For the seventh time, last weekend the sports festival “Partners of the 21st Century” took place. Its organizer, Vnesheconombank, tried to ensure that the employees who came to the sports festival with their entire families were in a festive mood. And although everyone who came to the Yantar stadium, which became practically home for the festival, agreed with the principle “the main thing is not victory, but participation,” passions flared up in earnest on the sports grounds.

An exhibition of contemporary Chinese art has opened The exhibition occupied the fourth floor of the new TSUM building. The name is simple: “China... forward!” For ten years now, art that is fashionable all over the world has come to us and is placed in a fashion store. Double, so to speak, fashion. Moreover, the exhibition is successfully combined with the China Weeks on the trading floor.

Ann Pringle is already in Russia The new British ambassador to Russia, as Vremya Novostei was told by the British Foreign Office, will officially take up his duties in October. However, from sources close to the Foreign Office, we learned that 53-year-old Anne Pringle, who will replace the current ambassador, 58-year-old Anthony Brenton, at the post in Moscow, is already in Russia.

The fishing industry was again withdrawn from the Ministry of Agriculture Less than a month has passed since the new government began its work , and it is already being reformed. Changes have again affected the long-suffering Russian fishery, which has already been reassigned several times in the last five years alone.

CLUBS Goatika Creative Lab : Pete Lockett (UK), George Brooks (USA), Kai Eckhardt (Germany-USA), Artem Yakushenko , Boris Nazarov . This evening, Goatika Creative Lab, led by Pavel Mikhailyuk, will present a number of outstanding musicians. This project has already won the recognition and love of music connoisseurs.

Will there be a precedent for stopping a website by a court decision? Last week, the Kuntsevsky District Court of Moscow suspended the activities of the Ingushetia.ru website while it considered the claim of the republic's prosecutor to close it. Thus, the court granted the prosecutor's request to apply interim measures on the claim.

The court dispelled rumors of prostitution among the St. Petersburg military The public organization “Soldiers' Mothers of St. Petersburg” and the editors of the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” will have to compensate military unit 37/27 of the North-Western Regional Command of Internal Troops for the damage caused by the information published in the above-mentioned publication.

Couturier Yves Saint Laurent dies in Paris On Monday night, one of the classics of the modern fashion world, Yves Saint Laurent, died in his home in Paris. A year ago, doctors discovered a brain tumor in the fashion designer: he died at the age of 71, two months before his birthday. The death of the world famous couturier caused a wave of sympathy in France.

Russian gymnast, world and European champion Ksenia Semenova will become the youngest athlete in our Olympic team. At the time of her participation in the Olympics, Semenova will not yet turn 16 years old. Nevertheless, the student of Marina Nazarova has established herself as an experienced fighter with her performances at the last two world and European championships. A year ago in Stuttgart she made a brilliant debut, winning gold on the uneven bars.

Chronicle of sporting events The management of the Italian football club Inter (Milan) yesterday introduced the players to a new head coach - Portuguese Jose Mourinho, known for his work at Porto and English Chelsea, who signed a three-year contract. Financial details were not disclosed. Rumors about Mourinho's arrival at Inter have been circulating for a long time. The amount of possible earnings of a specialist was even mentioned - 9 million euros per year. Mourinho is 45 years old.

American Airlines began flights from Domodedovo American Airlines opens today a non-stop flight from Moscow (Domodedovo Airport) to Chicago. Flights will be operated six times a week on a Boeing 777-200 aircraft in a three-class configuration. In anticipation of the launch flight to Russia, the company introduced a Russian-language section on its website. The cost of the cheapest ticket Moscow-Chicago-Moscow for the second half of June starts from 18 thousand rubles. with taxes and fees.

The early parliamentary elections in Macedonia of two million, which took place on Sunday, June 1, ended in a convincing victory for the ruling coalition of the Internal Macedonian Revolutionary Organization and the Democratic Party of Macedonian National Unity. Its leader, Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, said yesterday that the coalition received more than 48% of the vote and could win more than half the mandates in the 120-seat assembly (parliament).

Inflation is becoming more dangerous than falling oil prices Yesterday, two influential international institutions - the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund - agreed on assessments that were unpleasant for the Russian authorities. Inflation at the end of this year , they believe, will exceed not only the budgeted 10.5%, but also last year’s level of 11.9%.

The tricks of those who sell equipment and the naivety of those who buy it If this continues, manufacturers will come up with the idea of ​​offering us TVs in the new 16:12 format instead of the usual 4:3. And someone will definitely fall for it. In any case, marketers’ slightly less blatant tricks work just fine. Most often, mobile phones fall under marketing “distribution”. It is clear why: we are talking about millions of dollars.

Safina and Dementieva will play in the quarterfinals of Roland Garros On Monday, the fourth round matches took place at the French Open tennis championship. The most interesting from the point of view of Russian fans were three meetings with the participation of five Russian women. Two fights were national derbies: Vera Zvonareva faced Elena Dementieva, and world number one Maria Sharapova competed with Dinara Safina.