Yesterday the preliminary results of Sunday's parliamentary elections in Cuba were published. Despite the bad weather, more than 95% of voters went to the polls to vote for candidates for the National Assembly of People's Power (NAPA) and provincial assemblies. There are no opposition movements in the country; the constitution enshrines the leading role of the Communist Party.

The results of urine tests of the leader of the Georgian opposition, 43-year-old Levan Gachechiladze, became the main topic of discussion in the Georgian media. To obtain a deputy mandate, a candidate must obtain a certificate stating that he does not use drugs. But Mr. Gachechiladze’s tests showed a minimal content of an opium group alkaloid - codeine. The politician explained that the day before he took the drug solpadeine for headaches, which contains codeine.

The famous St. Petersburg actor exchanged the administration of Valentina Matvienko for Isaac A “cult” appointment took place in St. Petersburg. People's Artist of Russia, actor Nikolai Burov, voluntarily leaving the position of chairman of the St. Petersburg Culture Committee, which he had held for the last three and a half years, moved to the chair of director of the State Museum-Monument (GMP) "St. Isaac's Cathedral".

Vladimir Putin held the first party meeting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, as you know, is also the chairman of the United Russia party. True, he himself prefers to remain non-partisan. And yesterday, in the Novo-Ogaryovo residence that remained to him from presidential times, Mr. Putin decided to work as party chairman almost two months after he was elected leader of United Russia at the party congress on April 15.

The Ministry of Industry asked to postpone the trade law A bill on state regulation of trade activities will not appear until the end of the year. According to the Interfax agency, the Ministry of Industry and Trade , recently created less than a month ago within the government of Vladimir Putin, sent a letter to the government with a request to postpone the preparation of the law to the fourth quarter of this year.

Our valiant special services did not allow the Ukrainian duelist to appear on the program “To the Barrier” (NTV). A replacement was quickly found - Democrat Mark Urnov. A good man, who has long become a whipping boy in Solovyov’s shows, showing by his own example all the flabbyness of devaluations. I wonder what qualities are used to select liberals on TV? Maybe it’s more worthy to remain on the blacklists?

The Mariinsky Ballet has a new director The name of Yuri Fateev is still known only to specialists. He is 44 years old, he has danced at the Mariinsky Theater for twenty years (parts of jesters, inserted pas de deux in “Giselle” - the repertoire of a corypheus or second soloist).

Arto Paasilinna. Gentle poisoner . Per. E. Khokhlova. - M.: Olga Morozova Publishing House, 2008. Arto Paasilinna is a Finnish writer, the author of three brilliant novels translated into Russian - “The Forest of Hanged Foxes”, “Charming Suicide among Friends” and “The Year of the Hare”. “The Tender Poisoner” is the fourth story, where absurdity and black humor grow from the very depths of the northern Chukhon depression.

Deutsche Bank has suspended the issuance of depositary receipts for shares of five Russian companies Deutsche Bank has stopped issuing depository receipts for shares of several large Russian companies. Deutsche Bank attributes this decision to the recently enacted law restricting foreign investment in strategic sectors. It is possible that other banks that are authorized depositories will also suspend the issuance of depository receipts for shares of Russian enterprises.

Dinara Safina and Svetlana Kuznetsova reached the semi-finals of Roland Garros At the French Open tennis championship yesterday, all participants in the women's semi-finals were determined. The first pair was made up of Russians Svetlana Kuznetsova and Dinara Safina, the second - Serbian tennis players Jelena Jankovic and Ana Ivanovic.

May, despite the first ten days of holidays, turned out to be surprisingly eventful on television. The main TV event is the premiere of the unusual humorous program “ProjectorParisHilton” (“Channel One”). To bring into the frame such forces as Tsekalo, Urgant, Martirosyan and Svetlakov from “Our Russia” is something! You can listen to such a command for hours, like nightingales.

May had to convince TV viewers that Russia is a superpower, and “Russia” is a super channel. We were shown the greatness of the Kremlin and the authorities at the inauguration, military might at the May 9 parade, sporting achievements in hockey and football, and a musical victory at Eurovision. If the first two events were shown by both main channels of the country, then the rest were lucky to be broadcast by Rossiya.

Bob Dylan, the most influential rock musician of our time, gave his first and only concert in St. Petersburg. Bob Dylan spent the entire performance at the St. Petersburg Ice Palace standing at the electric organ in profile to the audience. Whether or not to regard this as a special gesture was apparently a matter for the left half of the palace stands, which could only see the master’s back.

The authority to purchase medical equipment is transferred to hospitals The Ministry of Health and Social Development will no longer centrally purchase medical equipment supplied to the regions under a number of targeted programs, including the federal program for organizing high-tech medical care. Minister of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova announced this recently.

A federal court in the United States recently made a sensational decision to fine the aircraft manufacturer Boeing half a billion dollars for polluting the environment with nuclear weapons waste. Boeing intends to appeal this verdict, citing the fact that it never produced atomic bombs and, therefore, cannot be related to radioactive contamination.