Baltic is Baltic, and Kaliningrad met us notorious «variable overcast». But the cool in the street sharply contrasted with heat in sport centre "Dynamo" hall - the Championship of Europe-2004 on "Pyramid" was in a heat.

On May, 30th, 2004, 15:00, Kaliningrad, sport centre "Dynamo". Tribunes are overflowed – the man's ending for a rank of the Champion of Europe-2004 on a pyramid has begun. There is a master of sports of the international class, the Champion of the world-2001, the owner of a cup of Baltic-2003, twenty years' казахстанец Kanybek Sagyndykov and the Champion of Ukraine, the master of sports, seventeen-year харьковчанин Alexander Palamar. The ending is played to 5 victories.

From April, 8 till April, 11th in Moscow in the Palace of combat sports of CSKA has passed the first open tournament on Russian billiards on a prize of "the Russian newspaper». The spectators who have come on tournament, gripping show with participation of known Russian sportsmen to which hard struggle was coming expected. Besides the basic action within the limits of tournament not less interesting action which is worthy – minitournament with participation of celebrities, stars of the Russian screen of Leonid Yarmolnik, Boris Hmelnitskogo, Sergey Nikonenko and the head of Federal agency on physical training, sports and Vyacheslav Fetisova's tourism has taken place.

The new Champion of Europe has appeared smiling and opened. And only now, when pressure of uneasy final day slept, and from his face the detachment mask – the press of enormous concentration has left, - it became clear that it is still very young. At hotel "Baltic" restaurant the farewell banquet rustled. But the majority of participants of just come to the end championship already have escaped in extensive enough billiard hall. There I also have reminded Kanibeku Sagyndykovu of the promised exclusive interview. And all the day long dexterously avoiding my colleagues, the owner of a cup of Europe-2004 has smiled and has postponed кий: «Time promised …»

Not the secret that success does not come in itself. In sports, as well as in any business, he is given by patience, diligence, will power, love to the business and huge desire to win. In sports career eighteen-year Anastasii Luppovoj it is possible to name last two years safely successful: it has strongly entered into the five of the best billiard-players of Russia …

With. P.Nikonenko - the National actor of Russia (1991), the winner of the award of Lenin Komsomol (1976), the gentleman of an award of Honour (1971), A.P.Dovzhenko's (1987) medals, the owner of a prize of a film festival "Constellation" in Tver (1999) for the best main man's role in a film "Classic", the owner of the main prize of festival in Oberhausen (Germany) for the best degree director's work - a film "Petruhina a surname". Is a member of the Union of cinematographers since 1968.
Lives and works in Moscow.
(From the biography)

With the main organizer of the championship, Igor Aleksandrovichem Barskovym, we have met already in Moscow. But also after almost week, whether on a question will co-operate with our magazine headed by it the International committee on a pyramid, Kaliningrad and Moscow ФБС he has answered:
- I still live this championship, I dispatch letters of thanks, diplomas to our partners so allow to take rest a little. And we will co-operate necessarily.
And, having transferred to the assistant infinitely calling cellular, has told, how all for half a year was prepared by this grandiose holiday of Russian billiards. And about plans for the future

In March 2004г. In St.-Petersburg the European championship on artistic billiards has taken place. The strongest billiard-players of the world have taken part in it: Ralf Ekkert (Germany), Stefano Pelinga (Italy), Jim Sommer (Denmark), Bogdan Volkovski (Poland), Lukash Shivala (Poland), Sergey Vaskovsky (Ukraine), Michael Mosin (Russia), Maxim Stalev (Russia), Arcady Loshakov (Russia).

In the end of March - the beginning of April in Las Vegas (USA) there has passed II Congress of the World conference of billiard sports (WCBS). The first vice-president ФБСР Vladimir Pavlovich Nikiforov and the director of a direction have taken part In its work "pool" ФБСР, vice-president ФБС of Petersburg, the master of sports Alexander Nikolaevich Puhlenko.

Each sportsman or the fan especially thinks much of the favourite kind of sports. How many delight and satisfaction when "my" kind of sports include in the program of Olympic games – the highest and significant competitions in the world. And as the disappointment if it does not happen is great. After all, as a matter of fact – any kind of sports is not better and is not worse than others. Simply they – different. As people.