FOOTBALL. September 7. Qualifying match for the 2009 European Championship among youth teams (under 21 years old). Russia - Poland. Moscow. September 8. Qualifying matches for the 2008 European Championship. Group "E". Russia - Macedonia. Moscow. England - Israel. London. Croatia - Estonia. Zagreb The Russian national team, after a three-month break, resumes its participation in the Euro 2008 qualifying round.

CLUBS Anatoly Gerasimov (saxophone) and DJ Yazykov. “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 22.00. CONCERTS Moscow Symphony Orchestra conducted by Pavel Kogan , conductor Vladimir Semkin , soloist Marianna Maro (soprano). The program includes Weinberg's music: the suite “Polish Tunes” for symphony orchestra, the poem “Three Palms” based on poems by M. Lermontov for soprano and string orchestra, Symphony No. 2 for string orchestra. Small Hall of the Conservatory , 19.00. Evening of piano music.

Stanislav Govorukhin’s film “The Artist” was released It seems that we should be happy - a middle-aged man, honored and loved by the public, has made a comedy, or at least a comedic melodrama in the spirit of Emil Braginsky, which viewers will enjoy watching. But I was not happy after watching it. And here's why. The film “Artist” is based on the play by the writer, screenwriter and playwright Valery Mukharyamov, which the director really liked. It happens.

The new superliner was able to fly away with a broken wing The world's largest passenger airliner, the A380 , which is currently making demonstration flights in Asia, damaged its wing last Saturday when it caught on a building at Bangkok airport. Despite the breakdown, the plane with several hundred passengers on board took off for northern Thailand the same day, albeit with a three-hour delay.

The tragedy of Beslan and the Peruvian experience Three years ago, before our eyes, a bloody drama unfolded with armed terrorists seizing more than 1,100 hostages at school No. 1 in the North Ossetian city of Beslan. Two years earlier, an essentially similar terrorist attack occurred in the capital’s Theater Center on Dubrovka. Hostage-taking, unfortunately, has become a common phenomenon of modern reality.

By 2040, Russia plans to regularly fly to Mars, the Moon and repel asteroid attacks Increased government attention to the military sphere will also affect the space industry . At the end of last week, the head of the Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), Anatoly Perminov, spoke at a press conference about the program for the development of domestic cosmonautics for 33 years ahead - until 2040. The program is divided into three stages.

The Moscow Arbitration Court recognized the results of the competition for the reconstruction of the hotel as valid The court case to invalidate the contract for the reconstruction of the Rossiya Hotel , carried out by Shalva Chigirinsky's ST Development company, ended in favor of the developer.

Spartak again failed to beat CSKA “Spartak” was one step away from lifting its main curse of the 21st century. Half a minute before the final whistle of the match of the 23rd round of the Russian Championship, the “red-whites” beat CSKA - 1:0 and were closer than ever to their first victory over the army team since 2001. But the Polish legionnaire David Janczyk, having corrected the ball into the Spartak goal, deprived the “red-whites” of three points and sole leadership in the standings.

Benazir Bhutto returns to Pakistan Opposition Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader and former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is in talks with Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf to return to his homeland as head of government . The 54-year-old politician announced this on Saturday at a press conference in London, surrounded by her party colleagues. So far, consultations with the president, taking place through his emissary in the British capital, “have been 80% successful.” However, Mrs.

Louisiana authorities have launched a war against slipping jeans Some laws passed in American states, counties and towns have long amused the public. For example, in Indiana, the law does not allow opening cans by shooting a gun, and in Pennsylvania, housewives are officially prohibited from hiding dust under the carpet while cleaning. In Salt Lake City, Utah, you can't hunt whales (despite the fact that the city is in the middle of the desert).

A new state register of lotteries has been published From now on, any Russian who buys lottery tickets will be able to be sure who his “partner” is in this game: the state that sanctioned the lottery, or the scammers who are collecting money in their pockets. The Federal Tax Service has published the state register of lotteries on its official website.

On City Day, Vladimir Putin spoke about a united Russia, and Yuri Luzhkov spoke about “United Russia” It seems that the City Day of Moscow, celebrating its 860th anniversary, which took place on a grand scale yesterday in the capital, also became the unofficial opening of the upcoming large-scale election campaigns in December 2007 and March 2008 .

UNESCO is against the route of the Russian-Chinese pipeline "Altai" UNESCO publicly threatened to exclude the Russian Ukok Plateau from the World Heritage Committee list in the event of the construction of the Altai gas pipeline, through which Russia was going to supply gas to China.

George Bush decided to protect honest mortgage borrowers US President George W. Bush and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke decided to reassure investors before the long weekend (Americans celebrate Labor Day on Monday). The initiatives they proposed to combat the mortgage crisis and liquidity shortages received a positive response around the world, causing stock markets to end the week on a positive note.

The weather in the northwestern half of European Russia continues to be determined by the North Atlantic cyclone. The center of the cyclone over the Gulf of Bothnia. In the southern part of the cyclone, southwestern winds prevail, which carry warmer air into central Russia. The Atlantic cyclone will continue to determine the weather in the northwestern and northern regions of the European territory of Russia, as well as the western ones, over the next two days.