The other day, in the Parquet Hall of the Kremlin Palace, famous businessmen and stars of the Russian elite congratulated the Avtoradio radio station on its 15th anniversary. Most of the congratulations that day went to the President of the All-Russian Communist Party of Moscow, Alexander VARINA, with whose name the heyday of this popular radio station is associated. -- Today Avtoradio firmly holds first place in the rating of Moscow stations in the 12+ category.

Regional authorities and entrepreneurs do not like the Kaliningrad customs reform In the Kaliningrad region, on April 1, 2008, customs began to work in a new way. As predicted by the Vremya Novostey newspaper , the reform of local customs brought many problems to the region. Considering that the region borders on all sides with foreign countries, it is quite understandable why the activities of customs authorities play a special role here.

Passions have been raging in the Russian Internet zone for the fifth day. Not all of it, of course; fans of glamor and crime news won’t even understand what we’re talking about. A flurry of responses and emotions was caused by the news agency “Fergana.ru” about the removal from Tashkent of a monument in memory of the family of the Uzbek blacksmith Shaakhmed Shamakhmudov.

The President of Israel attended the ceremony Five days of commemorative events dedicated to the 65th anniversary of the Warsaw ghetto uprising against the Nazi occupiers began yesterday in the Polish capital. It broke out on April 19, 1943. Since this year this day coincides with the Jewish holiday of Passover, the events began earlier. The main event was yesterday's ceremony at the monument to the Heroes of the Warsaw Ghetto.

The hurricane wind that swept through Spain and Portugal at the beginning of last week gave way to a real storm, but this time a sport one, by the weekend in Lisbon. For three days, on the tatami of the Atlantico Hall, the passions of the European Judo Championship were in full swing - the last, and therefore in many ways decisive, rating tournament for the 2008 Olympics. In the homeland of Vasco da Gama, in a dispute with representatives of 46 European teams, the Russians won four awards.

Political scientists on the transformation of power in Russia Vremya Novostei correspondent Natalya ROZHKOVA asked political scientists how future Prime Minister Vladimir Putin's agreement to lead United Russia without joining it would affect the system of power in Russia.

Disabled war veterans will switch to Zhiguli Disabled people from the Great Patriotic War, who are waiting in line to receive a free car , this year for the first time will receive not the usual Oka, but a Zhiguli of the seventh model. Representatives of AvtoVAZ OJSC and the Federal Agency for Health and Social Development (Roszdrav) announced the signing of a government contract for the supply of 11,347 such cars to the state yesterday.

The current president agreed to lead the party and government United Russia has become probably the only party in the world led by a non-partisan. Yesterday at the United Russia congress, current President Vladimir Putin led the party without joining it. And at the same time, he publicly confirmed his agreement to head the government under President Dmitry Medvedev. Especially for Mr.

Evening of records in Milwaukee Basketball. NBA. Regular season. "Washington" - "Indiana" - 117:110, "Toronto" - "Miami" - 91:75, "Milwaukee" - "Chicago" - 135:151, "Sacramento" - "San" Antonio" - 98:101, "Philadelphia" - "Cleveland" - 90:91, "New York" - "Boston" - 93:99, "Utah" - "Houston" - 105: 96, “Phoenix” – “Golden State” – 122:116. Two game days before the end of the regular season, the full composition of the playoff participants became clear.

Last night at the Musical Theater named after. K.S. Stanislavsky and V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko was presented with the main theater award in Russia - the Golden Mask Award. The award ceremony was staged by the famous opera director Dmitry Bertman, and it was hosted by Bulgakov's trinity Woland with Koroviev and Behemoth. This is probably why there was an absolutely overwhelming number of errors and missteps at the ceremony.

At the beginning of March, the Bank of Russia took the initiative to amend the legislation, according to which banks would begin to contribute funds to the Mandatory Deposit Insurance Fund depending on deposit rates.

Metallurgists can drive the Russian defense industry into a dead end One of the most pressing problems of the Russian defense industry in the near future will be the rise in prices for metal products. Some leading metallurgical enterprises in Russia have significantly increased selling prices since the beginning of April. In April alone, the products of Evraz Group, Severstal, Mechel, Magnitogorsk and Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works, as well as other manufacturers, increased in price by 45%.

“Return” to the painting of Semyon Faibisovich in the Regina gallery Since Semyon Faibisovich gave up painting in the long-ago, still far from stable year of 1995, he managed to write several books, was engaged in photography, but just did not make a movie. Over the years, the artist, the technique he uses, and the people he paints have changed. Only the themes remained the same: people (in the new paintings, mostly women) in a trolleybus, a minibus, at stops.

Watch from April 17 on Moscow screens "Kings of the Streets" (USA, 2008, David Ayer). Not entirely adequate after the death of his wife, Los Angeles cop Tom Ludlow (Keanu Reeves - "Speed", "The Matrix", "Little Buddha") finds himself unfairly accused of the death of a colleague and finally goes off the rails, beginning to administer justice according to his own, very peculiar rules.

The largest airline in the world will again be American American airlines Delta Air Lines Inc. and Northwest Airlines Corp. will merge to create the world's largest airline. Last Monday, after more than six months of negotiations, their boards of directors approved the merger. The combined company will retain the Delta name. Under this name, she will fly, in particular, to Moscow and cooperate with Aeroflot within the framework of the international Sky Team alliance.