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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 .

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.

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.

Today, the presidential inauguration of 57-year-old Harvard graduate, former mayor of Taipei and Kuomintang Party representative Ma Ying-jeou will take place at the Taipei Stadium with the participation of 540 foreign guests. He received 58% of the vote in the elections on March 22 . During the eight years of his predecessor Chen Shui-bian's pro-Taiwan independence rule, relations between the island and the mainland deteriorated noticeably. Ma promises to fix the situation.

The hockey team gave Russians personal happiness and national unity “It was a great game,” the head coach of the Canadian national team, a middle-aged, overweight man, Ken Hitchcock, the namesake of another overweight man, perhaps the best director of psychological thrillers in the history of world cinema, Alfred, will say at a press conference after the final match of the World Hockey Championship in Quebec. Hitchcock. “It was a great victory,” everyone who supported the Russian team will add.

A scandal is erupting in Poland related to the figure of the country's former leader, Nobel Peace Prize laureate 64-year-old Lech Walesa. In December, he is going to solemnly celebrate the 25th anniversary of this award, in honor of which an international conference “Solidarity for the Future” will be held. Other Nobel laureates will be invited to discuss contemporary problems.