In America they are again trying to sue a Russian company New York justice once again finds itself at the center of a confrontation between Russian business structures. As in 1999, the Tyumen Oil Company is involved in the conflict, and under similar circumstances. Then TNK and some of its shareholders were accused of theft of property (the talk was about the interception of its subsidiary Chernogorneft from Sidanco).

The head coach of Russian skiers, Alexander Grushin, was hospitalized with a diagnosis of a perforated stomach ulcer. On Monday, he and his team are scheduled to fly from Salt Lake City to Moscow. However, during takeoff, Grushin became ill, which is why the plane was delayed for two hours. Doctors gave Grushin two injections, but it did not help. It was decided to call an ambulance and send the coach to a hospital in Salt Lake City. There the diagnosis was revealed - an open stomach ulcer.

The regional pardon commission will not be overloaded with work Over the next two weeks, the composition of the pardon commission in Moscow should be determined. The head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Justice for Moscow, Alexander Buksman, told reporters about this yesterday. The names of the candidates have not yet been disclosed; only its leader is known - First Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow government Boris Nikolsky.

Moscow is losing its monopoly on Abkhaz peacekeeping The St. Petersburg meeting of the CIS defense ministers presented a surprise, the significance of which for changing the balance of power in Transcaucasia has yet to be assessed. The heads of the military departments of Russia and Georgia, Sergei Ivanov and David Tevzadze, unexpectedly made an agreed statement that at a meeting in St. Petersburg, a decision was made to change the current format of the peacekeeping operation in Abkhazia.

Airplane noise has reached a political level At yesterday's expanded board of the Ministry of Transport, Deputy Prime Minister Viktor Khristenko urged those gathered to learn a useful lesson from the so-called April Fool's problem. From April 1 of this year, member states of the European Union will no longer allow aircraft into their airspace whose noise level does not meet the criteria set out in Chapter 3 of the Chicago Convention of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO).

How Robert Mugabe transformed himself and transformed his country A crowd appeared at the end of the street, and everyone scattered. I myself barely had time to jump through the door of the store, which was already closing. The guard slammed it shut, and the steel security bars clanged. Outside the window, people were walking, waving national flags and shouting slogans: mostly young men, but there were also women. Brutal, distorted faces. In hands there are stones and sticks.

Russian basketball clubs continue to fight for continental trophies. Today, the capital's CSKA and Perm's Ural-Great will start at the second stage of the Euroleague, and Kazan's UNICS and women's Vologda-Chevakata have already played the first matches of the next rounds of the playoffs. The Kazan team, led by the head coach of the national team Stanislav Eremin, met with the Greek Iraklis (Thessaloniki) on their site in the 1/8 finals of the Saporta Cup.

Eighty years ago Yuri Lotman was born One of the last works of Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman was the article “Two “Autumns” - a comparative analysis of the masterpieces of Pushkin and Baratynsky. It was 1993, the roar of history was audible even to less keen observers, and a serious illness turned the scientist to thinking about death. In general terms, according to Tynyanov’s formula, “nothing has been decided yet.” Personally, there was almost no hope left.

Basketball. NBA. Regular season . "Chicago" - "Orlando" - 97:112, "Cleveland" - "Seattle" - 89:109, "Dallas" - "Memphis" - 104:91, "Houston" - "Clippers" -- 84:94, "Milwaukee" -- "Lakers" -- 89:99, "San Antonio" -- "Phoenix" -- 99:91, "Sacramento" -- "Utah" -- 107:81 - - Kirilenko “Yu” (6 points + 4 rebounds + 1 steal). The Los Angeles Clippers, who recently occupied last place in the Western Conference, managed to win their third victory in a five-game road series and came close to 50 percent.

Alfa-Eco is eyeing the Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant Alfa-Eco, which owns a blocking stake in the Taganrog Metallurgical Plant (Tagmet), is negotiating with the Truboimpex company to purchase from it a 5.52% stake in the Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant. If the deal goes through, this may indicate Alfa-Eco’s intention to seriously gain a foothold in the pipe market and, with a successful combination of circumstances, even create its own holding company.

The military considers the classification order legal The Ministry of Defense appealed yesterday the decision of the military collegium of the Supreme Court (dated February 13 of this year), which declared two orders of the Ministry of Defense invalid. One of them, dated August 10, 1996, determined the list of information subject to classification in the armed forces, the other, dated back to 1990, established a ban on contacts of military personnel with access to state secrets with foreigners.

Customs pleases its management Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Kudrin expressed full support for the State Customs Committee and its head Mikhail Vanin yesterday at the expanded board of the State Customs Committee. Against the backdrop of hardware battles around the State Customs Committee and endless publications in the media, such support may be more than appropriate. Mr.

The situation in Chechnya has been recognized as stabilized In Chechnya, a course has been taken towards peaceful construction. This is the main result of the Security Council meeting held yesterday.

In less than a year, the cost of recording devices has dropped by an average of two times, and the cost of discs themselves has dropped several times. Today, a recordable disk costs the same as two regular floppy disks, but allows you to write 500 times more information and read it an order of magnitude faster. Today, the Russian market “swallows” up to 4 million recordable discs per month and up to 0.5 million rewritable ones.

ICN Pharmaceuticals split by geography The pharmaceutical business of former Yugoslav Prime Minister Milan Panic has finally split into three companies. Mr. Panich himself stated this the other day in Basel, Switzerland, introducing journalists to the board of directors of the new corporation ICN International - one of the three companies that emerged as a result of the restructuring of ICN Pharmaceuticals.