Rivallo, Ronaldo and the World Cup. Photo Sky News The football ball is a perpetuum mobile of our passions. So again we were convinced how great his power of attraction is. All talk about judges, about conspiracies, about scandals - in the suck. Let us leave ourselves as a reward for the honest performance of the fan's duties only one - actually the game. Let us remember Luis Nazario Ronaldo and the challenge of Oliver Kan. Remember many who gave us this holiday. And of course, our Dima Sychev.

Ronaldinho kisses the World Cup. Photo AP There is a sport that is closer to the war: where the eyebrows are broken, the ears are bitten off and the skulls are broken, where the defeated is carried away from the battlefield. There is a sport that closer to love: where, gently hugging, they slide over the ice to the music of Duval. Football is the pressure of the conqueror and the tremble of Polonyanka.

Anatoly Chubais. Photo from the site www.kp.ru The end of June, the time of long days and short nights, is traditionally a season of misfortunes for the head of the RAO UES Anatoly Chubais. This year, events developed like this.

When I started writing this article, most of all I wanted to repeat the entire article of the previous one - because this year has fully confirmed the conclusions of the past . As usual, the Moscow Festival is divided into two unequal parts: competition and out-of-competition screenings. A class "A" festival, as the MIFF claims to be, has a strong competition - like Gangnam or Venice. But, as we all know, this has never happened in Moscow and is unlikely to happen.