World football as a global business project puts humanity's favorite game under the threat of becoming a transnational corrupt corporation. Simply put, the Champions League can become a corporate championship of five, six or eight world football oligarchs, who, through figureheads, own a network of the world's leading clubs. Football officials at the highest ranks have begun to recognize this danger.

Technical Director of RAO UES Boris Vainzikher heads Power Machines RAO UES of Russia has practically taken under its operational control the activities of the country's largest manufacturer of power engineering equipment - the Power Machines concern.

Alexander Koptsev was convicted again of attempted murder and, for the first time, of inciting ethnic hatred Last Friday, the Moscow City Court announced the verdict of anti-Semite Alexander Koptsev, who carried out a massacre in a Moscow synagogue in January of this year. Unlike the first verdict this spring, when Koptsev was found guilty only of attempted murder of synagogue parishioners and received 13 years in a maximum security colony for this, the current court decision was more severe.

This week the European Championships will be held in Moscow. Vremya Novostey correspondent Olga ERMOLINA visited a sports base in Novogorsk near Moscow, where she talked with one of the two Russian women who will compete for the title of absolute European champion, winner and prize-winner of the World Cup and Grand Prix stages, Vera SESINA. - Vera, what task do you set for yourself at this championship? - To perform consistently, show a good result and so that my coach is satisfied.

Our basketball players defeated the Czech Republic without the American Holden The Russian men's team, led by David Blatt, successfully completed the qualifying round for the 2007 European Championship. Thanks to an away victory over the Czech Republic in the city of Opava - 68:55, our team took first place in Group C and received a ticket to Spain. The official debut of an Israeli with an American passport as head coach of the national team can be considered satisfactory.

Our breath can save humanity from an energy crisis For modern energy, carbon remains the most important chemical element: it is the combustion of its compounds (hydrocarbons or coal - carbon in its pure form) that provides humanity with the majority of energy. However, the reserves of fossil fuels, alas, are not endless: sooner or later, we will apparently pump out all the oil and all the gas, extract all the coal seams and develop all the peat and shale deposits.

The Israeli Prime Minister is ready to fulfill Vladimir Putin's dream In the near future, Vladimir Putin’s dream of returning to Russia the famous Sergievsky Metochion in Jerusalem, which the president not by chance visited during his first official visit to Israel in April 2005, may come true. As Vremya Novostei learned, negotiations on this between Israel and Russia, which have been going on for many years, have entered the final stage.

The festival “New Drama 2006” has begun The entire Center named after Vs. Meyerhold, from the doors in the elevator to the mirror in the toilet, is now painted with some kind of whitish, hopefully easily washed off rubbish. Everywhere you look, everything is scribbled crookedly: “Drummer Wanted”, “Big Grub”, “Chernobyl Prayer” and much more: as if a teenager, stupefied with boredom, had been hanging around here all day.

CLUBS Yuri Norshtein. The world's most famous domestic animator, the creator of the legendary Hedgehog in the Fog and Tale of Tales, will present his book Hedgehog in the Fog and talk with guests about how and why he makes his films. “OGI Project” , 19.00. Alexander Tatarsky. This Monday has truly become Animator's Day for Moscow clubs.

Most of the European territory of Russia will remain in the field of high pressure, which forms an anticyclone. Along its western edge, warmer air will flow to the northwest, into the central region and the Black Earth Region, which gives hope for an increase in temperature. The weather is also improving in the north-west of European Russia. Warmth is returning to the middle zone, although the coming night is still cold, in the central regions no higher than +3...+9оС.

China is displacing Russia from its leading position in the SCO Following the anniversary meeting of the heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), held in Shanghai in June, its fifth anniversary was celebrated last Friday in Dushanbe by the prime ministers of Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan (Uzbekistan was represented by Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Azimov).

Interros again failed to sell an electric power asset the first time The head of Interros, Vladimir Potanin (pictured) , has had no luck in recent years with the sale of electricity-related assets to foreign companies. In 2004, he failed to sell a controlling stake in the power engineering company Power Machines to the German concern Siemens, and last Friday it became known that the Finnish Fortum refused to buy a 24.8% stake in Kolenergo from Norilsk Nickel, which is part of Interros.

Last Friday, the RTS and MICEX resumed trading in Transneft preferred shares after a four-month break. The decision to start trading was made after the settlement depositories of the exchanges - the Depository Clearing Company and the National Depository Center, as well as the registrar of the company "R.O.S.T." received official letters from the General Prosecutor's Office informing about the lifting of the seizure imposed on May 6, 2006 on Transneft's papers.

The XIV Conference of Heads of State and Government of the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), uniting 118 states, ended in Havana on Saturday. Fidel Castro never appeared at the forum; he was replaced by the acting commander, brother Raul Castro. The 92-page declaration adopted by the forum became the NAM program for three years.

Rosregistration continues to clear the political field of “extra” players Eight political parties did not comply with legal requirements and did not confirm the presence of the required number of their supporters. Alexey Zhafyarov, head of the department for political parties, registration of religious public and other organizations of the Federal Registration Service (Rosregistration), announced this at a press conference on Friday.