Watch from May 15 on Moscow screens “The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian” (USA-UK, 2008, Andrew Adamson). The second part of the fantasy saga based on the books by Clive Lewis (by the way, “The Prince” is not the second, but the fourth story in the series, although it was written just after “The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe”).

Zenit will play in the UEFA Cup final today Russian football can acquire the second European trophy in its history. St. Petersburg's Zenit today at the City of Manchester stadium has every chance of repeating the success of CSKA three years ago and winning the UEFA Cup. Over these three years, the balance of power in European football has changed significantly. In 2005, the army team was considered “dark horses” before the final match with the Portuguese Sporting.

Museums and galleries will entertain visitors on Museum Night Thirty years ago, the whole world began to celebrate International Museum Day. Traditionally, on May 18, museums and galleries in at least one hundred and fifty countries are open from morning until late at night and prepare special programs. The same thing happens here, and from year to year the museum festival program is expanding, offering events from the most official to the very exotic, glamorous and even radical.

Russia has yet to create a normal system of power, in which the institutions of the state and the persons representing them are engaged exclusively in the work that they are obliged to do by virtue of their position. It is too early to talk about how the newly minted government and presidential administration will interact, and to argue that some odious influential figures of the Putin era have been pushed to the margins of power.

A branch of the World Digital Library will open in St. Petersburg The Boris Yeltsin Presidential Library in St. Petersburg will become the Russian part of the World Digital Library. Vladimir Kozhin, Administrative Officer of the President of the Russian Federation, told reporters about this yesterday. In addition, he expressed confidence that he would retain his position under the new head of state.

LDPR proposes changing the Constitution The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia decided to celebrate its 20th anniversary with large-scale legislative initiatives. Party leader Vladimir Zhirinovsky told reporters about them yesterday. We are talking about amendments to the Russian Constitution that would turn the country into a parliamentary republic.

The Public Chamber has prepared a negative opinion on amendments to the law on media Members of the Public Chamber spoke extremely disapprovingly of the rather harsh amendments to the media law introduced by United Russia deputy and former press secretary of the Nashi youth movement Robert Schlegel.

Gazprom's work life in Ukraine was reduced The Ukrainian authorities have achieved a revision of the license issued to a subsidiary of Gazprom for the sale of gas to end consumers. As Interfax reported yesterday, the National Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) of Ukraine issued Gazprom Sbyt Ukraine LLC (Kyiv) a license to supply natural gas at an unregulated tariff for a period of one year.

CSKA turned the tide of the fight against Dynamo after a long break In the super final of the Russian championship among men's teams, as two years ago, the capital's army team and Khimki near Moscow will meet. The series will be held up to three wins according to the “2--2--1” scheme. The red-blues will have home-court advantage in the fifth game (if needed).

The Russian population began to buy fewer dollars and euros The demand for cash currency in Russia is falling: dollars are becoming too cheap, so they are bought less, and euros, on the contrary, are too expensive to invest your savings in them. The Bank of Russia provides such data in its review of the foreign exchange market. According to experts, if the dollar grows a little, and the euro, on the contrary, becomes cheaper, then the population will be more willing to buy both.

Vladimir Putin began his premiership with a visit to his hometown From the galley to Shushara - this is the path the new head of government made yesterday. Mr. Putin, who, in his own words, spent eight years as president “like a galley slave,” decided to begin a new milestone in his career with the development of shipbuilding. Arriving at the St. Petersburg Admiralty Shipyards, he marveled at the unique tanker under construction, which was both an icebreaker and a cargo carrier.

The President of Venezuela proposed a route for the German Chancellor Yesterday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel went on a tour of Latin America - she will visit Brazil, Peru, Colombia and Mexico. This is the first visit of the head of the German cabinet to this region in six years. The central event of Angela Merkel's trip will be participation in the EU-Latin America summit, which will be held on May 16-17 in Lima.

Yuri Trutnev postponed the sale of the Udokan copper deposit at the request of the companies The state decided to postpone the sale of the largest in Russia and third largest in the world Udokan copper deposit for a month.

The President chose his assistants and advisers The formation of the administration of President Dmitry Medvedev is nearing its end. The chief of staff and his deputies appointed on Monday were joined yesterday by a press secretary, the chief of presidential protocol, six assistants and five advisers. The trend of continuity evident in the first appointments to the Kremlin has been confirmed. Almost all of these people are experienced officials who worked under President Vladimir Putin.

Russian regions have reached the limit on guest workers Pessimistic forecasts that the labor force quota set by the Russian government in 2008 would not be enough seemed to have come true by May.