BASKETBALL. January 31st. FIBA European Cup. 6th, final round of the 2nd group stage. FIBA Euroleague. Women. 1/8 finals. First matches. January 31 - February 2. Euroleague ULEB. 13th round. January 31 - February 1. ULEB Cup. 1/8 finals. First matches. February 4-5. Super League. Men. In the penultimate round of the first group stage of the ULEB Euroleague, the capital's army team will host the Turkish Ulker on Wednesday.

The traditional ceremony of awarding the laureates of the year took place The Golden Basket ceremony, organized by the Russian Basketball Federation (RFB), took place in Moscow, at which prizes were awarded to the 2005 laureates. The best basketball players and coaches in the country, who were voted on by the Super League clubs, received their awards. In total, winners were announced in a dozen nominations.

Mittal Steel tries to take over Arcelor Indian native Lakshmi Mittal, owner of the world's largest metallurgical company Mittal Steel, who recently bought the large Ukrainian plant Krivorozhstal, decided to further enlarge his empire. Last Friday, his company published an offer to buy the world's second largest and Europe's largest metallurgical company - the Luxembourg-based Arcelor Group, formed four years ago by merging three leading European metallurgical concerns. Mr.

Exhibitions of classics of nonconformism A new Moscow exhibition space dedicated to contemporary art was opened by Elena Berezkina’s Era Foundation on Trubnikovsky Lane.

Another cinematic award has found its winners We now have so many film awards that the question of their fairness, legality, objectivity, etc. removes itself. Everyone is free to choose what he likes - some butt, and some pork cartilage. Moreover, there are no complaints - there are no comrades’ tastes and colors, we have pluralism and equality of opinions. Depending on which side you look at...

Next week, the Democratic Union of Kosovo (DUK) will present its candidate for the post of regional president. According to the constitution, it is this party, which won the last elections, that is authorized to propose to parliament a successor to Ibrahim Rugova, who died on January 21. According to preliminary information, the DSK is considering its 54-year-old general secretary and member of the regional parliament, Fatmir Sejdiu, as president.

Finnish President Tarja Halonen, 62, was re-elected for a second term. In the second round of elections held on Sunday, she was supported by 51.9% of voters. Halonen's rival, ex-finance minister Sauli Niinisto, received 48.1% of the vote and has already admitted defeat. In the second round, the activity of Finnish citizens was higher than in the first - over 70% of voters took part in the voting. Halonen was unable to repeat her success of two weeks ago.

Angela Denoke, Denis Shapovalov and the Bolshoi Theater Orchestra A native of Hamburg, Angela Denoke is a woman with the appearance of an angel, who, as you know, is not supposed to be either overtly feminine or strictly masculine. She seems sophisticated and strong, malleable and stubborn. Her voice sounds the same - stern and nervous, flexible, and, if necessary, sharp. Her vocals are like a tree branch, capable, for all its external angularity, of absolutely incredible bends.

CLUBS Carnival in honor of the Year of the Dog. On the occasion of Chinese New Year, DJ Shum will play songs about dogs all evening. Guests are expected to wear dog and dog breeder costumes, dogs on T-shirts and bags, plush and painted dogs. “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 22.00. Big band of Igor Butman. Jazz. "Le Club" , 20.30. "Lamp Ladino". Sephardic songs in original and author's arrangements. “Club on Brestskaya” , 20.00.

Bill Gates hits profits against tuberculosis The world's largest software developer Microsoft Corp. set a new financial record. Last Friday the corporation reported that in the second quarter of the 2005/06 financial year its net profit increased by 5% compared with the same period last year. Thanks to strong sales of personal computers and corresponding high demand for software products, Microsoft earned $3.65 billion (or $0.34 per share).

Last weekend in the city of Montreux the draw for the qualifying round of the European Championship took place, the final part of which will take place in Austria and Switzerland in the summer of 2008. The Russian team was placed in the same group with England, Croatia, Israel, Estonia, Macedonia and Andorra. The best scorer of the last national championship, Moscow striker Dmitry KIRICHENKO, commented on the results of the draw to Vremya Novostey correspondent Andrei VDOVINA.

On February 1, Boris Yeltsin will turn 75 years old. Ironically, they are the same age as Mikhail Gorbachev, another of the most hated plebs and the most important Russian politician of the second half of the 20th century. Do you know what question is on my mind? Why did the Russian president from the pre-war generation turn out to be so much freer and more humane than the president from the post-war generation? And I think I can even guess the reasons.

Perhaps never before the Winter Olympics have our “prize” hopes looked so strange. Of the usual set of events that make you anticipate medals of any value, up to gold, only figure skating remains. At the same time, we do not expect anything or almost nothing in the most medal-intensive event of the Games program - cross-country skiing.

Drivers will be given a year to buy child seats It took the head of government Mikhail Fradkov exactly a month to understand that the members of the cabinet of ministers, who hastily and without broad agreement updated the Traffic Rules, got carried away. Last Friday, during a visit to the Belgorod region, the prime minister admitted that State Duma deputies were right in insisting on suspending some provisions of the new traffic rules.

Major crime boss caught extorting During an attempted kidnapping and extortion of two people, operatives of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central Federal District detained nine armed Dagestanis. Unexpectedly for the detectives themselves, among the attackers was the leader of the Dagestan organized crime group, Grigory Gimbatov, better known under the nickname Grisha Rezany.