In ten years, the meat industry in Russia may disappear. Deputy Prime Minister for the Agro-Industrial Complex Alexey Gordeev said yesterday that by the beginning of 2001 the number of cattle will be reduced by 3-4% (compared to 2000). “Unfortunately, we were unable to stop the dumping of livestock,” Mr. Gordeev said.

A Motorhead concert took place at Gorbushka For the legendary English trio, this is already the second visit to Russia in the 25 years of the group’s existence. The first one took place about three years ago, but the enthusiasm of Russian fans of “heavy” music has not diminished since then.

Six Russians advanced to the third round of the FIDE knockout system chess championship, which takes place in the capital of India, in the men's competition: the winner of the previous similar tournament, Alexander Khalifman, as well as Peter Svidler, Alexander Morozevich, Alexander Grischuk, Evgeny Bareev and Alexey Dreev. But Sergei Rublevsky, Alexander Galkin, Sergei Volkov, Andrei Kharlov, Pavel Tregubov and Vladimir Malakhov dropped out of the fight.

His threats didn't scare anyone. Yesterday, Iraq temporarily resumed oil supplies to the world market under contracts signed in November. This was reported by the Turkish state news agency Botas, citing an official representative of Baghdad.

Kuerten ahead of Safin at the end of the tennis season Just a few days ago it seemed that Russian Marat Safin had practically secured first place in the ranking of professional tennis players at the end of the year. Even though he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the final Masters Cup tournament in Lisbon, losing to Andre Agassi.

Reducing interest on deposits in Yekaterinburg declared illegal If you are offended by Sberbank, then within the next three years you can go to court. We are talking about time deposits in rubles opened from March 1996 to February 1999, on which the bank reduced interest. This decision was made by the Leninsky District Court of Yekaterinburg following a claim by the consumer rights protection committee of the city administration.

Yesterday, an IMF mission urgently arrived in Ankara. In the coming days, she is due to present recommendations to the Fund's board of directors on the allocation of an emergency loan of $6 billion, with the help of which the Turkish government hopes to stop the rapidly developing financial crisis. The board meeting, as announced yesterday by IMF Managing Director Horst Köhler, is scheduled for December 21.

The UEFA Cup match between the Spanish Rayo Vallecano and the Moscow Lokomotiv, which will take place on December 7 in Madrid, will be broadcast by REN TV. The broadcast will take place live, starting at 23.00. It is worth recalling that this match is the last game of the outgoing year with the participation of Russian clubs. "TIME FOR NEWS"

“Spartak” played the lineup in the city of “red light” Today, Moscow “Spartak” ends the 2000 season with a match of the second stage of the Champions League against Lyon, which brought Oleg Romantsev’s team another “gold” of the Russian championship and unexpected recognition in Europe. Unexpected because the “red-whites” played extremely well in the main European Cup against the favorites - Real Madrid, German Bayer and especially English Arsenal - two weeks ago.

About 70 thousand tons of toxic waste were discharged from the Molikpaq oil production platform during the drilling of the first 14 production wells into the Sea of ​​Okhotsk. This is stated in an appeal distributed on November 30 by the public organization “Sakhalin Environmental Watch”.

Russia and the World Bank will have special “responsible persons” who will be engaged in information interaction on the problems of Russian corruption. This was decided yesterday at negotiations between Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin and World Bank Vice President for Europe and Central Asia Johannes Linn. Mr. Lynn emphasized that the World Bank has long been interested in this problem, and it is interested in obtaining as much information as possible.

The board of directors of one of the three St. Petersburg mobile operators, St. Petersburg Telecom (operating under the Fora Communications brand), decided to switch from an analogue telecommunications standard to a digital one. Fora currently operates in the analog AMPS standard. Shareholders of St. Petersburg Telecom are considering three possible transition options - to D/AMPS, TDMA, CDMA.

New version of "The Master and Margarita" in Lithuanian version Lithuania is a small country, but in terms of the number of outstanding directors it can compete with big ones. The presence here of such a unique phenomenon as the Eimuntas Nekrosius Theater can still be explained by chance, but the appearance of a new star on the theatrical horizon in the person of Oskaras Korsunovas already looks like a pattern.

The main accused in the murder of the journalist of the Moskovsky Komsomolets newspaper, former Airborne Forces intelligence chief Pavel Popovskikh, yesterday in court, renounced the testimony he made during the investigation. According to investigators, the idea to teach the correspondent a lesson belonged to Colonel Popovskikh, who was in close contact with the then Minister of Defense Grachev.

The case of the head of the MCI has been transferred to court Deputy Prosecutor General Vasily Kolmogorov yesterday approved and transferred to court the criminal case of the chairman of the Moscow Registration Chamber (MRP) Igor Alexandrov, as well as his deputy Alexander Sevastyanov. They are charged with receiving bribes, fraud and theft of MCI money. The leadership of the capital's mayor's office is still confident in the innocence of its officials.