CLUBS Anna Koroleva (vocals, saxophone) and Jump . Forte , 21.00. Anastasia Glazkova (vocals). BB King , 8 p.m. CONCERTS Soloists of the Bolshoi Theater of Russia orchestra and Tatyana Lanskaya (soprano). The program includes Bach, Schubert, Fauré, Wolf, Debussy, Richard Strauss. Tchaikovsky Cultural Center , 19.00. Orchestra "New Russia" , conductor Yuri Bashmet , soloist Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano, France). The concert will be attended by Laurent Natrella (Comédie Française), Sergei Yursky .

The US team took the Davis Cup from Russia The sixth racket of the world Andy Roddick, the 13th number of the individual ATP classification James Blake and the best couple of the planet, brothers Bob and Mike Bryan, ensured that the US team won the third major team trophy in the last fifteen seasons - the Davis Cup.

"Hitman" on Moscow screens They were selected wherever possible and impossible, all over the world. Orphans and foundlings, those whom no one will ever miss. They were taken to a camp, where, to the accompaniment of religious hymns, they were taught what their peers were unlikely to comprehend. Fight to the last blood using all the techniques of Eastern and Western martial arts. Breathe underwater. Shoot at any target without blinking an eye.

Chronicle of sporting events The leader of the Brazilian national team and Milan won the Ballon d'Or, a prestigious award awarded annually by France Football to the best player in the world. The information that Kaka will win the award, the winner of which is chosen by voting by 96 journalists and 50 football players, was distributed by Italian publications a long time ago, but only yesterday France Football officially confirmed it.

At the non/fiction intellectual book fair, according to its invariable custom, the winners of the Andrei Bely Prize - the oldest underground-avant-garde-current literary award - were named.

The difficult stories of searching for a head coach for the England and Australia national teams, as well as conflicting information surrounding the extension of the contract with the coach of the Russian national team, Guus Hiddink, are links in the same chain.

A powerful Atlantic cyclone is moving with precipitation to the west of European territory. Southerly winds blow in its front part, and therefore it will be warm. In the northwestern regions today there will be snow at times, wet during the day, snowstorms in places, wet snow sticking here and there during the day, strong wind, gusts up to 15-17 m/s in some places. Tuesday will also be windy and wet.

Turks attack Kurds with an eye on the USA Turkish President Abdullah Gul yesterday confirmed Ankara's "readiness and right" for a military operation against bases and militants of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) in neighboring Iraq. In turn, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said that the decision to conduct a cross-border operation was made by the government on November 28 as part of the anti-terrorism law approved by parliament in mid-October.

At the end of this week, Lebanese politicians will again try to elect the country's president. The elections were scheduled for last Thursday and were postponed again. This is already the sixth postponement since September of this year. Lebanese Parliament Speaker Nabih Berri announced that elections will take place on December 7.

Disgraced security officer Mikhail Trepashkin returned home from prison Former FSB colonel Mikhail Trepashkin served his sentence for disclosing state secrets and was released last Friday from penal colony IK-13, located near Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region. Arriving in Yekaterinburg, the disgraced security officer immediately told reporters that he intended to seek a review of the verdict in his case and prove that it was fabricated. In the evening of the same day, Mr.

A group of 29 Orthodox believers, hiding in a dugout from the imminent end of the world promised by their leader in May 2008, not only cast a shadow on the ceremonial vestments of the hierarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate, but also revealed something in the religious life of Russia that was carefully hidden.

Investors are waiting for clarity with the successor The Russian stock market ended the last pre-election week on an optimistic note. However, the growth was mainly due to external factors. The current, as well as the previous parliamentary elections in 2003 , had virtually no impact on investor sentiment.

Twelve members of the Tver Duma were found to have taken bribes An unprecedented criminal trial ended in the Tver Regional Court on Friday. Almost half of the deputies of the Tver City Duma, led by their speaker Viktor Pochtarev - 12 people in total - were found guilty of accepting bribes and criminal conspiracy with commercial structures that, with the approval of the authorities, provided utility services to citizens at inflated tariffs.

Water from Venus was blown away by the solar wind One of the most mysterious planets in the solar system is gradually losing its atmosphere. Experts from the European Space Agency have received confirmation that solar wind streams are gradually blowing the famous clouds of Venus into outer space. This information came from the Venus Express automatic station, which studied the planet closest to us for a year and a half. The first results of this project were announced on November 28 in Paris.

Mechel Group has decided on the fate of the Yakut coal assets purchased in October . On Friday it became known that it is considering the possibility of an IPO of shares of the mining division, which will be separated into an independent company.