Shakhtar and Levski supported the red-whites Spartak was not the only team from Eastern Europe to suffer a crushing defeat in the first round. Donetsk Shakhtar lost with the same score - 0:4, but to the Italian Roma, and the Bulgarian Levski was defeated by Barcelona - 0:5. Clubs that can hardly be considered among the European elite have made it into the group stage of the Champions League before, but behaved with dignity there.

The UN Security Council has not clarified the future status of the region Yesterday, the UN Security Council discussed the situation in Kosovo at a special meeting. The head of the regional UN mission, German diplomat Joachim Rücker, outlined his vision of the situation, and the head of the coordination center for Kosovo and Metohija under the Serbian government, Sanda Raskovic-Ivic, introduced the Security Council members to Belgrade’s position.

The poet Lev Rubinstein became a staircase designer The Afisha publishing house has begun active and even provocative exhibition activities. In the summer, 150 stands were installed on Chistoprudny Boulevard with photographs by the French photographer Yann Arthus-Bertrand, in which our planet was captured from a bird's eye view. It was a project of the Afisha-Mir magazine.

The season at the Mariinsky Theater opened with Mazepa Director Yuri Alexandrov (he, like set designer Georgy Tsypin, has made many performances for the Mariinsky Theater, but this is the first time they have worked together) has an amazing gift for turning everything he touches into something comical, which is why he is best at buffets and operettas.

The Moscow City Duma will increase the responsibility of builders for the destruction of city communications Active spot development of the capital is accompanied by periodic collapses of road surfaces and destruction of city communications. The latest high-profile failure of the roadway on Leningradsky Prospekt, which practically paralyzed the already very busy highway, forced the city authorities to urgently take enforcement action against construction companies.

Viktor Vekselberg asked the president for state support for his business in the housing and communal services sector The private company “Russian Utility Systems”, from whose capital RAO ​​“UES of Russia” (owns 25% of shares) is going to exit, it turns out, cannot live without “state support” for its activities. This was stated yesterday at a meeting with Vladimir Putin by entrepreneur Viktor Vekselberg, whose structures own 75% of the shares of RKS.

The President of Slovenia will go on an official visit to Spain by car Slovenian President Janez Drnovšek is going to hit the budget deficit with a motor rally. He intends to go on an official visit to Spain from Ljubljana in his official car. The head of this former Yugoslav republic, which was the first to declare independence from Belgrade, simply does not have enough money for more representative transport.

The process of changing power in Adygea has dragged on The little-known Russian Republic of Adygea, which throughout the turbulent 90s gave no reason for interest to anyone except journalists writing about crime, continues to provide political news. The President of Adygea, Khazret Sovmen, again fired the prime minister of his republic this week. Actually, Evgeny Kovalev was acting - in early June 2006 he was introduced to his office colleagues. Mr.

The Romanian army has lost its top In Romania, Defense Minister Teodor Athanasiu and Chief of the General Staff of the Army, General Eugen Badelan, were put on trial almost simultaneously. The first is accused of abuse of office, the second of corruption. The country's President Traian Basescu, by decree, temporarily removed Minister Athanasiu from his post and sent the chief of staff to the reserve. A woman was “to blame” for the misadventures of the liberal civil minister.

Ukrainian court recalled the Black Sea Fleet Ukraine does not intend to give the Crimean lighthouses to the Russians. Yesterday, the Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine confirmed to Vremya Novostey that on September 11, the Sevastopol Court of Appeal issued a verdict regarding the Crimean lighthouses at the disposal of the Russian Black Sea Fleet.

The brand “radical humanism” suits the anniversary Venice Forum of World Architecture Some architects and architectural critics perceived the main exhibition of the 10th anniversary Venice Archbiennale as a shock.

Ahmadinejad left for America Yesterday, the International Atomic Energy Agency resumed discussions on the Iranian “nuclear dossier.” There is information that Tehran is ready to temporarily suspend uranium enrichment and thereby open the way for negotiations with the international community. In an effort to gain global support, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad went on a foreign trip yesterday, during which he will visit Senegal, Cuba, Venezuela and the United States.

Yesterday, New York Democratic Senator and former First Lady Hillary Clinton won the state's Democratic primary. She received 83.2% of the vote, her opponent Jonathan Tussin received only 16.8%. Mrs. Clinton explained this gap “by the results of her work in the Senate for five and a half years.” The next election battle awaits Hillary on November 7: in the midterm elections to the US Congress, she will have to fight with the Republican candidate, former mayor of Yonkers John Spencer.

Relations between Warsaw and Berlin are now experiencing the worst period in 15 years, although it was Germany that consistently promoted Poland to NATO and the European Union, and after Poland became a member of the EU, more than half a million Poles went to work in neighboring Germany.

Ingush and Chechen policemen did not separate at the border Seven people were killed and 15 were wounded yesterday afternoon on the border of Chechnya and Ingushetia as a result of a fierce exchange of fire between policemen of these republics. High-ranking intelligence officials from both sides spent the entire day yesterday trying to figure out what caused such a violent clash. However, the colleagues did not come to a single version.