The Civil Code abolished the Tax Code Incidents when improving legislation often occur. One of the latest examples is that Part 4 of the Civil Code, which came into force, created a hole in tax legislation. Legislators, adopting Part 4 of the Civil Code, abolished the concept of a copyright agreement, replacing it with a license agreement.

RussNeft published the parameters of the export contract Russneft announced yesterday that by the end of the year it will sell 4 million tons of oil to its English trader Russneft (UK) Ltd. for $2 billion. We are talking about approximately 85% of the oil exported by the company, which will be sold at $68.5 per barrel. According to Vremya Novostey's source, the British trader, despite the name, is affiliated with Glencore. Russneft has always exported oil through this trader .

Graduates of Moscow schools will receive individual versions of tasks for the Unified State Exam At the end of the current school year, Moscow 11th-graders will have to pass three final exams: in Russian language, mathematics and literature, the first two in the form of the Unified State Exam (USE) .

Mikhail Kasyanov's associates are suspected in advance of falsifying signatures The Central Election Commission has begun verifying the authenticity of the signatures of two self-nominated presidential candidates admitted to this stage - the leader of the Democratic Party Andrei Bogdanov and the head of the Russian People's Democratic Union, ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov.

Operas from Novosibirsk at the Golden Mask Over several years of work in the theater, Teodor Currentzis has turned into a conductor whose name may not appear on the Golden Mask poster only in one case: if he sits with his hands folded. Currentzis's ideas, expressed in peremptory comments, coupled with his unusual overseas appearance and frantic temperament, made him the talk of the town.

The rapprochement between the Muslim world and the West is being discussed in Astana Kazakhstan, in which representatives of dozens of ethnic groups and various religious beliefs live peacefully , could probably lay claim to the status of a model of a society of religious tolerance, which is so lacking in the modern world.

Ukraine, Georgia and Macedonia were not allowed into NATO Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Bucharest yesterday evening. Today he will have to participate in a meeting of the Russia-NATO Council (NRC). A favorable background for Russia's dialogue with the alliance is created by the results of yesterday's discussion by NATO on the issue of Ukraine and Georgia joining the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP).

CLUBS “Paperny TAM” in the Bilingua club, April 4, 21.00. Nouvelle Vague (France). Can you imagine the disco composition Heart of Glass by Blondie, made in a gentle bossa nova? Compositions by Buzzcocks, The Sisters of Mercy, Joy Division, Depeche Mode, Dead Kennedys or The Clash, performed by gentle girlish voices against a backdrop of soft guitars, percussion and accordion?

The US is pushing the EU to impose sanctions Yesterday, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (pictured) criticized the West in connection with NATO expansion: “We do not rattle sabers, I want to emphasize this. But, unfortunately, today we cannot note that everything is calm around Belarus and there are no problems. This can be seen from recent events.

An economically rapidly developing country is experiencing a period of intellectual degradation The time is out of joint Hamlet, act 1 Russia is a country of great culture, great literature, great music. Without Russian literature, music, Russian painting, Russian science (mathematics, physics, chemistry, astronautics and other fields), humanity would be immeasurably poorer.

Chronicle of sporting events Yesterday on Manezhnaya Square there was a presentation of the Champions League final, which will take place in Moscow on May 21. During the ceremony, representatives of the Italian Milan, the current winner of the Champions Cup, handed over the trophy to UEFA President Michel Platini. The head of the European Football Union, in turn, handed it over to the mayor of the Russian capital, Yuri Luzhkov.

Zenit, with a major victory over Bayer, opened its way to the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup St. Petersburg's Zenit may already be eyeing a possible opponent in the UEFA Cup semi-finals. Having defeated Bayer 4:1 in the first match of the 1/4 finals, Dick Advocaat's team has practically secured further advancement in the tournament bracket, the highest point of which is the final in Manchester on May 14.

The unrecognized republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia are concerned about Georgia's desire to join NATO . They fear that the alliance may interfere in resolving frozen conflicts on Tbilisi's side. The postponement of Georgia's accession to the NATO Membership Action Plan (MAP) allowed Sukhumi and Tskhinvali to catch their breath.

The President-elect attended the annual Runet conference At the Russian Internet Forum (RIF), which opened yesterday, the elected President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev privately talked with the heads of IT companies, was outraged by the high prices for Internet traffic in the regions and reported that he had found more than 600 of his doubles on Odnoklassniki.ru.

Development Bank strategy until 2013 approved Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov yesterday chaired a meeting of the supervisory board of the state corporation “Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)” created last year, at which the development strategy for 2008-2012 was approved .