Kramnik and Topalov will play again in Holland Last weekend, the first games of the oldest chess tournament, which usually brings together an elite group of participants, were played in Wijk aan Zee. According to a long-standing tradition, competitions in the Dutch town open a series of super tournaments of the year.

The depth of oil refining will be increased at the Kirishi Oil Refinery Surgutneftegaz intends to finally begin construction of a deep oil refining complex at the Kirishi Oil Refinery. The company has been promising to implement this project for more than ten years. A source at Surgutneftegaz told Reuters that the company could sign the corresponding contract for more than $1 billion as early as next week.

Novosibirsk "Red Torch" at the "Golden Mask" Performances in which formal directorial ingenuity is combined with extreme poverty of thought, with the theater’s fundamental reluctance to “talk about the significant and important” (Stanislavsky’s expression), according to my feelings, are becoming more and more numerous.

Bjoerndalen won all three races in Ruhpolding The penultimate stage of the Biathlon World Cup on the track in Ruhpolding (Germany) on the eve of the world championship starting in February was marked by the absolute superiority of Ole Einar Bjoerndalen. As part of the Norwegian team, he first won the relay race, and then, solely through personal efforts, won the sprint and the first mass start this season.

For the third time in a row over the past six months, friendly Serbia has become a happy place for Russian judokas. In the fall of 2006, our team celebrated a double victory in the European Team Cup in Belgrade. In winter, the Russians Alexander Mikhailin and Tea Donguzashvili became the first at the absolute championship of the continent.

Gazprom will release gas from the Beregovoye field to the detriment of gas from the Zapolyarnoye field It seems that problems with increasing gas production are forcing Gazprom to take desperate steps.

Less than a third of Russian energy generation will be available to independent investors The intensification of processes related to the reform of RAO UES allows experts with a high degree of probability to predict its results and draw conclusions.

TENNIS. January 15--21. Australian Open. Melbourne. First week. FOOTBALL. January 20-21. Commonwealth Cup. Moscow. For the first time, a representative from far abroad - the Belgrade club OFK - will perform at a traditional tournament with the participation of teams from the countries of the former USSR. Russian champion CSKA will perform in the tournament as a backup team. At the first stage, 16 teams are divided into four quartets. The top two clubs from each group advance to the playoffs.

The Ministry of Natural Resources accused Gazprom of the lack of oil reserves in Eastern Siberia The Ministry of Natural Resources decided to seriously look into why oil companies do not want to invest money in the development of Eastern Siberia and prepare the raw material base for filling the second stage of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean oil pipeline.

Yesterday, the Latvian government approved a bill ratifying the border agreement signed by Russia and Latvia on March 27. All ministers from the coalition People's Party, the Union of Greens and Peasants and the association of the Latvian First Party and Latvijas Tselš voted to submit the bill to the Seimas. Three ministers from the nationalist union TB/DNNL, also part of the government, were against it.

April began with a flurry of basketball records Last week turned out to be extremely rich in various basketball records, achievements and even mystical coincidences. In the Israeli championship match, it took six (!) overtimes to determine the winner; three of the eight meetings in the quarterfinal series of the ULEB Euroleague ended with exactly the same score.

Chronicle of sporting events Football. English Championship. 35th round. Watford - Portsmouth - 4:2, Aston Villa - Wigan - 1:1, Bolton - Everton - 1:1, Fulham - Manchester City - 1:3, Newcastle - Arsenal - 0:0, Charlton - Reading - 0:0. Leading : Manchester United - 78 points, Chelsea - 75, Liverpool - 60. While the top three are playing in the Champions League, matches of the 33rd round took place in the English Premier League.

Yesterday in East Timor, partial preliminary results of the presidential elections held on April 9, in which over half a million citizens took part, became known. The final result will be announced next week. Eight candidates ran for the presidency.

Prefectural officials got it for their inability to quickly deal with complaints from Muscovites Despite the fact that residents of the capital will not elect a mayor and information has already appeared that Yuri Luzhkov intends to enlist the president’s support ahead of schedule in order to remain at the head of Moscow for another term, the mayor clearly does not want to lose his loyal electorate.

The expulsion of foreigners from markets has led to rising prices and reduced trade volumes The complete ban on foreigners trading in markets , introduced by the Russian authorities on April 1, led to the consequences that unbiased observers unanimously spoke about. The government's attempts to establish a “new order” in agricultural markets , while somehow avoiding a reduction in the quantity of products sold and rising prices, do not yet seem to lead to the desired result.