For the first time in several decades, the May 9 parade lost its human dimension - it was as if it had been frozen. Although passions and emotions are the main television language of our time (“Turn off your brains” is the slogan of “2x2”, “Series are your second life” - an announcement on STS).

Russian diplomat will talk with Tbilisi and Tskhinvali Co-chairman of the Joint Control Commission (JCC) for the Georgian-Ossetian settlement, Russian Foreign Ministry Ambassador at Large Yuri Popov arrived in Tbilisi yesterday for consultations with Georgians and Ossetians and the possible organization of their negotiations.

There has been a short period of relative calm in our basketball. The club season is over; the country's men's and women's national teams will begin preparations for the autumn European Championships only in July.

The Arctic air, which invaded at the beginning of June, has firmly taken possession of most of European Russia. The slow-moving Scandinavian anticyclone contributes to this. Arctic air is fully manifested at night, when the temperature in some places drops almost to freezing. During the day, the bright summer sun returns moderate warmth. And in the coming days June does not promise summer warmth.

Serbian coach Dusan Ivkovic will no longer work with Dynamo Moscow. The official website of the “blue and white” reported this yesterday. The coach's two-year contract has expired; the management of the capital's club will not renew its relationship with Ivkovic.

CLUBS Fred Wesley (trombone, USA). Famous American trombonist, best known as the musical director of James Brown's band from 1968 to 1975. "B1 Maximum" , 20.00. Kid Koala (Canada). In the world, this man, a legendary DJ, is called Eric Sun. His concert is a real show. Sun uses everything he can get his hands on - television advertisements, series intros, comedy sketches, sneezing sounds, answering machines and even speeches in incomprehensible languages. Ikra , 22.00. Uphill Work .

Car loans are becoming more accessible, but the risk of fraud is increasing Bank of foreign cars The Russian car lending market will soon be replenished with new participants who can significantly change the already established rules of the game. We are talking about banks wholly owned by foreign automakers. Such financial institutions are able to issue cheaper loans and thereby attract a significant number of borrowers for the market.

The governor's corps has been replenished with another unexpected "legionnaire" Vladimir Putin on Wednesday submitted to the people's khural (parliament) of Buryatia the candidacy of the first vice-governor of the Tomsk region, Vyacheslav Nagovitsyn, to vest him with the powers of the president of the republic.

Russia will not allow Kosovo to be cut off from Serbia Russia is “firmly in solidarity” with the Serbian leadership on the Kosovo issue , Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said yesterday after negotiations with his Serbian counterpart Vuk Jeremic (pictured) . Appointed on May 15 as head of Serbian diplomacy, 32-year-old Jeremic arrived in Russia for a three-day visit at the invitation of his Russian colleague.

The “School of Dramatic Art” showed “Coriolanus” directed by Igor Yatsko For a long time now, Anatoly Vasiliev, offended that the city took away one of the stages from him, went abroad, from where, like Kurbsky, he sends angry letters, but since then his orphaned troupe has not had a premiere.

The State Duma has entered an active stage of the fight against smokers The assortment of tobacco stalls and cigarette stands in supermarkets may very soon become much more boring and monotonous. Following unfiltered cigarettes - and now they have become a rarity - a whole range of strong brands will disappear.

The cause of the accident at the Ulyanovskaya mine was interference in the safety system The cause of the explosion at the Yubileiny mine in Kemerovo , where 39 people died on May 24, was deliberate interference with the operation of methane control systems. These are the preliminary conclusions of the commission’s work, which were announced yesterday by the head of Rostechnadzor, Konstantin Pulikovsky, during the government hour in the State Duma.

During the reform of the electric power industry, the first foreign investor appeared Yesterday, RAO UES of Russia sold generating capacity to a foreign company for the first time during the reform. Italian Enel offered 39.2 billion rubles for a blocking stake (25.03%) in OGK-5 shares . ($1.52 billion), this is 1.6 times more than the starting price.

Russians do not yet have sufficient incentives for voluntary pension contributions The new pension strategy for stimulating voluntary pension contributions, when for every thousand rubles of voluntary contribution the investor will receive another thousand from the state, announced by President Vladimir Putin in his last annual message to the Federal Assembly , so far makes experts wary of it.

A new global project for the development of the Urals will be presented at the St. Petersburg Economic Forum At the end of this week, without exaggeration, the whole country will gather in St. Petersburg, where the St. Petersburg Economic Forum will be held. President Vladimir Putin, almost all federal ministers, economists and businessmen from all over the world will take part in the forum. The event promises to become one of the main events in the economic life of the country.