Last week, Donetsk "Shakhtar" dramatically flew out of the Champions League, losing at home to the Portuguese "Benfica". The club, apparently, was not at all ready for such a result: the next day after the match, grandiose events were planned - the presentation of the new brand of the club.

The London-Manchester train is packed with people from the suburbs in knee-high tracksuits. It is quiet in the car, someone is napping, someone is reading, someone is quietly discussing the impending weekend. At one of the stations, a young man flies into the car with screams and screams. "I'm Tommas-fakkin-Martin," he introduces himself. "And I'm off to see the fucking Sex Pistols!" Wow, me too, - but I prudently keep quiet.

This weekend, the English Premier League will host the first super match of the winter - the most important and eventful - segment of the season: Arsenal - Chelsea. The teams seem to have switched roles: the Gunners will take the field as a stable, almost incapable of losing leader, the Blues as a team dreaming of spectacular football.

A small room in one of the opposition headquarters on the outskirts of the greater Caracas was crowded with many television cameras. Several young people with slightly frightened but determined faces solemnly took off their red T-shirts with a portrait of Hugo Chavez and put on white ones with the symbols of the opposition. In this clear way, exactly a year ago, on the eve of the presidential elections in Venezuela, several young supporters of the president demonstratively abandoned their idol.

Dear reader! The elections have only just begun - and it's not even the point that after the Duma elections the presidential ones are coming. The selection of candidates for successors is being completed this week, and Four Hands is fighting for the chair of the “technical president”. Compromising evidence on Kudrin's team, then on Sechin's "power block" are thrown out to the public, and the prosecutor's office competes with the Investigation Department.

The skin of the winning bear The teacher of history from the village of Nokhch-Kaloi Makhluk Salamova recently brought ten bags of cereals. They unloaded in the yard and said: "This is in honor of the holiday - the president of Chechnya was born." So Makhluk learned about the event that Chechnya celebrated for a week. There are no fifty yards of Nokhch-Kaloy, lost in the mountains of the Shata district, there is no TV or a receiver. There is no electricity, gas and water either.

Denzel Washington, who plays drug lord Frank Lucas, has the image of one of the most positive actors and heroes in Hollywood. But from time to time he portrays characters that are controversial and even negative - remember at least his role as a corrupt cop in the movie "Training Day". What made Washington once again risk his positive image, he was asked by our man in Hollywood, Nellie Holmes.

Ridley Scott's new film "Gangster", a classic of big cinema spectacles, originally called "American Gangster", comes out on December 13th. There is a chance that the film will not be left without Oscars. At least, he has already won the recognition of film fans - both rating (super-high ratings on movie sites) and financial. Almost $120 million earned in the States alone for a two and a half hour drama is more than an achievement.