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.

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.

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.

Leonid Kuchma is looking for a Russian gas tap Negotiations between the presidents of Russia and Ukraine will take place in Sochi today. Their only topic is the problem of Russian gas exports. The meeting was organized at the request of Leonid Kuchma, whose experts were tired of working together with representatives of the Russian government.

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.

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.

Engineering giants have new investors Rumors that Severstal is buying up UAZ shares have been circulating for a long time. However, neither metallurgists nor car manufacturers were in a hurry to refute them, although they did not directly admit to the fact of purchase and sale. And only last Friday the press service of Severstal released a message that the company had become the largest shareholder of the plant.

The group “Accident” presented their new album “Prunes and dried apricots” We waited. For two and a half years, the group “Accident” could not release a new album. Actually, this is where the name comes from: when choosing it, the musicians settled on a saying that says that constipation has two enemies: prunes and dried apricots. On October 12, on the stage of Andrei Bilzho’s closed club “Petrovich”, the musicians shone in suits the color of dried apricots.

The head of the Department of Internal Affairs of the Stavropol Territory, General Alexander Volkodav, may be held accountable, including criminally, for disclosing some information about the investigation of recent terrorist attacks in Pyatigorsk and Nevinnomyssk.

A new nationalist movement “Russian Revival” was established in Moscow, the leader of which was the former deputy chairman of the Central Council of “Russian National Unity” for regional work, Oleg Kassin. Having removed the leader of the RNU, Alexander Barkashov, from his post, the participants in the founding conference, representing, by their own assessment, 48 regional organizations, officially announced their intention to create the “Russian Revival” movement.

In the ranking of the tender for the right to long-term management of Azerbaijan Aluminum JSC, the Ministry of State Property of Azerbaijan assigned the Russian Aluminum company the fourth line - out of four possible in the list of applicants. The winner of the tender was the little-known Dutch company Fondel Metal Participations BV, which offered a fantastic sum for the dying aluminum complex of the former Soviet republic - $1 billion.

Grandmaster Alexey Shirov claims that he should take Kramnik’s place In the fourth game of the world championship match between Garry Kasparov and Vladimir Kramnik, the latter literally lost the victory. It would probably be difficult to imagine a greater sensation than Kramnik’s second victory. The opponents played the Queen's Gambit with a quick exchange of queens. Subsequently, the game moved into the endgame with White's extra knight, which Kramnik played with, against Black's pawn.

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.