Spartak usually succeeds in this The final match of the 14th round of the Russian Football Championship was to determine which of the opponents would take the chance to chase CSKA and Lokomotiv. In a match replete with dramatic turns, Spartak beat Zenit 4:3 and settled in third place. Whether we like it or not, we will look at the coming rounds through the prism of recruiting the new Russian national team.

This time we decided to offer theater reviewers from leading publications two surveys at once, conventionally calling them “rating” and “anti-rating”. Simply put, it was necessary to choose not only the best (and the best) of the past season, but also the worst (the worst). The first thing that catches your eye is that everyone did better with the “best”. More clear. More definitely. All questions were answered. And this does not mean at all that we have a lot of “best” and little “worst”.

It was stopped by the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs A high-profile criminal case involving the leaders of the Slavneft company, Yuri Sukhanov and Dmitry Perevalov, as Vremya Novostei learned, was recently closed by the Investigative Committee under the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Omskenergo is ready to exchange part of its assets for Kazakh fuel RAO UES of Russia, despite criticism from Russian coal miners and the Ministry of Railways, continues to implement various ideas related to the supply of coal from Kazakhstan.

Hockey. Russian Championship. Super League. "Lokomotiv" - CSKA - 7:1, "Spartak" - "Amur" - 3:2, "Dynamo" - "Molot-Prikamye" - 3:1, "Avangard" - "Torpedo" -- 5:1, "Metallurg" Mg -- "Mechel" -- 5:2, "Severstal" -- SKA -- 3:1, "Ak Bars" -- "Neftekhimik" -- 2:3, "Wings" Sovetov - Metallurg Nk - 5:0, Salavat Yulaev - Lada - 0:3. The leaders are : Lokomotiv - 81 points, Avangard - 76, Metallurg Mg - 66. The first round of the second stage did not bring any surprises.

But San Sanych hasn’t greeted him yet After the international tournament in memory of the legendary Russian strongman Ivan Poddubny ended in the homeland of the most famous revolutionary, only super heavyweight Yuri Patrikeev booked a ticket to the 2002 world championship in Greco-Roman wrestling. This is the opinion of the head coach of our national team Gennady Sapunov.

The Spanish basketball champion Unicaja from Malaga is going to invite the legendary Lithuanian basketball player Arvydas Sabonis. At least the Spanish media are reporting this intention of team head coach Malkovich, who hopes to persuade Sabonis to move to the south of Spain. Interestingly, Real Madrid, for which Sabonis played several years ago, is also hoping to get Arvydas. Let us remember that since his departure from the NBA a year ago, Arvydas has not performed anywhere.

A new police chief was again sent to the northern capital The fifth chief of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region in the last six years was introduced to the St. Petersburg police yesterday. A “Varangian” from Moscow was sent to the city for this position - Major General Mikhail Vanichkin, who until recently headed the National Central Bureau (NCB) of Interpol in Russia, and even earlier headed the GUBOP MDV.

Illegal migrants from Moscow will be sheltered in the USA The head of the Moscow government's migration committee, Sergei Smidovich, does not rule out that his institution may soon be liquidated, and its functions will be completely transferred to the migration department of the city police department. He stated this yesterday, speaking to journalists, whom Mr. Smidovich apparently wants to attract to defend the service entrusted to him.

Moscow authorities want to fit all housing and communal services payments into one receipt The city authorities continue to reform the housing and communal services in their own way. So far, the most noticeable innovations for citizens can be called a change in the method of paying for utilities.

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Belarus has gathered again in NATO President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko, speaking yesterday at a meeting of the Security Council, made sensational statements regarding the change in Minsk's position towards NATO. “Everything must be fair and decent, including in relation to NATO,” the president said.

Police do not recommend touching posters with curse words The practice of installing booby-trapped posters with obscene inscriptions on Russian streets and roads is becoming increasingly widespread. Yesterday, another such explosion occurred in the small town of Baltiysk, Kaliningrad region. As a result, two random people were again injured - one man, who tried to remove the poster, died on the spot, and a woman who happened to be nearby was sent to the hospital in serious condition.

Russian couple won the short program without laces The European Figure Skating Championships, which takes place in Lausanne, Switzerland, brought together 111 participants from 35 countries. Despite the fact that, naturally, only European skaters were entered in the tournament, a huge number of journalists from America and Canada came to cover the competition.

The desecration of six Muslim graves was committed by unknown criminals on Wednesday night at the Traktorozavodskoye regional cemetery in Volgograd. According to local police, vandals toppled monuments at two burials, and painted fascist swastikas and the words “Skinheads” with black paint on four others. Detectives are considering all versions of what happened, but are more inclined to assume that it was the work of drunken hooligans.