31 August 2011, 12:33 Sport Juventus signs Hamburg midfielder Elia Juventus have announced the acquisition of Hamburg midfielder Eliero Elia. According to the press service of the Turin team, the Dutchman signed a three-year contract with the new team. Hamburg will receive a total of €9 million for the player's transfer: €4 million in the near future, €2.5 million on January 31, 2012 and another €2.5 million on January 31, 2013.

August 31, 2011, 10:12 Business The RTS index rose at the opening of trading on Wednesday At the opening of trading on Wednesday, the RTS Index rose by 0.61% to 1,672.49 points.

August 31, 2011, 11:18 a.m. Sport Buznikin will continue his career in Nizhny Novgorod Forward Maxim Buznikin , who played for Saturn-2 for the first half of the season, will continue his career in Nizhny Novgorod. According to SE , the details of the 34-year-old football player's transfer should be settled on Wednesday.

31 August 2011, 07:42 Sport Wolfsburg midfielder Diego joined Atlético Madrid on loan Atlético Madrid has agreed with Wolfsburg on the loan of midfielder Diego, reports AS . The Brazilian's loan became Madrid's latest acquisition in the summer transfer window. It was previously reported that Atletico Madrid intended to fully buy the player's transfer.

31 August 2011, 19:16 Sport Šimunic moved from Hoffenheim to Dinamo Zagreb 33-year-old Croatian Hoffenheim midfielder Josip Simunic has moved to Dinamo Zagreb, the press service of the German club reports. In addition, Hoffenheim announced the transfer of 22-year-old Freiburg defender Daniel Williams.

Alisher Usmanov and Alexander Mamut are negotiating the sale of part of their stake in the SUP company , writes Kommersant . A source in a large media company told Kommersant that the owners of SUP are negotiating the sale of a stake in the company and was confirmed by two entrepreneurs familiar with Alisher Usmanov.

Almost 1.5 million first-graders will go to Russian schools this year, said Deputy Minister of Education and Science Maxim Dulinov. “There is a demographic improvement; there are 33,000 more first-graders this year than last,” Dulinov said at a press conference in Moscow on Wednesday. In total, 1 million 464 thousand 779 first-graders will go to Russian schools this year. There are more than 47 thousand schools in Russia, 20 of which will not open this year due to unfinished repairs.

31 August 2011, 13:30 Business Mail.ru doubling Mail.ru published a report for six months Petr Kanaev close 100% ITAR-TASS Mail.ru doubled its net profit and income from contextual advertising. The audience of all the company's Internet resources has grown, except ICQ. Users of the messenger go to social networks and Mail.Ru Agent, that is, they remain with Mail.ru, analysts state. Group Corporation Mail.ru reported for the second quarter and first half of 2011.

Singer Beyoncé, who was left without the main awards at the MTV video awards, nevertheless set a new record for posts on the microblogging service Twitter thanks to her appearance on the red carpet before the ceremony - or rather, due to the public announcement that she was expecting a child. Users of the service posted a message about this event 8868 times per second.

31 August 2011, 19:33 Sport Karjakin and Grischuk played a draw in the first games of the second round of the World Championships in chess Russian grandmasters Sergey Karyakin and Alexander Grischuk played a draw in the first games of the second round of the World Chess Cup taking place in Khanty-Mansiysk. Karjakin was unable to beat 17-year-old Filipino Wesley So with white, and Grischuk, who played black, concluded a peace agreement with Frenchman Sebastian Feller.

31 August 2011, 13:32 Society Stripper kicked out of school Anastasia Berseneva In England, a high school teacher was forced to resign when it turned out that in his free time he worked as a stripper and porn model. His behavior, discrediting the position of a teacher, was discussed on Wednesday by the General Council of Teachers of the City of Birmingham.

31 August 2011, 17:58 Cars ZAZ switches to Aveo Zaporozhye Automobile Plant will assemble old Chevrolet Aveo and ZAZ Chance with automatic transmission Mikhail Lobachev (Zaporozhye) close You can view the full gallery in a separate report See photos The last crisis hit the Ukrainian car market harder than the Russian one: car sales fell almost fourfold and are now recovering sluggishly.

It's truly pathetic when you see how heartlessly pundits attack any political project, program or manifesto, no matter who wrote it. The most recent victim is the “Manifesto of a Right Cause. Version 1.0" .

August 31, 2011, 10:43 Science Text size A A A Graphene and plasmonics accelerate the Internet Geim, Novoselov and their colleagues have made a new breakthrough in graphene research Asya Parfenova close 100% Andrey Geim, Konstantin Novoselov and their colleagues have made a new breakthrough in graphene research, this time in the field of photonics and optoelectronics.

August 31, 2011, 3:14 pm Sport Prokhorov: we want to infect the country with biathlon RBU President Mikhail Prokhorov , who visited the biathlon school where Olga Zaitseva was educated on Wednesday , shared his impressions of the trip. “Biathlon schools in our country are in different states,” SE reports Prokhorov’s words . - But, of course, there are a lot of problems.