American bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. suspects British Barclays of failure to comply with the terms of the deal to acquire the brokerage division of the bankrupt company. Lehman executives are puzzled by the $3.47 billion profit Barclays made from its acquisition. Yesterday, Lehman Brothers asked the US bankruptcy court to examine the situation with the purchase of Barclays Plc. its brokerage division.

Prosperity Capital fund consolidated about 10% of Bashneft shares The second largest shareholder of enterprises of the Bashkir fuel and energy complex, besides AFK Sistema, is the Prosperity Capital Management fund. This became known yesterday from the results of the fund's published reporting. According to these data, Prosperity Capital has consolidated about 10% of the shares of Bashneft and has shares in the Bashkir refineries - Novoil and Ufaorgsintez.

Europe and China will discuss economics and climate Today's EU-China summit in Prague could turn the unfortunate page of the spat between the world's two economic giants, as both sides recognize that puffing up and philosophical arguments are inappropriate in the midst of a global crisis. But there is no escape from politics, especially on the eve of the Dalai Lama’s new European tour.

In the central regions of Russia this coming night, frosts down to 0...-2°C are expected only on the ground and mainly in the eastern regions. In the northeastern regions of the Volga-Vyatka region, it will not be possible to avoid frosts this coming night.

The new US administration will put pressure on the Serbs The new American administration has turned its attention to the troubled Balkans. Yesterday, US Vice President Joseph Biden, 66, began his first three-day tour in the region. The former owners of the White House actively intervened in the Balkan interethnic conflicts and even redrew the borders, causing discontent in Russia.

NASA astronauts repaired the unique Hubble telescope Yesterday marked the end of the fifth repair mission that NASA astronauts have conducted on the Hubble Space Telescope since it was launched into orbit in 1990. The Atlantis shuttle undocked from the telescope and headed for Earth. In total, the crew performed five spacewalks. The average duration of each was approximately eight hours. It is planned that after repairs, the space telescope will operate in orbit for another 5-10 years.

The Norwegian Prime Minister failed to convince Vladimir Putin to intervene in the dispute between Telenor and Alfa Group. The victory of small but proud Norway at the Eurovision Song Contest, which ended on Sunday in Moscow, sparked meetings between Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and his Russian counterpart.

The Federal Financial Markets Service will change the requirements for Russian issuers during IPOs and SPOs abroad The Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM) is developing an order that will change the requirements for companies seeking to list abroad. The head of the department, Vladimir Milovidov, spoke about this yesterday.

Human rights activists demand urgent reform of law enforcement agencies The massacre carried out at the end of April by the former head of the Tsaritsyno police department, Major Denis Evsyukov, in the Ostrov supermarket in the south of Moscow, served as the occasion for a campaign for reform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, organized by human rights and social movements. However, so far the public events taking place as part of this campaign look rather modest.

Supplies of Russian anti-aircraft missile systems to Belarus depend on a political decision The fifth International Exhibition of Arms and Military Equipment “Milex-2009” began yesterday in the capital of Belarus. Russia participated in all previous ones. And if at the first exhibition in 2001 the Russians did not even have their own stand, now the exposition occupies 72 square meters.

Netanyahu and Obama argue over Iran and Palestine Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is ready to resume direct negotiations with the head of the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) Mahmoud Abbas. This is the only result of the three-hour negotiations between the Israeli guest and US President Barack Obama. Their first meeting after taking office took place on Monday, May 18, in Washington.

“Life is Good” is now at the Praktika Theater Today at the Praktika Theater they are playing the premiere of Pavel Pryazhko’s play “Life is a Good Thing.” A preview of this production was played on Saturday, during a museum night at Winzavod, and it turned out to be an unexpected experience for the theater and, it seems, very appropriate in this case.

Oleg Yankovsky died Actor Oleg Yankovsky, known to millions of Soviet and Russian viewers from dozens of his favorite films, has died. The leading actor of the Moscow Lenkom Theater was 65 years old. For a long time he suffered from pancreatic cancer. The wizard from “An Ordinary Miracle”, the dragon from “Kill the Dragon”, Baron Munchausen are some of Yankovsky’s most famous roles. The actor starred in more than 70 films.

There are decisions that everyone can interpret to their advantage. Among them is the latest order of President Dmitry Medvedev on the creation of a commission to combat the falsification of history. On the one hand, we really cannot allow Russian schoolchildren to doubt our victory or consider the Eastern Front to be auxiliary during the Second World War. On the other hand, so that the truth about the war, no matter how bitter it may be, is kept silent.

The heads of the Supreme Court and the Supreme Arbitration Court outlined their vision of judicial reform The chairmen of Russia's two highest courts - the Supreme and Supreme Arbitration Court - reported yesterday to their colleagues on the progress of justice reform, the directions of which President Dmitry Medvedev announced at the VII All-Russian Congress of Judges in early December last year.