From the history of Russian censorship Lately, the word “censorship” has been heard more and more often.

Michael Jackson. Thriller (CD, DVD, SonyBMG). An album that is likely to receive all sorts of awards and first places in the “reissue of the year” ratings. A quarter of a century later, Michael Jackson’s best creation, the legendary Thriller, the best-selling album of all time (in terms of sales figures even surpassed Pink Floyd’s “Moon”), was re-released, at one time awarded as many as eight Grammy awards.

The "special services war" ended with the resignation of its main participants For the law enforcement system, the change of government was marked by three high-profile resignations at once - the head of the FSB Nikolai Patrushev (he was transferred to the post of Secretary of the Security Council), the director of the Federal Service for Drug Control (FSKN) Viktor Cherkesov and the head of the Ministry of Justice Vladimir Ustinov lost their posts.

Residents of the Ukrainian capital are promised interesting boxing and clean yards Although early elections for the Kiev mayor and members of the city council will take place only in two weeks - on May 25, City Day, preparations for them are in full swing in Ukraine, and competitors are exchanging accusations. 78 candidates are fighting for the Kiev throne, including the current mayor, 56-year-old Leonid Chernovetsky.

PPF Group increased its stake in NOMOS Bank to a blocking stake NOMOS Bank has become almost a third Czech: PPF Group increased its stake in the credit institution from 17.69 to 29.9% of shares. Since September 2007, PPF has already purchased shares of this bank three times. Most likely, experts believe, this step of the Czech group will not be the last: over time, PPF Group will acquire almost half of NOMOS Bank. PPF Group bought a 12.21% stake from the bank's Russian shareholders.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, reappointed to this post yesterday, arrives today in Yekaterinburg for meetings with foreign colleagues. His first interlocutor will be his German colleague Frank Walter Steinmeier. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, Lavrov will hold trilateral talks with his Indian and Chinese colleagues Pranab Mukherjee and Yang Jiechi.

Our correspondent Victoria MUSORINA talks with Ilya PONOMAREV, Chairman of the State Duma Subcommittee on Technological Development. — In the Duma, you oversee lawmaking in the field of information technology. And as far as we know, they intend to achieve a unified government body for this area. - More precisely, high technology. The Ministry of Information and Communications is responsible for IT separately.

Kinotavr announced its program The main Russian film festival will open on June 7 with Alexander Proshkin’s film “Live and Remember.” In total, the competition program includes 15 paintings, selected from 130 works submitted to the competition.

Khimki players had to fight in Perm to reach the finals The Moscow region club Khimki for the second time in its history reached the super final of the Russian championship among men's teams, repeating its success two years ago. Now no longer under the leadership of Sergei Elevich, but under the Lithuanian mentor Kestutis Kemzur.

Political news of recent days continues to please domestic investors. Stock market participants saw in the Cabinet of Ministers formed yesterday the preservation of the liberal economic team and the weakening of the traditionalist security forces. Against the backdrop of a favorable external background, the RTS index easily surpassed the 2300 point mark and grew by 1.63%. According to analysts, in the coming days the market may overcome the historical high of 2360 points.

Two candidates won the election for the head of a rural settlement A power crisis erupted in a single village in the Amur region. For the third month now, the Nizhneyilinovskoe rural settlement of the Mikhailovsky district has been living in a regime of dual power.

The Kaliningrad government does not need a gambling zone, but only a segment of it In the Kaliningrad region, classified by a decree of the federal government as one of the four constituent entities of the Russian Federation in which, according to the law, gambling zones must be established by 2009, they are preparing to announce a competition to develop a concept for the development of the gambling territory.

Two separate ministries reappeared in the government - the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Industry The Ministry of Industry and Energy, according to the decree of Dmitry Medvedev, is divided into two - the Ministry of Energy and the Ministry of Industry. This was the case until the 2004 government reform .

The Moscow City Duma is discussing the introduction of licenses for individual educators Complaints from Muscovites about the unreliability and dishonesty of nannies seem to have already reached a critical mass, which has forced the capital's deputies to pay attention to this problem.

In Germany they are wondering where the power will be in Russia An impressive delegation of politicians and representatives of the German business community, led by Vice-Chancellor and Minister of Foreign Affairs Frank Walter Steinmeier, arrived in Yekaterinburg. The high-ranking Social Democrat became the first high-ranking foreign politician to arrive in Russia after the change of power in the Kremlin.