August 11, 2011, 11:01 a.m. Sport Meira is close to joining Zaragoza Zenit defender Fernando Meira is close to moving to Zaragoza. According to Record , the 33-year-old footballer is currently in the final stages of negotiations with the Spaniards. It is expected that Meira could sign a contract with Zaragoza as early as Thursday. The Portuguese's current agreement with the Russian champions expires at the end of 2011.

One of the most important attractions of New York - the Statue of Liberty - will be closed to the public for a year from October this year, writes the New York Times . As US Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar said , the closure of the statue is due to the fact that its security systems need repairs. It is planned that $27 million will be allocated from the US budget for the reconstruction of the monument.

Germany's largest energy company E.On will be forced to cut 11 thousand jobs due to the country's authorities' decision to abandon nuclear energy, the Guardian newspaper writes . This is approximately 14% of the concern's total number of employees. The German government's intentions have already had an impact on E.On's business. In the second quarter of 2011, the company suffered losses of €383 million, which was the first quarterly loss in the entire history of the concern.

11 August 2011, 09:09 Sport Semshov: every season he received offers from Spartak Midfielder of Dynamo Moscow and the Russian national team Igor Semshov said that during his career he received the most offers from the capital's Spartak. “Spartak had the most offers,” Semshov told SE . — Almost every season. The last time was before leaving for St. Petersburg.

This coming weekend the weather in Moscow and the Moscow region will improve. The heavy heavy rains that began in the middle of the week will finally end, Gazeta.Ru was told at the Phobos center . According to meteorologists, on Wednesday and Thursday night alone, the weekly norm of precipitation fell in Moscow - 15 mm, in the region - 25 mm (however, the daily maximum rainfall in the capital, amounting to 21 mm, was not exceeded).

— 11.08.2011 14:55 — Gershkovich: the coach-club contract will make football cleaner A new standard “coach-club” contract will help cleanse Russian football from unscrupulous actions of club leaders, said Mikhail Gershkovich, chairman of the Association of Russian Football Coaches.

The Arkhangelskoye Estate Museum will sue the Russian Ministry of Defense over a plot of land included in the protected zone of the monument. A statement from the Federal State Institution "State Museum-Estate "Arkhangelskoye" with a demand to cancel the order of the military department to appoint a tender for the sale of this site was received by the Moscow Arbitration Court on August 10.

11 August 2011, 00:51 Sport Blokhin: after two baths and one training session the team looked decent Head coach of the Ukrainian national team Oleg Blokhin commented on the defeat in a friendly match with the Swedish team ( 0:1 ). “Overall, I'm satisfied with the game. Why? Because after two baths and one training session the team looked decent, ” Dynamo Kiev from Shurik quotes Blokhin .

August 11, 2011, 10:01 a.m. Sport Dynamo Tbilisi acquired a fourth Spaniard After the arrival of Catalan Alex Garcia as the head coach of Dynamo Tbilisi, the club acquired four players from Spain: after Xisco (Levante), Coto (Anorthosis) and Jacquet Jimenez (Leonesa), the 29-year-old signed a 2-year contract. summer Basque midfielder Miguel Alvaro Salazar, who came from Numancia, reports SE .

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin , who descended to the bottom of the Taman Bay, is in fact only imitating Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili , Georgian media say. Putin on Wednesday, while visiting an archaeological site on the site of the ancient Greek city of Phanagoria, sank to the bottom of the Taman Bay , from where he picked up two amphorae from approximately the sixth century AD. According to the prime minister, he discovered the amphorae at a depth of about two meters.

INTERNET A malware that blocks the antivirus and can steal money is rapidly spreading on Facebook. Most of the victims were among Russian-speaking users in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. A malware is spreading around the world on the social network Facebook. The Trojan loader program Win32/Delf.QCZ penetrates the user’s computer through a social network chat, analysts from the antivirus software manufacturer Eset have found out.

CRIME alyus2101 “It was previously reported that Ivanchenko and Maria Shkarupa were probably lovers” - Do journalists even sometimes read what they write? They constantly insisted that “Ivanchenko was the common-law husband of 35-year-old Maria Shkarupa.” And now there are only “lovers”. How Topic A comment gercen75 (no subject) I don’t understand anything: the suspect’s girlfriend said that he had an alibi—he was in Moscow that day. Where is the truth?

The science Two explanations have been proposed for the slowdown in the growth of methane concentrations in the atmosphere Two independent groups of scientists from the same department of an American university have proposed opposing explanations for the mysterious slowdown in the growth of methane concentrations in the Earth's atmosphere over the past 30 years: the authors of papers published in the journal Nature disagree on whether this slowdown is due to a decrease in emissions from human

Several unknown men in masks and camouflage shot a 53-year-old resident of Nazran in the courtyard of his house, a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia said. “Three or four unknown persons in masks and camouflage drove up to the yard of Nazran resident Kokurkhoev in a silver VAZ-2114 car and opened fire on the owner of the household with firearms,” he said. The source noted that Kokurkhoev died on the spot from his injuries. The attack took place on Wednesday evening.

A memorandum of cooperation was signed on Thursday in the city of Gori between the local house-museum of Joseph Stalin and the Mao Zedong Memorial Museum in the village of Shaoshan, where Mao Zedong was born, Interfax reports. The agreement provides for the exchange of delegations and the holding of traveling exhibitions dedicated to the life and work of Stalin and Mao Zedong, Robert Maglakelidze, director of the Stalin House Museum in Gori, told reporters after signing the memorandum.