American minority shareholders of YUKOS came to life after three years of silence The Yukos case continues to bring surprises. Last Friday, such a surprise awaited Alexei Kudrin in Washington, where the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance arrived to participate in the “Spring Meetings” of the IMF and the World Bank. Mr.

Washington won't give up Hockey. NHL. Playoffs. First round. "Philadelphia" -- "Pittsburgh" -- 3:5 (series score 2-4) - - Gonchar "P" (1+0), Malkin "P" (0+2), "Chicago" -- "Calgary" " -- 5:1 (3-2), "San Jose" -- "Anaheim" -- 3:2 OT (2-3), "Washington" -- "Rangers" -- 4:0 (2- 3) - - Fedorov “V” (0+1), Ovechkin “V” (1+0), Semin “V” (1+0). Washington is making titanic efforts to avoid elimination in the first round of the playoffs.

Berliners challenge state monopoly on ethics In the entire post-war history of Germany, the state and the church have never entered into such intense confrontation as they did in recent weeks in Berlin. Yesterday, residents of the capital of Germany took part in a land referendum (Berlin is an independent federal state) to decide the fate of two educational subjects - religion and ethics.

How American saxophonist Joe Lovano was the lead singer of Igor Butman's big band Butman's orchestra is almost ten years old. Many people associate the tenor saxophonist and his ensemble with jazz in general. In fact, the public often goes to “see Butman”, even if the mentioned musician is not on stage, but someone whom our main jazz player invited is performing. No matter who it is - an elderly overseas classic or an aspiring New York singer - if it is “jazz from Butman”, they go for it.

March 24 -- April 24, 2009 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of “Vremya Novostei” and the “Medialogia” company, are ratings of political figures who are most actively discussed in the federal press and on central TV channels. The ratings reflect both the total number of publications per month and the level of information favorability in relation to each political person.

Forty-eight authors will continue to compete for the most significant literary prizes The long list of candidates for the Big Book Award is two positions longer than last year. Then 46 essays passed the intermediate barrier; now, out of 384 nominated, the council of experts left 48 at a distance - forty “materialized” books and journal publications and eight manuscripts. The status of one of the contestants was shrouded in fog until the last days.

Heads of CIS economic courts are developing uniform rules for punishing violators The chairmen of the economic courts of the member countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States, who met last Friday in Kazan, called on their governments to establish common “rules of the game” that would make it easier to bring foreign violators to administrative responsibility and simplify the procedure for considering disputes between business entities from different countries CIS.

For two days in a row, on April 23 and 24, the premiere of Yuri Lyubimov’s “Fairy Tales” was played at Taganka - this is how the theater he created celebrated the 45th anniversary. There were no special celebrations, speeches or offerings; in the tradition of this theater, the main news and surprise was always the performance. But the festive audience, of course, wanted to somehow express their admiration and gratitude to the legendary theater.

The demographic crisis will replace the economic one Russian experts in the field of social policy and demography believe that even the current situation on the labor market can be considered quite favorable compared to what awaits the economy and society in the next 15 years. At least, the twelfth UN report on human development, “Russia in the Face of Demographic Challenges,” presented at the end of last week, makes very pessimistic forecasts regarding the age structure of society.

The Israeli General Security Service (Shin Bet), three weeks after the tragedy in the Jewish settlement of Bat Ayin in the West Bank, announced the arrest of a Palestinian who attacked children. He turned out to be a 26-year-old resident of the neighboring Arab village of Khirbat Safa named Musa Tit. On April 2, an attacker armed with an ax entered the territory of the Jewish settlement of Bat-Ayin and attacked children playing table tennis.

Spartak gave its fans a holiday “Spartak” won its second victory in a row, with consultant Oleg Romantsev listed as an accomplice. The three points turned out to be difficult - the national champion Rubin was defeated away. By the end of the 6th round, there was only one undefeated team left in the championship. Scandal. The zero in the “defeat” column for Zenit is still conditional. The decision of the CDC not to give St.

Economic forecast for 2009 revised for the worse The macroeconomic situation in the country this year may turn out to be worse than even pessimistic forecasts. The draft forecast of the country's socio-economic development, prepared by the Ministry of Economic Development, provides for a 6% drop in GDP as an optimistic scenario. Under the pessimistic scenario, the economy will shrink by 7.4%. So far, the official forecast for the decline in GDP for this year is 2.2%.

The BRIC countries have so far refrained from IMF funding The search for ways to implement the decisions of the London G20 summit , which was led by participants in the “Spring Meetings” of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank held over the weekend in Washington, as predicted by the Vremya Novostey newspaper , was not an easy task.

The Italian team defeated Shamil Tarpishchev's team Russian tennis players lost in the semifinals of the Federation Cup. In three singles matches, the current holders of the team title (Russians won this trophy in 2004, 2005, 2007 and 2008) lost to the Italians and lost their chance to reach the final this year.

The left will lead Iceland out of the crisis In Iceland, forced to urgently get out of the economic abyss, the global crisis has completely changed the political landscape. In the early parliamentary elections last Saturday, a center-left coalition consisting of the Social Democratic Alliance (SDA) and the Left Green Movement (MLM) won.