The World Wide Web is taking over not only newspapers, but also television What over the past ten years was seen as a thing, although not so distant, but still of the future, is now becoming a reality: people are increasingly choosing the Internet over traditional forms of mass media.

Moscow retained its leadership in the ranking of the most expensive cities in the world for business travelers Rising prices in the Russian capital, it seems, will soon irritate not only Muscovites themselves, but also foreign citizens coming here to work .

Polish President Lech Kaczynski received a pleasant gift on his 58th birthday - an invitation to take part as a special guest in the GUAM summit in Baku . Yesterday, on his birthday, he flew to Azerbaijan, which he had already visited on an official visit at the end of March. Then the main goal of the negotiations was Azerbaijan's participation in the Polish-Ukrainian project of the Odessa-Brody-Plock-Gdansk oil pipeline, through the pipes of which Caspian oil was supposed to flow.

Awarded the Crystal Turandot Award The theater season has not yet ended, but the first theater award based on its results has already been awarded. For sixteen years now, “Crystal Turandot” has been awarded in June, and the fact that in recent years Moscow theaters have been releasing premieres until August does not bother anyone - here the holiday has always been considered more important than formalities.

Deputies want to restore tax breaks for sellers of shares State Duma deputies have prepared a bill aimed at supporting the Russian stock market. We are talking about restoring tax deductions for securities holders that were canceled earlier this year. Proponents of this initiative believe that the opportunity to avoid paying taxes could greatly encourage people to invest money in the stock market.

The 17th international film festival “Message to Man” opened on June 15 in St. Petersburg. This year, more applications for participation were submitted than ever before --- 1,854 films from 74 countries, which is explained not only by the increase in the number of people wishing to make documentaries and animation films, but also by the fact that this year the conservative St. Petersburg forum is accepting works filmed on film for the first time. "digital".

The award ceremony for the laureates of the “City of Women” journalistic competition took place in Moscow. Recently, journalists from the CIS and Baltic countries came to the Russian capital to receive well-deserved awards for the best articles and stories on women's issues.

Vladimir Dmitriev received parting words from the President Vladimir Putin yesterday announced the appointment of Vladimir Dmitriev as head of the Development Bank. The Russian President told Mr. Dmitriev himself about this decision when meeting with him in the Kremlin. There was no doubt that Vladimir Dmitriev, who has headed Vnesheconombank since 2004, would be entrusted with the Development Bank.

Svetislav Pesic was appointed coach of the capital's Dynamo The basketball players of the country's oldest men's team in the capital, Dynamo, were not left without a head coach for long. On June 6, the club’s leaders decided not to renew relations with Serbian Dusan Ivkovic, under whom the “blue and white” were left without national championship medals for two years in a row. Among the most likely successors was the candidacy of the current coach of the Russian national team, David Blatt.

Chronicle of sporting events In the first round of the women's tennis tournament Ordina Open, which started in Holland with a prize fund of 175 thousand dollars, Russian Anna Chakvetadze reached the second round, beating Belarusian Victoria Azarenka - 5:7, 6:2, 6:2. The match of another Russian, Elena Bovina, against the Italian Roberta Vinci ended in the defeat of the first - 0:6, 4:6.

New exhibition of 20th century art at the Tretyakov Gallery I remember the hall at the end of the enfilade, where the corridor turns left. This is a corner hall, it is crammed with paintings by socialist realists: Alexander Gerasimov, Vasily Efanov, Arkady Plastov. The hall is the only one with huge windows overlooking Moscow. And here we have a magnificent installation.

“It’s no longer possible to make money on Russian real estate; it’s time to switch to foreign ones,” some investors say. And they are wrong. Experts are sure that you can still make money on Moscow real estate. “Foreign countries will help us” The interest of domestic private investors in foreign real estate is largely dictated by the fact that the rapid growth in housing prices in Moscow has stopped, and in other regions the growth rate of cost per square meter has dropped significantly.

Participants in a major train accident in the Voronezh region escaped with bruises A special commission of Russian Railways JSC and the transport prosecutor's office yesterday began investigating the circumstances of a railway accident in the Voronezh region, where a passenger and freight train collided the day before. As a result of the emergency, the locomotive of a passenger train and two freight cars were damaged.

Russian citizens flee the Gaza Strip Russia is ready to evacuate its citizens from the Gaza Strip, where the political crisis threatens to develop into a humanitarian disaster . The Israeli Embassy in Moscow was handed over yesterday a list of 138 Russians who want to quickly leave this part of the Palestinian Authority, which is in the hands of armed Islamists of the radical Hamas movement.

An ultra-modern Russian fighter was shown at the Le Bourget air show Yesterday, the 47th International Aviation and Space Salon opened in the suburbs of the French capital Le Bourget, with about 2 thousand companies from 42 countries taking part. In total, the observation deck housed 140 airplanes, helicopters and other aircraft. The traditional organizer of the Russian exposition is the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rosoboronexport, which unites fifty defense industry enterprises.