A hundred years ago it was impossible to imagine what terrible conflicts and disasters of the 20th century would lead to the difficult relations between the great powers. History is full of surprises, and we must be very careful in our predictions for the 21st century.

New defendants have appeared in the case of irreconcilable nationalists New details have emerged in the scandalous investigation into a series of murders committed by teenagers in Moscow motivated by national hatred. As the Vremya Novostei newspaper has already reported , in April, 17-year-old visitor from Yekaterinburg Artur Ryno was detained for an attack on a Muscovite, an Armenian by nationality, who unexpectedly confessed to several dozen more similar crimes.

RosUkrEnergo and Dmitry Firtash turned out to be unnecessary for either Ukraine or Russia The statement by the First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, head of the board of directors of Gazprom Dmitry Medvedev about his readiness to reconsider the gas supply scheme to Ukraine, as expected, caused approval in Kiev. The most likely candidate for prime minister, Yulia Tymoshenko, yesterday welcomed Moscow's readiness to work with the new government of Ukraine directly, without intermediaries .

Russian companies demonstrated their counter-terrorism weapons to the world The 15th international exhibition of security products and systems Milipol Paris 2007 ended its work in Paris . The Russian exhibition was fundamentally different from the one shown six months ago at an exhibition of life-saving equipment in the Belgian city of Kortrijk. How is the exposition formed at such specific exhibitions? What are the trends in the development of special equipment?

Chronicle of sporting events Yesterday, at a press conference in Moscow, the President of the Russian Olympic Committee, Leonid Tyagachev, gave an encouraging forecast regarding the performance of the Russian Olympic team at the Games in Beijing, which will be held in a year. According to the head of the ROC, Russian athletes can claim 25 gold medals and thus fight to get into the top three in the team event.

Watch from October 18 on Moscow screens “Shadowboxing 2: Revenge” (Russia, 2007, Anton Megerdichev). A continuation of the domestic blockbuster about boxer Artem Kolchin (Denis Nikiforov), who went blind in the first episode, but now sees again - at least his opponent in the ring - quite well and is ready to have a rematch with the American champion.

The Moscow government intends to fight anti-cultural expansion According to the authors of the “Moscow Culture (2008-2010)” program, the main problems in the cultural sphere of the capital are, first of all, the reduction in the number of cultural objects, their uneven distribution throughout the city, and their catastrophic insufficiency in areas of new buildings.

Modern theater is constantly trying to find new boundaries of what is permitted - to test the territory, including its own endurance. When, after the end of Alan Platel's VSPRS performance, shown at the Territory festival, the audience gave an ovation and the happy artists took endless bows, I suddenly realized that my limit had unexpectedly arrived.

The union of Yushchenko and Tymoshenko will not be sustainable Today, the “Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc” (BYuT) and the presidential bloc “Our Ukraine - People’s Self-Defense” (NUNS) promise to publish the text of the agreement on the creation of an “orange” coalition in the newly elected Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine. The Orange coalition will have 228 votes out of 450 - just six more than the opposition. Tymoshenko should become the prime minister in this coalition .

Condoleezza Rice persuades Middle Eastern leaders Yesterday, US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice met in Cairo with Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to discuss preparations for an international meeting on the Middle East, scheduled for November 26 in the American city of Annapolis (Maryland). “US President George W. Bush has made resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict one of his administration's top priorities,” the secretary of state said.

A state commission may be looking for those missing in Chechnya About 4,300 people have gone missing in Chechnya since 1994. This is quite a large figure: considering that the area of ​​this not the most extensive of Russian regions is about 15,700 square meters. km, it turns out that for every square kilometer of the map there are a little more than three missing people. Moreover, we are apparently talking not only about the residents of Chechnya, but also about Russian soldiers and officers.

Land seizure rules will apply only to Sochi The State Duma on Tuesday adopted in the first reading bills from the so-called Olympic package, including the scandalous amendments on the seizure of land for the needs of the 2014 Winter Olympics . The rules for land seizure will not apply to the entire territory of the country, although this is how some observers interpreted the initial version of the amendments, but only to the Sochi region.

The European Super Cup brought together the best masters of the Old World The winner of a fundamentally new tournament on the international calendar of small racket masters - the European Super Cup - will be determined tonight at the Kazan Sports Palace. These competitions were organized on the initiative of the leadership of the Russian Table Tennis Federation (president - Minister of Transport of the country Igor Levitin) with the support of the Continental Table Tennis Union (ETTU).

Moscow is waiting for an international dance festival Czechs and Americans, Portuguese and Belgians will bring their dance performances to Moscow in November. The Dance inversion festival will begin in the capital on November 2, and at yesterday’s press conference the festival’s management presented its program.

The Champions League started with the Kazan team's victory over Unicaja. The match between the gold medal winner of the 2007 Russian Championship, Dynamo-TTG Kazan, and the Spanish club Unicaja (Almeria) kicked off the European Champions League. The team from the capital of Tatarstan won a difficult victory over its opponent in Group “C” from the city of Almeria - 3:1 (24:26, 25:20, 25:21, 25:21).