There was no excitement, and last Friday, for the historical return match of the World Youth Championship between Russia and Georgia at the Traktor stadium in Minsk, several thousand children from surrounding schools had to gather for the historical return match in the light of the five-day war. There were also cadets of the Belarusian Ministry of Emergency Situations. You could go without a ticket.

Last week, Georgia severed diplomatic relations with Russia, and flags were removed from both embassies. Four months ago, I was waiting for a visa at the Georgian embassy in Moscow with my companion on the upcoming trip. At the embassy gate, we were the only ones who were not Georgians, until another girl of Russian appearance approached. “I was told that the Russians skip the line,” she said.

Moscow "Spartak" agreed on the terms of a personal contract with Danish coach Mikael Laudrup, informs the official website of UEFA. The agreement may be signed in the coming days, but most likely this will happen on Wednesday, September 10th. The agreement with Laudrup will last for a year and a half, RIA Novosti reports. Laudrup will replace Igor Ledyakhov, who since August 15, after the dismissal of Stanislav Cherchesov, has been acting head coach of Spartak.

The rules of adat, or “pha” in Ingush, blood feud, require that the news of it be brought by a neutral respected person in the presence of two witnesses. And last Tuesday, the imam of the mosque in the city of Malgobek, Magomed Bolgochev, appeared at the house of the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, Musa Medov, together with two relatives of the murdered Magomed Evloev.

Arriving at the Russian national team before friendly or qualifying matches is akin to a birthday or a corporate party: the only difference is that we come not to drink, but to work. Otherwise, everything is the same: communication, constant jokes and a great mood. Hiddink helps to support him: he holds open training sessions and invites fans and journalists to look at us - such attention is even more spurring and inspiring. When we train in our clubs, we are in strict secrecy.

Coming out on September 11, the film "The Captive" by master Alexei Uchitel based on the story "Prisoner of the Caucasus" by master Vladimir Makanin was dubbed the Russian "Humpback Mountain" in absentia. And extreme. Announcement from the Internet: ""Prisoner" is about the love of a Russian soldier and a Chechen youth militant." As a result, the Teacher in his heart promised at a press conference during the Kinotavr to sue every critic who sees homoerotic motives in the film.

In early July, in the Moskovsky district of St. Petersburg, bailiffs caught transport tax debtors. Stopped mostly expensive cars. First, they are usually more powerful - and the more powerful they are, the higher the tax rate. Secondly, the drivers of such cars almost always have money with them, and they can pay off their debts on the spot.

A child's success in mathematics is largely due to "number sense" - the innate ability to correctly estimate the number of objects at a glance, without counting them, according to an article published by American scientists in the journal Nature. “We found that a child’s ability to quickly assess the number of subjects can tell how they score in school in math,” says one of the authors of the article, Dr.

Exactly one hundred years ago, Alexander Blok complained about how difficult it became to quote poetry in fast colloquial speech. “In Turgenev's time, one could still quote,” he noted in “Notebooks,” “and now poetry has become separate from prose; everything from a change in rhythm in life. “Bo-oh! Rumors that the Russian language has become completely Americanized are true. Even if the poet speaks like ...