The Russian President called on the West to take a break An important event of President Dmitry Medvedev's visit to Germany was yesterday's speech at the Intercontinental Hotel in Berlin. About a thousand representatives of the business and political elite of Germany listened to the Russian leader.

CLUBS "NOM" at the Gogol' club, 20.30. "Leningrad". It would be more correct to define the Leningrad group as an orchestra. The brass section - trombone, saxophone, trumpet, tuba - in combination with the xylophone, guitars, drums and vocals of Sergei Shnurov forms that unique charm that sharply distinguishes the group from the rest.

At the CIS Economic Forum on June 6-7 in St. Petersburg, the first meeting of Russian President Dmitry Medvedev with Georgian leader Mikheil Saakashvili will take place. Tbilisi will demand the withdrawal of Russian railway troops from Abkhazia, which were brought there at the end of May to repair the railway. Moscow assures that the appearance of repairmen in Abkhazia is in accordance with previous agreements with Tbilisi, signed earlier with Georgian President Eduard SHEVARDNADZE.

Where will the railway to Abkhazia take Russia? At the summit in St. Petersburg, Dmitry Medvedev will have a difficult conversation with Mikheil Saakashvili: the Georgian president will probably ask him what the introduction of Russian railway troops into unrecognized Abkhazia means . It is not easy to answer: from the point of view of international law, Abkhazia is part of Georgia, and the introduction of additional military contingent may well be regarded as an act of aggression.

The first press conference of the XXX MIFF was held The thirtieth anniversary Moscow International Film Festival will be held from June 19 to 28, but this time the traditional press conference took place a little earlier than usual - most of the programs have already been formed and determined. Almost everything is known about the main competition - this time it will consist of sixteen films (perhaps one more will be added to them).

The Union of Right Forces and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation are ready to unite to cancel the results of the Duma elections Yesterday, the Union of Right Forces party, following the communists, filed a lawsuit with the Supreme Court of Russia to invalidate the results of the elections to the State Duma of the fifth convocation , held on December 2, 2007. The complaint was personally delivered to the court by SPS leader Nikita Belykh and party lawyer Vadim Prokhorov.

The winners of the “Changing Museum in a Changing World” competition have been announced On Wednesday, the Tretyakov Engineering Building hosted an award ceremony for the projects that won the “Changing Museum in a Changing World” competition. The competition is being held for the fifth time. It is organized by the Vladimir Potanin Charitable Foundation with the support of the Ministry of Culture and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation and the Association of Cultural Managers.

Hyundai plans to export products from the future plant to Europe Hyundai Motor was the first of the international automobile concerns to come to Russia to announce that it would export cars from its plant in St. Petersburg , the foundation stone of which was laid yesterday. Perhaps that is why Governor Valentina Matvienko solemnly proclaimed a “countdown of a new time” for the city economy.

The Cabinet of Ministers promises to make the Olympics cheaper for the state It is surprising how flexible the government's fiscal policy has become in recent weeks . Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin was right when he said on Monday: “We have a tool for maneuver,” meaning a three-year financial plan. Now, within its framework, the “peredvizhniki” of Putin’s government appeal move billions from one year to another with enviable ease.

MDM lawyers convicted of stealing shares for their boss The Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow yesterday sentenced two lawyers of the Moscow Youth Palace (MDM) JSC , finding them guilty of fraud. The head of the legal department, Elena Biley, and the senior lawyer of MDM, Osman Pliev, were charged with theft of company shares worth 500 million rubles. The court sentenced them to six and five years in prison, respectively. The defense does not agree with the verdict and intends to appeal it.

Gennady Onishchenko refuted the widespread version of the emergence of enterovirus in Khakassia The priority national project “Health” helped to control the spread of the most dangerous infections, and almost completely eliminated the threat of some of them.

President Medvedev made his debut in the West The expectations that were associated in Germany with the first European visit of the third president of Russia seem to have been partly justified. This was confirmed not only by the results of the negotiations held yesterday in Berlin by Dmitry Medvedev with Bundeschancellor Angela Merkel, but also by his essentially programmatic 40-minute speech delivered to the German public at the Intercontinental Hotel . Mr.

The Russian team arrived at the European Championships The Russian team has finally reached the Austrian town of Leogang, where it will be based for the entire time allotted to it at the European Championships. On the way to Austria, Hiddink's team managed to play three test matches. In the last of them, against the Lithuanian national team, a major victory was again won - 4:1. But it didn’t get any easier after that.

A Russian tennis player made it to the Roland Garros final for the first time The French Open tennis championship has entered the home stretch. Yesterday the names of the participants in the women's final were determined. In the Russian semi-final derby, Dinara Safina beat Svetlana Kuznetsova - 6:3, 6:2. The Serbian duel between Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic brought success to the first - 6:4, 3:6, 6:4.

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