The basketball players of the capital's Dynamo suffered a crushing defeat at home; they were defeated by the French Bourges in the FIBA ​​Euroleague - 56:80. The home team's game didn't go well from the very beginning. During the first half of the meeting, the “blue and white” committed an unacceptably huge number of losses - 15, already losing by 22 points by the big break.

Since the mid-90s of the last century, one of the most influential people in Russia was known here only by sight. And although in all these years he never set foot on Russian soil, he - albeit indirectly - had an undeniable influence on the entire country. At the same time, he was called the second most important person in America. This is none other than Alan Greenspan, head of the US Federal Reserve.

A YUKOS employee received a longer sentence than Khodorkovsky The four-day announcement of the verdict in the case of Alexei Kurtsin, the former acting manager of Yukos-Moscow LLC, ended with an unexpectedly severe punishment. Yesterday, the Lefortovo District Court recognized as legal the charge brought against him by the Prosecutor General's Office of theft of funds from this company on an especially large scale and their subsequent legalization.

CLUBS The Chalets (Dublin). A mixture of glamor and indie rock. It is mainly the female part of the quintet who sings - two identical sweet-voiced brunettes (Pony and Pee Pee - responsible for the glamour), they also play the keys. Everything else is hard rhythmic rock, sometimes punctuated by gloomy male vocals. This concert is the first event at the winter indoor concert venue of the Gogol` club in Stoleshnikov . December 2 at 21.00. Los De Abajo (Mexico).

Vyugin convinced the government to at least partially place state-owned shares on Russian stock exchanges Calls by the head of the Federal Service for Financial Markets, Oleg Vyugin, to privatize state-owned companies on Russian sites had an effect on the government. Yesterday at the Second Federal Investment Forum, Mr.

Siemens asks the government for permission to purchase a blocking stake in Power Machines The German concern Siemens does not despair of getting a share in Power Machines. Yesterday in St. Petersburg, the president of the Russian division of the company, Henrik Frystatski, confirmed that he had asked the government to approve the purchase of a blocking stake in Power Machines. “We are waiting for a fundamental decision from the Russian government.

Forecast for the coming days On the European territory of Russia it is not very confident, but, as it should be according to the calendar, winter is being mastered. In the center of Russia, snow fell no earlier and no later, namely on the night of December 1st.

CSKA trusted its fate to its group rivals Russian football clubs can finally go on vacation. However, there is still one more thing to do - the draw for the 1/16 finals of the UEFA Cup will take place on December 16 in Nyon. But the current winner of the trophy may not be there. CSKA, having lost to Dynamo Bucharest 0:1, has a slim chance of reaching the next stage of the tournament. Now the army team has 4 points and is only in fourth place in the group.

Gazprom is not averse to becoming a single exporter of LNG At parliamentary hearings on the problems of developing oil and gas resources on the shelf, Gazprom representative Igor Meshcherin unexpectedly announced the need for a single export channel when implementing projects related to liquefied natural gas (LNG), as well as those implemented on production sharing terms.

Sensations of Russian art auctions in London The past Russian auctions at Christie's and Sotheby's once again surprised us with extremely high prices, unheard of just a few years ago. The annual breathtaking jumps in prices (if two years ago the top lot was valued at a million dollars, now it is worth one and a half million pounds) are explained by the fact that two-thirds of the buyers at Russian auctions are Russian art dealers and collectors with enormous funds.

Will dispute ends in prison and estate sale The scandalous story of Muscovite Anton Badilovsky, who a week ago was sentenced by the Basmanny District Court to seven years in prison for attempted fraud in obtaining an inheritance, has found its continuation. His lawyers filed a complaint against the verdict with the Moscow City Court, insisting on the termination of the criminal case and acquittal.

The Ministry of Industry and Energy is going to develop assembly production It seems that the repeatedly voiced forecasts that the future of the Russian automobile industry lies in the development of assembly plants are being confirmed. Yesterday, the Ministry of Industry and Energy announced that it was considering granting the flagship of the domestic auto industry, AvtoVAZ, the status of an industrial assembly enterprise.

The lawyer was sentenced for the third time for the same unproven crime The third guilty verdict was handed down yesterday by the Savyolovsky District Court of the capital to lawyer Sergei Brovchenko. The court found him guilty of preparing to sell about 2.5 kg of cocaine and sentenced him to six years and seven months in a maximum security colony. This is exactly the amount of time the lawyer has already served in places not so distant since the first verdict in this case was made in 1997.

The Bolshoi Theater is preparing for the premiere of Prokofiev's opera War and Peace, staged by Pyotr Fomenko's student Ivan Popovsky, but without Mstislav Rostropovich at the helm. The premiere has been postponed from December 6 to December 9 and will take place without the participation of the maestro. The theater hopes to maintain friendly relations with Rostropovich and explains that no catastrophe occurs, all working issues are resolved in the same manner and life goes on.

Davis Cup will have a new owner Yesterday in Bratislava the draw for the final match of the Davis Cup Slovakia - Croatia, which starts here today, took place. Karol Beck and Ivan Ljubicic will be the first to take to the court, followed by the match between Dominik Hrbaty and Mario Ancic. The doubles match will take place on Saturday. The hosts have Bek and Mikhail Mertinak, the guests have Ancic and Ljubicic.