For three years in Utah, Kirilenko will receive $2.5 million The best and most talented basketball player in Russia, forward Andrei Kirilenko, signed a contract with the NBA Utah Jazz for three years, during which he will receive $2.5 million. Kirilenko will make his debut for the Salt Lake City team in the upcoming season, starting in November. Andrey's teammates will be legendary NBA basketball players - point guard John Stockton and center Karl Malone (Postman).

Messages from Berlin to the US were greeted with relief Exactly 40 years ago, on August 13, 1961, the residents of Berlin woke up in another city. Its main attraction for many years was the Wall, the most famous structure of the Cold War.

Vagrius published the notebooks of Yevgeny Zamyatin Although writers' notebooks are not kept for the public, they are almost always interesting to read. But this “intermediate” genre also has its favorites. Evgeniy Zamyatin is one of them. In terms of richness in “texture,” aphoristic precision, and hidden plot energy, his working notes can only be equaled by the “notes to self” of readers’ favorites—Chekhov and Ilf.

The meeting of shareholders of Rospan International, held on Saturday in Moscow, did not support the decision of the meeting of creditors of the enterprise to conduct an additional issue of shares (see Vremya Novostey of August 10) . As the shareholders noted, this meeting cannot be recognized as legitimate, since representatives of a number of companies that own about 40% of Rospan's accounts payable were not allowed to attend it.

The wall could become an example of high-tech “The wall will still stand in 50 or 100 years, if the causes that gave rise to it are not eliminated.” These words of the General Secretary of the SED Central Committee Erich Honecker, spoken a few months before the collapse of the Berlin Wall, were a direct guide to action for numerous services in the GDR involved in its maintenance and development.

The diaries of Vasily Katanyan have been published “Patchwork Quilt” by Vasily Katanyan (Vagrius, 2001) is, of course, not exactly diaries.

"Theatrical Events Factory" released "The Last Don Juan" There is no playwright in our country more popular among the broad masses than Edward Radzinsky. And who else will central television be happy to show in prime time to the population? Mikhail Roshchin? Alexander Gelman? And what will they tell us? How did the steel mill workers yearn for party committee meetings?

Government officials are cautiously optimistic The Ministry of Finance has prepared a draft budget for next year and will submit it to the government tomorrow. Last Friday, the ministry's board reviewed the updated parameters of the 2002 budget, which turned out to be significantly better than expected a month ago, and on Saturday, Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin reported them to the president. Vladimir Putin, they say, reacted favorably to the work of the Ministry of Finance. Mr.

Gergiev was defeated in London, but recovered in Salzburg One of the main musical themes of the outgoing summer was the unsuccessful tour of the Mariinsky Theater in London's Covent Garden. The succession of Verdi operas, a long series of which began with the disastrous “Un ballo in maschera” staged by Andrei Konchalovsky, turned out to be too bold and an annoyingly wrong choice for the Gergiev company’s touring program.

Doping for Egorova became a scandal The day before the end of the VIII World Athletics Championships in Edmonton, Canada, we can safely say: for the Russian team, which has been an independent team since 1993, the current championship has become the most successful. The six gold medals she currently has are a repeat of the result achieved at the previous World Championships in Seville two years ago.

The Primorsky Territory prosecutor's office opened a criminal case under Article 293 Part 1 of the Russian Criminal Code (negligence) in connection with the catastrophic consequences of the cyclone that hit Vladivostok and surrounding cities last week. Investigators believe that the flood and the resulting destruction were largely caused not by bad weather, but by improper actions by utility services.

-- At the stage of formation of the banking system, many large enterprises acquired their own bank. Having created AvtoVAZbank at one time, you followed the same path. However, the bank suffered greatly during the crisis, and AvtoVAZ eventually lost control of it. What is more effective from your point of view: using the services of your own or an independent bank? — Yes, the fate of AvtoVAZbank was sad.

There will be no extension of the deadline for the sale of alcoholic beverages produced before June 1, 2001. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Taxes and Duties Viktor Berestovoy.

The Ministry of Economic Development and Trade and the State Fisheries Committee did not share the fish concept Two weeks ago, the head of the State Fisheries Committee, Evgeny Nazdratenko, reported to journalists about the concept of fisheries development until 2010, written, according to Mr.

Hagen Koch as a mirror of post-war Germany “I didn't do anything wrong. I just drew a line." 61-year-old Hagen Koch, a veteran of the East German state security Stasi, seems to be making excuses. After all, the white line that Koch personally drew along the ground 40 years ago at the most famous American checkpoint, “Charlie,” marked the main European border between socialism and capitalism. Hagen Koch is called the man who knows everything about the Berlin Wall.