Guus Hiddink began the construction of the Russian national team with a draw against Croatia The Russian team started in the qualifying round of the European Championship. It didn't start out badly, but it didn't start well either. The 0:0 draw with Croatia seemed somehow ordinary and very familiar for Guus Hiddink's team. The fact that this match was the official debut of the Dutchman was only reminded by the filled stands. The Russians' game itself remains the same.

CLUBS "Decalogue". The Kino-Strelka club opens the season with the cycle of the cult Polish director Krzysztof Kieślowski “Decalogue” (a cinematic interpretation of the Ten Commandments). Each part of the cycle is presented in the form of a trial, in each of which opposing moral positions collide.

The 250th anniversary of the Russian theater reminds us of its relevance The Maly Theater, following the Alexandrinsky Theater, solemnly opened its anniversary season. Within a year, 250 years of Russian theater will be celebrated on the former imperial stages in both capitals. In 1756, Empress Elizabeth signed a decree declaring the private troupe of Yaroslavl amateur theatergoer Fyodor Volkov state.

Regions demand ban on denatured alcohol production The alcohol crisis, which the government has not been able to eliminate for three months, and failures in the Unified State Automated Information System for Alcohol Accounting, which is why legal alcohol cannot reach the shelves, have opened the way for counterfeit goods.

The winners of the “Book of the Year” competition have been announced The Book of the Year award is traditionally awarded on the opening day of the Moscow International Book Fair (read about this on page 10) .

The famous American scientist will help our government make the economy competitive The government does not give up hope of finally getting a concrete answer to a specific question: what is stopping Russian business from developing, why is Russia still in the ratings of creditworthiness, business climate, corruption, etc., which are compiled by the world's leading analytical centers, after 15 years of market reforms? significantly lags behind many, many countries.

What happened in Kondopoga was, of course, a spontaneous fight with murder, a spontaneous clash, which, nevertheless, acquired an interethnic character.

De Beers and ALROSA want to create joint diamond mining ventures Global diamond giants De Beers and ALROSA are trying to find a way to develop in a situation where there is a ban by the European Commission on selling rough Russian diamonds to a South African company after 2009. Yesterday in Cape Town, during Vladimir Putin’s visit, they signed an agreement “to search for ways to jointly explore diamond deposits in Russia and other countries of the world,” including African countries.

Commissions on juvenile affairs will be allowed to complain to the court about dysfunctional families If parents of Russian minors spend money not on children, but on alcohol and drugs, they themselves may be appointed a guardian. Regional commissions on juvenile affairs may soon be able to initiate a similar process in court.

Yesterday, during the large-scale exercise “Zolfagar Strike”, Tehran tested the first-born of the Iranian military-industrial complex - the Sayega combat aircraft (pictured) . The aircraft is similar in appearance to the American F-18 fighter, but its design is based on another, less modern American fighter, the F-5E Tiger II, which the United States supplied to Iran in the 70s. According to the command of the Iranian Air Force, the new aircraft is superior to it in a number of parameters.

Today Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov arrives in Beirut for negotiations with the Lebanese leadership. He will meet with President Emile Lahoud, Prime Minister Fouad Al-Siniora and Speaker of Parliament Nabih Berri. Today the Russian delegation will visit Syria and fly to Israel in the evening. The international community places its main hopes in normalizing the situation in Lebanon on the prime minister of this country.

The Japanese imperial family has a new heir to the throne after a 40-year pause. The government of Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, who was going to convince his compatriots of the need to change the historical rules of succession to the throne in order to allow women to ascend the imperial throne, seems to have to put the already prepared bill in the farthest drawer. A new heir was born in the imperial family.

Today in Berlin there will be another meeting of the Six on the Iranian nuclear issue. Representatives of Russia, the United States, China, Great Britain, France and Germany were to familiarize themselves with the report of the High Representative of the European Union for Common Foreign and Security Policy, Javier Solana, on his negotiations with the Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, Ali Larijani.

The British “granddaughter” of Gazprom is expanding its geography The British company Gazprom Marketing & Trading (a 100 percent “granddaughter” of Gazprom) entered into an annual gas purchase contract with the Norwegian Hydro. Deliveries will begin on October 1, immediately after the commissioning of the new undersea gas pipeline from Norway to the UK - Langeled. During the contract period it is planned to supply 500 million cubic meters.

The sentencing in the case of crippled soldier Andrei Sychev appears to have been postponed again indefinitely. The defense of the accused junior sergeant Alexander Sivyakov again began to bombard the judges with more and more new petitions. Observers are already noting that the process, the outcome of which was expected in mid-September, is clearly dragging on, and even Sychev’s relatives are appearing at meetings less and less often.