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.

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.

Chronicle of sporting events Football. German Championship. 4th round. "Alemannia" - "Borussia" M - 4:2, "Arminia" - "Bayern" - 2:1, "Energie" - "Mainz" - 2:0, "Borussia" D - " Hamburg - 1:0, Nuremberg - Bochum - 1:1, Werder - Stuttgart - 2:3. The leaders are: Nuremberg - 8 points (4 matches), Schalke - 7 (3), Bayern, Energie, Borussia D - 7 (4) each. Bayern Munich unexpectedly lost another match of the German championship. The permanent leader of the Bundesliga lost to the modest Arminia - 1:2.

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.

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).

The difficult legacy of journalist Fallaci On Friday night, the famous Italian journalist and writer Oriana Fallaci (pictured) died in her native Florence. She had cancer, but, true to her proud and unbending character, she fought the disease to the last. Oriana spent a lot of time in New York, but decided to meet death at home. Fallaci, born in 1929, joined the underground resistance movement “Justice and Freedom” during the Second World War.

Eris stood up fierce, igniting abuse... Iliad, XX, 46--47 The International Astronomical Union, showing remarkable irony, immortalized on the diagram of the Solar System a big quarrel that recently happened in this respected scientific community. After the IAU Prague Congress reluctantly excluded Pluto from the list of full-fledged planets at the end of August, many astronomers publicly and very loudly expressed their extreme indignation.

FOOTBALL. Russian Cup. September 19-20. 1/16 finals. Return matches . Russian Championship. Premier League. 20th round. September 23. CSKA - Lokomotiv, Spartak M - Rubin, Rostov - Dynamo. September 24. “Saturn” - “Tom”, “Amkar” - “Shinnik”, “Wings of the Soviets” - “Torpedo”, “Luch-Energia” - “Zenith”, “Spartak” Nch - “Moscow”.

The Islamic Republic buys five Russian aircraft A preliminary agreement for the sale of five Tu-204 passenger aircraft to Iran was concluded last Saturday by the leasing company Ilyushin Finance Co (IFK). Unlike other export deals with domestic aircraft that IFC organized in 2005 and 2006, the upcoming Iranian contract does not involve the provision of government financial guarantees from the Russian side.

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.