Chronicle of sporting events Basketball. NBA. Regular season . Atlanta - Dallas - 97:104, Milwaukee - Detroit - 95:121, Indiana - Chicago - 90:92, Minnesota - Portland -- 94:93, Sacramento -- Phoenix -- 107:100, Seattle -- San Antonio -- 79:120, Lakers -- Golden State -- 115:113. Kobe Bryant failed to break the record of Wilt Chamberlain, who in December 1961 had a streak of seven consecutive games in which he scored 50 or more points.

The sale of assets of bankrupt Yukos begins The second, main round of the sale of Yukos assets begins today. His first lot is 9.44% of Rosneft shares and 12 Yuganskneftegaz promissory notes worth 3.558 billion rubles. Two years, three months and eight days have passed since the day of the memorable auction, when 100% of the ordinary shares of Yuganskneftegaz were purchased by Baikalfinancegroup . As then, everyone understands: the purchase will be made in the interests of the state structure.

In a few days it will become clear who got Endesa The struggle of the German concern E.ON for the ownership of the largest Spanish electricity company Endesa, which has been going on for more than a year, is becoming increasingly fierce. E.ON and other contenders began a price race, and the German concern was forced to go to court. At the end of last week, E.ON raised its offer to Endesa shareholders to 40 euros per share.

On Tuesday, most of the European territory of Russia will remain under the supervision of an anticyclone, the center of which will finally move southeast from the Baltic. Cold winds blow along its eastern edge, which continue to carry cold air into the eastern half of the European territory, which means that night frosts cannot be avoided, and negative temperatures during the day are not excluded.

These are the results of the World Programming Championship Simultaneously with the Hannover CeBIT exhibition, another very important IT event took place in Tokyo - the International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), the final of the world programming championship among student teams. The event is held under the auspices of ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) and with the support of IBM.

Russia and Latvia will finally sign a border agreement Today, in the difficult history of Russian-Latvian relations, a long-awaited historical event will occur. Prime Ministers of Russia and Latvia Mikhail Fradkov and Aigar Kalvitis will sign the long-suffering border agreement, which Moscow and Riga could not conclude for a decade and a half. The ceremony will take place in the Russian government building.

Gavin Pretor-Pinney. Entertaining cloud science. A Cloud Lover's Primer. M.: Gayatri, 2007. The project of the British journalist Gavin Pretor-Pinney at first looked like idle fun: an adult and seemingly busy man organized the Society of Cloud Lovers, registered the corresponding website on the Internet (www.cloudappreciationsociety.org ) and began to wait, when a crowd of madmen with membership fees in their pockets flocks to his idea.

The current law “On Technical Regulation” slows down the growth of industry The progress of technical regulation reform was discussed at a meeting of the Expert Council on Metallurgy and Mining (its members include State Duma deputies, representatives of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation and the scientific community).

The leaders of the two countries opened the Year of China in Russia Yesterday in Moscow, Vladimir Putin held talks with the Chairman of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao, as part of the beginning of the Year of the People's Republic of China in Russia. Judging by the number of documents signed yesterday in the Kremlin, the Year of China in Russia promises to be very eventful .

Rosprirodnadzor accuses ALROSA of violating licenses for the development of small deposits Rosprirodnadzor has found another field where ALROSA does not comply with the terms of the license agreements . Last Thursday, the control agency filed claims against the diamond monopoly for failure to fulfill license obligations for the geological study and development of the Dalnyaya kimberlite pipe in Yakutia.

The agency is ready to trade with banks The Deposit Insurance Agency, it seems, does not have enough powers as a liquidator of banks and an organizer of insurance compensation payments. The other day, the head of the DIA, Alexander Turbanov, announced his readiness to participate in the Banking Supervision Committee of the Central Bank, and yesterday the agency proposed revolutionary changes to the procedure for selling the property of bankrupt banks.

Incredbank was the first to set the commission for money transfers below 1%. The bank announced that from its offices using the Leader system it is possible to send transfers in rubles throughout Russia, as well as to Armenia in dollars, euros and rubles for only 0.95% of the transfer amount. Experts estimate the potential of the market for money transfers to CIS countries at $10 billion.

Clergy lobby for the introduction of public censorship in the country Russia's traditional confessions support the initiative of the Russian Orthodox Old Believer Church (ROSC) to create a public mechanism to limit immorality in the media, but they still disagree on the form of such control.

On March 19, Vremya Novostey published an article “The Bone Footstool,” which urgently raised the issue of providing disabled people with the necessary prostheses and talked about why prosthetic and orthopedic enterprises that manufacture these products are idle. We asked Galina Nikolaevna KARELOV, Chairman of the Social Insurance Fund of the Russian Federation, to comment on the situation.

Egypt toughens fight against religious extremism Despite the low turnout, yesterday's referendum in Egypt to change the constitution adopted in 1971 can be considered a success, since a simple majority of votes was enough for this. If the amendments are adopted, Egyptians will say goodbye to the times when, at the instigation of the Soviet Union, the word “socialism” was fashionable in third world countries.