The builder of a financial pyramid in China offered investors to feed insects While in Russia bailiffs enthusiastically continue to search for and describe the more or less valuable property of the founder of the scandalous MMM company Sergei Mavrodi, the Chinese authorities are trying to intimidate potential builders of their financial pyramids.

The NHL is still a dream for young people The traditional annual National Hockey League draft will take place in Ottawa next Saturday. They say that recently the crisis in Russian hockey has reached its limit and high-quality hockey players have stopped appearing here. But the ratings of the scouting bureau, as well as the tests for newcomers, refute this opinion. Of course, there are no people of the level of Alexander Ovechkin, Evgeni Malkin or Ilya Kovalchuk in the country now.

President Medvedev was heard by German business For me, Chairman of the Eastern Committee of the German Economy, it was a special honor that President Dmitry Medvedev agreed to give a keynote speech on June 6, during his first visit to Germany. This was generally the first speech of the new president in Western countries. With this speech to an audience of over 1,000 listeners, Mr. Medvedev clearly demonstrated his principles in Germany.

Gazprom continues to convince Europe of interdependence Gazprom's export revenue this year compared to the results of 2007 will increase by more than one and a half times, by 25 billion dollars. As Alexander Medvedev, deputy chairman of the board of the concern for foreign economic activity, said yesterday at a briefing, total foreign exchange earnings from sales are projected at 71 6 billion dollars, of which 64 billion dollars will be raised by Gazprom in non-CIS countries.

The Irish have put an end to the process of federalization of Europe European representatives will arrive at the next Russia-EU summit, which will be held this week in Khanty-Mansiysk, in a bad mood. Over the past two years, leading member states have made herculean efforts to restart structural reforms in the European Union. But the stubbornness of Irish voters, who did not support the Lisbon Treaty in the referendum, again plunged a united Europe into a conceptual crisis.

Georgia is preparing to expel Russian peacekeepers from Abkhazia In the next few days, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili will announce a decision on the withdrawal of Russian peacekeepers from Abkhazia, the authoritative Tbilisi newspaper Resonance reported yesterday.

WCI Steel shareholders do not want to give the company to Severstal Severstal continues to experience difficulties in the United States . Last week, the board of directors of the American Esmark rejected the purchase offer of Alexei Mordashov's company in favor of the Indian Essar, despite the consent of the trade union and one of the main shareholders of Franklin Mutual Advisers LLC (controls 60% of the shares).

200 films will be shown at the Moscow Film Festival So, today, June 19, the Moscow International Film Festival will open for the thirtieth time. The opening will be held solemnly, as it should be in a country where they play hockey and football so well and win Eurovision. On the star trail, in addition to Nikita Mikhalkov and other familiar Russian stars, local stars will also appear.

Fidel appears to the people “Fidel sat alive and in good health, thinking, writing and setting out an important strategy for Cuba and our Latin America,” is how Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez commented yesterday on his meeting with the 81-year-old Cuban comandante. Chavez said that on Monday he met with Fidel for almost three hours, and on Tuesday they talked for about two hours. Cuban television broadcast an hour and a half video footage of the meeting between Castro and Chavez.

“Fight for the Banner” in the New Manege Did Soviet Russia of the late 20s of the last century have an alternative path to totalitarianism? Curator Ekaterina Degot is sure that there was. She connects it with the ideas of Trotsky, with the triumph of proletarian ethics, the principle of democracy, the ideology of world revolution and internationalism. Calls it a “left zigzag” of power.

Russia's relations with EU member states and the West in general are deteriorating. The number of political disagreements over security in Europe is growing, and discussions continue about the role and activities of Russia, the EU and NATO in their common area of ​​​​interest.

Europeans are selling a stake in Irkut, but want to buy UAC The European aerospace concern EADS said that it still seeks to become a shareholder of the Russian United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) , although it is selling its stake in OJSC NPK Irkut, which, as previously assumed, could be exchanged for UAC shares.

The Ministry of Regional Development presented the concept of regional policy in Russia The Public Council under the Ministry of Regional Development met to discuss the “Concept for improving regional policy in Russia.” The discussion turned out to be lively, and it appeared that the document was somehow suspicious - the areas of development that it outlined were not provided with resources, and some important points were not even mentioned.

CLUBS "Strawberry meadow" Ethno-fusion. A musical mix of flute, oriental drums, accordion, bouzouki, synthesizers, jazz-funk guitar and the unique voice of a soloist who speaks three types of female throat singing: khoomei, sygyt and dag kargyraa. “Tin” , 21.00 Alexey Kozlov and Arsenal . Forte , 21.00. Vladimir Nesterenko Quartet . "Apshu" , 22.00. Sergey Manukyan (vocals, keyboards). Union of Composers , 20.00 MOVIE PREMIERES "Sex and the City" (USA, 2008). Directed by Michael Patrick King.

North Ossetia initiates a referendum on changing the constitution North Ossetia is going to again initiate a referendum that could change the state structure of Russia: a group of activists from the local branch of the LDPR wants to abolish the post of head of the republic.