American Andre Agassi, who ranks second in the ATP championship race, will only be able to arrive in Russia today to participate in the St. Petersburg Open. The reason for the tennis player's delay in Madrid is very pleasant for him - Andre received the main prize of the Masters series tournament (total fund $2.95 million).

Oleg Kulik’s exhibition “Museum” opened at XL Gallery For many years now, Kulik has been the star and hope of our contemporary art. His aggressive and high-quality works irritate and offend more than any other art produced in our country.

Jakarta is cautious in fighting extremism The passage of emergency anti-terrorism laws has helped Jakarta take the first step towards curbing Islamic radicals. Late last week, Indonesian police arrested 64-year-old Muslim leader Abu Bakar Bashir. He is suspected of involvement in organizing the bloody terrorist attack on the island of Bali on October 12 , which claimed the lives of more than 180 foreign tourists.

The President approved the new composition of the Human Rights Commission On Saturday, Vladimir Putin signed a decree “On the composition of the Human Rights Commission under the President of the Russian Federation.” It was headed by Ella Pamfilova, chairman of the presidium of the “Civic Dignity” movement and chairman of the All-Russian Union of Public Associations “Civil Society for the Children of Russia.” Ella Pamfilova told the Vremya Novostey newspaper that “the situation with human rights

The expert council on metallurgy under the State Duma Committee on Industry accused the operators of the Sakhalin-1 and Sakhalin-2 joint ventures - ExxonMobil and RoyalDutch/Shell - of unwillingness to involve Russian pipe manufacturers in the implementation of projects. According to the law “On Production Sharing Agreements,” the investor is required to purchase at least 70% of equipment, materials and services from Russian contractors.

The Kremlin and the White House appointed their representatives to the National Banking Council The president and government named their representatives on the National Banking Council (NBC), a collegial body of the Bank of Russia that controls its expenses, reporting and auditing.

And forty years later we met in Havana A conference has just been held in Havana to mark the 40th anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis. The fourth in a row since 1987, it differed from the previous ones not only in the composition of the participants who held high-ranking posts in the USSR, USA and Cuba in 1962, but also in the quality of the declassified documents that were announced at the forum (including correspondence between the leaders of the USSR and the USA).

According to investigators, the bomb was brought to McDonald's by capital racketeers A powerful explosion shook one of the capital's McDonald's restaurants on Saturday morning, located on Pokryshkina Street, 2, right next to the Yugo-Zapadnaya metro station. As it turned out, unknown criminals drove a car filled with explosives towards him. The result was one dead, seven injured, a damaged façade of McDonald's itself, and about a dozen wrecked cars and buses. .

The merger of large energy concerns E.On and Ruhrgas is fully in line with German national interests. The implementation of this project will ensure stable investments in the Russian gas industry. The director of the German Energy Agency (NEA operates under the Federal Ministry of Economics in Berlin and expresses its point of view), Stefan KOHLER, spoke about this in a conversation with a correspondent of the Vremya Novostey newspaper.

The registration of presidential candidates in Lithuania ended this weekend; elections will take place on December 22. The favorites of the race are the current President of Lithuania Valdas Adamkus and the Speaker of the Seimas Arturas Paulauskas. There are 20 candidates in total. Among them is a woman who hardly needs any special introduction. Casemira Prunskienė, the first prime minister of independent Lithuania, was almost as popular in the world as Gorbachev.

Tomorrow the new board of directors of the channel may elect a new general director Last Friday, at a meeting of the board of shareholders of CJSC Sixth Channel, a new board of directors was elected. The meeting, which was attended by representatives of all shareholders of the TV channel, was initiated by the chairman of the supervisory board of MDM Bank, Andrey Melnichenko, and the current general director of TVS, Oleg Kiselev.

Football. Russian Championship. Match of the 27th round. "Lokomotiv" - "Torpedo-ZIL" - 3:0 (Loskov 40, Julio Cesar 45, Pimenov 63) . The leaders are: Lokomotiv - 56 points (26 games), CSKA - 54 (26), Spartak - 52 (27). It was not difficult for Lokomotiv to beat a team struggling for survival. True, the hosts scored the first two goals after mistakes by the Automobile Plant goalkeeper Novosadov. First, the goalkeeper missed the ball after Loskov's cross, which Evseev could not reach.

On Saturday night on Sakhalin, the Chinese cargo ship Century Lac was thrown ashore during a storm. According to the local rescue coordination center, the accident occurred near the port of Aleksandrovsk-Sakhalinsky. The ship stood in its roadstead, waiting its turn to load. However, during a storm that broke out in the Tatar Strait, it was torn from its anchor and thrown onto the sandbank by the waves.

Dr. Braverman gave a lecture to the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs On Friday, at a meeting of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, First Deputy Minister of Property Relations Alexander Braverman, in order to improve the cultural level of entrepreneurs, gave them a lecture that convincingly proved that the presence of a marketing strategy increases the company's capitalization. For the sake of meeting with the oligarchs, Mr.

Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Alexey Miller and President of Yakutia Vyacheslav Shtyrov signed an agreement last Friday in Yakutsk to establish a joint venture in the form of an OJSC, in which Gazprom will receive 51% of the shares, and the government of Yakutia - 49%. The joint venture will be engaged in the exploration, production and transportation of natural gas, including to the regions of the Russian Federation and for export.