According to the official website of the Ural Great basketball club, it was decided that in the 2002/03 season the Perm team will participate in the ULEB Cup. All necessary registration documents have already been sent to the headquarters of the Union of European Basketball Leagues in Barcelona.

Traditional healers demand protection from charlatans A number of public and consumer organizations require recognition of traditional medicine and healing as a full-fledged branch of the national economy of our country. Yesterday, their leaders, as well as the State Duma deputy and Chairman of the Consumer Union Petr Shelishch, who joined them, issued a joint statement demanding that the authorities not interfere with citizens in exercising their constitutional right to engage in witchcraft.

Holsten strengthens its position in Russia The expansion of foreign brewing companies into the Russian beer market continues.

Basques issue ultimatum to Madrid The new law on self-government, which will be adopted by the Parliament of the Basque Country today, threatens major complications in the relations of this autonomous region in northern Spain with Madrid. According to the bill, already approved last Monday by the ruling coalition led by the Basque Nationalist Party, local authorities assume a number of powers that are currently under the control of the central government.

Irkutsk Aircraft Plant took up its securities The Irkutsk Aviation Production Association (IAPO) intends to sharply increase the share of borrowed funds it raises through the placement of bonds in the next two years. As Alexey Pokhilko, deputy head of the IAPO corporate finance department, said yesterday, the aircraft manufacturing enterprise’s total loans now amount to approximately $300 million. 80% of this amount comes from loans, and only 20% from bills and bonds.

The Moscow garrison military court yesterday refused the Main Military Prosecutor's Office to issue a sanction for the re-arrest of the former chief financier of the Ministry of Defense Georgy Oleynik. On April 29, he was found guilty of exceeding his official authority by transferring $450 million to Ukraine for the supply of construction materials for the Russian military department, most of which disappeared without a trace.

The election campaign in the Krasnoyarsk Territory is in full swing There are already 28 people vying for the post of governor. The last contender is Alexander Kondrashov, deputy commander of the Khabarovsk unit of border patrol ships. Why the 45-year-old officer decided that he could win the elections for the head of the Krasnoyarsk Territory is still unknown. The candidate notified the regional election commission of his intentions by mail.

A Russian novel about Hitler and his entourage has appeared The cover of Elena Syanova’s book “Cry, Margarita” (M., “OLMA-Press”) is made in an openly “inviting” manner: Gothic letters, a frolicking shepherd dog, a spectacular young woman... And he - the sleeping Hitler dominates the composition. “OLMA” produces a lot of historical (and quasi-historical) reading material, but the “Original” series has completely different tasks.

American Qwest destroys world stock indices America continues to be plagued by financial scandals involving major corporations. The day before, the New York Stock Exchange Dow Jones index fell by 3%, reaching 9,000 points. The immediate reason for the rapid decline in shares was the start of a criminal investigation by the US Department of Justice into the activities of one of the largest telecommunications companies, Qwest Communications International.

Transformations in the electric power industry are temporarily frozen Electricity reform has stopped. As the Vremya Novostey newspaper learned, the board of directors of RAO UES of Russia will presumably not consider restructuring projects for regional energy companies until the fall, and the implementation of those already considered is frozen. According to the newspaper's sources in energy circles, such an order came to RAO from the Kremlin.

Psychologists and sociologists started talking about the coming baby boom in the United States a couple of weeks after the World Trade Center explosion. Even then, the Americans behaved “unfortunately”; newspapers excitedly wrote about the new hedonism: they say, after September 11, representatives of the great nation began to live as if they had no future, writes Rush Hour.

Of the leaders, only Mikhailov will not be at Eremin’s disposal On August 29, Indianapolis will host the first matches of the men's FIBA ​​World Championship. Today the Russian team will begin its one and a half month preparation for the most prestigious tournament. The day before, Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent Vladimir STETSKO met with the team's head coach Stanislav EREMINA. -Who will start training under your leadership?

Mobile operators quarreled in Belarus No sooner had the Mobile Telesystems company settled in Belarus than it already had difficulties in its relationship with the local telecom operator Velcom. At the end of June, as soon as the MTS network was put into operation, it became clear that it was impossible to call from an MTS mobile phone to a Velcom phone.

The case of the pioneer of domestic cooperation is closed The Prosecutor General's Office dropped the criminal case against Viktor Naishuller, a man who was once one of the twenty richest people in Russia. He was accused of fraud with $4 million that belonged to the Kirovo-Chepetsk Chemical Plant (KCHP), and the businessman served more than a year in a pre-trial detention center. Now investigators have agreed that the oligarch is not guilty of that story.

Mike Figgis's 'Hotel' Baffles Viewers At the Moscow Film Festival, “Hotel” was shown as part of the “Eight and a Half” program. According to the idea of ​​its curator Pyotr Shepotinnik, this program should identify the main film trends of the year. “Hotel” is a fascinating film, but you shouldn’t look for a trend in it. This is piecemeal work and has no chance of influencing the mainstream.