The absence of the Russian team at the World Championships in South Africa has created a miracle: broadcasting of matches and discussion of the championship in various programs look with particular pleasure. Commentators and experts, freed from the need to stigmatize opponents and sing praises to their native team, are engaged in pure football, without patriotic admixtures, and this fact makes the current World Cup especially attractive to fans.

Better to play than fight For a political journalist, the World Cup is, on the one hand, on the one hand, the opportunity to see how the planet was evolved for an insignificant period of time - 40-50 years. On the other hand, what is happening these days at the stadiums of the South African Republic-this is utopia, the dream of a world that could well be.

The International Economic Forum ended in St. Petersburg In St. Petersburg, another-14th in a row-the International Economic Forum. He gathered almost 2.5 thousand representatives of “political, economic and business elites” in the city on the Neva (as said in the greeting of the forum organizers). The “elite” detachment, landing in the LenExpo building,, however, was not the most numerous of those who flooded the City on the Neva into the weekend.

CONTENT Three views on one country African happiness FIFA World Cup through the eyes of eyewitnesses Dmitry Terekhov, Egor Mostovshchikov Field of Dreams Analysts and lucky ones can make good money on sweepstakes Ilya Barabanov football magic Better to play than to fight Evgenia Albats "Dictatorship is a nightmare for football" Simon Cooper — The New Times Evgenia Albats Billion in one gate FIFA has a good income from the championship Dmitry Dokuchaev Ours in South Africa Players of the

Interethnic clashes in Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan suffered grief, from which the country would not recover soon. The massacre between the Uzbeks and the Kyrgyz in the south of the country, according to official figures, took away the lives of 200 people, according to unofficial, much more believable, who died more than 2 thousand UN counted 275 thousand refugees, of which 80 thousand went to the territory of Uzbekistan, independent observers - almost twice as much.

The head of the Savings Bank of the Russian Federation, German Gref, who was called as a witness in the case of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, said that he was not aware of the theft of 350 million tons of oil, which the ex-head of Yukos is accused of. According to Gref, who in 1998 held the post of First Deputy Minister of State Property, if the theft had taken place, he would have known this fact.

Players of the Russian Championship in the fields of the mundial For the first time, the question is for whom to root for if the Russian national team is not at the Russian Championship - not so painful. Ours in South Africa almost a whole team. 16 players from 12 countries-the member of the mundial represent the Russian Premier League.

The new version of the FSB Law will be followed by amendments to the Criminal Code The new version of the FSB Law will be followed by amendments to the Criminal Code. Legislators will have to determine what citizens will pay for ignoring the warning of special services.

Analysts and lucky ones can make good money on the totalizer Thousands of people around the world hope, having made a successful bet, to get rich quickly. How much is possible to predict the result of a sports match and make money on this? The New Times was looking for the answer from bookmakers and scientists The manager of the bookmaker, Vladimir gave an interview in the break between the halves of the Brazil Match - Severnaya Korea.

FIFA has a good championship income Despite the fact that the Russian team in South Africa did not break through, the Russian state is now fighting in Johannesburg for the right to hold the 2018 World Cup. And there is a very serious financial reson in this: the World Cup-a colossal business project with a budget of $ 3.6 billion. Who will go and how much it will get-the New Times found out Who will win the world championship in South Africa: Brazil? Spain? Argentina? Italy?

World football championship eyes of eyewitnesses 38th minute of the match. Milan Jovanovich scores a victorious goal against the German national team. The world has gone crazy - hundreds of millions of people, despising work, house, the rest of their lives, watch football.