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.

According to the Ministry of Defense, a conscript soldier needs to send eight to ten letters to civilians per month. This is exactly the number of free envelopes commanders are required to issue to soldiers and sailors, sergeants and foremen of conscript service starting in the new year.

The beatings of their employees in the company of Elena Baturina were associated with the “land” war In Moscow on Monday, there was a complete attack on the lawyer of the INTECO and INTECO-Agro companies, Dmitry Steinberg. Unknown people beat him in the entrance of his own house. In a coma with a severe concussion and displacement of the skull bones, the lawyer was taken to the hospital.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Blagoveshchensky District Court of Bashkortostan yesterday handed down a second guilty verdict in the case of abuse of power by police officers during a sensational “preventive” operation in December last year. According to the Prosecutor General's Office, local detective officer of the Blagoveshchensk GROVD Vasily Zhukov was found guilty of abuse of power and official forgery and sentenced to three years of suspended imprisonment with a probationary period of three years.

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”.

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.

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.

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.

Khodorkovsky and Lebedev disappeared into the general regime Former owners of YUKOS Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev yesterday got lost in the vast expanses of Russia. On Monday, the administration of Matrosskaya Tishina informed the lawyers of the oligarchs sentenced to eight years that they had both been sent to the place where they were serving their sentences. But it is still unclear which colonies Khodorkovsky and Lebedev will end up in.

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.