Brazil and Argentina will reveal the best on the continent Venezuela got what it wanted - the winner of the America's Cup, which is taking place in this country, will be determined in a head-to-head meeting of the continent's two strongest teams. The next round of the eternal confrontation between Brazil and Argentina is scheduled for July 15. The opponents approached this fight in different ways. The Argentines are easy and relaxed, crushing their opponents at every stage.

Performance by Tadashi Suzuki at the Chekhov Festival Suzuki brought his “Dionysus” to Russia more than once; this version of Euripides’ “Bacchae” was seen both in Moscow and St. Petersburg. But at the current Chekhov Festival, the Japanese theater guru presented the old performance in a new frame - before “Dionysus” the audience is offered an entire concert of Buddhist ritual music.

Visa was unable to prohibit paying with your cards for unlicensed products on the Internet The international payment system Visa International has failed to successfully act as a defender of intellectual property rights. The company lost a lawsuit against the online store Alltunes.com, which sells unlicensed music. And although Visa will not challenge the court's decision, it has promised to continue its policy of resisting the use of the system's payment cards in such online stores.

Dow Jones shareholders are trying to find other suitors for the company Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is irritated by negotiations to sell the group to Dow Jones & Co. with other potential buyers. He said it was unclear to him what position the company's main shareholders took.

Vladimir Putin is equidistant from Gazprom and RAO UES Yesterday, Vladimir Putin again had to personally “settle” the differences of his subordinates in the process of reform of the electric power industry. This time it was about the exchange of electric power assets between the shareholders of the liquidated RAO UES of Russia . In recent days, negotiations between Gazprom and the Ministry of Economic Development on this matter have reached a dead end.

The Russian Ministry of Defense has built 630 facilities in Chechnya On the eve of his 100 days in office, Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov once again proposed extending the powers of his federal colleague Vladimir Putin. “I don’t see a political alternative to him, and if a change of power occurs, I think this will affect not only the Chechen Republic,” Mr. Kadyrov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The state plans to increase financial support for the south of Russia fivefold in the next four years The infrastructure of the south of Russia - transport, tourism, industrial, utilities, which fell into disrepair after the collapse of the Soviet Union, has a chance of being restored in the near future on its former scale. And not only thanks to the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi . State funding for the south of Russia will increase fivefold in the near future.

Visual gymnastics at an exhibition in the Proun gallery Folk art is not very popular (pardon the pun). The spinning wheels, pots and stumps are displayed in our museums in such a bad way that we have no strength to look at it. And the reason is that the Soviet and post-Soviet state managed to kill the violent energy of this art, its chthonic primordial power with ideological stink.

The government allocates 28 billion rubles for nanotechnology infrastructure The Russian government voted for the dream yesterday. About 28 billion rubles will be allocated in the next three years for the transition from a resource-based economy to an innovative one, and specifically for the creation of the material and infrastructure base for a breakthrough in the field of nanotechnology , which should ensure this transition, in the next three years, with the lion's share being 24.

Friday may be the hottest day since the beginning of the calendar summer, the temperature will rise to +28...+33оС. However, over the weekend the cyclone will head towards the center of European territory. Along with it will come rain with thunderstorms, strong winds, and possible hail. The heat will drop to +20...+27оС.

Former prosecutor sentenced to four years for bribery The Moscow Regional Court yesterday sentenced former deputy Mytishchi city prosecutor Andrei Yakimov, accused of taking a bribe, to four years in prison. Yakimov considers the sentence too harsh and intends to appeal it. As the regional prosecutor's office told Vremya Novostey, in September last year, employees of the Mytishchi city prosecutor's office carried out inspections in a number of commercial structures.

Tomorrow, the first South Korean tanker will arrive at the North Korean port of Songbon with 5 thousand tons of fuel oil, which Pyongyang will receive for its promise to close the nuclear reactor in Yongbyon . At the same time, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) will begin work in the DPRK.

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The West softened the draft resolution on Kosovo Yesterday, experts from the Russian Foreign Ministry began studying a new draft UN Security Council resolution on Kosovo, prepared by the United States, Great Britain and France . Although the new version of the project partly took into account Russian proposals, controversial issues remain. Last night, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that the draft new resolution still contains a plan to grant independence to the region .

Yesterday the European Parliament approved the start of negotiations on signing a new agreement on in-depth cooperation between Ukraine and the EU . This document, which provides for the creation of a free trade area with Ukraine after its accession to the WTO, should replace the partnership and cooperation agreement, which expires in 2008.