Well-known commentator Vasily Utkin does not consider it possible for the Russian team to win the World Cup. The journalist also shared his opinion about the head coach of the national team, Stanislav Cherchesov, whom he criticized earlier. - World Cup 2018: Schedule and results of matches “The Russian national team will never become world champion. Maybe someday they will, but you need to treat it this way. If this suddenly happens, it will be something that should never have happened.

The famous Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon became a Paris Saint-Germain player, signing a one-year contract with the possibility of extending the employment agreement for another season, according to the official website of the football club from the French capital. “I feel happy about signing the contract,” said 40-year-old Buffon. “For the first time in my career I left Italy. Only such an ambitious project as PSG’s prompted me to make such a decision.

Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovich arrived on July 7 a charter flight in Sochi, where at 21:00 on Saturday a quarter-final match of the World Cup between the national teams of Russia and Croatia will take place. As one of the flight passengers said at RIA Novosti at RIA Novosti , the head of Croatia flew in the same plane with fans. - World Cup 2018: Schedule and results of matches “She flew with us on an airplane, was in the T -shirt of our team.

The St. Petersburg tour operator "Aurora BG" announced the suspension of its activity. Earlier this week, two more tour operators announced the same thing. “Starting from 06/06/2018, our company stops selling tourism services,” wrote Aurora -BG LLC on his website on Friday, July 6. At the same time, the company promises to serve tourists already on vacation.

The American basketball player Tyler Hanicatt, who played for the Khimki near Moscow in the seasons of 2015/2016 and 2017 and 2017/2018, died in a shootout with the police in the state of California, RIA Novosti said a source familiar with the situation. According to ABC , the mother of the basketball player called the police and complained about the strange behavior of her son.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev and President of Croatia Colbond Grabar-Kitarovich together will watch the match Russia-Croatia of one fourth final of the World Cup. The game will be held on Saturday at the Sochi stadium "Fisht".

Forward Club of the National Hockey League "Washington" Russian Alexander Ovechkin introduced the Stanley Cup to fans in the capital's fan zone of the World Cup on the Sparrow Hills. Several thousand fans lined up to look at the trophy, reports TASS. After the arrival of Ovechkin, accompanied by guards, under the chanting of Ovi, Ovi, he carried the Cup to a specially equipped stage and put up a trophy against the backdrop of Borda with his name, surname and autograph.

Former captain of the Croatian national team and Shakhtar Donetsk Darijo Srna reminded fans of the Croatian victory over the British in 2007, which allowed the Russian national team to qualify for Euro 2008. - World Cup 2018: Schedule and results of matches Then, in the qualifying tournament match, the Croatian national team, which had already guaranteed itself access to the final stage, beat the English national team away with a score of 3:2.

The head of the fire extinguishing service of the first detachment of the federal fire service of the Kemerovo region, Andrei Bursin, who was the first to arrive at the scene of a fire in the Winter Cherry shopping center, where 60 people died, became involved in a criminal case of negligence.

Former Minister of Health of Dagestan Tanka Ibragimov, who left his post in April 2018, was detained in his own house in Makhachkala, a source in the security forces of Dagestan told TASS on July 7. “On Saturday morning, security forces came with searches to Ibragimov’s house and detained him,” the agency’s interlocutor said. According to him, Ibragimov is suspected of embezzling budget funds allocated for the purchase of medical equipment.

In Moscow, a car hit Soviet dissident Sergei Grigoryants, Ekho Moskvy reported on July 7, citing the victim. According to Grigoryants, the car ran over his leg and disappeared. In a radio commentary, the 77-year-old human rights activist said that the incident could have been deliberately staged. Grigoryants noted that this accident prevented him from working on three new books.

The collapse of the Airbus A320 aircraft of the EGYPTAIR airline in the spring of 2016 was probably caused by a fire in the crew cab, the experts of the French Bureau of Investigation and Analysis of Civil Aviation (Bea) said . Bea noted that on records from on -board self -writings one can hear the pilots speak of a fire recorded by smoke sensors. The flame quickly spread throughout the plane.

The police of the Finnish region Ity-Uusima detained at Helsinki-Wantaa Airport on Saturday, July 7, a group of people suspected that they arrived in Finland to participate in a mass fight. This was reported on the website of the department. "The police detained a suspicious group of people in the morning on Saturday, whose purpose, obviously, was to participate in a mass fight in Big Helsinki," the report said.

The Russian team on the official page on the social network Twitter turned to fans before the quarterfinal match of the home football championship with the national team of Croatia. - World Cup 2018: Schedule and results of matches “Friends, we really want to extend our stay at the World Cup and do everything possible for this! We promise to give all the best, give everything more and even more for the victory! We are inspired by your support, you are the best fans in the world!

“The Tretyakov Gallery launched a very strange campaign. For some reason they declared “illegal excursions” their main enemies, and they also classify as such any groups discussing the exhibits on display,” the public figure writes on his Facebook page. “If I’m not mistaken, the Tretyakov Gallery is not a private collection, but a state institution that draws its funds from our taxes and donations.