The past day of the US Open tennis championship US Open did not bring any special surprises to Russian fans. As predicted, Elena Likhovtseva lost to American Lindsay Davenport - 3:6, 6:0, 3:6, and Yevgeny Kafelnikov won against Argentinean David Nalbandian - 3:6, 6:4, 6:2, 6:2. Now the Russian is waiting for the Frenchman Arnaud Clement. Let us remember that Kafelnikov reached the fourth round of the US Open twice - in 1994 and 1998.

Russia is invited to talk seriously about Kaliningrad Germany is conducting secret negotiations with Russia on the return of Konigsberg - this is the sensational news that the British The Daily Telegraph told readers yesterday. According to the newspaper, which cites German sources, this issue was discussed at the Christmas informal meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder.

“Presidential lists” allow you to do without the president The export of Russian weapons is becoming more transparent: the government has declassified two fundamental documents on which the entire system of military supplies abroad is built - the so-called presidential lists No. 1 and No. 2. The first of them determines what types of weapons and military equipment are allowed to be sold to foreign customers. The second contains a list of states that may become buyers of products from “List No.

Washington invites Beijing to nuclear race The indomitable desire to build a missile defense system is pushing the Bush administration to take decisive steps designed to reassure foreign opponents of the anti-missile umbrella. While negotiations with an intransigent Kremlin were stuck at the stage of repeating the same arguments, Washington made an unexpected attempt to achieve a breakthrough in the Chinese direction.

Khristenko moderates the ardor of all reformers Rosenergoatom’s idea to hold a constituent meeting tomorrow to create a trading system administrator (ATS) fell through. Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko recommended convening a conference at which to discuss all issues. The same event will take place today under the chairmanship of Deputy Minister of Economic Development Andrei Sharonov. As Mr.

Continuing the conversation about why and why the entertainment element is becoming so essential in contemporary art (see “Vremya Novostey” from August 3, 7, 9, 14, 15, 21 and 29) , we invited the composer, organizer of the contemporary music festival, to participate "Moscow Forum" and the head of the "Studio of New Music" of the Moscow Conservatory Vladimir TARNOPOLSKY .

The results of the international festival “Krok” have been summed up The Krok Animation Film Festival has ended in Kyiv. The Taras Shevchenko steamship, filled with participants, guests and journalists, arrived there on September 1, departing on August 21 from Odessa. About 150 cartoons from 32 countries took part in the Kroka competition program. The results, however, were sad - there were few well-made and truly artistic films.

Two courts are fighting for one NTV package at once Understanding the relationship between Media-Most and Gazprom-Media is becoming increasingly difficult. Despite the supposedly approaching outcome of this conflict, new details are emerging, indicating that it is too early to draw an end to this matter. Chris Renaud, head of corporate finance at Media-Most, made a surprising announcement on Friday.

Investigator of the Khamovniki Department of Internal Affairs Leonid Tishin died yesterday from severe injuries in a Moscow hospital. Last night, the police received a message that a brutally beaten 36-year-old police officer had been delivered to the emergency room at clinic No. 56 in serious condition. Despite all the efforts of the doctors, he soon died without regaining consciousness. Unknown people attacked Tishin on Smolensky Boulevard when he was returning home after service.

Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow government Joseph Ordzhonikidze will, apparently, be discharged from the Sklifosovsky Research Institute one of these days. Doctors assess Ordzhonikidze’s condition as satisfactory and are already preparing him for sanatorium treatment. A special room has been prepared at the dacha in Barvikha where the official will be examined by doctors. On Saturday, Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov visited his assistant at the Sklifosovsky Research Institute.

The crash of the Il-76 transport aircraft, which occurred on July 14 in the Moscow region, was accompanied by special, atypical violations. This was stated yesterday by First Deputy Minister of Transport, Head of the State Civil Aviation Service of Russia Alexander Neradko. Nine crew members and an instructor pilot died in the crash near the Chkalovsky airfield.

Shareholders of the West Siberian Metallurgical Plant held an extraordinary meeting last Friday, at which they almost unanimously approved the actions of external manager Anatoly Smolyaninov to issue an additional issue of shares. The paradox of the decision is that in this case the “old” shareholders of the enterprise lose a lot. Currently, the authorized capital of Zapsib is 2.5 million rubles, and after the additional issue it will exceed 5.5 billion rubles.

Vladimir Putin returned last night from Helsinki, where he held official talks with Finnish President Tarja Halonen. “Relations between Russia and Finland are free of political problems,” Mr. Putin said at a joint news conference with Ms. Halonen. However, as it turned out during the visit, there are not many economic problems. An agreement on mutual protection of investments is being prepared for signing, and yesterday a framework agreement on supporting small businesses was signed in Helsinki.

Warsaw reduces Gazprom's share Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg called yesterday's signing of an agreement on the supply of Norwegian gas to Poland a historic event. Negotiations on this deal, which has not so much economic as political significance, began 10 years ago. The goal of the Norwegian contract is to shake the position of Gazprom, which today is a practically monopoly supplier of gas to Poland (7 billion cubic meters out of 12 billion that the country consumes annually).

For two days at the Cosmos Hotel, human rights activists from all over the country discussed the human rights situation in Russia, which, in their opinion, is extraordinary and requires immediate intervention. Representatives of 250 humanitarian organizations from 64 regions came to the first extraordinary all-Russian congress in defense of human rights. Such a massive “turnout” has never been observed in the domestic human rights community.