I first heard the expression “Stalin-light,” which describes our reality, in a private conversation a little over a year ago. And it seemed very accurate to me.

Sport Abramovich is not allowed into the elite Alexander Ryukhin The management of Real Madrid does not want to see Roman Abramovich's Chelsea as part of the so-called G-14 group, which includes 18 leading football clubs in Europe. The Spaniards are afraid of the growing influence of the Russian oligarch in the highest sports circles of the continent.

Sport There are no football youth in Russia Sergey Andreev The Russian youth football team also lost the second friendly match with the Danish team, this time with a score of 0:1. Andrei Chernyshov's team has achieved disastrous results this year: only one goal scored and one draw in seven matches. The main reserve national team of the country is still only dreaming of victories.

Sport You can't overtake a Mercedes in a Lada Alexander Medvedev from Kazan This season in the Basketball Super League was a success, and the playoff final between UNICS and CSKA became a real highlight of the season. It was not easy after the failure, especially when the team had a chance to win, to ask its head coach Stanislav Eremin for an interview. — Stanislav Georgievich, last season was the most successful in the history of UNICS.

Smelly revolution Text: Elena Neglinina Photo: GettyOne Heavy equipment is again heading to South Ossetia from Georgia. Only these are no longer tanks, but huge trucks filled with large bags. The bags contain foul-smelling fertilizers. Every fight between Tbilisi and the separatists begins with them. A convoy of fertilizers left Tbilisi this morning and reached the borders of the breakaway republic in the middle of the day.

04 June 2004, 16:33 Culture Not quite Litvinova Dina Goder In an atmosphere of gloomy rumors, the premiere of “The Cherry Orchard” with Renata Litvinova took place. The rumors have not been dispelled - the estimated price of a ticket for the performance is zero. The last premiere of the Chereshnevy Les festival was somehow strange.

On Thursday evening it became known that the Arkhangelsk regional TV channel “Dvina” canceled the airing of the talk show “Public Hearings” for censorship reasons. The topic of the program this coming Saturday was supposed to be the state of housing and communal services in the Arkhangelsk region. The talk show “Public Hearings” first aired on the regional channel “Dvina” on May 22.

04 June 2004, 19:07 Society The killers admitted that they committed mischief Irina Petrakova St. Petersburg teenagers suspected of murdering a Tajik girl have been charged with hooliganism. And although the city prosecutor’s office will most likely reclassify him as murder, the nationalist motive in this case is heard less and less often. And St. Petersburg skinheads are increasingly called ordinary hooligans.

The tone of Anatoly Chubais ’ Friday speech at the international conference “Corporate Governance and Economic Growth in Russia” gave no reason to doubt that the main thing for RAO is to prevent Rusal from investing.

Sport Spartak Moscow will win in Paris Oleg Smirnov The first ever “Russian” final of the French Open will take place in Paris on Saturday. The sixth racket of the tournament, Anastasia Myskina, will meet with Elena Dementieva, seeded ninth before the start of the competition. Myskina and Dementieva are not just compatriots, they are also friends who have known each other for many years.

07 June 2004, 09:37 Society Mutant products are hiding on the shelves Sid Yanyshev Despite numerous statements in the press, a decree on labeling products containing more than 0.9% of genetically modified substances has not come into force in Russia. The Greens are convinced that even if it works, it won’t make it any easier for the Russian consumer.

Sport WBA strips Tszyu of title Valery Silantiev The WBA warned Konstantin Tszyu that he could lose his championship title if he fights Sharmba Mitchell. Tszyu is scheduled to face Guyana's Vivian Harris instead. Konstantin Tszyu, who has collected world champion titles according to major organizations, is a super champion. Sharmba Mitchell is the interim IBF champion, Harris is the current WBA world champion. All of them compete in super light (up to 63.5 kg) weight.

Sport Alenichev's club was decapitated for a short time Vladimir Petrov Dmitry Alenichev's club Porto, winner of the Champions League, has named a successor to Jose Mourinho, who left for London's Chelsea. Italian Luigi del Neri, who successfully worked for the Chievo club from Verona for four years, was appointed head coach. Such a quick choice by the Porto management, since the news of Mourinho’s departure was spread only at the beginning of the week, is not surprising.

Kredittrust is liquidating itself, this decision was made by the bank’s management on Thursday evening. This is the first case of a bank being liquidated due to mere rumors that it has common owners with Sodbiznesbank, which was deprived of its license. But the reason, of course, is not the rumors, but the market’s reaction to them. Last week, a number of large banks closed Kredittrust limits on the interbank lending market.

Opinions Scouts of other people's wallets "Gazeta.Ru" A bureaucratic organization, even a forceful one, cannot exist without a fixed “front of work.” Hence the life-giving ideas of returning to control over purchases. Russian regulatory authorities continue to fire control shots with blanks. The State Drug Control Agency, instead of actually fighting drug trafficking, preys on veterinarians and declares a cat in court to be an individual to whom drugs are allegedly sold.