The sports channel “7 TV” switched to round-the-clock broadcasting. This step by the channel’s management in the new television season is aimed primarily at regional partners, of which there are already about 300. “For now, this is our main audience, especially since a new television transmitter is being tested in Moscow,” they told a Vremya Novostei newspaper correspondent. on the channel. In the new television season, in addition to sports reports, a number of new programs will be aired.

Will there still be It just so happened that the beginning of autumn for me was painted in “publishing tones”.

Alexander Sokurov was awarded in Canada The Toronto Film Forum is usually called the festival of festivals: it is not competitive and invites to its program many films that have already been shown at other festivals and have received recognition from audiences and professionals. And yet, the non-competition status does not in the least hinder the fact that every year the list of prizes stretches over two pages of dense text.

Nizhny Novgorod voters still believe in democracy The results of the first round of elections for the mayor of Nizhny Novgorod, as a high-ranking official in the Kremlin administration noted, “it’s hard to call it anything other than indecent.” Indeed, the main result of the first round of voting was the outright refusal of voters to cooperate with the authorities. 29% of the city's residents came to the elections, about a third of them - only to delete all candidates from the lists.

In the Moscow City Court there was a bench for veterans of the capital's racketeering The trial of one of the most sinister and powerful groups in the capital - the gang of Sergei Zakharov, nicknamed Zakhar, began yesterday in the Moscow City Court. For almost ten years, gang members have been collecting tribute from the capital's largest enterprises - construction corporations, car services, publishing houses, restaurants.

On Sunday, Moscow finally saw the long-promised gift from the Belgian capital (in exchange for the image of the poet Pushkin by Georgy Frangulyan) - the “Rape of Europe” fountain by Olivier Strebel.

Russia pays off the debts of its ancestors Last Monday it became clear that Russia’s debt situation is not as good as the Ministry of Finance stated during the budget preparation period. At a meeting of the Duma Commission on State Debt, Deputy Minister of Finance Sergei Kolotukhin told deputies that payments on external debt in 2003 could exceed the amounts provided for by the budget. According to Mr.

Starting from 2004, the geography of Formula 1 racing will expand. F1 general manager Bernie Ecclestone and Crown Prince of Bahrain Sheikh Salman bin Hamed al Khalifa have signed a long-term cooperation agreement, according to which one of the stages of the competition will be held in this Gulf country. The Bahrain Grand Prix can replace either the stage in Belgium or the San Marino Grand Prix. Konstantin IVANOV

The capital's police are increasingly using deportation as a tool to cleanse the city of unwanted visitors. In the last week alone, 212 illegal immigrants were sent to China and Vietnam. This was announced yesterday by Deputy Chief of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate Viktor Cherkashin. According to him, most of the deportees are traders at the Vietnamese market “Salyut - 3” in Ostankino.

This week a second tender will be announced in Lithuania for the sale of Suskystintos dujos (Liquefied Gas), a network of 46 filling stations formerly part of the national gas transport company Lietuvos dujos. According to the director of privatization of the state property fund, Antanas Malikenas, Russian companies will probably also participate in it. So far we are talking about two companies, one of them is from Ufa.

Football. French Championship. 7th round. "Bastia" - "Ajaccio" - 1:2, "Marseille" - "Bordeaux" - 2:1, "Sedan" - "Monaco" - 2:2, "Sochaux" - "Auxerre" -- 1:1, "Nantes" -- "Lyon" -- 1:0, "Montpellier" -- "Lille" -- 1:0, "Lance" -- "Rennes" -- 1:0, "Troyes" "-"Le Havre" - 1:1, "Guingamp" - "Nice" - 0:0, "Paris Saint-Germain" - "Strasbourg" - 3:0. The leaders are : Nice, Auxerre - 14 points each, Guingamp, PSG, Lens - 12 each.

One of the largest banks in Europe, HSBC, plans to enter the Russian retail services market. As the head of the Russian division of HSBC, Richard Tickner, told the British newspaper Independent, “the company is exploring the possibility of working with private investors in Russia” and intends to conduct relevant marketing research next year.

First Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Russian Army, Colonel General Yuri Baluevsky, devoted yesterday’s meeting with journalists to the development of relations between Russia and NATO and the situation on Russia’s southern border. “The topic of relations with NATO is relevant because,” the general said, “we are beginning to live within the framework of the agreements reached in May of this year.

Sochi authorities want to turn Krasnaya Polyana into a world-class ski resort Every time Vladimir Putin comes to Sochi on vacation or to meet with leaders of other countries, the resort expects him to again visit the village of Krasnaya Polyana, which is located in the mountains, 50 kilometers from the coast.

Those Moscow liberals who are arrogant about North Korean diplomacy risk looking naive. Through simple and consistent tactics, Pyongyang manages to achieve its goals while simultaneously giving others the impression that they, too, are left with nothing. To achieve this, Pyongyang is aggravating the situation on the peninsula, forcing everyone, primarily Washington and Seoul, to look for ways to communicate with the DPRK.