Elvira Nabiullina received a lot of visitors On Friday, Elvira Nabiullina, head of the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade, held an annual public reception for citizens. People came with private problems, but a three-hour observation of this event revealed an unexpected trend - representatives of a small non-resource business decided to “reach out” to the minister at a personal reception.

The opening of the new terminal at London Heathrow Airport turned into a scandal The triumph of modern technologies used in the construction of the fifth terminal of one of the world's largest airports, Heathrow, turned out to be scandalous.

Nyakrosius Theater through the eyes of Vladimir Lupovsky For the first time, the exhibition “Stepsons of Heaven. Performances by Eimuntas Nekrosius”, which has now opened in the “House of Jurgis Baltrušaitis” on Povarskaya, was presented to the audience in October 2007 in St. Petersburg at the “Baltic House” festival dedicated to the Lithuanian director. And this is natural.

The volleyball Champions League trophy is back in Russia In the decisive match of the Champions League Final Four held in the Polish city of Lodz, the Kazan team Dynamo-TTG, led by head coach Viktor Sidelnikov, prevailed over the Italian Piacenza, tipping the scales in their favor in the tiebreaker of the fifth game. This is already the third Champions League trophy for Russia.

On March 28, Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev returned to Bishkek after almost a month of treatment in Germany. He was greeted with applause at the airport, and the head of state walked down the plane healthy and cheerful. The whole country could watch this on television. Meanwhile, just the day before, few people in Kyrgyzstan believed that they would see their president alive - rumors had already “buried” him more than once before Bakiyev’s return.

Anatoly Alekseevich Azolsky died. He was 77 years old. Even the little that we know about the fate of this remarkable prose writer could serve as material for an exciting novel. Only Azolsky himself could write such a book. In 1952, he graduated from the Frunze Higher Naval School (the Naval Cadet Corps, the main Russian school of naval commanders, founded by Peter I), and was demobilized in 1954.

Georgia is trying to distract Sukhumi from the Sochi Olympics On the eve of the NATO summit starting the day after tomorrow in Bucharest, Georgia demonstrated to the international community its readiness to resolve conflicts peacefully.

Selection of suppliers of expensive drugs will take place in a week Russian beneficiaries, whom the authorities provide with expensive life-saving drugs, will not notice the change in the financial “season”. All patient medications that the federal government is responsible for will reach pharmacies even before current supplies run out. The head of the Federal Agency for Health and Social Development (Roszdrav) Yuri Belenkov recently made this promise.

Ukraine is ready to quarrel with Russian nuclear scientists for the sake of George Bush Ukraine, on the eve of George Bush's visit to Kyiv tomorrow, has decided to strain relations with Russian nuclear scientists.

Strauss-Kahn pushed through the IMF quota reform initiated by Rodrigo de Rato The International Monetary Fund has actually approved new principles for the distribution of shareholdings in its capital. Russia and several other countries voted against it, but were in the minority. Now Russia's quota in the IMF capital may be reduced from 2.78 to 2.49%. And the new formula, according to experts, does not promise Russia the prospect of increasing its quota.

VEB proposes to expand opportunities for investing pension savings The Development Bank (Vnesheconombank), which serves as the government’s agent for managing the pension savings of the “silent” , again proposes to expand opportunities for investing these funds. As is known, at the end of 2007, VEB received a return on pension savings management of 6.09%.

MOVIE "Superhero Movie" (USA, 2007). Directed by Craig Mazin. Starring Christopher McDonald, Leslie Nielsen, Drake Bell, Sara Paxton, Jeffrey Tambor and Brent Spiner. Another parody hodgepodge, this time making fun of movies about superheroes. The distribution included “Batman”, “Fantastic Four”, “Spider-Man”, “X-Men” and so on.

Seven of the 35 Penza hermits came to the surface The number of voluntary hermits waiting for the end of the world in a cave near the village of Nikolskoye, Penza region, has decreased, at least slightly. Last Friday, seven women left the underground shelter (six of whom were residents of the Penza region and one citizen of Belarus).

Sovremennik showed a new edition of “Three Sisters” Galina Volchek is already making the third edition of Three Sisters. According to her, because “this Chekhov play is able to fully express the nerve of today, the instability of what is happening to all of us.” Surprisingly: the nerve of today is very significantly different from the nerve of 1982, which the first performance was supposed to express, with the central characters - Masha - Marina Neelova and Vershinin - Valentin Gaft.

The Central Election Commission is discussing new rules of the electoral game The next polishing of the election legislation is planned by the Russian authorities for the near future. Currently, Central Election Commission (CEC) staff are engrossed in studying “law enforcement practices,” CEC Secretary Nikolai Konkin said last week.