Chairman of the Board of Directors of Millhouse became the owner of 8% of Highland Gold shares Millhouse Capital, which represents the interests of Roman Abramovich and his partners, through its offshore structure Primerod, yesterday completed the sale of an 8% stake (26.02 million shares) in the British Highland Gold Mining (HGM), which produces gold in Russia.

Representatives of Duma factions on the priorities of the new president and prime minister Yesterday evening, on the eve of the State Duma considering his candidacy for the post of Prime Minister of Russia, Vladimir Putin met with the leaders of parliamentary factions Boris Gryzlov (United Russia), Gennady Zyuganov (Communist Party of the Russian Federation), Vladimir Zhirinovsky (LDPR) and Nikolai Levichev (A Just Russia) ) for consultations prior to the appointment of the head of government.

Architectural critics weigh in on today's construction boom Vremya Novostei, together with the P-Arch agency, presents the Architectural Criticism Club. Despite the construction boom, architectural processes are unfairly on the periphery of public attention. To rectify the situation a little, we decided to survey architectural critics working in specialized Russian mass media in order to identify the positive and negative of Russian architectural life.

What the new Russian President has and what will happen in the Caucasus The inauguration of Dmitry Medvedev took place against the background of a sharp aggravation of the situation in the zone of the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict .

In Germany, punishments are being invented for the Finnish concern that is closing its plant in Bochum The business optimization carried out by the Finnish concern Nokia has caused the most political protest in Germany. A number of politicians, including Angela Merkel's cabinet ministers, are calling for a boycott of Nokia products in response to the Finns' decision to close production in the city of Bochum. And tomorrow a mass protest is expected here.

The juxtaposition of such series as “Apostol” (Channel One) and “Father” (Russia) on the April broadcast highlighted two mutually exclusive tendencies of current television fiction. One is with sharp anti-Soviet motives (“Apostle”), the other is quite late Soviet (“Father”).

Ural Great's entry into European competition no longer depends on the results of the playoffs The semifinal stage of the Russian championship among men's teams started with a match between the silver medalist, winner of the 2008 National Cup Khimki and Perm Ural Great. The hosts, led by Lithuanian coach Kestutis Kemzura, won at the Moscow site - 101:78.

Amkar caught up with the leading group Missing round after round of the national championship, Zenit is gradually plunging into the relegation zone. At the same time, it gives the middle peasants a taste of what it’s like to be at the top of the standings. Amkar took advantage of the postponement of the central match of the 9th round, Lokomotiv - Zenit, and ascended to the leading group, above which only Rubin.

Dmitry Medvedev took the oath Dmitry Medvedev yesterday became the third president of independent Russia. At a ceremony in the Kremlin, he took the presidential oath and then signed the first decrees. Some of them are of a formal nature (in particular, in connection with the resignation of the government, he instructed the old cabinet of ministers to continue working until a new one is formed), some are political. In addition, Mr.

Benois de la danse was presented at the Bolshoi Theater The prize, invented sixteen years ago, has lately inspired a strange sense of well-being in the ballet kingdom. It would seem that they ate the artistic director there, but there they only intend to; These went on tour unsuccessfully; their best work of the season managed to go completely unnoticed by the Golden Mask jury. And the Benois evenings come, and local problems shrink to their natural scale, a small scale in the global context.

On Moscow screens “Import-export” by Ulrich Seidl Seidl's new, second feature film evoked different feelings - from delight to bewildered disgust. However, shown in the Cannes competition last year, it did not receive any prizes, unlike the first feature film of this famous Austrian documentarian - “Heat of a Dog”, awarded at the Venice Film Festival in 2001...

You can complain about Moscow parking attendants by calling a special phone number Moscow authorities have long promised to deal with parking attendants who charge motorists exorbitant prices, and not always on a legal basis. It would be an obvious exaggeration to say that this problem has been solved, but now Muscovites who have encountered extortions in “homemade” parking lots can complain using the hotline.

CONCERTS Soloists, choir and symphony orchestra of the Mariinsky Theater , conductor Valery Gergiev . The program includes Mahler's Eighth Symphony. Great Hall of the Conservatory , May 8, 14.00. The Moscow Soloists chamber ensemble, conductor and soloist Yuri Bashmet (viola), performs Bach, Mozart and Brahms. Great Hall of the Conservatory , May 10, 19.00. MOVIE “Once Upon a Time in Vegas” (USA, 2008). Directed by Tom Vaughn.

The incredible happened: Alexey Balabanov’s film “Cargo 200” was shown on our television. The discussion during the “Closed Screening” (at “First”) was no less shocking than the film itself.

Mikhail Shishkhanov appointed a new head of his credit organization Binbank will be headed by Grigory Guselnikov, who for a long time was the first deputy chairman of the board of the credit organization and left it only two weeks ago. The former head of the bank, Vartan Dilanyan, resigned. Personnel changes at B&N Bank are related to the termination of the deal to sell it to Senator Vadim Moshkovich .