Dostoevskaya metro station will open in early June Metro builders have finally decided on the timing of the commissioning of two new stations on the Lyublinsko-Dmitrovskaya line. As reported on the official website of Mosmetrostroy OJSC, the general contractor of the metro, construction and finishing work has already been completed at the new Dostoevskaya and Maryina Roshcha stations.

Power struggle rocks Kyrgyzstan's interim government In Kyrgyzstan, for the first time since the April events, signs of a serious struggle appeared within the group that took power. And one of the main tools in it was wiretapping telephone conversations between the leaders of the provisional government.

Gazprom Neft doubles net profit In the first three months of this year, Gazprom Neft managed to increase its net profit by 2.2 times compared to the first quarter of 2009. According to US GAAP standards, this figure amounted to $727 million (335 million for the same period last year). This growth was due to favorable pricing conditions on global trading platforms, the company explained.

Lev Pumpyansky remembered in the Hermitage A collection of siege poems and letters by Leningrad art critic Lev Pumpyansky was presented at an evening organized by the Hermitage and the World Club of St. Petersburgers. Lev Ivanovich Pumpyansky, art critic and writer, artist and teacher, in the pre-war years was the dean of the Faculty of Art History of the All-Russian Academy of Arts and a teacher at the Conservatory.

When we mention Brazil and Rio, those brought up with Soviet literature and cinema always remember Ostap Bender, who dreamed of walking along the embankment in white pants and “forests full of wild monkeys.” Some also know about Pele and football, the beaches of Copacabana, the statue of Christ and the famous carnival. Judoists have had their own associations with Rio for many years now.

Vologda is turning into a Russian center of optoelectronics The Russian army needs thermal imagers included in modern sighting devices. And there are such thermal imagers in Russia, but if the domestic device weighs more than 10 kg, then the French one weighs only 2 kg. The issue of purchasing French equipment was decided even before the debate on whether to buy Israeli drones or German steel for armored vehicles.

Dmitry Medvedev is trying to attract American venture capital funds to Russia Russian President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday announced his readiness to extend the special regime of the Russian silicon valley Skolkovo to other centers. “If we succeed, I have no doubt about it, then we could replicate this experience in other places,” the head of state said at a meeting with the heads of leading American venture funds.

According to Finnish law, a mother is not a direct relative of her daughter. The Finnish Migration Service insists on the decision to deport 82-year-old Russian woman Irina Antonova. An elderly woman who had suffered a stroke and needed constant care was brought to Helsinki in 2008 by her own daughter Natalia Käärik on a tourist visa. Natalya is married to a Finn, has citizenship of the country and has been living in Finland for 20 years.

World Russian People's Council teaches teachers self-exhaustion The 14th World Russian People's Council, which opened yesterday in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior, began its work with speeches on the importance of education in general and the spiritual education of youth in particular. Patriarch Kirill, the wife of the Russian President Svetlana Medvedeva, and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov spoke about what Russian education should be like.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs notes the “movement” of bribe takers from universities to schools The last bell rang in Russia yesterday for 840 thousand school graduates. The Ministry of Education and Science claims that most of them will be able to obtain higher education - competition for universities this year will be low, even for budget places. “The number of budget places in universities has not decreased,” ITAR-TASS quotes representatives of the Ministry of Education and Science.

The final station is WTO It took Russia a year less two weeks to return to formal negotiations on joining the World Trade Organization. On June 9 last year , Vladimir Putin announced that “individual” negotiations were being interrupted , and Russia intended to return to them as part of the Customs Union with Kazakhstan and Belarus.

“Orlando” dampened the score in the series with “Boston” Basketball. NBA. Playoffs. Semi-final. “Boston” – “Orlando” – 92:96 (OT) (series score 3-1). Orlando managed to stop Boston on its way to the final. In the fourth match of the series, the Magic took things to overtime, in which they managed to win. On the eve of the match, the hosts radiated confidence and optimism. Boston leader Paul Pierce spoke of his teammates this way: “This team never stops on its laurels.

Russia calls on Korean states to show restraint Relations between North and South Korea have become such that the world is talking about the likelihood of war between them. Yesterday, South Korean President Lee Myung-bak called President Dmitry Medvedev and spoke about the developments surrounding the death of the South Korean corvette Cheonan.

CONCERTS Soledad Orquesta . Music of traditional, original Argentine tango, tango nuevo, original tango-style adaptations of popular songs, as well as our own compositions. House of Music , 19.00. Chris Isaac (USA). The latest disc released by Isaac in 2009 is Mr.Lucky, consisting of 16 songs written in a characteristic manner, filled with romanticism and slight sadness, as well as hits, including, of course, Wicked Game. "B1 Maximum" , 21.00. CLASSIC Jazz improvisations. Daniil Kramer (piano).

Watch from May 27 on Moscow screens "Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time" (USA, 2010, Mike Newell) . New taste of the season - now with figs and raisins: a signature summer product from producer Jerry Bruckheimer (Armageddon, Bad Boys, Pirates of the Caribbean), a high-budget fantasy on the theme of an antediluvian computer game by today's standards, which once inspired Viktor Olegovich Pelevin to write “Prince of Gosplan”.