Hockey. Russian Championship. "Lokomotiv" - "Torpedo" - 7:0, "Severstal" - "Spartak" - 1:1, SKA - "Avangard" - 1:3, "Molot-Prikamye" - Metallurg" ( Mg) -- 1:6, "Dynamo" -- "Mechel" -- 5:2, "Ak Bars" -- CSKA -- 5:1, "Neftekhimik" -- "Amur" -- 1:3, " Lada" - "Wings of the Soviets" - 1:2, "Salavat Yulaev" - "Metallurg" (NK) - 4:1. The leaders are: Lokomotiv (11 games), Spartak (12) - 26 points each, Dynamo (11) - 25.

Rusal is ousting Bykov from all its enterprises It seems that the shareholders of Russian Aluminum are not satisfied with their proximity to entrepreneur Anatoly Bykov. Most recently, Rusal initiated an additional share issue at the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Smelter (KrAZ), as a result of which the share of Bykov’s structures will be reduced to 9%.

AMD announces losses in the third quarter American processor manufacturer AMD announced a 22% decline in revenue in the third quarter compared to the second, despite record high processor sales. AMD representatives blame their failures on competitors from Intel, who started a price war. Hoping for revenge, AMD changed its marketing policy. According to AMD, in the third quarter it managed to repeat the record set in the second - 7.7 million processors sold for personal computers.

Nobel Prize for the discovery of antiplasma The 2001 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the fifth state of matter, predicted 75 years ago by Albert Einstein, was awarded yesterday to American scientists Eric Cornell and Carl Wieman and their German colleague Wolfgang Ketterle. Physicists have experimentally proven that matter can exist not only in the form of liquid, solid, gas and plasma, and now they will share the prize, which at today's exchange rate is just over a million dollars.

Kirch Media group announced that it has acquired a controlling stake in SLEC, which in turn owns the rights to broadcast Formula 1 competitions. Previously, Kirch owned only 38% of the shares, but now acquired another 20% of the shares of this company. 25% remains in the hands of the actual owner of the “royal formula” Bernie Ecclestone. The deal was made possible due to financial problems that SLEC has recently experienced.

Chechen refugees are being returned home The time when Chechen migrants were persuaded to return home seems to be over. But they will have to return - all gingerbread cookies will soon be issued only in Chechnya. From December 1, it will be impossible to receive all social payments (child benefits, pensions) outside the republic.

The attack on America a month ago and the retaliatory action led to tectonic shifts in the international security system. About how it will change, Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent Ekaterina LABETSKAYA asked Adam ROTFELD, director of one of the world's most influential centers for analyzing security issues and international relations - the Stockholm Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). — Do you agree that September 11 began a new era in international relations? - Yes.

For the first time in many years, an Armenian diplomat has been appointed to Istanbul, where the headquarters of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC) organization is located. Arsen Avakyan will represent Yerevan in this regional organization. According to Hrant Dink, editor-in-chief of the Armenian daily Agos newspaper published in Istanbul, “from now on we can talk about Armenia’s diplomatic presence in Turkey.” Ankara and Yerevan have not had diplomatic relations for eight years.

The President named six tasks for restoring the agro-industrial complex Vladimir Putin, in his own words, “wanted to start with a good start” at the first off-site meeting of the Presidium of the State Council. Therefore, upon arrival in Orenburg, he immediately went to the fields. The fields belonged to the Orenburg Agrarian University, and in these fields Mr. Putin was presented with a boar named Buyan, a sow named Sorceress, a bull Nile, and numerous nameless goats and rams.

Bank Imperial is going to exchange debts for shares One of the largest domestic banks that collapsed after the 1998 financial crisis, Imperial, may come back to life. At the end of September, its supervisory board decided to issue convertible bonds for 1.4 billion rubles. These papers should go to the bank's creditors in exchange for writing off its debts. Now the word is up to the Central Bank, which will have to approve the bond issue prospectus.

Three new books rhyme along geopolitical lines. AST Publishing House has released a completely recent (1998) novel by Julian Barnes “England, England” (translation by Svetlana Silakova ). The head of the powerful Pitco corporation, Jack Pitman, is implementing a grandiose project called “Not Just a Vacation”: recreating the entire Good Old England (Big Ben, Robin Hood, Manchester United, The Times, Stonehenge, pudding, Shakespeare...) within the boundaries of the Isle of Wight.

Coal cannot travel from Krasnoyarsk to the Far East Thermal power plants of Transbaikalia and the Far East in the first days of October received less than 100 thousand tons of Krasnoyarsk coal, and in September - more than 450 thousand tons. According to the leaders of the Krasnoyarsk Coal Company (KUC), the main reason is the lack of the required number of cars and locomotives for the delivery of fuel already paid for by power engineers. Loaded trains stand idle on sidings from 5 to 20 hours.

The United States has created its own State Security Committee Yesterday, the Americans got their own “emergency department” - a body that will ensure the security of the nation in the face of the threat of new attacks from international terrorists. The US Homeland Security Agency, a new federal agency created by President Bush after the September 11 terrorist attacks, has begun operations with the swearing-in of its chief, Tom Ridge, the former governor of Pennsylvania.

The premiere of the play “Socrates/Oracle” directed by Yuri Lyubimov took place at the Taganka Theater The European Cultural Center in Delphi offered Yuri Lyubimov the opportunity to stage a play about Socrates. In Greece, this idea arose in connection with the 2400th anniversary of the death of the philosopher and on the occasion of UNESCO's declaration of 2001 as the year of Socrates. The premiere took place on July 19 in Delphi.

Economic liberalization has been declared the basis of the new economic policy of Belarus. Alexander Lukashenko wants to personally tell the Belarusian (and the Russian oligarchs who have joined them) about this. It was officially announced in Minsk that the president will soon meet with representatives of big business. The date of the meeting and its scale are still being determined.