The Dalai Lama will be received spiritually As if internal political problems were not enough for British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, he also invited the spiritual leader of Tibet to London, knowing full well that Beijing would not like this. The debate over whether this should have been done continued in the British capital even after the plane with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama on board landed at Heathrow Airport yesterday.

The Spanish Defense Minister was sent on maternity leave The annual speech of the head of the Spanish defense department to members of parliament had to be urgently cancelled. Parliamentarians, who never had a chance to hear a report on the main directions of the country's military policy, reacted to the disruption of the schedule with understanding. The reason was more than valid - the minister was taken to the maternity hospital.

The program of the Edinburgh Fringe in Moscow festival has been announced "Fringe" - translated from English as "roadside" - is a non-competitive program of the famous Edinburgh Theater Festival. It appeared almost simultaneously with the festival itself: already in 1947, several English theaters, not invited to the festival, came without an invitation and showed their performances next to those that were selected by the management.

Watch from May 22 on Moscow screens Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (USA, 2008, Steven Spielberg). “Ta-ta-ta-ta! Ta-ta-ta! Ta-ta-ta-ta! Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta!.." Perhaps none of the living movie fans ever wanted to hear these sacred call signs again, from which it follows that the professor of archeology and tireless adventurer Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford - "Indiana Jones ", what else?) is back in business and returned to the big screen after almost a dozen years of absence.

Chronicle of sporting events Hockey. NHL. Stanley Cup. Semi-final. “Dallas” – “Detroit” – 1:4 – Datsyuk “Detroit” (1+0). The series score is 2:4. In the sixth match of the series, Detroit beat Dallas on foreign ice and reached the Stanley Cup final, where the Red Wings' opponents will be the Pittsburgh hockey players, who had previously defeated Philadelphia.

Taimuraz Mamsurov called on foreign ambassadors to support the Ossetians’ desire for unity The recommendations of Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, who recently asked regional Russian politicians to be more careful in interpreting historical facts , especially in speeches on the international stage, apparently went unheard.

At the end of May, the Transneft board of directors will approve the amount that the company is ready to allocate for dividends based on the results of 2007. It is expected that payments will exceed the 2006 level by 40% and amount to about 1.15 billion rubles. However, one cannot expect much generosity from Transneft. The company's profit for 2007 amounted to 4.02 billion rubles, and it is still far from reaching the level of 2003 (15.9 billion rubles).

Employees of the historical museum-reserve were awarded the State Prize 2007 Yesterday, at a special briefing in the Kremlin, the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Yuri Osipov, and the Director of the State Hermitage, Mikhail Piotrovsky, read out the decree of President Dmitry Medvedev and announced the names of nine laureates of the State Prize for 2007.

The President intends to reform the judicial system Back on Monday , at a meeting on the fight against corruption, President Dmitry Medvedev announced yesterday's meeting on reforming the judicial system. Not only the judicial system itself, but also the configuration of power in the country depends on this reform, which is undoubtedly political in its essence. According to Mr.

Democratic Senator Barack Obama, contending for the presidency of the United States, entered into an argument with Republican candidate John McCain, saying that “we need to change foreign policy” and “ talk not only to friends, but also to enemies .” According to Obama, “Iran is a serious threat,” but the USSR, with which the United States negotiated, was much more dangerous with its “thousands of nuclear warheads,” while “Iran has none.” He criticized the Republican administration's reluctance

Dmitry Medvedev: We'll meet in a year! Directly from Vnukovo airport, the Russian hockey team, which won world gold on Sunday , arrived in the Kremlin yesterday. Just two hours after landing, the champions received congratulations from the country's President Dmitry Medvedev in the Catherine Hall of the Grand Kremlin Palace. They didn’t have time to change clothes - they just put on their “lucky” game sweaters, many of them already covered with each other’s autographs.

Capital "Dynamo" was defeated in Perm Ural Great, which took only sixth place in the regular season, took the first step towards winning bronze medals in the Super League. In the opening match of the series for third place, the Permians on their site in the universal sports palace "Molot" did not leave the slightest chance for the capital's "Dynamo" even before the big break. The final score is 92:68 in favor of the hosts.

Yesterday, US Ambassador to Caracas Patrick Duddy was summoned to the Venezuelan Foreign Ministry in connection with the May 17 incursion into the airspace of this Latin American country by a US Navy C-3 Viking reconnaissance aircraft. Venezuela did not accept the diplomat’s assurances that the incident was an “accident” due to a navigation glitch.

The museum and exhibition boom in Moscow continues Despite the Museum Day on May 18 and the closed Art Moscow fair, the intensity of the capital’s artistic life shows no sign of abating. The exhibitions opened by May 18 are open. New vernissages do not keep you waiting long. However, everything is in order... This year's Art Moscow fair surprised, first of all, the gigantic empty corridor on the third floor, which shocked the minds of many gallery owners.

Yesterday, at a trial in Baghdad, prosecutor Adnan Ali demanded "an appropriate punishment that would calm the hearts of the widows" of 42 businessmen executed in 1992 for artificially inflating food prices during the international economic blockade of Saddam's Iraq.