The significant nature of the story with the withdrawal of Sergei Dorenko’s program makes us think about the significant nature of Boris Berezovsky’s latest initiative. What the real rights of creators and journalists called to become ORT shareholders will be is an murky matter.

Dorenko - Berezovsky's sting Fans of Sergei Dorenko were deprived of a “journalistic dessert” on Saturday - his author’s program on ORT. According to the General Director of Public Russian Television, Konstantin Ernst, Dorenko’s removal from the air is due to the fact that he refused to remove from his program a story about Boris Berezovsky transferring ORT shares to “creative people for management.” The decision was made by Ernst himself.

Specialists from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations recently began developing a concept for creating marine rescue centers in the country. President Vladimir Putin gave the corresponding instructions to the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Sergei Shoigu, at a recent meeting in the Kremlin.

The church appealed to the president with a request to return its property One of the most notable events of the recent Jubilee Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church was the appeal of the highest clergy to President Putin regarding the property of the Church.

Russia begins unprecedented military reduction Russia is preparing for an unprecedented reduction in its armed forces. Defense Minister Igor Sergeev publicly confirmed that the size of the army from the current 1 million 200 thousand people should be reduced to 850 thousand by the end of 2003.

The Perm basketball club "Ural-Great" signed a contract with Sergei Panov, a former player of the capital's CSKA. For Russian basketball, the fact of an agreement between a provincial club and one of the leaders of the national team marks the completion of a major redistribution, as a result of which we will receive a completely new national championship.

It is proposed to turn ARCO into a superbank The fact that the Agency for the Restructuring of Credit Institutions is “at marriageable age” has been talked about in banking circles for a long time. A very tempting dowry was remembered both when developing the concept of the Russian Development Bank and when launching the Rosselkhozbank project. They talk about ARCO every time they return to the idea of ​​​​creating a corporation to guarantee private deposits.

Correspondent of the Vremya Novostey newspaper Elena SUPONINA talked about the history and prospects of OPEC with the executive director of the International Research Center for Energy Problems in London, Fadil CHALABI. Chalabi, 71, has spent his entire career in oil. He led Iraqi oil companies, worked as Deputy Minister of the Oil Industry of Iraq, was Deputy Secretary General of OPEC for 10 years, and served as Secretary General for another 5 years - from 1983 to 1988.

The popular film continued with a militaristic concert Danila Bagrov is multiplying and multiplying. Simultaneously with the celluloid, cinematic Danila, the vinyl Danila was released - a soundtrack that sells very well. Electronic Danila - a computer game - will be released soon. A paper Danila could also appear - a book. And on Saturday, fans saw Danila in the flesh - Sergei Bodrov. The “Brother-2” concert took place live at the Olimpiysky.

German Michael Schumacher yesterday won the next stage of the Formula 1 championship, ahead of all rivals at the Enzo and Dino Ferrari circuit. The Italian Grand Prix began with a terrible multi-car collision in which Spanish pilot Pedro De la Rosa and one of the race stewards were injured. Both were taken to hospital in critical condition, where racetrack employee Paolo Ginslinberti died.

Today the exhibition “Real Estate Market” ends at the All-Russian Exhibition Center. The organizers of this event believe that now is the most favorable time for this business sector. Real estate prices are relatively stable, and in recent months there has even been a slight increase (within the limits of natural fluctuations in the market).

The General Director of TV-6 answers questions from a correspondent of the newspaper Vremya Novostei — There was a rumor that you want to show Sergei Dorenko’s program on Wednesday, which was taken off the air on Saturday. Is this true? - Nobody approached me with such a proposal. I myself never had such a thought. — I remember the events of a year ago, when Dorenko had already been hired by you as director of news broadcasting... - He was never hired by us.

The winners of the 57th Venice Film Festival were left without flamenco On the penultimate day of the festival, a thunderstorm raged over the Lido. At the closing ceremony, the thunderstorm acquired a metaphorical, but therefore no less menacing dimension: director Tony Gatliff, whose new film was chosen to close the festival, almost disrupted the final concert and thoroughly spoiled the mood of the organizers.

Compaq opened its own store in RuNet Under current customs rules, Western computer manufacturers are refraining from trading directly in Russia and are coming up with new marketing tactics to support their partners. The world leader in personal computer sales, Compaq Computer, recently opened a virtual retail store in common with its leading partners, calling it kupi.compaq.ru. Electronic market experts say that trading from a general “counter” is unlikely to increase the overall level of sales.

Molot coach Vasily Pervukhin believes in his players There have been no surprises so far in the Russian Ice Hockey Championship, which started on Thursday. The race was led by Togliatti's Lada, Yaroslavl's Lokomotiv (formerly Torpedo) and Magnitogorsk's Metallurg, who won two matches each. The only thing that is disappointing is the not very confident start of the capital's Dynamo and CSKA: having started the games at home, they were unable to please the fans.