Russian clubs are stuck in the UEFA Cup Getting to the European Championship had no impact on the Russian players. Having celebrated this event, the players were unable to fully concentrate on work again. Three Russian clubs playing in the UEFA Cup did not win a single victory yesterday and postponed the decision to enter the spring stage of the tournament until the last minute.

An extraordinary event occurred in the National Hockey League match between Chicago and Tampa Bay. The hosts' goalkeeper, 1992 Albertville Olympic champion Nikolai Khabibullin, playing for the first time against his former team, with whom he won the Stanley Cup in the 2003/04 season, made two assists. Moreover, both times Nikolai assisted in the third period. The match turned out to be completely unconventional.

English watercolor in the Hermitage The best gift for a patron of the arts is an exhibition of his works. The centenary of Andrew Mellon, an American admirer of English watercolors, is being celebrated at the State Hermitage with a successful exhibition. The Twelve Column Hall features 88 sheets from 45 masters. The exhibition is organized by the State Hermitage Museum together with the Yale Center for British Art (New Haven, USA) and the Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond, Virginia, USA).

At the School of Modern Play theatre, two debutants staged the comedy of a third Not much is known about the comedy “2x2=5”, staged at the “School of Modern Play” theater: that three years ago the play received the main prize at the Russian competition “Characters” and that its author, a young debutante Ksenia Stepanycheva, works in Saratov economist.

Ingushetia fought back against American aggressors Senators from Ingushetia Issa Kostoev and Vasily Likhachev were outraged by the fact that a seminar was held in Washington on the future of this republic. On Tuesday, Issa Kostoev called for “a decisive rebuff to any manifestations of concern for the republic” coming from overseas.

The court commuted the sentence of Boris Berezovsky Moscow's Savyolovsky Court yesterday handed down the first verdict in one of 11 criminal cases brought in Russia against disgraced oligarch Boris Berezovsky . The court in absentia - in the absence of the accused - found him a fraudster, guilty of theft of about 215 million rubles. from the Aeroflot company, and sentenced to six years in a general regime colony. In addition, Mr. Berezovsky was ordered to return the stolen millions.

CLUBS "Hummingbird" Gogol' , December 1, 21.30. Olga Arefieva and “Ark”. H.O. , December 1, 22.00. Tarja Turunen (Finland), Mike Terrana (USA). "B1 Maximum" December 2, 20.00. CONCERTS Pet Shop Boys (UK). Ice Palace on Khodynka Field , December 2, 19.00. MOVIE “I will never be yours” (USA, 2007). Directed by Amy Heckerling. Starring Michelle Pfeiffer, Paul Rudd, Stacey Dash, Jon Lovitz, Henry Winkler, Fred Willard, Tracey Ullman, Sarah Alexander and others.

Lavrov counted how many times the head of the ODIHR told lies The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will still monitor the parliamentary elections in Russia on December 2. Today, representatives of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly are arriving in Moscow and will monitor polling stations in the capital and several other cities. They will head to Russia straight from Madrid, where the meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers of the 56 OSCE member states ends today.

The President finished his campaign Yesterday, Russian President Vladimir Putin made his long-awaited address to the people, which was broadcast on daytime television news as "the president's answers to numerous questions from media representatives and Russian citizens about his attitude to the upcoming elections." At the same time, no one asked the president questions on air and he himself did not refer to them.

Atlantic cyclones prevent frost from setting in on the European territory of Russia. And with the next one in early December it will freeze again. Only on the last day of November will there be a thaw. On Friday in the northwestern regions, with the passage of a wave cyclone, there will be occasional snow, sleet, and -3...-8oC during the day. In the Kaliningrad region there is occasional rain and +2...+7оС.

European literature at the non/fiction fair The organizers of the non/fiction fair of intellectual literature are trying to establish for their brainchild the status of an elite event: only for selected publishers and advanced readers. Behind the elitism in this case is elementary legibility, dictated not only by taste, but also by the compactness of the available space.

Chronicle of sporting events Basketball. NBA. Regular season. “Philadelphia” – “Utah” – 95:106, “Atlanta” – “Milwaukee” – 96:80, “San Antonio” – “Washington” – 109:94, “Phoenix” – “ Houston" -- 94:100, "Portland" -- "Indiana" -- 89:95, "Toronto" -- "Memphis" -- 103:91, "Detroit" -- "Cleveland" -- 109:74, “Dallas” – “Minnesota” – 109:103, “Sacramento” – “Golden State” – 96:103, “Seattle” – “Orlando” – 94:110.

Venezuelan President argues with neighbors, journalists and diplomats On Sunday, a referendum on changing the constitution will be held in Venezuela. It was initiated by President Hugo Chavez. The main amendment he proposed gives the current president the right to be re-elected an unlimited number of times. On the eve of the plebiscite, Caracas was rocked by high-profile international scandals. Yesterday Chavez announced a severance of relations with the president and government of Colombia.

The nomination of a single presidential candidate will be the first test of the possibility of a real opposition in Russia Yesterday, ex-world chess champion and leader of the United Civil Front Garry Kasparov was released after the first arrest in his opposition activities . “I hope people all over the world see how opposition activists are treated in Russia... The regime is entering a dangerous phase of becoming a dictatorship,” he said immediately after his release.

Gus van Sant's "Paranoid Park" reaches Moscow Sixteen years old, melancholy, the first girl who “really wants to sleep with me,” parents are getting divorced, friends are busy only with themselves. There is no one to talk to. Gus van Sant is again making a movie about the restlessness and loneliness of a teenager. This time the hero, a pretty black-eyed boy Alex (played by a non-professional actor of the same age as Gabe Nevis), mostly skateboards in the company of mugs like him.