Fatih Terim's bloodless team is preparing for a sensation It's time for the decisive matches at the European Championships. Before the semi-finals, which open with the game Germany - Türkiye, everything froze in anticipation of the outcome. Even the Mercedes concern announced that it would suspend its production line for the duration of the match. The Turks, who also work on it, don’t mind at all. In the first semi-final, the two teams that have the largest support in this championship meet.

Lawyers believe reform of the judicial system is impossible without changing the mentality of society The mentality of Russian society, in which there is no culture of respect for human rights, is the main obstacle to the upcoming reform of the judicial system.

Yuri Luzhkov felt the benefits of the famous gymnast “at his fingertips” The famous athlete, silver medalist of the 2004 Olympics, multiple world and European champion in rhythmic gymnastics Irina Chashchina became deputy prefect of the Northern Administrative District of Moscow, Interfax reports.

Competition "Prospects" at the 30th MIFF The "Perspectives" competition is a recent acquisition of the Moscow International Film Festival; four years ago it was conceived as a show of talented debuts, an alternative to the “adult” main competition.

Evraz structure is suspected of cartel conspiracy with ArcelorMittal The South African Competition Commission conducted a search at the offices of Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corporation Ltd , part of the Russian Evraz Group. As news agencies reported yesterday, the search is related to an investigation into a possible cartel agreement on the market for metallurgical products in South Africa.

Scientists have created a working model of cooling glass Glass is considered an extremely simple material: humanity learned to make it several thousand years ago and nothing has fundamentally changed in this process. Both in ancient times and now, glassmakers do the same thing: they melt quartz sand at high temperatures and obtain a viscous, viscous and transparent material that can be easily given to almost any desired shape.

An idea for producing fuel from algae has emerged in Ireland. The popular topic of biofuel (fuel made from plant materials) has interested the Irish. In this country, which is not very suitable for highly productive agriculture, algae can be used as a feedstock, according to the National University of Galway. There is plenty of this goodness here: scientists have counted 16 species of algae, which, in their opinion, are suitable for processing and commercial use.

The US has no claims against the Uyghur separatist A federal appeals court in Washington has ruled that a US military tribunal wrongly declared a Guantanamo Bay prison inmate an "enemy soldier." This is the first time such a decision has been made.

Potanin and Usmanov invited Vekselberg to the newly created mining and metallurgical holding The head of Interros, Vladimir Potanin, and the main owner of Metalloinvest, Alisher Usmanov, are taking further steps to implement their ambitious idea - creating one of the world's largest mining and metallurgical holdings . Businessmen have been nurturing this idea for months, and yesterday it became known that the third participant in this union could be the head of Renova, Viktor Vekselberg.

The rules of the game in the financial market are changing in the USA Having revealed a number of violations by rating agencies after a series of scandals and investigations, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to allow short-term investment funds to invest in “short” debt securities without regard to ratings, and not only in securities with the maximum investment grade, as it's happening now. Thus, the influence of rating agencies on financial markets may decline sharply.

The words of Joseph Brodsky are well known: “The main thing is the greatness of the plan.” Translated from the language of poets and philosophers into everyday speech: the right idea is already half the battle. Anatoly Chubais decided one fine minute that before RAO UES of Russia completed the grandiose project and ceased to exist, one more thing had to be done. Namely, to tell the most important and never-told part of the history of the Soviet electric power industry.

The President instructed the government to remember all tax promises The first budget message of President Dmitry Medvedev for 2009-2011, sent yesterday to the prime minister and the chairmen of both houses of parliament, is de facto already being sorted out “piece by piece” in the government and departments. At yesterday's budget commission, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced that at the next government meeting the main parameters of the three-year budget will be considered.

The estimated date of the murder of Penelope's suitors has been announced The ancient hero Odysseus returned home on April 16, 1178 BC. This dating was proposed by two astronomers - Marcelo Magnasco from New York's Rockefeller University and Constantino Baykuzis, an employee of the Argentine Observatory in La Plata. Scientists have carefully studied the 24 songs of Homer's epic and tried to tie ancient events in Ithaca to the meager astronomical facts scattered throughout the text of the poem.

The Investigative Committee found how much money Mikhail Khodorkovsky used to pay for lawyers and support his family The Investigative Committee of the Prosecutor's Office has filed new charges in the case of embezzlement at Yukos, committed after the arrest of disgraced oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky in 2003.

In a recent letter, a colleague from the teaching department reported another exam curiosity. The student told him that during Pushkin’s stay at Mikhailovsky, the “famous Boldino autumn” happened. Alas, I didn’t even smile - the experience of mixing Pskov with Nizhny Novgorod has long been familiar to me. And not at all as an anecdote. My colleague and I live in different cities, work in different universities, but it turns out that we have the same joys during the session.