The Russian team defeated the European champions The Russian team finished its next match at the Volleyball World Cup in Japan with a brilliant victory over the Spanish team - 3:0 (25:21, 25:13, 25:15). Defeat is an unpleasant memory, but at the same time it is almost an ideal basis for subsequent analysis and work on mistakes. One can only imagine how many times our coaching staff replayed the failed European Championship final with the Spaniards in their minds and in reality.

The second performance by director Joël Pomre at the NET festival is “This Child,” which he staged with Russian actors at the Praktika theater. The French version of This Child was made for a social commission (the Calvados Family Benefit Fund), and the text of the play was written based on interviews with women from the poor Norman suburbs. The result is a semi-documentary study of family conflicts and relationships between fathers and children.

The Union of Right Forces party seems to be getting more than others in this Duma campaign. And at the end of last week, the Union of Right Forces found itself on the verge of being withdrawn from the elections. The Democratic Party of Russia filed a complaint with the Central Election Commission, accusing the Union of Right Forces of illegal campaigning. The CEC did not satisfy the complaint, but the DPR still has the opportunity to appeal the same demand to the Supreme Court.

“Dissenters” were not allowed into the Central Election Commission On Saturday, almost a week before the parliamentary elections, the “March of Dissent” finally took place in Moscow. The meeting of “dissenters” took place without incident, but attempts by its participants to go to the Central Election Commission without permission from the city authorities ended in the dispersal of the oppositionists.

At the beginning of the week, almost the entire European territory will be occupied by an extensive two-center cyclone. A frontal wave will flow into its system from the southwest, its top will be above the center of Russia. Almost everywhere it will be cloudy, with precipitation, gusty winds, but warm, as winds will blow mainly from the south. The anticyclone will only reach the extreme east and southeast of the territory.

Yushchenko thought about presidential elections The first meeting of the new Ukrainian parliament did not bring the long-awaited answer to the question of who will rule the country . The proclamation of the creation of an “orange” coalition consisting of the “Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc” (BYuT) and the presidential bloc “Our Ukraine - People's Self-Defense” (NUNS), expected last Friday within the walls of the Verkhovna Rada, did not happen.

After the end of the Moscow stage of the Grand Prix, the famous Russian coach Alexei MISHIN, who trained several Olympic champions - Alexei Urmanov, Alexei Yagudin and Evgeni Plushenko, answered questions from Vremya Novostei correspondent Olga ERMOLINA. — Alexey Nikolaevich, what is your opinion about the current situation in Russian figure skating? - You can look at what is happening now in our figure skating through different eyes - as a spectator, an official, a coach.

Rosoboronexport became a corporation The president signed on Saturday a law creating another state corporation - potentially one of the largest in the country. Rostekhnologiya will include FSUE Rosoboronexport and its subsidiaries. Russia's only arms exporter decided that this particular organizational and legal form would allow it to best not only promote military products on world markets, but also high-tech civilian ones.

Three “big books” named The second season of the “Big Book” award ended with the awarding of Lyudmila Ulitskaya (“Daniel Stein, translator.” – M., “Eksmo”, 2006; first prize), Alexey Varlamov (“Alexey Tolstoy.” – M., “Young Guard” ", series "ZhZL"; second prize) and Dina Rubina ("On the sunny side of the street." - M., "Eksmo", 2006; third prize).

British MPs reported on Russia After months of consideration, the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons of the British Parliament, chaired by Labor member Mike Gapes, yesterday published a lengthy report “Russia and Global Security”. The purpose of the document is to give the British Foreign Office recommendations on further building relations with Russia.

Vladimir Lisin buys Maxi-Group instead of Alisher Usmanov Vladimir Lisin's Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant turned out to be the very player because of which Alisher Usmanov's structures abandoned their intention to acquire the Maxi-Group company. On Thursday evening, Mr.

Angela Merkel's government dilutes gasoline By the will of the German federal government, German drivers will be forced to gradually increase their biofuel consumption. Environment Minister Sigmar Gabriel and Agriculture Minister Horst Seehofer presented in Berlin late last week a strategy for the use of plant-based fuel additives, which will increasingly find their way into transport fuel tanks in the medium term.

Tourist liner Explorer sank after hitting an iceberg The shipwreck of a small Canadian cruise ship is already being compared to the drama of the Titanic that sank in 1912. True, the journey had a happy ending, at least for all passengers on the ship. On Friday, after a collision with an ice mass, the Explorer liner with a displacement of 2.4 thousand tons sank near King George Island in the South Shetland Islands. All the thrill-seekers who went on a voyage to Antarctica managed to escape.

Oleg Deripaska officially announced his readiness to buy the main asset of the Onexim group Aluminum tycoon Oleg Deripaska appears to be eager to get in on Russia's biggest deal. The United Company RUSAL last Friday officially announced its intention to buy a blocking stake in Norilsk Nickel from Mikhail Prokhorov's Onexim group .

Siemens has a criminal case in the Urals Russian security forces unexpectedly found themselves involved in a pan-European campaign to combat corruption at Siemens . Auditors discovered almost 1 billion euros in the corporation's accounts, which was planned for kickbacks for foreign contracts. Investigations are already underway in Germany, Italy, the USA and Switzerland.