Yesterday our athletes won four gold medals at the Games in Sydney “And I’m going to Russia, I want to go home...” Not only our athletes participating in the Sydney Olympics, but also journalists would probably subscribe to this phrase. The last Millennium Games until yesterday brought mostly disappointments to our team.

Local Nazis carried out an exemplary foray last Friday in Ryazan. In the afternoon, a group of unknown people broke into a Jewish Sunday school and destroyed several classes. The thugs did not touch the students - children from 7 to 14 years old - and teachers, limiting themselves only to anti-Semitic cries. Apparently, this was enough for the raiders to openly declare themselves and thereby put the local authorities in a very difficult position.

Prokofiev's "Duena" was greeted with homeric laughter at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Musical Theater “Duenna” (“Betrothal in a Monastery”), one of Prokofiev’s most cheerful operas, despite its undeniable merits, is not particularly popular among directors. After the first production at the Mariinsky Theater (then the Kirov Theater, in 1946), it was occasionally shown in many major theaters in the country, but has not yet become a hit.

Water polo . Women. 1. Australia. 2. USA. 3. Russia. Sports gymnastics. Men. Floor exercises . 1. Igor Vikhrov (Latvia). 2. Alexey Nemov (Russia). 3. Yordan Yovchev (Bulgaria). Horse . 1. Sylvester Skolani (Hungary). 2. Dimosthenis Tampakos (Greece). 3. Yordan Yovchev (Bulgaria). Rings . 1. Maurice Urzica (Romania). 2. Eric Poujade (France). 3. Alexey Nemov (Russia). Women. Vault . 1. Elena Zamolodchikova (Russia). 2. Andrea Raducan (Romania). 3. Ekaterina Lobaznyuk (Russia). Bars . 1.

In the far corner, a pile of gold coins and stacks of bars glowed dimly. These were Flint's treasures... How many human lives, how much suffering and blood did it cost to collect these riches! How many glorious ships were sunk, how many brave people were tortured, who were forced to walk blindfolded on a plank thrown over the side! What gunfire, how much lies and cruelty! Robert Louis Stevenson.

Out of production Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov and head of RAO UES of Russia Anatoly Chubais agreed that the restructuring of RAO UES will begin in the first ten days of December. Sources inside the company assure that the Kremlin and the White House will not change horses in midstream. And they will entrust this difficult mission to Anatoly Chubais. In their opinion, if Alexander Voloshin, the head of the presidential administration and political opponent of Mr.

Moscow is preparing for the first land auction “I do not rule out that this auction may be final,” Oleg Tolkachev, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Government and head of the Complex for Property and Land Relations, said at a press conference on Friday evening. Based on the results of the auction, the city leadership will decide whether such experiments are still worth conducting. And if so, by what rules?

New IMF program for Russia Russia should not count on IMF loans this year or next if oil prices remain high enough. “The strong balance of payments suggests that we may refuse to take out a new loan this year - this is the general opinion.

At the end of this week, at a meeting with First Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin, a new version of the draft law “On combating the legalization (laundering) of illegally obtained income” should be approved. But it is unlikely that the document will be submitted to the government as planned in early October, since a serious interdepartmental struggle has unfolded around it.

The corridors of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs can be a dangerous place for uninformed visitors. Minister Igor Ivanov is going to ride a scooter along them, testing out a gift from US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. Mrs. Albright took advantage of Igor Ivanov's stay in New York at the UN General Assembly to present him with a scooter and a helmet that was fashionable in the States for his 55th birthday.

After the 25th round, Spartak Moscow became the sole leader of the Russian football championship. And the capital's Lokomotiv, which was on a par with the Red-Whites in terms of lost points, lost to their fellow countrymen from Torpedo - 0:3 (two goals scored by Gashkin). The result is all the more surprising considering that the Torpedo team is going through hard times and this is their first victory in the last two months.

Fourth Continent Male Solo The wet brunette replaced the blue-eyed blond in the creamy dreams of saleswomen of commercial stalls, triumphantly completing the decisive set in the formation of a generalized sex symbol of the twentieth century. 10 years earlier, the Hollywood dream factory had finally appreciated the luscious appeal of Latin lovers and, with a royal gesture, moved Antonio Banderas from the janitor's room to the front of the stage.

The latest statements by Russia's top military leadership about the upcoming reduction of the armed forces by more than a third make us remember the consequences of similar actions in the past. Even a relatively small reduction in the army after the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-1905 (from 1.1 million to 760 thousand) forced the government to think about employing former officers.

The plant accused tax officials of “black PR” The conflict between VAZ and the tax police threatens to escalate into personal litigation. On the evening of September 23, the press service of the enterprise made a statement about the inadmissibility of disseminating information through the media that discredits the reputation of the enterprise. According to confidential information, VAZ intends to bring the leadership of the Federal Tax Service to justice for damaging the image of the enterprise.

The traffic inspectorate wants to ban private intercity transportation The issuance of licenses for intercity and international transportation to private drivers may be limited. And most likely stopped altogether. The Russian State Traffic Safety Inspectorate plans to submit such a proposal to the government.