“Gedda Gabler” was staged at Satyricon The performance of a recent graduate of Leonid Kheifetz's course, Nina Chusova, can most easily be accused of being lightweight. Ibsen, they say, is a serious playwright, he raises important social problems, and here you played us some kind of melodrama, the characters of which would be more suited not to Norwegian, but to Mexican names.

On October 26, the State Concert Hall “Russia” hosted the ceremony of presenting the National Television Award “TEFI” based on the results of the 2001 season. 12 out of 26 Orpheus statuettes were received by the ORT channel, 5 by RTR. Representatives of the TV channels NTV, TV-6 Moscow, TVTs, Kultura, REN TV, TVK Yugra (Khanty-Mansiysk), TRC Fourth Channel (Ekaterinburg), TRC Afontovo (Krasnoyarsk) received one statuette each. , and the National Association of Broadcasters.

The results of the VI Congress of the National Association of Television and Radio Broadcasters (NAB), held on October 26, were told to Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent Maxim BALUTENKO by the president of the association, Eduard SAGALAEV. —What are the main results of the last congress?

Half of the Kursk's compartments, according to investigators, were swept away by a fire tornado The total number of dead sailors recovered from the Kursk submarine reached 32 people by last weekend. Investigators have already managed to identify some of them. In the coming days, representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office hope to find other victims. Investigators say they were horrified after examining the Kursk's bow on Friday. Its upper part is a huge hole with a pile of metal.

In the presidential elections in Transnistria, which will take place on December 9, the permanent head of the unrecognized republic, Igor Smirnov, will have a rival for the first time. Tom Zenovich is the head of the Bendery city administration. It was here that the war began in 1992 and to this day there is a special security regime, the observance of which is monitored by the Russian commandant's office.

Hockey. Russian Championship. Super League. 17th round. CSKA -- "Spartak" -- 2:6, "Salavat Yulaev" -- "Ak Bars" -- 4:1, "Lada" -- "Neftekhimik" -- 2:1 (OT), "Metallurg" (NK ) - SKA - 3:0, "Wings of the Soviets" - "Severstal" - 3:1, "Amur" - "Avangard" - 1:1, "Lokomotiv" - "Molot-Prikamye" - - 1:0, "Torpedo" - "Dynamo" - 1:2, "Mechel" - "Metallurg" (MG) - 5:2. The leaders are: Lokomotiv - 41 points, Avangard, Dynamo - 36 each, Spartak - 35, Metallurg (MG) - 34 (18 games).

Power paralysis in the country's largest corporation The management crisis at Gazprom, which was obvious only to a few, resulted in an open scandal on the 149th day of Alexey Miller’s reign.

Retail chains launch products with their own brand The chain of shopping centers "Ramstore" (nine super- and hypermarkets) recently announced the creation of a private label (PL - products under the retail chain's own brand). Eight types of goods, mainly of mass demand, have already been launched for sale. The company expects that in a year PL will account for 10% of the chain's sales.

The centrists took aim at the entire society The global project called the “united center party” is nearing completion. By December 1, a new party will appear in Russia, wanting to become the “party of power”, which will be formed by merging Unity, All Russia and Fatherland (EURO). The next stage of the merger was two party events that took place last Saturday.

Eurofinance defended $88 million Almost two years of litigation between the Eurofinance bank and the oil trader JV Quorum ended last Friday with the parties abandoning their mutual claims. Quorum accused bankers of refusing to fulfill agreements on converting rubles into dollars at a fixed rate. Eurofinance insisted that the agreements contradict Russian legislation and are not enforceable.

The head of the AZLK industrial electronics bureau, Viktor Filippov, was shot dead on Friday late at night in Moscow, at the entrance to house No. 15 on Kasimovskaya Street, where he lived. Detectives did not find any weapons or shell casings at the scene. For now, the investigation is considering all versions of what happened, including contract killing. Yuri TISCHENKO

In the village of Lisiy Nos near St. Petersburg, unknown criminals on Sunday night detonated a grenade in a car belonging to the deputy general director of the large St. Petersburg textile enterprise OJSC Nevskaya Manufactory, Mikhail Ostrovsky. The attackers planted an RGD-5 grenade in the Toyota car that the businessman parked near his house. The windows of the car were broken and the wheels were punctured.

MICEX and St. Petersburg Interbank Exchange are preparing an alliance The Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange (MICEX) and the St. Petersburg Currency Exchange (SPICE) are negotiating cooperation in the field of the derivatives market and the corporate bond market. The possibility of organizing a gateway between two exchanges and working through a single depository is being discussed.

Ukraine, Russia and Romania are pulling Moldova in different directions The famous Moldovan writer Ion Druta, in a conversation with a correspondent of the newspaper Vremya Novostey, once recounted his conversation with colleagues in the West: “Ion, if you knew what interests intersect on your small piece of land, you would not sleep at night.” Moldova, which now challenges Albania for the title of the poorest country in Europe, suddenly turned into a big game field where the ambitions of its

The draw for the group tournaments of the men's Korac Cup and women's Ronchetti Cup took place at the headquarters of the International Basketball Federation (FIBA). Let us recall that last season the approach of FIBA ​​leaders to drawing up groups caused a sharp negative reaction from Russian clubs. Without further ado, FIBA ​​officials assigned four of our teams... to one group, effectively depriving them of their status as participants in the European Cup.