Senior coach of the Russian national team Alexander Borodyuk named the list of those players who will take part in the training camp before the friendly match with the Brazilian national team.

CLUBS Patti Austin (vocals, USA) and Igor Butman Big Band. Concert of one of the best performers of soul and rhythm and blues. February 17 at Le Club , 20.30. Gogol` Bar. Opening of a new establishment of the Gogol` network. This time it's a real bar: a long counter, lots of drinks and no serious food, only snacks. The artist Gor Chahal invites everyone to the opening celebration. February 17 on the street. Maroseyka, 15, building 1 , 20.00. Livelectro and Ambidextrous .

Zenit and Shakhtar thank the Almighty Only one of the UEFA Cup Round of 16 matches that took place on Wednesday ended peacefully. And among those teams who celebrated the victory that evening was St. Petersburg's Zenit, which beat the Norwegian Rosenborg away - 2:0. The match for Zenit did not go very well at first. Already in the first minutes, the Slovak goalkeeper of the St. Petersburg team, Kamil Chontofalski, had to seriously enter the game, eliminating the one-on-one situation.

Preliminary results of the Berlin festival The 56th Berlinale is coming to an end. The winners will be announced at the closing ceremony on Saturday evening (rather than at the afternoon press conference as previously). The level of the competition program can be called at least equal. Oscar Roller's "Elementary Particles" was distinguished by two remarkable acting works - Moritz Bleibtreu and Martina Gedek.

Power Machines may partially move to Vietnam The official visit of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov to Vietnam, which began yesterday, demonstrated that former allies in the socialist camp, and now pragmatic partners, are clearly not averse to receiving new and by no means small dividends from mutually beneficial cooperation.

Eminem releases a best-of collection and promises to retire from the stage This seems to have never happened before. The main star of popular music quits at the best moment. Eminem is not just “the main rapper.” And not only the “cultural icon” of the turn of the century - a politically incorrect brawler, half of whose songs are built on borrowed melodies.

The US House of Representatives released a report investigating the government's handling of the consequences of Hurricane Katrina. The 520-page document, compiled by a group of 11 Republicans, criticized measures taken at all levels of government. But in the end, responsibility for inaction was never assigned to specific people.

In Russia, budgeting for the fight against AIDS has intensified The fight against AIDS in Russia has moved into a qualitatively new phase: for the first time, domestic healthcare has finally received significant money for these purposes, and now the question is how to use it.

But he has power and an invitation to Moscow Yesterday, the Russian Foreign Ministry decided on the timing of the arrival in Moscow of a delegation of the radical group Hamas, which won the parliamentary elections in the Palestinian Authority (PA) on January 25. We are talking about the beginning of March. The delegation will most likely be headed by the head of the Hamas Politburo, Khaled Meshal.

Military judges demanded that soldiers be allowed to face justice “The verdict of the military tribunal should be heard in such a way that even a newcomer could hear its echo when crossing the threshold of the barracks for the first time,” said Alexander Beznasyuk, Chairman of the Moscow District Military Court (MOVS) yesterday at the final meeting of the chairmen of the garrison courts of the Moscow Military District (MVO).

The US Congress accuses the largest IT corporations of loyalty to the anti-democratic regime of China In the United States, a scandal broke out between Congress and leading IT companies - Microsoft, Google, Yahoo! and Cisco. American authorities suspected the Chinese divisions of these corporations of aiding censorship in China and called them in for explanations. Hearings on this issue took place in Congress yesterday (due to the time difference, their results will be known today).

Ilya Klebanov promised to become a lobbyist for Georgy Boos’ projects at the federal level Ilya Klebanov, the plenipotentiary representative of the Russian President for the Northwestern Federal District, visited the Kaliningrad region for two days. The officially stated purpose of his visit is to check how the westernmost Russian region is taking part in the implementation of national projects. But his interests did not stop there.

French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy said yesterday on France 2 television that he does not believe in the peaceful nature of Iran's nuclear program. According to him, “not a single peaceful nuclear program can explain” Tehran’s current activity. The minister is convinced that Iran has a “secret military nuclear program.” Unlike the United States, France has previously refrained from directly accusing Iran of seeking to acquire military nuclear power.

The Dow Jones agency began to calculate the attractiveness of Russian companies A new indicator of the attractiveness of Russian assets has appeared on Western markets - the Russian Industrial Leaders Index (RUXX), which is a consolidated economic index of Russian companies whose ADRs and GDRs are traded on Western exchanges. The initiators of the creation of RUXX were RIA Novosti and the American analytical Press Release Group.

In the center of Russia during the day, the sun has already managed to warm the air and increase the temperature compared to the night by more than 10 degrees. The length of daylight, which by mid-February had increased by almost two and a half hours, also reminded us of the approach of spring. In the coming days it will become warmer in the center of Russia and the north-west.