What the long-time coach of our national team, the legendary Nikolai Karpol, could not achieve in 12 seasons of working with the Russian national team, the Italian coach Giovanni Caprara did - he led his players to the title of world champions. The last time the national team led by Karpol became the strongest on the planet was back in Soviet times - in 1990. Then Irina Kirillova, Caprara’s current wife and his closest assistant in the country’s main team, played for the team as a setter.

Monday, January 1 First 5 . 30 New Year on the First 8 . 30 Laughter, and nothing more 10 . 00, 12.00, 15.00 News 10 . 10 "POOR SASHA." Hood. movie 11 . 30 Yeralash 12 . 10 "Ice Age". Cartoon (S) 13 . 20 New Year's humorous disco 15 . 10 The Adventures of Verka Serduchka 16 . 30 Golden Gramophone (S) 19 . 30 "HARE OVER THE ABYSS". Hood. film (S) 21 . 00 "CARNIVAL NIGHT 2, OR 50 YEARS LATER." Hood. movie 23 . 40 "SPIDER-MAN". Hood. film (S) 1 . 30 New Year's concert 3 .

Since Russia took only fifth place in the team medal standings at the Winter Games in Salt Lake City 2002, the new White Olympics in Turin was expected with understandable anxiety. But reality exceeded all expectations. Our Olympic team not only regained its lost positions in cross-country skiing and speed skating, but also won medals in disciplines that were previously considered not ours - bobsleigh and sleigh.

The Prosecutor General's Office decided to “present” Khodorkovsky, Lebedev and Nevzlin with new charges for the New Year Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev will celebrate the New Year in the Chita pre-trial detention center and “as a gift” will most likely receive the “long-awaited” charge of committing new crimes from the Prosecutor General’s Office.

MOVIE A year ago, everyone was waiting for “Day Watch,” and now, apparently, Nikolai Lebedev’s film “Wolfhound,” based on one of Maria Semyonova’s novels, promises to be a hit movie in the first days of January. Watch the most expensive film in the history of Russian cinema in cinemas from December 28. PREMIERES DECEMBER 28 "Wolfhound" (Russia, 2006). Directed by Nikolai Lebedev.

Oil will cost about $60 per barrel Oil prices split the outgoing year into two halves. During the first half, they stubbornly crawled up on negative news from the Middle East, reaching a historical high of $78 per barrel in mid-August. But already from the beginning of September, prices for “black gold” began to fall steadily, falling back by the end of November to an eighteen-month minimum of $58 per barrel.

Rosneft successfully completed its IPO Rosneft is an instrument of the state and will always serve the achievement of Russia's political goals, and not the interests of shareholders. Is Rosneft ready to include this information in the issue prospectus?” asked billionaire George Soros from the pages of The Financial Times in April. Despite the negative attitude of many Western investors towards this IPO, there were no less than those who bought Rosneft shares.

Having croaked like a raven, howled like a wolf, and distorted, as much as possible, the “objective picture,” I am pleased to present the writers whose works, in my opinion, became the key literary facts of 2006. Sergey Chuprinin Against the rules, I start with a critic. But not only out of love (it doesn’t rust) for the perky workshop, from which it’s time to kick me out. And not at all because Chuprinin’s two-volume “Russian Literature Today” (M., “Vremya”) causes complete delight.

President Gerald Ford dies In the United States, where ex-heads of state are never called former, the death of President Gerald Rudolph Ford was announced at the age of 94. The current occupant of the White House, George W.

The aviation industry has become cramped in Russia The degree of consolidation that the domestic aircraft industry has achieved in the past year has no analogues in the history of the industry.

Alexander Mamut is mastering the Internet and book market Alexander Mamut became the hero of Runet this year. Together with the founder of Afisha magazine, Andrew Paulsen, the co-owner of Ingosstrakh created the Soup company. Soup's first step was a deal with the American company Six Apart, which owns the Internet portal LiveJournal.com - the most popular resource for maintaining online diaries, or blogs.

The former son-in-law of the head of Karachay-Cherkessia was sentenced The Supreme Court of Karachay-Cherkessia (KCR) yesterday completed the announcement of the verdict in the case of Ali Kaitov, the former son-in-law of the President of the Republic Mustafa Batdyev, who, along with 15 of his assistants, was accused of murdering seven Circassian businessmen .

The IOC Evaluation Commission in Sochi will not see any problems A meeting of the coordination council was held in Sochi to prepare the city for the visit of the evaluation commission of the International Olympic Committee. The results of this visit determine whether Sochi will receive the right to host the 2014 Winter Olympics. According to Dmitry Chernyshenko, general director of the Sochi 2014 bid committee, the IOC has already approved a plan for the assessment commission to stay in Sochi.

Mikhail Fradkov considers the results of his government’s work “Malevich’s masterpiece” Yesterday, at a meeting with journalists, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov summed up the results of the outgoing year and spoke about the coming one. In the year of the Golden Pig, Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov could slightly adjust the personal composition of his cabinet with a view to the presence in it of a minister born in the year of this unique animal.

Alexey Kudrin repaid old debts Last year, Russia parted with the debt legacy of the USSR , paying more than $23 billion to the Paris Club creditor countries. For Russia, there is no longer a debt problem. Its external debt now amounts to less than 5% of GDP. Early repayment of debts became possible solely due to rising energy prices, which was truly a gift for a country that had struggled to make ends meet throughout the 90s.