The UN Conference against Racism mainly discussed the terms The UN conference against racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and intolerance in Durban actually ended in nothing. The documents that were ultimately adopted can be called a continuous set of compromises, and therefore the attitude towards them in different countries is already ambiguous.

Awards presented at the 58th Venice Film Festival The Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion went to Indian Mira Nair for her film Monsoon Wedding. The film consists of several intertwining stories involving members of a huge family who have gathered for a wedding in Delhi. Their main mood is undivided fun and a flood of feelings, just like in the Indian cinema that we are accustomed to from Soviet distribution.

A coordinating council for the financial recovery of enterprises has been created under the Ministry of Industry, Science and Technology. Its composition, on a voluntary basis, may include representatives of the Ministry of Industry and Science, Arbitration, Tax Departments, executive bodies of the constituent entities of the Federation, members of the Duma Subcommittee on Bankruptcy, as well as representatives of professional and public anti-crisis managers.

Wong Kar-Wai - director of all times In one of his first interviews, film playwright Konstantin Murzenko talked, among other things, about the genre, “which only yesterday seemed hopeless to us in general,” the south-eastern action film: “Well, in any situation - from the rain - this movie will not you'll go.

Businessman Nikolai Biryukov, who was recently detained in the Tambov region, had to be shackled in four pairs of handcuffs. Such security measures are explained by the fact that the arrested person is physically well developed, owns all types of weapons, and in the past was an instructor in hand-to-hand combat in the airborne troops. Now Nikolai Biryukov is accused of eight murders at once, the most notorious of which was the elimination of the leaders of the large enterprise Rosshina.

Oleg KISELEV, member of the RUIE bureau, chairman of the board of directors of the Metalloinvest holding, answers questions from the Vremya Novostei newspaper. -- There has been a heated debate around the concept proposed by the RSPP, with many considering it too radical and even unnecessary. Tell me, whose support did you count on, who do you consider the “base” of your proposals?

Lokomotiv brought the Austrian champion to bankruptcy Tomorrow, Moscow's Lokomotiv will begin its participation in the group stage of the Champions League with a match against the Belgian Anderlecht. Having lost to Tyrol in Austria on Saturday with a score of 0:1, the railway workers still solved the main problem. Thanks to the victory won in Russia, Semin’s team took its rightful place among the 32 best clubs in Europe. The Austrians had great hopes for this match.

Sergei ALEXASHENKO, Deputy General Director of the Interros holding, head of the Development Center analytical group, answers questions from the Vremya Novostei newspaper. -- The content of the discussion that unfolded around the RSPP proposals makes one wonder: how relevant is the issue of banking reform today? - This question can be answered absolutely formally.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs deprived Izmailovo traders of goods It took the Ministry of Internal Affairs officers about a hundred trucks and three days to remove consumer goods stored in the huge warehouses of the clothing market in Izmailovo. If in the near future the owners of the cargo fail to prove that it is not contraband, all goods worth over $4 million will be turned into state revenue.

The Moscow Arbitration Court on Friday upheld its decision on the invalidity of forward contracts between the Eurofinance Bank and the Quorum JV. Now the court will have to put an end to another case - the recovery of $88.16 million from the bank under these agreements. In the spring of 1998, a syndicate led by the French bank Societe Generale provided Quorum with a loan of $69 million. The syndicate also included the French oil giant TotalFinaElf and Eurobank (a subsidiary of the Central Bank).

The Russian team was left without medals The European Basketball Championship, in its sporting essence, ended for us last Thursday, when the Russians lost to the Spanish national team in the quarterfinals - 55:62. I remember the great Japanese volleyball coach Daimatsu said: “There is one place - first. The second is not much different from the last.” For our basketball today, such maximalism is unnecessary, but we had the right to count on a place in the semifinals.

Ulyanovsk Governor Vladimir Shamanov promises that his region will survive the winter safely and “no one will allow a second Primorye here.” Now, according to him, “systematic preparations for winter” are underway. In the worst case, if the region is not provided with additional material assistance (450 million rubles), the last money from the regional budget will have to be found to provide heat.

Companies close to the MIKOM group of Mikhail Zhivilo failed to achieve the cancellation of the settlement agreement at the Novokuznetsk Aluminum Smelter (NkAZ). This means that the enterprise will not return to external management, and it will not face bankruptcy proceedings. The cassation appeals of Base Metal Trading SA, Extradrive and Arvika Service, recently considered by the Arbitration Court of the West Siberian District, were left unsatisfied.

Photographs of the American professor are displayed at the Museum of Architecture Exhibition “Russian North. Testimony of William Broomfield" in the Museum of Architecture is truly a testimonial. Documentary evidence from an American about the existence of a huge country outside of Moscow, beautiful, gigantic distances and impossible roads, still cut off from the rest of the world.

At the festival in Venice, innovation and conservatism change places and masks Venice is the oldest European festival. In 1932, he began his work with the screening of "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Rouben Mamoulian. This classic tale of two sides of human nature seems to have predetermined the duality of the European festival movement as a whole. It is torn between respectability and rebellion, tradition and experiment, bourgeois and anarchy.