CLUBS SoiSong (Sweden - Thailand). Peter Christopherson is the face of the industrial era, the man who stood at the origins of Coil, Psychic TV, Throbbing Gristle, writer, theater designer, artist, music video director, founder of the Industrial Records label, in the world's happiest moments, an accomplice of Current 93 and Nine Inch Nails.

Belarus is looking for a nuclear power plant builder Belarus invited companies from Russia, France and the USA to participate in the competition for the construction of nuclear power plants . The date of the tender has not yet been announced.

E.ON Ruhrgas spoke about the future The new head of the board of the German gas concern E.ON Ruhrgas, Bernhard Reutersberg (on March 1, he replaced Burkhard Bergmann in this post ), speaking yesterday in Essen at the annual press conference, outlined business development plans for the coming years. They are largely determined by the changing conditions of the European gas market. Mr.

Sergei Lavrov discusses the Arctic Today, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will discuss in the town of Ilulissat (translated into Russian as “icebergs”) in the Greenland Arctic, the problem of delimiting economic interests in the Arctic, where hydrocarbon deposits are estimated at a quarter of the world’s undiscovered reserves. His interlocutors will be colleagues from Denmark, Canada, Norway and the USA.

Gazprom has shifted its priority to the domestic market After a small official farewell ceremony for Dmitry Medvedev and the board of directors of Gazprom, the concern’s chairman of the board, Alexey Miller, declared a new priority for the company’s activities. “Now the main task set by the board of directors is the domestic market,” he told reporters, recalling the 13 million “freshly gasified” residents of Russia.

Steve Ballmer Day in Moscow Last Friday, the CEO of Microsoft visited Russia. This visit of Steve Ballmer, in contrast to the visit of Bill Gates in November 2006, turned out to be better prepared in the sense that the show with the participation of the head of a transnational company, whose name is well known throughout the planet, could be seen not only by a couple of hundred officials, businessmen and journalists, but also to a much wider public.

A ship with Russian sailors was captured again near Somalia Another pirate attack on Russian sailors took place on Tuesday night in the neutral waters of the Gulf of Aden near Somalia. This time, pirates hijacked the Dutch cargo ship Amia Sken, which was sailing under the Panamanian flag from the Kenyan port of Mombasa to the Romanian port of Constanta. On board was a decommissioned oil platform. The ship's crew is four Russian officers and five Filipino sailors.

Not all air passengers are happy to be able to talk on the phone during the flight Most Americans oppose calls from airplanes and support the creation of special areas in the cabin for those who cannot live without mobile communications. This conclusion was reached by researchers from Yahoo, who surveyed more than 2 thousand respondents. If the survey had been conducted in Russia, the results would likely have been different.

“Kings of the Sun” was danced at the New Opera The evening, pompously named after Louis XIV, during whose reign ballet appeared as an art form, had nothing in common with ceremonial court dances.

SEC head: “We have every reason to open an investigation” The US Securities and Markets Commission (SEC) will determine the degree of guilt of rating agencies in the US mortgage crisis , which resulted in a global liquidity shortage. The commission is already studying the activities of the three largest agencies, and in early June it will propose a new set of rules for such companies.

The Ministry of Finance will support Concept 2020 with its fifteen-year budget Yesterday, participants in a press conference organized by the Ministry of Finance tried to “find the difference” between various long-term strategies. The fifteen-year budget is no less important than Concept 2020 , Oksana Sergienko, director of the Ministry of Finance department, tried to assure yesterday.

The President formulated the key task of the government At yesterday's meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin, President Dmitry Medvedev said that suppressing inflation is the government's key task today . Judging by polls, the vast majority of Russian citizens easily agree with this. However, until now neither Prime Minister Vladimir Putin nor Medvedev himself have formulated the task in this way. And, in general, it’s clear why.

At the age of seventy-four, the outstanding American film director Sydney Pollack, the creator of films that would represent (and, in fact, already represent) Hollywood cinema of the 70s and early 80s, died of cancer. “Three Days of the Condor” (1975), “The Electric Rider” (1979), “Tootsie” (1982), “Out of Africa” (1985)...

Russia files a lawsuit against Nessim Gaon's company The Russian government has filed a lawsuit in France against the Swiss company Noga. Representatives of the Russian Ministry of Finance reported yesterday that the Russian authorities have launched a counter-offensive on the legal front against this now notorious company. Moscow demands that Noga and the French bailiff who assisted it be obliged to compensate for the damage caused by the unlawful seizure of Russian property abroad.

The cause of the An-12 crash near Chelyabinsk was a technical malfunction Today the flight recorders of the An-12 transport aircraft that crashed on Monday evening near Chelyabinsk are to be delivered to Moscow. In the technical laboratory of the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC), specialists will try to record data that recorded crew conversations and the operation of aircraft systems in the last minutes before the tragedy. For now, experts are only guessing about the causes of the disaster.