An exhibition of the famous dynasty opened at the Tretyakov Gallery on Krymsky Val The entire exhibition of the creativity of the Miturichi-Khlebnikov family artel can be likened to a burim. It’s as if each of the four family members—patriarch Pyotr Vasilyevich, his wife Vera Khlebnikova, their son Mai Petrovich and granddaughter Vera Miturich-Khlebnikova—all rhyme the same theme in their own way. Most often - inspired by the work of Peter Miturich's friend Velimir Khlebnikov.

The Kremlin Cup made some adjustments to the women's tennis rankings. True, the top five tennis players in the world, which includes Swiss Martina Hingis, Jennifer Capriati, Lindsay Davenport, Venus Williams (all USA) and Kim Clijsters from Belgium, remained unchanged, as did the rating numbers of Russians: Elena Dementieva (13), Anna Kournikova (22) and Nadezhda Petrova (45).

The finishing segment of the most prestigious Paris-Dakar rally will be remembered for its sensational outcome. In the car class, the winner of the dramatic battle between the Frenchman Jean-Louis Schlesser and the Japanese Hiroshi Matsuoka was the crew of the German racer Jutta Kleinschmidt. At the penultimate stage, Schlesser managed to win and take first place in the overall standings, but after the finish he was punished with an hour penalty for starting ahead of his turn.

Inheritance law in Russia will be updated in the spring. The Duma adopted yesterday in the second reading the third part of the Civil Code, including sections “Inheritance Law” and “Private International Law”. The updated law will take effect on March 1, 2002, the Duma members decided, approving in the second reading the law on the implementation of the third part of the Civil Code. The greatest interest among Russians will be caused by the hereditary division.

Novosibirsk police officers managed to neutralize the terrorist who took hostages and threatened to blow up the store along with its customers yesterday. One afternoon, a man walked into a stationery store in the city center. He grabbed some kind of device with wires from his bag and declared three women - the store director and two saleswomen - hostages. The terrorist demanded 250 thousand dollars and a helicopter. The police tried to negotiate, but did not achieve any result.

The main export intermediary of domestic arms manufacturers, the state company Rosoboronexport (ROE), is testing a new scheme for entering the production of high-tech military products. Recently, ROE bought a 36% stake in the company R.E.T. from Eurofinance Bank. Kronstadt", specializing in the production of electronic control systems for military aviators and sailors.

Italian Championship. 15th round . "Milan" - "Roma" - 3:2, "Perugia" - "Juventus" - 1:0, "Parma" - "Lecce" - 1:1, "Napoli" - "Udinese" -- 0:1, Bari -- Regina -- 2:1, Vicenza -- Brescia -- 1:1, Atalanta -- Fiorentina -- 0:0, Bologna "-"Verona" - 1:0, "Lazio" - "Inter" - 2:0. The leaders are: Roma - 33 points, Juventus - 30, Lazio - 27, Fiorentina - 25, Atalanta - 23.

Yesterday, the RSPP Board Bureau tried to solve a difficult problem - what to talk about with Vladimir Putin at the next meeting, tentatively scheduled for the second half of November. As the head of the Interros holding, Vladimir Potanin, said after the bureau meeting, since the last meeting (it took place on May 31), entrepreneurs have accumulated a “very wide range” of issues for discussion with the head of state.

The forward of the Ukrainian national team and the Italian club Milan, Andrei Shevchenko, became the face of Gillette, the official partner of the 2002 FIFA World Cup. The amount of the contract signed with Shevchenko has not been disclosed. While another deal, between the Japanese TV channel Asahi and Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe, was made public. According to the campaign manager, the teenager from the Green Continent signed a contract to shoot a multi-part film, valid until 2004.

The entire Moscow region police were sent yesterday to search for three deserters who escaped from the guardhouse of the Khimki garrison on Wednesday night. One of the prisoners, 19-year-old Alexei Agiev, asked the guard to open the door and take him to the toilet. Seizing the moment when the sentry turned away, Agiev hit him on the head with a brick. The attacker took a Kalashnikov assault rifle with a full magazine and a bayonet from the guard.

Norwegians and Urals each danced their own way The II European Festival of Contemporary Dance cannot boast of a specific concept (the directorate previewed the performances, but they were presented by national cultural centers). He doesn't have a set topic either. But successive performances suddenly rhyme, and themes germinate in the program on their own - for example, the theme of Roads arose at the festival. Traveling from east to west and back.

Kournikova and Kafelnikov have “three difficult matches” left each Yevgeny Kafelnikov easily managed to make it to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, where he was seeded fifth. The young Swede Andreas Vinciguerra did not offer much resistance to the Russian tennis player. Evgeniy needed only three sets and 1 hour 46 minutes to win a landslide victory - 7:5, 7:5, 6:1. Thus, Kafelnikov reaches his fifth Australian Open quarterfinal.

The programmers quarreled Four companies yesterday suspended participation in the creation of the Association of Software Developers (ARPO). The rebel four accuse the organizers of ARPO, designed to defend the corporate interests of Russian programmers at home and abroad, of insufficient activity. Leading Russian "programming" companies - Luxoft, Reksoft, Spirit and VDI - started a "revolt on the ship".

Leonid Kuchma agreed to accept any expert verdict After reports that rocket fragments had been found at the site of the crash of the Russian plane, Leonid Kuchma said yesterday that he would agree “with the document that will be signed by the joint Ukrainian-Russian working group to investigate the causes of the crash of the Russian Tu-154 plane.” To find out all the circumstances, Ukrainian Air Defense Commander-in-Chief Vladimir Tkachev arrived yesterday in Sochi, where he intends to meet with

The Russian government will allocate 6-7 billion rubles. to finance grain purchases, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Agriculture Alexei Gordeev. He recalled that previously it was planned to allocate 2 billion rubles for these purposes, but President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to increase funding for grain purchases to the state fund to the above amount. Gordeev noted that these funds can be used to purchase up to 3 million tons of third-class wheat.