As the 2002 FIFA World Cup approaches, the question of whether Russian television will broadcast world championship matches is becoming increasingly pressing. And despite the fact that negotiations with the Kirch media company are underway, it is now difficult to predict their results. So far, only one thing is clear: if the World Cup will be broadcast in Russia, it will be broadcast only by two television companies jointly - RTR and ORT.

Taliban say they killed 25 Americans Armored vehicles and artillery rumbled through the unlit streets of Kabul on Saturday evening as the Taliban considered the results of the first ground fire contact with US special forces worthy of a “victory parade.” Both sides claim that on the night of October 20, helicopters from Pakistan and the USS Kitty Hawk in the Arabian Sea landed about 100 Rangers near Kandahar.

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Dynamo leader has no doubt about the team’s high potential The transfer of forward Andrei Razin from Metallurg Magnitogorsk to Dynamo Moscow was recognized as the most high-profile transfer of the hockey off-season. Having become the top scorer of the last championship, Razin chose a change of scenery and ended up in a club that did not make it to the playoffs last year.

Lord of the dance show in the Kremlin Michael Flatley's mom danced Irish step. Mike Flatley's grandmother danced Irish step. And my great-grandmother did the same thing in her free time from work. What the men in this family were interested in, Flatley does not tell anyone.

The closer Russia is to joining the WTO, the fiercer the debate about the consequences of this step. Judging by recent events, a purely economic discussion can develop into a loud internal political conflict using all available means. The first sign was a rally that took place on Friday on Triumfalnaya Square near the Ministry of Economic Development and Trade. The Cossacks acted as organizers.

The Prosecutor General on the reform of his department Russian Prosecutor General Vladimir Ustinov told a correspondent of the Vremya Novostei newspaper about the upcoming changes in the work of the Prosecutor General's Office and his attitude to judicial reform. According to him, the issue of possible reduction of some city prosecutor's offices, as well as the liquidation of district prosecutor's offices in Moscow, is now being considered.

Football giants will continue to fight on the race tracks Football and auto racing are undoubtedly two of the most popular sports on the planet today. Only the FIFA World Cup and the Formula 1 World Championship can rival the Olympic Games in popularity among television audiences. For example, this season, a total of several billion television viewers watched the seventeen stages of the Formula 1 World Championship.

“Exquisite kitsch” from Jacques Loussier was a great success in the Great Hall of the Conservatory The trio of 67-year-old French pianist Jacques Loussier, whose specialty is jazz (to use a more precise term - “jazzed”) performance of the music of old masters, is known from numerous CDs that are sold in huge quantities around the world, also thanks to selfless efforts pirated, semi-legal sound industry.

This week, the board of directors of Norilsk Nickel must approve a new management structure and development strategy for the company. To increase the capitalization of Norilsk Nickel and other assets belonging to the Interros group, the head of the group, Vladimir Potanin, said on Friday in St. Petersburg, the ownership structure will be revised and part of the assets will be sold. Mr.

Football. Russian Championship. 27th round. "Spartak" - "Anzhi" - 2:1. The leaders are: Spartak - 56 points, Zenit - 50, Lokomotiv - 49. Spartak, in the presence of only 4,000 spectators, won a difficult victory over Anzhi, which opened the direct path for the Muscovites to their ninth championship in the national championship. But the audience that this match gathered at Luzhniki could have been larger had fans known that the game would not be broadcast live, but recorded late at night.

The cards lacked intelligence Today, a card purchased in Moscow to pay for calls from a payphone booth in St. Petersburg turns into a useless piece of plastic, since there is no uniform standard. It should be introduced by the “Unified Payphone Card Concept”, which telecom operators are looking forward to. However, the document stalls.

The court did not believe that the US itself provoked them Four Islamists who were found guilty in May of bombing the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania have been sentenced to life imprisonment in New York. These attacks killed 224 people and injured thousands. Before the trial began, tall dark green steel bollards were dug into the sidewalk in front of the old federal courthouse in Manhattan in case someone wanted to drive a van with explosives to the building.

The continuation of the series “Deadly Force” will be shown on the ORT channel from October 22. In four new episodes, the heroes of Konstantin Khabensky and Andrei Fedortsov go on a business trip to Chechnya. These episodes were filmed by St. Petersburg director Sergei SNEZHKIN (“Defector,” “Regional Emergency”), who told our correspondent Vita RAMM about his impressions of working in the series and being in the North Caucasus.

The Association of Bill Market Participants (AUVER) and the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange agreed to create a bill trading platform on the MICEX. According to the chairman of the AUVER board, Alexander Makeev, the launch of the project is scheduled for February 2002.