In 2007, our ping pong masters won a lot of awards This coming weekend in China the “Tournament of Champions” will take place, in which eight of the strongest players on the planet will take part in men and women. These are mostly Asians, trendsetters in world ping pong. And for our small racket masters, the 2008 international season, the most successful in Russian history, ended last week in the American city of Palo Alto, where the Youth World Championship awards were played out.

CLUBS "Caliban" (Germany). Tough German men present their new album The Awakening. "Point" , 19.00. Festival "Zvuki.ru" : Sheen Evans, Simon Kingman, 4Hero (all - UK), Misha Delvig (Ireland), Bilk (Croatia), Happy55, "...and my friend the truck", "Gateway". "B2" , 20.00. "Almas Del Fuego" Evening of music and flamenco dancing. “The Wood Grouse’s Nest” , 21.00. CONCERTS "Aquarium" .

"Eugene Onegin" directed by Krzysztof Warlikowski “Well then? It seems that your enemy has not appeared” - “He will appear now” - “But still it’s a little strange to me that he’s not there: it’s seven o’clock! I thought he was waiting for us!” Meanwhile, the enemy is right under the noses of those talking: lying across the double bed, on which Lensky is sitting on the other side, Onegin involuntarily hears his friend’s conversation with Zaretsky, standing at the head of the bed.

After victory, the disgraced oligarch will pay a billion Georgian presidential candidate 52-year-old Badri Patarkatsishvili could become a real competitor to 39-year-old ex-President Mikheil Saakashvili. Yesterday, the businessman spoke live from London on the Imedi radio station about his election program. The candidate promised to finalize the program by the end of the week and arrive with it in Tbilisi, although he was never able to obtain additional guarantees of immunity.

Not only to really show this very objectivity, but also to imitate it, dear, there is no strength. The position and the genre, however, are obligatory, and after grinding my teeth, looking through the annual contents of magazines and remembering wandering around bookstores, I say with an important look: everything is fine with literature.

Belgium emerges from political impasse On the 190th day of the crisis in Belgium, King Albert II on Monday appointed Premier Guy Verhofstadt ( pictured ) to head an "intermediate" cabinet that can deal with "urgent problems". Until now, the old government, which remained in place after the June parliamentary elections, had limited powers and performed only technical functions.

The Central Bank proposes to lift the moratorium on quick repayment of small loans Yesterday the Bank of Russia proposed its amendments to the bill on consumer lending , versions of which have been developed for several years. According to the regulator, it is necessary to lift the moratorium on early repayment of loans in the amount of up to 100 thousand rubles.

A structure has been created for the construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline The implementation of the project for the construction of the trans-Balkan oil pipeline Burgas-Alexandroupolis seems to begin in January. Yesterday in Moscow, an agreement was signed between Russia, Bulgaria and Greece on the creation of an international construction project company (IPC), which, according to Transneft, will be registered in the Netherlands.

The change of the government of Ukraine darkened the holidays for Gazprom What they were waiting for at Gazprom with poorly concealed anxiety has come true. 13 days before the New Year, Yulia Tymoshenko, who has repeatedly promised to achieve a revision of Russian-Ukrainian gas agreements, again became Prime Minister of Ukraine . It is not yet clear how radical Ms. Tymoshenko really is, but without further ado it is clear that tense days await gas relations between Moscow and Kyiv.

Japanese Defense Minister Shigeru Ishiba called the successful test of the Standard Missile-3 (MS-3) interceptor missile, conducted on Monday in the Hawaiian Islands with the assistance of the US armed forces, an “outstanding event.” “The test marks an important step towards increasing confidence in our missile defense system,” Mr. Ishiba said.

It just so happened that Peter Schastlivy is a very modest hockey player. Although he played in the NHL, he has a certain authority in Russia. A “gray” man will not be appointed captain of the national team at the home World Cup. The other day, the CSKA center forward returned to the ice after a long break. Seven months have passed since he suffered serious cruciate ligament damage. A lot happened during this time. He changed the team, moving from Khimik Mytishchi to CSKA.

Frenchman Joël Pomerat staged a play about children and parents in Moscow The play “This Child” at the Praktika theater was released during the NET festival, on the same days when another play by Pomera, brought from France, “Traders,” was played at the festival.

Only two compatriots agreed to come to the Krasnoyarsk Territory Pessimistic forecasts regarding the state program for the return of compatriots are beginning to come true.

Today at the UN Security Council, based on the report presented to UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon by the mediating troika (USA, Russia, EU), consultations will be held on the status of Kosovo . According to the unanimously adopted rules of the meeting, envoys from Belgrade and Pristina will share their views with the Security Council members.

The Ministry of Finance deprived divorced fathers of the right to a tax deduction Parents who do not live with their children will no longer be able to reduce their income by 600 rubles when calculating income tax . per month. The Treasury has reversed its earlier clarification on the standard deduction. Now, if the child’s mother takes advantage of a double deduction, the father will be denied this benefit, even if he regularly pays alimony and has children from his remarriage to support him.