Guus Hiddink almost lost because of "translators" Exactly a year after Guus Hiddink took charge of the Russian national team, the Dutchman made it clear that he, too, is capable of making mistakes. Having expelled CSKA defender Sergei Ignashevich from the national team, albeit for just one game, the head coach of the Russians at one point in a friendly match with the Polish team was left with virtually no defense.

New shocks await the Russian vodka market Despite all the disruptions that have occurred in the alcohol market over the past year and a half, the production of strong alcoholic beverages continues to grow. This is evidenced by Rosstat data.

In a year and a half, the substation should become the most modern in the world Large-scale reconstruction work has begun at the notorious Moscow Chagino power substation .

Only MTS promises to start accepting cards from this payment system in the coming days Acceptance of American Express cards remains limited for now. Two weeks ago, UCS, the largest Russian card acquirer, refused to service some terminals for accepting these cards for payment. Russian Standard Bank, which has the exclusive right to service AmEx cards, has not yet managed to replace all UCS terminals at retail outlets with its own. But, according to former UCS partners, this work continues.

The Ministry of Education and Science shared plans for the future With each academic year, the selection of school aids will become more and more strict. As Isaac Kalina, director of the department of state policy of the Ministry of Education and Science, told reporters yesterday, from September 1, 2008, only those manuals that are considered worthy by two hundred experts from the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Russian Academy of Education will remain on the federal list of textbooks.

The situation surrounding the appointment of a new head of the IMF is commented on by Vremya Novostey, scientific director of the Higher School of Economics, former Minister of Economics of Russia Evgeniy YASIN. — How, in your opinion, can we explain Russia’s nomination of an alternative candidate for the post of head of the IMF? - There is a long tradition: the World Bank is headed by an American, and the IMF is headed by a Frenchman or, in any case, a Western European.

On Wednesday night, an American military helicopter, a Black Hawk, with four crew members and ten soldiers on board, crashed during a combat operation in northern Iraq. No one was saved. This tragedy brings the number of American casualties in Iraq since the US invasion in March 2003 to at least 3,721. The cause of the helicopter crash, according to preliminary data, was technical problems and not enemy fire. However, on this basis it is impossible to talk about a reduction in tension in Iraq.

Ukrainian political forces are diligently developing the gas issue In Ukraine, the topic of gas supply for next year is one of the central issues in inter-party discussions. But at the same time, everyone understands that until the formation of a new government there is no certainty on this issue and cannot be.

A new film by Andrei Konchalovsky is coming out on Moscow screens “Gloss” is a film where famous and not so famous characters act under fictitious names, where satire alternates with melodrama, and director Andrei Konchalovsky expresses everything he thinks about those who wear Prada and the advent of the era of glamor in Russia.

Anarchists and a Chechen are being linked to the Nevsky Express bombing case The investigation into the case of the bombing in the Novgorod region on the evening of August 13 of the high-speed train "Nevsky Express", traveling from Moscow to St. Petersburg, is acquiring more and more new details. St.

At the end of last year, I accidentally ran into a prominent writer of the older generation on the street. I said hello. And I heard a brief but enviably energetic invective. Something like this. As far as I know (I myself, of course, don’t look at your newspaper, but they told me), you spoke badly about my latest novel. So? (I nod, it was the case.) You probably didn’t read it... (I try to object. In vain)... I don’t know, I don’t know, if you had read it, they wouldn’t have written this.

Professional restaurateurs will be invited to create school menus It seems that, having become completely disillusioned with the qualifications of school cooks, the Russian Ministry of Education and Science is not averse to using the help of restaurant staff.

On August 30 in Vienna, the delegations of Belgrade and Pristina, after a six-month break, will resume negotiations on the issue of the future status of Kosovo . The “troika” of representatives of Russia, the United States and the European Union will have to bring together the irreconcilable positions of the parties. From our country, the special representative of the Russian Foreign Minister for the Balkans, Alexander Botsan-Kharchenko, joined the mediation team.

In Spain, everything is ready for the start of the national championship Last season, Real Madrid, led by the experienced Fabio Capello, managed to snatch the championship from under the noses of Barcelona and Seville, who had long practiced politeness by letting each other get ahead. This time, one of them may well take revenge on the “royal” club, which so far simply seems not ready for serious tests.

Chronicle of sporting events Yesterday, at the congress of the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) in Osaka, Japan, presidential elections took place. This post was again given to Senegalese Lamine Diack, who has held it since 1993. The next four-year term will be Diack's last as IAAF President. Legendary Ukrainian pole vaulter Sergei Bubka will serve as vice president for the next four years, along with American Robert Hersch, Englishman Sebastian Coe and Qatari Dahlan Al-Hamad.