In the published ATP ranking, Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov, after a successful performance at the US Open, rose two places and now occupies sixth position (388 points). Let us remind you that the seven best tennis players of the season plus Wimbledon winner Goran Ivanisevic will take part in the final ATP tournament, which will be held in Sydney. Kafelnikov, who will soon be competing at a tournament in Tashkent and in the Kremlin Cup, has a good chance of making it into the coveted seven.

Severnaya Neft complained to Mikhail Kasyanov The decision of the Ministry of Natural Resources to revoke the license for the Gamburtsev Shaft fields from the Severnaya Neft company could be the beginning of a complete redistribution of the property of oil companies.

Sibneft presented yesterday its electronic trading system for oil and petroleum products, NefteBid. According to the developers’ plans, oil from not only Sibneft, but also other companies, can pass through the “electronic oil broker.” True, Russian oil companies are not yet in a hurry to declare their readiness to use NefteBid’s services: the press services of the largest companies talk about the need to study the operation of the system from a commercial point of view.

The 10th Russian Championship starts today By all accounts, the upcoming Super League championship should be the most exciting in Russian history. 7-8 teams are vying for the role of favorites. Among them are a quintet of national champions from different years: Magnitogorsk, Ak Bars, Lokomotiv, Lada and, of course, Dynamo.

The second festival of street performances begins in Moscow today The organizer of the street performance festival, again, as last year, was the group of artists “Leto”. Everyone really liked last year's first festival and remembered it - both the loitering public, strict art critics, and even envious fellow artists. Artist Oleg Kulik called performance artists quiet psychos - in comparison with the “violent” 90s. He named it correctly, as always. What did street radicals do then?

This will be officially confirmed a little later. The death of the military leader of the Northern Alliance of Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, as a result of an assassination attempt on him on September 9, unfortunately, is a fact. The Vremya Novostey newspaper learned about this for certain from absolutely reliable sources in Afghanistan, who are not able to give their names.

North Korea exposed Japanese rocket scientists While Washington explains its plans to withdraw from the ABM Treaty with references to the insidious plans of “rogue” countries, Pyongyang, classified by the Americans as a “rogue”, threatened to resume missile launches under the pretext of protecting against the Japanese nuclear missile threat.

Individual municipal farms demand that they be left independent 34 Moscow cinemas sent a letter to the Chairman of the Culture Committee Sergei Khudyakov. In this appeal, cinema collectives asked to suspend work on the project of unifying municipal cinemas, which, as it became known, is being carried out by the Moscow government.

The XXIV Individual European Bowling Cup, in which the best bowling bowlers from the Old World participated, ended in Moscow. Only one participant in the tournament, German Michaela Gebel, managed to set an absolute record. She scored 300 points, but even this was not enough to win the title of champion - after all, the tournament lasted for five days. Three athletes reached the finals.

The office of the famous Russian designer and couturier Vyacheslav Zaitsev was robbed by unknown attackers last weekend. The theft was discovered by one of the employees who came to work on Monday morning. As the woman told the called police officers, the robbers only took money - about 250 thousand rubles, stored in a safe. How the criminals managed to enter the Fashion House is still unknown. It was not possible to detain them in hot pursuit. Gennady KNYAZEV

The Schubertiade festival has ended in the Austrian countryside The list of names presented at a particular music festival is always important, but does not always guarantee success. No less important is the setting in which musical events are presented. It's nice to listen to music while sitting on the shore of a lake (Bregenz, Austria), in an ancient abbey (Ambronais, France) or in a tiny baroque theater (Drottingholm, Sweden).

Russian intelligence services will strengthen airport security and check attics The leaders of domestic law enforcement agencies reacted more than calmly to the dramatic events in the United States and the potential threat of a repetition of this in Russia. In the first hours after reports of terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, an alarming silence hung over our intelligence services.

“Civilized humanity” is being asked to accept the challenge of terrorists After the Kremlin received news of the terrorist attack, Vladimir Putin convened an emergency meeting of the security forces, minus Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov, who was in the North Caucasus. However, Mr. Ivanov was also recalled to Moscow.

Yesterday, UEFA rejected the request of the Scottish Glasgow Rangers to move the 1/64 UEFA Cup match with Anzhi Makhachkala to a neutral site. The Scots, citing recommendations from the British Foreign Office, were afraid to travel to this city. However, the Russian authorities provided the required guarantees, and UEFA demanded that the match be held in accordance with the regulations in the capital of Dagestan.

Gas monopolist makes peace with Yamal On September 10, Chairman of the Board of RAO Gazprom Alexey Miller signed a cooperation agreement for 2002 with the leadership of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YNAO). Although this document is approved annually, this time it has become a kind of symbol of reconciliation between the gas monopolist and the authorities of the district where 90% of Russian gas is produced.