The best football player and the best team in the world have been determined The 29-year-old midfielder of Real Madrid and the Portuguese national team, Luis Figo, was recognized as the best football player in the world in 2001. This verdict was given by the head coaches of 130 national teams who took part in the official FIFA survey.

American boxer Mike Tyson has been summoned for questioning by the New York police. This time, the famous heavyweight is accused of beating former boxer Mitchell Rose. The incident occurred near one of the nightclubs, where, according to Rose, Tyson waylaid him and struck him several times. Even when he was a professional boxer, Rose was not considered a strong athlete, and three years after the end of his career, he was not at all able to provide worthy resistance to Iron Mike.

The Prosecutor General's Office transferred to court a criminal case regarding the theft of Aeroflot money. The main defendants in this case are former airline executives Nikolai Glushkov, Alexander Krasnenker, Lidiya Kryzhevskaya, as well as the general director of Financial United Corporation (FOC) CJSC Roman Sheinin. The same part of the case, which involves the disgraced oligarch Boris Berezovsky, was taken into separate proceedings. He himself is wanted.

The company explains the complications with Williams as personal antipathy YUKOS, Russia's second largest oil company, is trying with all its might to restore the contract for the supply of oil to the Lithuanian concern Mazeikiu Nafta. The contract was terminated last week at the initiative of the American Williams International, which manages the concern. From the very beginning, YUKOS refused to accept the rupture of the agreements signed on June 14.

The Moscow city military prosecutor's office yesterday opened a criminal case into the death of the former commander of the Russian peacekeeping contingent in Kosovo, head of the combat training department of the Russian airborne troops, Major General Vladimir Kazantsev. According to the preliminary version, on Monday at about 14.00 the general stopped by his home on Chestova Street, but it turned out that he had forgotten the keys to the apartment.

The Bank of Russia will check the most worthy PricewaterhauseCoopers must certainly audit the Bank of Russia. Yesterday, the majority of members of the budget committee voted for the decision to appoint this international company as the auditor of the Central Bank for the 2001 report. A day earlier, the same company was named as the main inspector of the Central Bank by another specialized committee - the banking one.

Authorities in North Ossetia on Tuesday afternoon blocked traffic on the Trans-Caucasus Highway connecting Russia with Georgia due to avalanches. According to the Ministry of Emergency Situations, due to strong winds, avalanche conditions will remain in the mountains for several more days, so Transkam will remain closed to traffic during this time. In the near future, rescuers are going to build special shields and galleries along the highway to prevent snow from falling.

In Primorye, the most high-profile trial in recent years is nearing its conclusion. Yesterday, Grigory Pasko, accused of using his official position and transferring secret information to Japan, was given the last word. The former war journalist is expected to be sentenced on December 25. From Mr.

How to convince the British to switch from pounds to candy wrappers The other day I had to send an urgent telegram to George W. Bush with a request to redeploy the Fourth Psychological Operations Unit of the American Army to the British Isles. I don’t know how the president will react, but I hope he understands that without his guys, things are in shambles.

The Chinese want to sue the Israelis The Israeli public is outraged. It turns out that the Jewish state must pay China $2 billion for the military deal that was broken a year and a half ago. The Israelis seem to have forgotten about this, but the Chinese are increasingly irritated by the lack of a “satisfactory solution” to the situation. Negotiations that took place in November ended in nothing, and now Israel faces the prospect of a legal battle with Beijing.

Vyacheslav Shtyrov is looking for a successor Today, the Supreme Court of Russia will consider the case of registering ALROSA President Vyacheslav Shtyrov as a presidential candidate of the Republic of Sakha-Yakutia. If the court decides in favor of the ALROSA president, this will be the de facto finale of the Yakut election campaign - Vyacheslav Shtyrov is popular in the republic and has every chance of becoming the second president of Yakutia.

SUAL-Holding plans to invest $15 million next year in the development of production facilities for the production of final aluminum products. According to the director of the aluminum semi-finished products and final products division of the company, Valk Daniel, of this amount, 12 million will be received by the Mikhailovsky Non-Ferrous Metals Processing Plant, which will allow it to triple foil production (up to 20 thousand tons).

The militant retreats under the pressure of the lady detective Today Daria Dontsova reigns on shelves and bookstores. If you ask the sellers to recommend you something from popular reading, they will name her first, adding either Tatyana Polyakova, or Polina Dashkova, or, now clearly second, Alexandra Marinina. “Male novels” are also on the shelves, but among them there are no such obvious leaders.

The new Gazprom team will join the holding’s board of directors Gazprom has decided to completely change its representatives on the board of directors of the petrochemical holding SIBUR. The shareholders' meeting, at which a new board will be elected, is scheduled for January 9, but yesterday the list of candidates from which shareholders will elect a new board was approved.

The prosecutor's office is not an obstacle to the reform of the Ministry of Railways The government has become interested in the progress of the railway reform and intends to listen tomorrow to a message from the head of the Ministry of Railways, Nikolai Aksenenko, about what reforms are planned in his department next year.