We introduce briefly the principal ideas of a new model approach to th
e copper oxides as to systems of the local bosons moving in a lattice
of the singlet-triplet Jahn-Teller centers. The unconventional propert
ies of the cop per oxides are connected with an active interplay of th
e charge, spin, orbital and local structural modes with taking account
of the strong charge inhomogeneity and multi-granularity.