The "Rest of the World" beat the Europeans again in Cyprus Five players from the Russian Super League took part in the All-Star Game of the FIBA ​​European Cup, which, as in 2005, was held in Cyprus in the Old World format against the rest of the world. For the third time in a row, a team made up of players from other continents celebrated their victory - 97:89.

CLUBS Bad Sector. The only Moscow concert of the legend of Italian experimental electronics Massimo Magrini. The concert program is based on material from the Cosmodrome album, dedicated to Soviet space research and the works of Tsiolkovsky. Special guest group Anthesteria (St. Petersburg). "Home" , 20.00. Paprika Korps (Poland). Reggae in Polish. "Orange" , 20.00. Eirik Bergene (harmonica) and Tommy Christensen (guitar). Norwegian jazz. “OGI Project” , 22.00. "NOM." "B2" , 21.30.

The American scientist’s technique is taking root in Russia Russian counterterrorism fighters will, in all likelihood, be forced to make adjustments to their plans and methods. And the reason for this is the arrival in Moscow of one of the fathers of applied political psychology, the American Jerrold Post. He is famous for being a personal consultant to several American presidents on the psychology of foreign leaders. Mr.

The investigation praises Syria Today, the UN Security Council will discuss the first report of Belgian Serge Brammertz, head of the international commission investigating the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

Anti-Semite Koptsev is ashamed that he did not kill anyone In the Moscow City Court, where the trial of Muscovite Alexander Koptsev, who carried out a massacre in a synagogue on Bolshaya Bronnaya Street on January 11, is taking place, the judicial investigation ended yesterday. Last, after questioning all the witnesses and victims, the court heard the defendant himself.

The Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea was discussed for the twentieth time Yesterday in Moscow, the regular, already 20th meeting of the Special Working Group (SWG) on the Caspian Sea was held at the level of special representatives of the presidents of the five Caspian countries - Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia and Turkmenistan.

YUKOS creditors sold its half-billion-dollar debt to Sergei Bogdanchikov's company The bankruptcy of Yukos appears to have been initiated by Rosneft. Yesterday it turned out that Western creditor banks of the disgraced company, before filing a lawsuit for the bankruptcy of their debtor, agreed to assign its debt to the state corporation.

The authorities and the opposition agreed on the funeral Yesterday, the complicated situation surrounding the burial of the remains of ex-President of Yugoslavia Slobodan Milosevic, who died on March 11 in the holding cell of the Hague Tribunal, was resolved. In the evening, a plane of the Serbian airline JAT delivered the coffin from Amsterdam to Belgrade's Surcin airport, where it was greeted by hundreds of people.

Two retirees, former top managers of the company, can become independent directors of Surgutneftegaz President of Surgutneftegaz Vladimir Bogdanov kept his word - two independent candidates were nominated to the company's board of directors. Yesterday, the company's press service distributed a list of candidates approved by the board of directors, which included new faces - Vladislav Druchinin and Nikolai Zakharchenko.

Hunt announced for Israeli soldiers Activists of the Palestine Liberation Movement (Fatah) proposed abolishing the Palestinian Authority (PA) as an administrative entity. They believe that it is necessary to appeal to the leading powers with a request to establish international governance in the Palestinian territories. “The events in Jericho and the complete failure of the Palestinian authorities to resolve the conflict situation...

"Brokeback Mountain" on Moscow screens Strange as it may sound, the best, straight-to-the-Adam’s-apple title for an Ang Lee film could be the title of the film shot at the Georgia Film studio in 1984 - “Blue Mountains, or an Improbable Story.” Judge for yourself: in the summer of 1963 in Wyoming, at the foot of Brokeback Mountain (its name can also be translated as Broken Back Mountain), two loners met by chance - rancher Ennis (Heath Ledger) and rodeo cowboy Jack Twist (Jake Gyllenhaal).

Sergei Kiriyenko fired the head of the Mayak chemical plant The first professional conflict that he had to face as head of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency was resolved not in favor of nuclear workers by Sergei Kiriyenko, but in favor of the prosecutor’s office. On Wednesday, he signed an order to remove Vitaly Sadovnikov, general director of Mayak PA, from his position.

Norsk Hydro may build an aluminum plant near Murmansk Governor of the Murmansk region Yuri Evdokimov said yesterday that the regional administration is negotiating with the Norwegian Hydro Aluminum (an aluminum division of the Norsk Hydro corporation) about the possibility of the company building an aluminum plant near Murmansk with a capacity of 265 thousand tons of primary aluminum per year.

The board of directors of the University of Illinois student newspaper, the Daily Illini, unanimously fired editor Acton Gorton, who on February 9 published a reprint of six Danish cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that sparked a global sectarian scandal.

RSUH has found a depoliticized leader One of the most famous Russian universities has finally found permanent leadership and, at the same time, apparently, political peace. After almost three years of personnel changes, the Russian State University for the Humanities, which YUKOS shareholders never managed to turn into an exemplary university, has elected a permanent and legitimate rector. He became Efim Pivovar, who has been acting rector since December 2005.