General Bulbov will remain in prison The Moscow City Court yesterday confirmed the legality of extending until mid-June the arrest period of General of the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) Alexander Bulbov , accused by the Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor's Office (SKP) of official crimes, including illegal wiretapping of telephone conversations.

Andreas Gursky at the Catherine Foundation Opened with the support of Beeline as part of the Moscow Photobiennale, the exhibition of the famous German photographer Andreas Gursky is one of the most significant events of the photo festival. His photographs delight in both the perfectionism of their execution and their inability to fit into everyday visual experience. Each photograph is like a giant painting.

Three weeks before the inauguration of the new Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and a week after the anniversary of the inauguration of Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov, Chechen political scientist, head of the International Center for the Study of Problems of the North Caucasus Ruslan KUTAEV answered questions from Vremya Novostei columnist Ivan SUKHOV about the situation in the mountain republics of the Russian south and about what problems the new head of state will inevitably face there.

The UFO publishing house has published a book about cinema with a capital C One day, a not too sober and not too bad Russian film director said to me, looking into my eyes, something like this: “That’s why I don’t like you, critics... Very close to you, in Odessa - less than a day by train - there lives a genius, and it’s as if you don’t care. They should write at least something worthwhile about her.” All I could do was look away. Now this reproach from our criticism has been partly removed.

The online service guarantees that you will enjoy the performance Users of the Imhonet recommendation service have the opportunity to insure themselves against an unsuccessful visit to the performance. If you don’t like the theatrical production recommended by the system, Imhonet will return the price of one ticket out of two, but not more than 1,500 rubles. The owners of the service intend to pay at least 10 thousand compensation.

Russian artist committed suicide Anna Mikhalchuk, apparently, voluntarily took her own life. The German police yesterday leaned towards this version. At the end of last week, the body of a woman described as similar to the missing Russian woman was discovered by the caretaker of the Mühldamschleuse, one of the locks on the Spree River in the Central District of Berlin.

The government gives the Chayandinskoye field to Gazprom The largest gas field in Eastern Siberia, located in the undistributed fund, goes into the Gazprom portfolio contrary to the law “On Subsoil”. The gas monopolist will receive a license to develop the Chayandinskoye field in Yakutia with gas reserves of about 1.2 trillion cubic meters without competition and for symbolic money. Gazprom plans to produce gas here no earlier than 2016, and according to more realistic estimates, far after 2020.

Russia wants to return Belarus to PACE and investigate the crimes of the Albanians Russia will raise the issue of returning Belarus to special guest status at the regular spring session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), which opened yesterday. This was stated by the head of the Russian delegation to PACE Konstantin Kosachev. According to him, “more and more deputies are leaning toward the position that Russia has always defended,” opposing the isolation of Belarus.

Khimki was the first Russian Premier League club to part ways with its coach. The management of the Moscow region club dismissed the Serbian coach Slavoljub Muslin. Under his leadership in this championship, Khimki scored two points in five matches and finished at the bottom of the standings. For the 6th round match with another outsider of the Russian championship, Yaroslavl "Shinnik", the team will be prepared by senior coach Igor Yushchenko.

What kind of foreign policy does Russia need under the new president? Ukraine and Georgia have not yet joined NATO. And if Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov is to be believed, Moscow will “make every effort” to prevent this from happening. But the Russian expert community has no doubt that nothing will come of this: Moscow has lost the opportunity to influence the process of NATO expansion.

Tom Boonen won the legendary Paris-Roubaix race for the second time “Queen of the Classics”, “Hell of the North”, “Hell Sunday” - these are the names of the traditional 260 km long April race, which has been held mainly along a narrow rural road between the French capital and the provincial town of Roubaix since 1896.

Premiere at the Oleg Tabakov Theater Studio - “Fathers and Sons” The radio beeps: “Moscow time is six o’clock,” a small pause flashes, which always happens between the announcer’s text and the anthem, and the anthem is played, only not the current one, but “God Save the Tsar.” It doesn’t matter what kind of system the country has; the age is also unimportant; Russian people don't change.

Tagir YAPPAROV, president of the IT group of companies, one of the oldest (exists since 1990) players in the domestic IT market, in a conversation with Victoria MUSORINA, spoke about why the rapid growth of the industry has become a problem for the IT industry, about technology parks and Russian prospects for open source software development. -- Your company's growth in 2007 exceeded 60%. Are you "overheated"? Experts believe that safe growth is 25-30%.

For the first time, Russians believed in a bright consumer future For the first time in all the calculations, which have been going on for ten years, the consumer confidence index of Russians turned positive and amounted to +0.4%. Such data was published yesterday by Rosstat. In theory, this means that the industry can increase production - consumers are willing to pay for additional goods.

Sochi will host the Kinotavr festival for the 19th time This year Kinotavr will take place from June 7 to 15. So far, only part of the competition program is known - six films out of fifteen. The festival will open with the film “Live and Remember” by Alexander Proshkin, which, however, will not prevent the film from participating in the main competition. This is a film adaptation of the famous story by Valentin Rasputin.