Basketball. Super League. Avtodor - CSKA - 77:70, Khimki - Shakhtar - 76:61, Lokomotiv - Metallurg - University - 91:62. Basketball CSKA has accustomed its fans to the fact that in Russia the army team has no worthy opponents. However, Saratov Avtodor brought Muscovites down to earth. The hosts achieved their main advantage in the third quarter. And although CSKA almost equalized the score in the decisive quarter, the Avtodor basketball players found the strength to bring the match to victory.

Joschka Fischer - Father of Serbian Democracy As the last obstacles to the extension of the “Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe” to Yugoslavia disappear, European business, and above all its vanguard - German entrepreneurs - is taking the starting position for dividing the financial pie baked by the EU to support democratic processes in this country.

Football. French Championship. Paris Saint-Germain - Marseille - 2:0, Bastia - Monaco - 0:2, Lille - Guingamp - 1:1, Strasbourg - “Nantes” – 0:5, “Rennes” – “Lens” – 0:1, “Metz” – “Troyes” – 2:2, “Sedan” – “Saint-Etienne” – 2 :1. Russian legionnaire Alexander Panov, who played for Saint-Etienne, was loaned by the club's new head coach John Toshack to the Swiss Lausanne until the end of the season.

The United States against “Russian money” Recently, a federal judge in the Southern District of New York ordered the materials of a lawsuit arising from last year's Russian money laundering scandal at the Bank of New York (BONY) to be made public.

The Kremlin and the Central Bank will seek a compromise on the status of the country's main bank On Friday, President Vladimir Putin met with Bank of Russia Chairman Viktor Gerashchenko.

The Norwegian diving vessel Regalia will arrive at the site of the Kursk nuclear submarine disaster in the Barents Sea by the middle of this week. Experts say that the final preparations for underwater work will be completed during the transition of the Regalia to the point with the now known coordinates of 69.40 N to the whole world. and 37.35 E, so that the Russian-Norwegian team of divers will be able to almost immediately begin diving on the sunken submarine.

In the village of Pashino near Novosibirsk, two local residents were detained during preparations for sabotage at the electrical substation of the Iskra military plant. They intended to cause an explosion to divert the attention of the police, and then quietly rob a cash-in-transit vehicle in which they would bring salaries to the company's employees. Residents of the village were the first to notice the saboteurs.

Mikhail Pletnev played with death The new program of the Russian National Orchestra, played recently in the Great Hall of the Conservatory, cannot be denied its integrity. A single theme holds it together with such conceptual strength that you can’t even play an entertaining encore later. What kind of encore is there when there is only death all around? Yes, not simple, but very late romantic: Liszt, Richard Strauss and, of course, Wagner.

An attempt to restore the Stalinist anthem is unacceptable - this would seem to be a moral axiom. Everything rebels against - both the mind and the heart. Hecatombs that no one can count, the transformation of an entire generation into cannon fodder, the betrayal of millions of prisoners - such is the genesis of Alexandrov’s music. There is no need to talk about words: this is a rhymed gurgle that does not pretend to be anything and does not touch any emotional strings.

The lack of intrigue encouraged the teams to play productively Due to the fact that the outsiders of the Russian championship emerged quite a long time ago, and the leading group has significantly broken away from their competitors, for many teams the championship is almost over. The only exceptions are the capital's Spartak and Lokomotiv, who have not yet determined which of them is more worthy of gold medals. And also clubs that have not lost their chance for bronze.

According to the newspaper Vremya Novostey , the first deputy general director and head of the NTV information service, Vladimir Kulistikov, will in the coming days be offered the position of chairman of the board of the RIA-Novosti agency, part of the VGTRK holding. This post remained vacant after the previous head, Alexey Volin, left to work in the government, while Mr. Volin continued to oversee the work of the agency.

On the eve of the elections, Bill Clinton still hopes to save the Middle East settlement Three weeks before the election of a successor, US President Bill Clinton canceled events in support of his deputy Gore, traveling instead to Egypt. In Sharm el-Sheikh on the shores of the Red Sea, Clinton hopes to save the face of American diplomacy, which received a resounding slap in the face from its Middle Eastern clients.

The Rostov-on-Don mayor's office has stopped issuing documents for the construction of new gas stations. The city administration believes that too many gas stations have been built in Rostov recently, and most of them are now experiencing a shortage of customers. According to officials, the construction of new gas stations will bring nothing to the city except the ruin of the old ones. More than 150 gas stations are already operating or are about to be put into operation in Rostov.

In previous times, Russia, which always considered itself the patroness of Serbia, was nervous about Belgrade’s attempts to change its foreign policy orientation. One of the most striking examples of Russian participation in the fate of Serbia was the coup of 1903, when Russian envoy Nikolai Hartwig and military agent Viktor Artamonov knew about the plans of the Black Hand officer organization and even financed the recruitment of new members into its ranks.

What is happening in Belgrade is being watched with particular interest on the other side of the Danube - in neighboring Romania, where 11 years ago very similar events took place that crushed the Ceausescu regime. Bitterly recalling the expectations of a better life that Romanians lived with a decade ago, the Bucharest newspaper Adevarul writes: “The young people who came out bare-handed to the army and police to eliminate Milosevic thought only of their country, exhausted by the last decade.