On Wednesday, the composition of the semifinal couples of the Champions Football League became known. In the response match of the Champions League quarterfinals, the English Manchester United defeated the German “Bavaria” on his field, but the opponent entered the next circle. The meeting, held in Manchester, ended with the victory of the hosts with a score of 3: 2. After the final whistle, the advantage of Bavaria was recorded, which won the sum of two meetings for more heads at a party.

Since April 5, Ri-de Janeiro does not stop rain, news agencies report. According to meteorologists, the volume of precipitation that has fallen over these days is a record over the past 44 years. About 180 villages caused by rains are registered in the vicinity of the metropolis, hundreds of people died or were injured. Dozens of residential quarters are flooded, the Marakan River emerged from the shores and the area where the well -known stadium is located, accommodating 87101 people.

Presidential Assistant Arkady Dvorkovich announced the need to change social policy. Speaking at the International Conference, he said that “do not deceive themselves that people are not ready to increase the retirement age,” reports Echo of Moscow .

Twel OJSC (part of the State Corporation Rosatom) and Slovak power plants signed a long -term contract for the provision of Slovak -3 and 4 NPPs of Mokhovtse, Russian nuclear fuel nuclear power plants. The terms of the contract concluded for the period from 2012 to 2017 provide for the supply of two initial zones and five overload batches for each of the power units.

The Russian Football Union has developed a code of honor of Russian football. The text is published on the Official website of the RFU. “Russian football enters the new phase. You can achieve victorious results with the most important thing - the Code of honor of the Russian Football Union. If we want to be the best, all participants in our football space must adopt the Code and bring it to life. Russia - champion!” The president of the organization Sergei Fursenko said.

Oh, a beautiful city of Bishkek! Marauders wandered through the streets on April 7-8, shootings were heard (that is, eyewitnesses saw them, heard, shot and told us). The battles of the epic Kyrgyz heroes ended in arson of government buildings and even the plunder of the Museum of Fine Arts. What is happening there? Anti -Orange Revolution? Bakiev went too far with a stick with repression and the people rebelled? Is the poor, dysfunctional country tired of poverty and clanity?

Recently, the news was held on the media: scientists have proved that the cause of extinction of dinosaurs 65 million years ago was the fall of a large meteorite of asteroid. And not some, but precisely the same, from which the 180-kilometer crater of the chicksulub on the Yukatan Peninsula and the sea shelf adjacent to it. In any case, this is the conclusion of a collective article published in one of the most authoritative international scientific journals - Science.

The research group Zircon conducted surveys of the population of the Leningrad and Murmansk regions about the attitude to nuclear energy. According to the results of the study, the general attitude of the inhabitants of the Leningrad Region and St. Petersburg to the development of atomic energy is, although not homogeneous, but largely positive.

In the novel by Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, the protagonist Lemuel Gulliver makes four fascinating travels. Each time sailing from a very specific, really existing on the map of the port city, he suddenly falls into outlandish countries. At first, he finds himself in Liliputia, where tiny people live, and all surrounding objects are 12 times less than usual. Then he enters the state of Brobdingneg, populated, on the contrary, by giants.

The Public Chamber will take control of the situation with the corruption scandal at Daimler and initiate an appeal to the prosecutor's office, Elena Lukyanova, a member of the RF OP, reported on the Russian News Service radio. “The corruption scandal with Daimler and the lack of reaction from the investigative authorities of Russia is extremely strange.

The host of the Provigrysh program on the first Valdis Pelsh underwent surgery. After surgical intervention, the TV presenter was taken to intensive care and only a day later was transferred to the therapeutic department. Valdis turned into one of the capital's clinics a few days ago. The TV presenter had complications after a recently suffered serious chronic disease. Treatment required surgical intervention.

We publish a decoding of the lecture of the historian and theorist of art, founder and director of the scientific center of Eastern Christian culture Alexei Lidov , read on February 11, 2010 at the Polytechnic Museum as part of the Public Lectures of Polit.ru . See also: Hierotopia. Creation of sacred spaces as a type of artistic creation Text of the lecture Alexey Lidov. Photo by Natasha Chetverikova Good evening, dear friends and colleagues.

In Moscow, unknown people committed an armed attack on the exchange of currencies, reports Gazeta.Ru with reference to the news agency. As a result of the attack, one person died, and two were injured. "According to preliminary data, in an exchanger located in house 9 on Krasnaya Presnya Street, unknown people burst and opened shooting," a source in law enforcement agencies said. Now the operational-investigation group is working at the scene, the building itself is cordoned off.

The Investigative Committee completed the criminal investigation against a native of Chechnya of 24-year-old Khavazh Yusupov, accused of attempted murder of Isa Yamadayev. The investigation found that in May 2009, Yusupov promised his friends to kill Yamadayev for $ 3 million for $ 3 million. To do this, he arrived in the city of Odintsovo, Moscow Region, where he illegally acquired and kept firearms.

In Bishkek, armed looters defeated the Gapara Iitiev Museum of Fine Arts. This was reported by 24.kg by its director Lawstalk Shigaev. “Young people of sports physique, armed with batons and stones, defeated and plundered the museum, they made several paintings representing particular value,” he said. Lawstack Shigaev noted that neither the police officers nor the opposition leaders, to whom he appealed for help, did not respond. The looting of the museum continues.