Chronicle of sporting events Matches of the first round of the preliminary stage of the Grand Prix, a commercial competition among women's national teams, took place in Italy, Japan and China. This tournament is a kind of analogue of the men's World League. The Russian national team is not participating in the current competition, as last year it was unable to pass the continental selection.

Is it possible to do without intermediaries when looking for housing in the capital? Two new sources for searching for housing have appeared on the RuNet - the social network VKontakte.ru and Live Journal. Users are trying to bypass intermediaries to resolve housing issues in Moscow and St. Petersburg. All roads lead to realtors Hundreds of websites post thousands of advertisements for housing sales and rentals every day.

"Futurism. Radical revolution. Italy-Russia" at the Museum of Fine Arts In principle, this exhibition should be considered historically significant. For the first time in Russia, one can observe with one’s own eyes the birth pangs of a culture that brought into the world a baby who subjugated the entire 20th century to its service. The baby's name is Vanguard. And the birth pangs that preceded it are called futurism everywhere.

In Russia prices are increasing and the population is decreasing On Monday, Rosstat published summary economic statistics for the five months of 2008. Although the figures for the year - from May 2007 to May 2008 - are generally good, in recent months the growth rate has begun to slow down in some places. And where the growth of indicators is precisely undesirable, they nevertheless grow.

Natalya Bekhtereva died Russian medical science has lost one of its patriarchs. In Hamburg, at St. George's Hospital, Natalya Bekhtereva, a famous physiologist who had headed the Institute of the Human Brain of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 1990, died at the age of 84. The list of discoveries and scientific achievements of Natalya Bekhtereva is almost endless.

Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church will condemn church “independence” and same-sex marriage As expected, the Council of Bishops of the Russian Orthodox Church, opening today in Moscow , intends to officially respond to the messages of Bishop Diomede of Anadyr and Chukotka, who, on the eve of the highest church-wide meeting, again criticized Patriarch Alexy II and the top leadership of the Russian Orthodox Church for contacts with the “anti-people” authorities and dialogue with other faiths.

The FTS will propose to limit gas prices from rises and falls By the end of summer, the Federal Tariff Service (FTS) will finally agree on new principles for calculating the formula for equal-income gas prices , the head of the department, Sergei Novikov, told reporters yesterday. According to him, the FTS proposes to introduce restrictions on the minimum and maximum price changes.

Bankers belong on the street Major financial corporations continue to lay off their employees amid the crisis. According to Western media reports, Citigroup, which suffered the greatest losses among American banks, may cut about 13 thousand people. Other companies will lose an even larger percentage of their workforce. Even Goldman Sachs, which is believed to have been largely unaffected by the mortgage crisis, will resort to significant cuts.

The PACE Chairman is impressed by the new Russian President Yesterday the summer session of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) opened in Strasbourg. Over the course of five days, representatives of 47 member states of the Council of Europe will discuss current international problems. The Russian delegation in Strasbourg is headed by the head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, Konstantin Kosachev.

More than a third of Russians consider themselves poor Last week, data from two sociological surveys were published characterizing the Russian population’s perception of their social status. From the first survey it follows that 39% of Russians call themselves poor people (according to official statistics, there are less than 15% of them in Russia), and 57% of participants in another survey spend more than half of their income on food.

The main tournament of the season on grass has started On Monday, the third Grand Slam tournament of the season, Wimbledon, kicked off for the 122nd time on the outskirts of London. The main distinguishing feature of these competitions is that the fights are held on grass courts. The playing period on this surface takes only two weeks.

During the first days of the very busy program of the 30th MIFF, eight films from the main competition have already been shown. So far there is clearly no favorite among them, and the level of the paintings makes one feel rather sad.

The State Duma is ready to approve the transfer of departmental lands for mass development A large-scale land audit may soon begin in Russia. Inefficiently used departmental lands will be accumulated by the Federal Fund for the Promotion of Housing Construction, the bill on the creation of which was recommended yesterday for adoption in the first reading by the relevant State Duma Committee on Construction and Land Relations.

For the first time, a verdict was handed down for the illegal activities of a tour operator In Russia, for the first time, a verdict has been passed on charges of illegal business to the head of a travel agency. The Vremya Novostey correspondent was told about this at the Main Investigation Department (GID) of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate.

Russian fans will not be deprived of tickets to the Euro 2008 semi-finals For the semi-final match between Russia and Spain at Euro 2008, the Russian side will be provided with 6,200 tickets. Press attache of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Andrei Malosolov told a Vremya Novostei correspondent about this. In a telephone conversation, he categorically denied the information that the quota for this match for Russians would be only 4 thousand tickets.