The new champion will be remembered for his activity, but not for his game The next Russian championship is almost over. There is one more round left, in which “Rubin” should, in theory, win bronze medals, and “Uralan” should give itself a farewell to the first division. All other teams have already finished the championship, the silver medalist of which was St. Petersburg Zenit, and the winner was CSKA. Some will say, it doesn’t matter how Gazzaev’s team became first.

Festival "Youth" opened in Kyiv The thirty-third film festival “Molodist” opened in Kyiv on October 25 with the premiere of the film by the Polish classic Jerzy Hoffman “An Ancient Tradition - When the Sun Was God” based on the story by Ignatius Kraszewski. Starring the famous Ukrainian actor Bogdan Stupka, the equally famous Pole Daniel Olbrychsky and the Russian actress Marina Alexandrova (Russian viewers know her from the television film “Azazel”).

A conference of 68 countries and 9 organizations collecting money for the reconstruction of Iraq ended in Madrid. The total commitments of the forum participants amounted to $33 billion. This amount includes $20 billion promised by the United States. The World Bank estimates that Iraq will need $56 billion over the next four years.

Igor YAKOVLEV, vice-president of the Russian Association of Political Science: — The arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky has become a commonplace; this is a landmark event to which all the front pages of newspapers around the world are dedicated. This event is, in a certain sense, a turning point in modern Russian history. The untouchable caste is increasingly shrinking in our country.

The Russian week of pret-a-porte for the spring-summer 2004 season will be held from October 28 to November 5 on the territory of the T-Modul exhibition complex. Over eight days, Russian and foreign designers will present 50 collections. About twenty thousand guests will take part in this celebration.

On July 2, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of MFO MENATEP CJSC, co-founder of YUKOS, Platon Lebedev, was detained by the Prosecutor General's Office on charges of fraud on an especially large scale, causing property damage to the state, tax evasion and failure to comply with a court decision. He was accused of fraud when purchasing shares in Murmansk OJSC Apatit in 1994.

Gennady UDOVENKO, former Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine, head of the Rada Committee on Human Rights, National Minorities and Interethnic Relations, comments on the situation in connection with the Russian-Ukrainian negotiations regarding the island of Spit Tuzla in an interview with the Vremya Novostey newspaper. -- According to Kasyanov, Ukraine promised to withdraw troops from Tuzla.

Khodorkovsky's arrest means that the country's political course is changing The demonstrative hijacking of a plane and the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky last Saturday have already been compared to the operation “Face into the Snow,” when several years ago the head of the presidential guard, Alexander Korzhakov, decided to show who was boss and put the people of the too influential and politically active Vladimir Gusinsky face to face Moscow snowdrifts.

Three out of four gold medals went to the Americans On Sunday, the first of six stages of the Skate America Grand Prix figure skating series ended in the American city of Reading, Pennsylvania. Despite the small size of the Russian delegation (only four athletes represented our country), the Russians did not go without medals, winning silver in pair skating. Experienced Maria Petrova and Alexey Tikhonov had every chance of getting a gold medal. It was the St.

Forecast for the coming days Winter has come to the European territory of Russia. Western cyclones brought cloudy, cold and snowy weather. With the recent snowfalls, most areas experienced sleet deposits on trees and wires. In the central regions, in the rear of the next cyclone, it will still snow at night, the temperature will be -2...-7oC.

Russians are in no hurry to transfer pension savings into private hands The Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) last week disclosed some data on the progress of pension reform. In order to at least somehow rehabilitate themselves to society for the scandalous delay in sending out pension notifications, fund officials told how many Russians have already announced the transfer of their pension savings to the management of private companies. There were less than seven thousand such brave souls.

An English club is being imposed on Vladimir Potanin News of the arrival of Russian billionaires in English football continues to excite the British public. Before Londoners had time to recover from Roman Abramovich's shopping spree, who bought Chelsea and a whole bunch of stars, yesterday a number of British newspapers, including The Independent, spread information according to which another major Russian businessman, Vladimir Potanin, plans to buy the London football club Arsenal. .

The 15th anniversary of the Russian Antique Salon opened More than 200 antique firms from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kazan, Perm, Rostov-on-Don and Budapest are participating.

CLUBS Anatoly Kroll (piano) and the ensemble “We are from Jazz”. Concert of one of the veterans of Soviet jazz. Le Club , 20.00. Victor Sheshunov Quartet (piano). Jazz. Cool Train , 21.00. "Small world." The author of the play is Sergei Nosov, winner of the Booker Literary Prize and the Moscow Debuts 2003 festival. Directed by Karen Nersisyan. Starring D. Kazeeva, A. Marakulina, A. Kovalsky, K. Bogdanov, G. Firsov, O. Valkman, A. Miloserdov, V. Piskunov. On stage “B2” , 20.00.

Having completed the past week with the arrest of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the filing of formal charges against him, the Prosecutor General's Office, by and large, did nothing unexpected. Rather, on the contrary, Mr. Ustinov’s subordinates kept their word. The Vremya Novostey newspaper made the conclusion that this is precisely where everything is heading in the YUKOS saga last week, after statements by two deputy prosecutors general.