FOOTBALL. August 1-2. Champions League. Return matches of the second qualifying round . Premier League. 14th round. August 3. CSKA - "Luch-Energia". August 4th. "Torpedo" - "Dynamo". August 5th. "Spartak" (M) - "Rostov", "Rubin" - "Saturn". August 6. "Lokomotiv" - "Amkar", "Moscow" - "Tom", "Zenit" - "Shinnik", "Spartak" (Nch) - "Wings of the Soviets".

Let's hope that the new head coach of the Russian national team, Guus Hiddink, imagines the state of our football and the level of the players not from the two matches of the national championship that he saw personally. Otherwise, it will be extremely difficult for him to understand who to take to the team. Having watched two matches with the participation of the current national champion CSKA - first in St. Petersburg with Zenit, and then in Moscow with Torpedo - Mr.

Don Ataman established the Chechen Cossack district The head of the international union of public associations “The Great Don Army” Nikolai Kozitsyn issued a decree on the formation of the Chechen Cossack district as part of his organization. And he even appointed an ataman there - Chechen businessman Ruslan Dunaev. At the same time, Mr.

The Russian Navy wants to become economically profitable Yesterday, military sailors not only celebrated their professional holiday, but also clarified their plans and decided on the concept for the development of this type of armed forces. The Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, Admiral Vladimir Masorin, essentially defined a new task for his subordinates: the Navy must bring the state not only political and military-political dividends, but also economic ones.

There was such a joke in Soviet times. A man writes an application for admission to the party: “I ask you to accept me into the ranks of the Communist Party.” The selection committee asks him: “Why in the Communist Party, because the party is called the CPSU.” “I was already in the SS,” the applicant answers. An ironic and skeptical attitude towards parties in an already formally new country clearly remains.

Politicians and political scientists do not approve of the idea of ​​a long-term presidency The Vremya Novostey newspaper decided to find out from politicians and political scientists who and what is behind the initiative of the Chechen parliament and the North Ossetian public movement “Concord and Stability” to amend the Constitution for the sake of Vladimir Putin’s third term. And how justified is this idea?

The Democratic Republic of Congo held free elections yesterday for the first time in 46 years. Voting security in a country of 58 million, which went through decades of dictatorship and civil wars after gaining independence from Belgium in 1960, was ensured by the largest contingent of UN peacekeepers abroad to date - 17.6 thousand “blue helmets”, as well as 2 thousand. European Union military personnel and 60 thousand local police.

June 28 -- July 28, 2006 “Vremya Novostey” and the “Medialogy” company offer you ratings of political figures who are most actively discussed in the Russian media. Political ratings are published on Mondays: over the course of a month, you can sequentially familiarize yourself with the ratings of deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, governors of the Russian Federation, ministers of the Russian Federation and foreign politicians.

The Germans were allowed to absorb Endesa only if 19 conditions were met The German energy concern E.ON on Friday overcame a difficult barrier to the takeover of the Spanish company Endesa for 29.1 billion euros. The commission of the Spanish National Energy Supervisory Authority (CNE) unanimously spoke in favor of the plans of the German concern, but put forward 19 conditions and restrictions. First of all, it is necessary to sell almost a fifth of Endesa's energy generating capacity.

The concert of the great British guitarist in Moscow has been canceled One of the most advertised and anticipated concerts of the summer by music lovers was canceled at the last minute, Interfax reported this with reference to Eric Clapton’s website. Agencies and news sites announced the sad news on Sunday, but on Friday it became clear: there would be no concert.

Ramzan Kadyrov met with youth Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov on Friday visited the camp of the Nashi youth movement on Lake Seliger. Initially, “Nashi” announced a lecture by Mr. Kadyrov on preserving Russia’s state sovereignty, but then settled on a less pretentious format: the Chechen prime minister toured the camp, attended a paramilitary show, and then took part in a seminar on the stated topic. Communication took place mainly in question and answer mode.

Schumacher inexorably approaches Alonso The fifth victory of the season for Michael Schumacher allowed him to reduce the gap from the leader of the personal standings, Fernando Alonso, to 11 points, and the second place of another Ferrari driver, Felippe Massa, intensified the competition in the Constructors' Championship: now the gap between the Italian team and Renault is only ten points. Kimi Raikkonen (McLaren) finished the race third.

The ISS turned out to be the “Cinderella” of the US space program The International Space Station, alas, is not having much luck. The super-ambitious project launched in the last century, which was supposed to unite the efforts of all the leading space powers of the world, will not work at full capacity.

Chronicle of sporting events At the stage of the Super Grand Prix track and field series in London, pole vaulter Elena Isinbaeva and Swedish high-altitude athlete Kaisa Bergqvist unsuccessfully stormed world records. The Russian, who suffered her first defeat of the season in official competitions a few days ago, has redeemed herself for her failure in Stockholm.

The route of the Eastern Oil Pipeline has been determined Transneft is in a hurry to complete the construction of the Eastern Siberia - Pacific Ocean (ESPO) oil pipeline and is ready to make concessions to environmentalists. Last Friday, company president Semyon Vainshtok announced in Irkutsk that the end point of the oil pipeline, as well as the construction site of the oil export terminal, would be Kozmino Bay in the Nakhodka region.