue to be warm in the coming days, with hot weather in the center and south. Isolated thunderstorms will occur in some places in the zone of atmospheric fronts. In the center of Russia on May 18 and 19 there are short thunderstorms in places, on May 20 there is no precipitation, during the day, as if in July, +24...+29оС, and on May 19 it is a couple of degrees cooler.

Monday, May 21 First Prevention on the channel until 11.50 11 . 45 Yeralash 12.00, 15.00, 18.00, 23.30 News 12 . 20 Lolita. Without complexes 13 . 20 Detectives 14 . 00 Other news 14 . 30 Test purchase 15 . 20 Criminal Russia 16 . 00 "LOVE IS LIKE LOVE." Series 17 . 00 Federal Judge 18 . 20 "STREET OF BROKEN LAMPS". Series 19 . 10 Wait for me 20 . 00 "TATYANA'S DAY". Series 21 . 00 Time 21 . 30 "ONE'S OWN - ANOTHER'S". Series 22 . 30 “Millions of Sergei Mavrodi.” Doc. movie 23 .

The World Bank Board of Directors, according to unofficial data, continues to consider an “exit strategy” for World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz from his post . The point is that the bank will take part of the responsibility for the situation that Wolfowitz found himself in when resolving a conflict of interest, and the head of the bank will leave his post within a “reasonable” time frame. Yesterday, US President George W.

CLUBS “Va-Bank” May 18 at the Tabula Rasa club, 23.00. “Lyapis Trubetskoy” at “Concert” on May 18, 22.00, and at the “Graphite” club on May 19, 22.00. “Masha and the Bears” in “B2” May 18, 23.00. “My leg cramped!” May 18 in “Sixteen Tons” , 23.00. Nino Katamadze and Insight at the Orange club on May 18, 20.00. “Children of Picasso” May 19 in the “OGI Project” , 22.00 Evgeny Grishkovets and “Curler” May 19 in “Sixteen Tons” , 23.00. Zhanna Aguzarova in “Orange” May 19, 20.00.

MMM depositors asked the court to punish officials The criminal case of the creator of the main Russian pyramid, Sergei Mavrodi, has received another reason for review. As Vremya Novostey learned, the Moscow City Court recently received a second cassation appeal demanding the cancellation of the verdict of the Chertanovsky District Court of Moscow , which on April 28 sentenced the creator of MMM JSC to four and a half years in prison and payment of more than 20 million rubles.

Today is International Museum Day Our newspaper has selected four events that most correspond to the importance of this holiday. All of them are in one way or another connected with the problems of museum development in the modern world. Two stories are dedicated to the idea of ​​a new museum, two to the transformation of existing museums. Little crown of culture As part of the Art Moscow fair, the editors of WAM magazine presented the New Museum Foundation, which had just been established.

Alcohol and tobacco excise taxes have been legalized for the next three years Manufacturers of low-alcohol cocktails and champagne will get a head start in competition with colleagues from the beer industry throughout the coming year. And next year, beer lovers, in addition to the planned ban on drinking this drink in public places, also face a price increase. Yesterday, President Vladimir Putin signed a law establishing excise tax rates on excisable goods for 2008-2010.

The Chairman of the Constitutional Court accused Mikhail Barshchevsky of being interested in politics and absenteeism The rather harsh criticism of the verdict of the Constitutional Court announced on Wednesday, essentially insisting on the revival of the practice of additional investigation in criminal proceedings, seems to have made the Chairman of the Constitutional Court, Valery Zorkin, very nervous.

Rosnedra is going to study methane accumulations in frozen water Russia decided to follow in the footsteps of the United States and Japan and search for alternative sources of hydrocarbons - in particular, to explore the possibilities of industrial production of gas hydrates (methane accumulation in frozen water).

Rosneft has become a strategic enterprise On May 15, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov signed an order to include Rosneft in the list of strategic enterprises for Russia. According to Art. 191 of the Law “On Insolvency (Bankruptcy)”, on the basis of which this list is compiled, now an oil company that has acquired gigantic debts can receive state guarantees to restructure its debt. Moreover, as it is written in the law, the government should facilitate this on its own initiative.

The President of Latvia has a chance to visit Moscow Yesterday the Latvian Seimas in its final reading adopted the law on ratification of the border treaty with Russia . 70 deputies voted “for”, 25 “against”, and none abstained. Now the floor is up to Russia, which has not yet begun the ratification process. Russian Ambassador to Latvia Viktor Kalyuzhny said that Moscow will make a decision at the end of June.

Americans caught the killer of Russian diplomats The trial of an al-Qaeda terrorist who admitted complicity in the attack, kidnapping and murder of five Russian embassy employees in June 2006 has begun in Baghdad. This was announced by the representative of the US command in Iraq, Major General William Caldwell. According to the American, the militant's name is Umar Wahdallah Dad, also known as Abu Nur and Spider.