The first matches in the European Handball Champions Cup tournament were successful for the Russian teams. Victories in the second qualifying round were won by Chekhov Bears near Moscow and Aqua from Volgograd. Handball players from Chekhov, led by the mentor of the Sydney 2000 Olympic champions Vladimir Maximov, beat the Austrian Bregenz on the road - 31:25.

CLUBS Felix Lahuti (violin) and Pavel Pechkurov (guitar). Lahuti is a young new jazz violinist who constantly collaborates with both traditional jazz and alternative musicians, for example with Vladimir Chekasin. Bunker , 22.00. Kirkincho Sp. Music of the Andean Indian tribe. Oracle of the Divine Bottle , 10 p.m.

Anyone can trade stocks around the clock Stock market participants can forget about a well-deserved rest after a hard day and the closing of the stock market session. From now on, the doors of two investment companies - Aton and NetTrader.ru - are constantly open to clients, and they will be able to trade securities around the clock. The offer is intended primarily for regional investors experiencing difficulties due to time differences.

The Moscow Garrison Military Court, at the request of the Chief Military Prosecutor's Office, yesterday extended the detention of the former chief financier of the Ministry of Defense, Colonel General Georgy Oleynik. It has been decided to keep him under arrest until December 8th.

The market is afraid of rising prices The version that the cause of the fire on board the French tanker Limburg off the coast of Yemen was a terrorist attack is receiving more and more confirmation. The first reports of an explosion on board the ship on Sunday coincided with the broadcast on the Qatari satellite channel Al Jazeera of Osama Bin Laden's two-minute televised address to the American people.

Nationalist ghosts of the past won the elections Last Saturday's elections in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) were won by the nationalist parties of Muslims, Croats and Serbs - the political heirs of those who led the country to the bloody war of 1992-1995.

Lukashenko occupied the people with the construction of the National Library Last week, on the streets of Minsk, decently dressed children stopped passers-by asking for money. They did this not of their own free will - the schools sent students to raise funds for the construction of a new building for the National Library. The upcoming construction has truly become a common cause for Belarusians - the extortions have affected the entire budget sector.

On Sunday, the final day of the VIII European Sumo Championship, the Russians climbed to the highest step of the podium twice more. In total, they won six gold medals out of ten awarded. This provided the team of Boris Antonov, who combines the duties of the president of the national federation and the head coach of the national team, with a convincing victory in the team competition.

Kaffa Industries will build a factory in the Moscow region The Kaffa Industries company begins construction of a full-cycle factory for the production of instant coffee in the Moscow region. The details of this project became known the other day. Meanwhile, the capacities declared by Kaffa Industries are equal to the capacities of each of the largest players in the coffee market in Russia - Nestle and Kraft Foods.

Yesterday it became known that on the eve of the Chisinau summit, Mikhail Kasyanov canceled last year’s resolution on special import duties on Ukrainian pipes. In response, Ukraine promised to refrain from 20 percent tariffs on 19 types of Russian export goods, including cars, ferroalloys, mineral fertilizers and railroad cars.

There is no system for comprehensive reconstruction of neighborhoods in the center of Moscow Construction and reconstruction of housing in Moscow is a profitable business, although not easy. Statements by city government officials about the investment attractiveness of this market are refuted by life itself.

Russia reminded Europe of its chemical weapons Russia may withdraw from the international convention “On the Prohibition of the Development, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction.” This was stated at the 5th conference of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague by the Deputy Chairman of the State Commission for the Destruction of Chemical Weapons, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Defense, Major General Nikolai

In the match between two capital clubs, Dynamo and Torpedo, who are fighting for fourth place, one of the best on the field was the Blue and White striker Dmitry BULYKIN, who scored a goal. It seems that this forward has finally found himself in the Dynamo team, where he enjoys the trust of head coach Viktor Prokopenko, who invariably puts him in the starting lineup, for which Bulykin is responsible for scoring goals against the opponents.

The Moscow prosecutor's office has completed an additional investigation into the pogrom at the Yasenevsky market in April last year. On the occasion of Hitler's birthday, about 50 skinheads walked through the shopping arcades, beating people from the Caucasus. As a result, more than ten people were injured.

ARCO will have no competitors in the liquidation of banks The dream of the Bank of Russia - to speed up and tighten as much as possible the bankruptcy procedure for bankrupt credit institutions - will soon come true. Yesterday, the State Duma Banking Committee approved draft amendments to the law “On Bankruptcy of Credit Institutions”, which significantly reduce the time between the deprivation of a bank’s license and the beginning of its liquidation procedure.