Ferrari will have to wait until it wins the Constructors' Championship Despite Michael Schumacher's victory, the German Grand Prix cannot be called very successful for his team. Ferrari needed to score 13 points more than their Renault rivals to win the Constructors' Championship. But Scuderia co-pilot Rubens Barrichello, finishing 12th and not scoring a single point, put the question of the winner of the team championship on hold for at least one race.

CLUBS Anton Rumyantsev Quartet (saxophone). Jazz. Le Club , 20.00. DJ DaNeal and Ritmosekta. Disco within the framework of the Tandem project. “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 22.00. "Strawberry meadow" Folk rock. "Oracle of the Divine Bottle" , 22.00. MOVIE "Army Pie" (Switzerland, 2003). Directed by Mike Eschmann. Starring Marco Rima, Martin Rapold, Miriam Eigerter. A comedy about a boy who is drafted right from under the aisle for training in the Swiss army.

No Chinese Communist Party leader can let Taiwan go The likelihood of a military conflict in the Taiwan Strait depends not only on the ratio of the combat potentials of the two armies. The growing power of the Chinese armed forces does not mean that war is imminent. Much will depend on the internal political situation in Beijing and Taipei. The transfer of power from the older to the younger generation of leaders began in China in the fall of 2002, but the transition is still not complete.

A rock music festival took place in Luzhniki After last year’s tragedy, the fifth rock festival “Wings” was awaited with natural anxiety. However, everything worked out. The show of popular musical teams, which moved from the usual Tushino venue to Luzhniki, was guarded by more than 1,300 police officers. More than 20 thousand people gathered to listen to their favorites - and about 30 groups performed at Krylya. Other sources claim that all 40 thousand, but this seems an exaggeration.

The results of mobile phone sales in Russia do not always correspond to generally accepted trends and forecasts. As the latest report from the domestic research company Mobile Research Group (MRG) showed, this year the Russian cell phone market is experiencing fluctuations of such a nature that even specialists cannot predict them. Thus, the reason for the slowdown in the active growth of handset sales at the beginning of the year was serious delays in the delivery of devices from customs.

In Moscow, Navy Day was celebrated with peaceful swimming While the main bases of the Russian Navy were dryly and officially celebrating Navy Day with the raising of the St. Andrew's flag, parades and shooting, Moscow was preparing for a mass bathing of the owners of vests and peakless caps in the fountains.

Two trucks with unguided missiles (NURS), detained by Georgia on July 7 near the village of Kekhvi in ​​the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, were returned to Russia last Saturday at the Verkhniy Lars checkpoint on the North Setian section of the border. Russia insisted on the transfer of weapons to the place where they were confiscated, but ultimately agreed to Tbilisi’s terms. This happened after a telephone conversation between Defense Ministers Sergei Ivanov and Georgy Baramidze.

The telecommunications industry has been in a fever in recent months: during the administrative reform in April, they “forgot” to create a regulatory agency, and market players have accumulated many questions about the work of the former and newly created Ministry of Information Technologies and Communications. This applies to the ministry’s policy regarding alternative operators, the new law on communications, and how the department regulates the development of the market as a whole.

The relics of Princess Romanova were delivered to Moscow The rapidly approaching reunification of the Moscow Patriarchate with the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad (ROCOR), which has not yet brought political dividends to the initiators of this process, has already opened the gates of Russia to relics and shrines worshiped by believers overseas.

Head of Sukhoi Holding Company Mikhail Pogosyan - about the results of the Farnborough air show At the Farnborough 2004 air show, which ended yesterday in England, Russia showed about 180 samples of aircraft in the form of drawings, electronic presentations and mock-ups, but not a single aircraft in real life. There were also no Sukhoi combat aircraft, which throughout the 80s and 90s invariably represented first the USSR and then Russia at Farnborough.

From now on, any major deal in Russia will not be an economic, but a political investment. From now on, not a single such transaction can be completed without the direct participation of the head of state or his proxies from the top leadership of the country. This is the first obvious consequence of the Yukos affair for Russia. In other words, Russia is returning to the investment model of the Soviet Union.

Sergey Shnurov won the game "Download the melody" The mobile phone has long ceased to be just a means of communication. According to statistics, more than half of mobile phone owners not only use their device for its intended purpose, but also resort to a host of other services that mobile operators and the Internet offer to them. The most popular of them are, of course, SMS messages and so-called ringtones - melodies for mobile phones.

The former head of the ORT bureau in Minsk, Pavel SHEREMET, believes that Russian channels should not make concessions to Minsk. The situation with the closure of the VGTRK office in Minsk is simple and clear. Alexander Lukashenko publicly stated that he intends to run for another presidential term. To do this, he needs to hold a referendum on the basis of which amendments to the election law will be adopted.

On the eve of the parliamentary elections, Minsk closed the Russian television office At the end of last week, the Belarusian authorities demonstrated that today they treat all Russian television companies operating in the republic the same.

The Olympic Village resembles an impregnable fortress The grand opening ceremony of the Olympic Village took place in Athens. The first guests will move in on July 30. The construction of the complex cost the Greek authorities about $300 million. On the territory of the village, in addition to residential buildings, there is a hospital, a doping center, several restaurants, a swimming pool, two gyms and even several small churches.