Topalov's opponents have not yet shown champion level Late yesterday evening the games of the 12th round of the world championship tournament were played in San Luis, Argentina. Leader Veselin Topalov played with white against his closest pursuer, Russian Peter Svidler.

Two more sets of awards will be awarded at the World Fencing Championships. In the saber competition, the most titled in the Russian team, four-time Olympic champion Stanislav Pozdnyakov (left) and Romanian Mihai Covaliu competed in the final match. Our athlete started this fight well, but gradually the initiative passed to his opponent. As a result, 15:12 in favor of the Romanian. Pozdnyakov received “silver”, “bronze” went to his teammate Alexey Yakimenko.

Snowstorm causes panic in the US and Europe At a time when snow has become a real shortage in Moscow, residents of distant America do not know what to do with it. A real snowstorm that broke out in the United States on Sunday brought a lot of trouble to Americans. The storm that swept through the northeastern part of the country swept away almost everything in its path: due to damage to power lines, more than 30 thousand people in Boston, New York and Rhode Island were left without electricity.

Lawyers complain about prosecutors to the Constitutional Court The Constitutional Court again found itself embroiled in the Yukos case. This time he will play a role in the second part of this "court series" and decide whether the Constitution was respected during last week's unauthorized searches of the offices of Mikhail Khodorkovsky's lawyers.

At yesterday's meeting, the Board of Directors of the National Association of Stock Market Participants unanimously elected Aleksey Timofeev, an adviser to the Center for Stock Market Development and an expert of the Federal Service for Financial Markets (FSFM), as Chairman of the Board of NAUFOR. He will begin his duties next week.

The alcohol monopoly will put small shops on the brink of ruin Separate proposals for adjusting amendments to the law on state regulation of the production and circulation of alcohol, which will come into force in July next year and tighten the rules of the game in the alcohol sales market, were presented last week by the public organization "Support of Russia".

“Gentlemen Golovlevs” on the Small Stage of the Moscow Art Theater Of the 14 actors involved in “The Golovlev Gentlemen,” nine have already worked with director Kirill Serebrennikov. Alla Pokrovskaya in “The Bourgeois” and in “Playing the Victim”, Evgenia Dobrovolskaya in “The Bourgeois” and “Forest”, Alexey Kravchenkov in the same “Bourgeois”, and before that in “Candid Polaroids”.

The prosecutor's office of the Ordzhonikidze district of Yekaterinburg transferred to court the criminal case of two passport officers accused of illegally registering 170 Chinese and Uzbeks.

Russians in Ukraine are reproached for monopolism The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine (AMK) announced yesterday that oil refineries with Russian capital - LiNOS and Ukrtatnafta - as well as the trading house TNK-Ukraine occupy a monopoly position in the oil refining market of Ukraine. Previously, Ukrainian governments - with the exception of Yulia Tymoshenko's cabinet - were hesitant to aggravate relations with Russian oil producers.

Two more police officers killed in Dagestan In Dagestan yesterday, the search continued all day for militants who on Tuesday night fired at a military checkpoint and a police patrol near the Gimry tunnel, which connects Makhachkala with the mountainous regions of the republic. Two officers were killed, another was wounded, and the criminals managed to escape into the mountains.

Education and medicine remembered in Beijing The plenum of the Communist Party completed its work in Beijing, at which new guidelines for the country's development were approved. Nothing is known yet about the personnel changes expected from the plenum. The main topic was the 11th Five-Year Plan for 2006-2010. The commentary from the official Xinhua news agency heralds “revolutionary changes” in the new five-year plan.

CLUBS Retrospective of Evgeny Yufit. Completion of the retrospective of the classic Russian necrorealism. Today the early short films will be shown: “Werewolf Orderlies”, “Lumberjack”, “Spring”, “Suicide Boars”, “Courage”, “Knights of the Sky”, “Will”. After the screening there will be a discussion of the retrospective with Evgeniy Yufit. As part of the programs of the parallel cinema club “Cinephantom”. In the premises of the Fitil cinema, 20.00. Back in Japan II.

Condoleezza Rice recruits allies in Central Asia US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is making her first tour of the countries of Central Asia in her current post. The program includes visits to three former USSR republics - Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan and Tajikistan, as well as a visit to Afghanistan. At the last minute, Ms. Rice's plans may include a trip to Pakistan, where she wants to show sympathy to Islamabad in the wake of the devastating earthquake.

At the start of the Kremlin Cup, fellow countrymen upset each other The first round matches of the traditional Kremlin Cup continued yesterday on the synthetic courts of the capital's Olimpiysky sports complex. The main draw of the women's singles competition is more reminiscent of the Russian Open table, despite the fact that the tournament is assigned the first category of the BTA.

The tourist looked better than the professional astronaut Yesterday's return to earth of the 11th main expedition of the international space station, Sergei Krikalev and John Phillips, and the third space tourist Gregory Olsen, caused practically no worry to the specialists of the Mission Control Center and the managers of Roscosmos. The descent and landing took place as usual, and rescuers immediately discovered the descent vehicle fifty kilometers from the Kazakh town of Arkalyk.