The authorities of the Nizhny Novgorod region intend to build a “city of the third millennium” At its recent meeting, the Town Planning Council of the Nizhny Novgorod Region approved a project for the development of the left bank of the Volga in the Nizhny Novgorod region. According to the plans of the regional government, in more than 20 years, the so-called “city of the future” - “Globe Town”, where half a million people can live and work, should grow here.

In Chile they want to close the case of the famous singer Joan Turner Jara, the widow of the famous Chilean singer, poet and composer Victor Jara, intends to protest the court verdict to close the investigation into the murder of her husband 35 years ago: “This is unheard of, if they do this with this case, then what will happen to other tragedies at the Chile Stadium?

Nadal and Jankovic win on the eve of Roland Garros Last week, prestigious tennis tournaments ended in Hamburg and Rome, which for many players became a dress rehearsal for the French Open, which starts on May 25 in Paris. Given the importance of the second Grand Slam tournament of the season, some tennis players, such as Russian Maria Sharapova and American Serena Williams, citing injuries, withdrew during the Roman competition.

Exhibition of achievements of modern choreography The evening that choreographer Nikita Dmitrievsky is throwing next Monday at the New Opera will not be the evening of Nikita Dmitrievsky himself.

82-year-old former Prime Minister of Malaysia Mahathir Mohammad yesterday resigned from the ruling United Malays National Organization (UMNO) party in protest against the course of his successor as head of government, 67-year-old Abdullah Badawi . “I will only return if there is a change in the leadership of the party,” Mahathir said, calling on party members to follow his prime minister. The party leadership believes that the veteran’s departure will not lead to a split.

Program of the Russian pavilion at the XI Venice Biennale Grigory Revzin and Pavel Khoroshilov have been appointed curators of the exhibition of the Russian pavilion at the eleventh architectural biennale in Venice, which will be held as usual in the fall. The famous architectural critic Grigory Revzin proposed to show today's Russian architecture in Venice: recently completed buildings and projects being prepared for implementation.

Standard & Poor's: The likelihood of a return of funds after the default of Russian banks is small In the event of bankruptcy of Russian banks, its creditors can rarely count on any compensation.

The most titled hockey player playing in the Russian national team, if you count team victories, is Alexey Tereshchenko. He did not play in the NHL, but at the Russian level he repeatedly became the national champion, with different clubs. The only thing he lacked was the “gold” of the World Championship. Four of the five goals in the final were scored by representatives of the overseas league. But the fifth place belongs to the representatives of our championship.

Georgia is preparing for a popular uprising Georgia again found itself on the brink of upheaval. Tomorrow, almost three and a half million voters (the total population of Georgia is about 4.4 million) will vote in elections to the 150-seat parliament. The opposition has warned that it views these elections as a second round of the presidential election .

Moscow authorities are trying to create their own system for registering labor migrants Capital officials, apparently, have not given up hope of introducing a special method of attracting guest workers to the city.

Our ice team has returned to the world top The Russian national hockey team surprised the whole world in Quebec . And not only because she took first place. Almost for the first time in fifteen years, the team added from match to match, rather than losing interest in what was happening towards the end. The last time we played in the final of the tournament was in 2002. We overcame the qualification barrier with difficulty and won the playoffs with some difficulty.

CLUBS Anatoly Gerasimov (saxophone) at the Bilingua club, 21.00. Ash. Igor Nadezhdin, pianist and organizer of the group, lived in Israel for a long time, where the idea was born to assemble a team playing brazil jazz. The repertoire of song arrangements by A.-K. Jobima, Brazilian classics, as well as songs of his own composition in Portuguese. Forte , 21.00.

Dmitry Medvedev launched the preparation of an anti-corruption plan From the very first days of his work in the Kremlin, President Dmitry Medvedev actively began implementing his election program. One of the strong points of his election campaign was the promise to launch a systemic fight against corruption .

Barbara Frittoli performed at the Moscow Philharmonic The Philharmonic subscription “Stars of World Opera in Moscow” has long become a “window to Europe” for the capital’s public - without leaving the Moscow Ring Road and without storming the box office of the largest theaters in Paris, London, New York and Milan, almost everyone can get a complete picture of about what is happening now on the opera Olympus.

The Moscow City Duma wants to make the work of tow trucks and special parking lots transparent The capital's deputies volunteered to collect proposals for improving the city's car evacuation system, which is causing a lot of criticism from both drivers and city hall officials.