In Rostov-on-Don, after a 2-week break, the trial in the case of Colonel Yuri Budanov, accused of murdering 17-year-old resident of the Chechen village of Tangi-Chu Elza Kungaeva, resumed yesterday. It was expected that the North Caucasus court would determine the place, time and form of the next, already fifth, psychological and psychiatric examination of Yuri Budanov.

"Ladya" won the national club championship The Russian Club Championship is the only competition that brings together the country's strongest chess players, including Olympians, from year to year. In professional sports, the richer the club, the more opportunities it has to invite strong players. This also applies to chess, where there is also a material incentive.

At the Laputa Animation Film Festival, which opened on Friday in Tokyo, the results of the voting of 140 filmmakers and critics from around the world were announced, to whom the Festival Organizing Committee asked to name the twenty best animated films. As a result, a list of the 150 best films of all time appeared. The first and second places were taken by Yuri Norshtein's films - "Hedgehog in the Fog" and "Tale of Tales", respectively. In third place is Disney's 1940 classic Fantasia.

The railway and the FSFO want to bankrupt the Korshunovsky GOK Today in the city of Shelekhov (Irkutsk region) it is planned to sign a settlement agreement between the creditors of the Korshunovsky Mining and Processing Plant, which is part of SUAL-Holding. The claims of the first three priority creditors have already been fully satisfied. Partial agreements are in place with creditors of the fourth group.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs became interested in the “alcohol games” of the Odintsovo authorities A major “alcohol” scandal is brewing in the Moscow region. The other day, employees of the Main Directorate for Economic Crimes of the Ministry of Internal Affairs conducted a large-scale inspection of the main monopolist in the wholesale trade of alcohol in the Odintsovo district - the municipal enterprise (MP) Mashuk.

The Supervisory Board recommends that shareholders allocate about 2.2 billion rubles for dividends The Supervisory Board of Sberbank yesterday approved recommendations to the meeting of shareholders on the amount of dividends for 2002. As expected, they will amount to 7% of the bank's net profit. In addition, the council submitted for approval to the shareholders' meeting two draft amendments to the bank's charter, initiated by the board and minority shareholders.

Almost all championships of the leading European football powers have ended. And only in the Spanish championship there are three rounds left, during which the champion and the teams leaving the “prima” must be determined. Football. Spanish Championship . 35th round.

As part of the World Bank's program to develop the information community, the international Development Gateway Corporation is beginning to replicate standard software for creating portals for government agencies at various levels. An experimental version of the national development portal based on Microsoft programs was first tested in several regions of Russia and will now be distributed in other countries participating in the program.

In St. Petersburg they are preparing to divide the inheritance of a fellow countryman who died in Moscow Konstantin Yakovlev, nicknamed Kostya-Mogila, one of the most famous and influential “reputable businessmen” of St. Petersburg, was killed on Sunday in the center of Moscow. Late in the evening, investigators identified him as one of the victims of the massacre on Vorontsovo Pole Street, where unknown assailants shot four passengers of a passing foreign car.

New terrorist explosions prevented in the Caucasus The North Ossetian intelligence services yesterday announced the prevention of two terrorist attacks that could lead to truly monstrous consequences - perhaps even greater than the recent bombings of the Chechen Government House in Grozny and the administration of the Nadterechny region combined.

Spacecraft's hard landing deemed a successful test Russian experts brilliantly overcame the difficult situation created by the landing and fall of the Soyuz TMA-1 spacecraft. According to representatives of RSC Energia, the extreme landing of the ship on May 4 was the result of an experiment to test new seats for crew members.

The Organizing Committee for the implementation of the Russian-Italian agreement on the conversion of the debt of the former USSR to Italy will by June 30 announce the selection criteria for investment projects that are proposed to be implemented through debt conversion, and then will begin accepting applications.

The military prosecutor's office began an investigation into the emergency that occurred yesterday in Adygea at the training ground of the 131st Maikop Separate Motorized Rifle Brigade. In the morning, the corpses of three soldiers were found there, the day before they went out to patrol the territory of the training ground. According to experts, the fighters died from severe burns and numerous shrapnel wounds.

Having won gold, Dynamo wants to invite Spanish players and coach For the first time in the history of domestic mini-football, Dynamo Moscow, which recently celebrated a year since its creation, became the champion of Russia. In the final playoff series with a score of 2:1 (5:3, 5:6, 8:7), last year's gold medal winner Norilsk Nickel was defeated by the Blue and Whites.

Good manners instead of a global caliphate Dagestan villages, destroyed almost to the ground three years ago during a two-week counter-terrorism operation, have now been restored. In the center of the former Wahhabi stronghold of Karamakhi stands a new two-story school - before the war, one could only dream of one here.