Basketball. NBA. Regular season. “Boston” – “Atlanta” – 89:81, “Toronto” – “Cleveland” – 103:85, “Charlotte” – “Chicago” – 112:106, “New York” – “ New Jersey - 94:99, Orlando - Miami - 89:103, Detroit - Milwaukee - 123:89, Minnesota - Denver - 104: 90, Indiana - Philadelphia - 103:80, Utah - San Antonio - 84:86, Portland - Houston - 92:79, Seattle - - Memphis - 109:94, Phoenix - Dallas - 89:76, LA Lakers - Sacramento - 109:95, Golden State - LA Clippers - - 107:103.

The Tatneft oil company and the Tatar-Bashkir oil trader Korus agreed to help the famous Moscow entrepreneur Shalva Chigirinsky and the Moscow government create the Moscow Oil and Gas Company (MNGK). This new company will provide Muscovites with gasoline for the next few years. Shalva Chigirinsky, who owns 51% of the shares of the English Sibir Energy, and the Moscow government agreed last year to establish the MNGK.

Elena Sergeevna Ventzel, mathematician, doctor of sciences, professor, died in her ninety-sixth year. For the last four decades she has been known as the writer I. Grekova. The pseudonym pointed at once to anonymity-obscurity, “first profession” and game. And although, starting with the story “The Ladies' Master” (1962), published by Novy Mir, I. Grekova wrote about the most commonplace, her prose always had a free, artistic, slightly playful element.

Hockey. NHL. Stanley Cup. First round. Philadelphia -- Ottawa -- 1:0 (OT) (series score -- 1:0), Carolina -- New Jersey -- 2:1 (1:0), Detroit » -- "Vancouver" -- 3:4 (OT) (0:1) -- Larionov "D" (1+0), Fedorov "D" (1:0), Chubarov "V" (0+1) , “San Jose” – “Phoenix” – 2:1 (1:0). The very first day of the Stanley Cup was marked by a sensation. The winner of the regular season, Detroit, lost to Vancouver at their home Joe Louis Arena.

Teacher strikes resume In recent months, Russian teachers have not allowed the authorities to forget about their existence. Another teachers' strike took place in the Krasnoyarsk region. A few days ago, 16 employees of a secondary school in the village of Vladimirovka simply canceled all classes and went on a hunger strike to protest against salary delays.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission has granted media giant News Corp's request. -- about severing relations with the auditing company Andersen. News Corp. does not believe that the change of partner is related to differences in audit practice. “The petition was filed in response to growing dissatisfaction with Andersen's failure to provide the corporation with effective auditing practices,” the commission said in a statement. Ernst & Young will become the company's new partner.

But for Norilsk Nickel this does not change much yet Nickel quotes on the London Metal Exchange (LME) are the first to recover from the fall observed in the metals market last year. This week they surpassed the level of $7,000 per ton, reaching the highest price in the last ten months. Analysts consider this circumstance positive for Norilsk Nickel.

The President is gaining more and more fans Parliamentarians received the president's message yesterday in full accordance with the established ritual. Those who are supposed to praise, praised. Those who chose the role of critics scolded them. Well, those who, from the bright theses of the president’s speech, tried to understand what will be done this year, found themselves, as usual, in a situation of complete uncertainty.

Lawyers have expanded their rights The epic with the passage of the law “On Advocacy and the Legal Profession” is almost over. Yesterday the State Duma adopted the draft in the second reading. Compared to the first version, major changes have been made to it. According to defenders, the authors of the first draft wanted to make the legal profession controlled by the state, and the people who prepared it were far from the legal profession and pursued their own purely bureaucratic goals.

In the most gangster suburb of Paris, Karpin did not fare well “Now I understand: the Russians have one of the best teams in Europe. And we need to work seriously if we want to win the upcoming World Championships in Asia,” said Roger Lemerre, head coach of the world and European champions, after the meeting of the French and Russian national teams.

The Korac Basketball Cup went to the French Nancy. Since this was the last draw of the prestigious trophy (reorganization is coming in European club basketball), the cup will now adorn the museum of a modest French club. The fact that the Mineralovod team was not facing the grandees of European basketball could be seen in the return match of the final in Rostov-on-Don.

The visit to Minsk of Czech Prime Minister Milos Zeman, who came to Belarus from Moscow, was modest. Mr. Zeman arrived not as the head of government, but as the head of the standing committee of the Socialist International at the invitation of the leader of the Belarusian Social Democrats, Nikolai Statkevich. Mr. Statkevich is one of the most irreconcilable opponents of President Lukashenko, and the Belarusian authorities pretended that there was no Czech prime minister at all.

Belgorod residents regained Russian “gold” The third match of the super final series of the Russian men's volleyball championship again ended with the victory of Lokomotiv-Belogorye over MSTU-Luzhniki - 3:1 (23:25, 25:18, 25:18, 25:10). Thus, Belgorodians were absent from the Russian volleyball throne for only a year. It looks like we are in for a year of Lokomotiv's all-out offensive.

On the eve of the session of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, former first deputy director of the IMF, currently serving as vice president of Citigroup, Stanley FISCHER, answered questions from Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondents Andrei DENISOV and Alexander LOMANOV. -- After a wave of crises in the second half of the 90s, international financial organizations and other mechanisms of international interaction are focused on strengthening the global financial system.

US policy is carried out by proven personnel US Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs Otto Reich, a legendary figure in his own way, has once again found himself in the spotlight due to events in Venezuela. According to The New York Times, on the day of the military coup, he personally called the conspiratorial oligarch Pedro Carmona, asking him not to take the “stupid step” of dissolving the national parliament, which would lead to popular anger.