Advocaat's team lost to the middle peasants Zenit is closely involved in eliminating debts from matches. In July, Dick Advocaat's team will have to play eight national championship matches. But she suffered losses already in the second. Yesterday, the Russian champion lost at home at Petrovsky to Spartak from Nalchik - 3:4. Surely the Lawyer looks with longing as the composition of his team decreases day by day.

Yesterday in Istanbul there was an armed attack on the guards of the US Consulate General. The city's governor said three Turkish police officers and three attackers were killed. The Istanbul prosecutor said the attackers were armed with pistols and shotguns. The incident occurred at about 11 o'clock in the afternoon at the main entrance to the Consulate General; none of the diplomatic mission personnel were injured.

“Invisible difference” in “ARTStrelka-projects” As part of the first Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art “Stop, who’s coming?” The exhibition “Invisible Difference” opened. The curators of the exhibition, Alexander Evangeli and Sergei Khachaturov, invited three artists to play the game “don’t believe your eyes” and radicalize the issues of modernity “not by depicting the visible, but by making visible” (Paul Klee) the mechanisms and meanings of reality. The exhibition was housed in two halls.

The death of the main witness against St. Petersburg police officers took the Prosecutor General's Office by surprise At the end of last week, entrepreneur Semyon Shubik died in St. Petersburg.

A climate miracle is expected in the mountains of Argentina: the Perito Moreno glacier may melt in winter for the first time in half a century. More precisely, not the glacier itself, but part of its tongue, which slides into a small valley. This usually happens in the summer: the melting and collapse of an ice wall of several tens of meters is considered a very attractive spectacle for tourists.

Finland decided not to interfere with Russia's accession to the WTO Finland has decided to accept the increase in export duties on unprocessed wood in Russia . Helsinki will not prevent Russia from joining the World Trade Organization (WTO), despite increasing tariffs, an unnamed senior source in the Finnish government told Reuters yesterday. “Russia is now and in the future will be the largest trading partner in the world, so it would be somewhat abnormal if it were not a member of the WTO.

Igor Sechin will take care of new preferences for the fuel and energy complex Deputy Prime Minister Igor Sechin yesterday at a meeting with journalists revealed many secrets of the “oil and gas yard”. He believes that the industry he supervises does not even roll like cheese in butter, as it seems to ordinary people. Its profitability today is only 9.1%, while in the West this figure is 40-45%.

The consequences of cultural drunkenness were tested on mice Quitting drinking can lead to serious depression, even if the drunk is... an ordinary laboratory mouse. This result was obtained by specialists from the Alcohol Research Center at North Carolina State University. In their opinion, if you feed rodents alcohol for a long time and then stop making them drunk, the mice begin to become depressed. Plus, without alcohol, neurons in the brains of animals are formed more slowly than usual.

The Moscow City Duma may authorize the transformation of parks into stadiums In the face of an acute shortage of available land in Moscow, city officials seem to have decided to acquire legislative permission for construction inside historical estates and protected natural areas. True, the list of facilities being built there is limited in advance to sports and recreation complexes.

The namesake of the famous racing driver owns the yellow Tour de France jersey British cyclist Mark Cavendish from the Columbia team won the fifth stage of the famous and most significant stage race in the international calendar, the Tour de France, in a group sprint finish.

Some ecosystems can adapt to climate change When they talk about the coming global warming, among its most sad consequences they usually mention a significant change in the vegetation cover of our planet. For example, it is assumed that arid regions of the earth are at risk of turning into deserts, and more heat-loving species of grasses and trees will appear in the northern territories. Following the plants, the animal world must also change.

Former financier of the concern was detained Former financial director of the European aircraft manufacturer Airbus Andreas Sperl was arrested yesterday by French police on suspicion of illegal use of insider information . Mr. Sperl joins a fairly long list of former Airbus executives suspected of this crime. There are currently 17 people on this list, four of them have been arrested. Four of the 17, including Mr. Sperl, are German, the rest are French. Mr.

Moscow entered into a diplomatic battle with Washington over the Caucasus The Russian leadership took very seriously the plan proposed by Washington to introduce international police forces into the area of ​​the Georgian-Abkhaz conflict , designed to replace the Russian peacekeepers operating there. In order to prevent such a development of events, Moscow demanded an urgent convening of a meeting of the UN Security Council.

Iran demonstrates military might Iran has taken a new step in the spiral of military confrontation in the Near and Middle East region. Tehran gave an impressive response to the recent Israeli military exercise to practice long-range aviation operations, hypothetically aimed at Iranian targets.

Employees of the Sokolniki police station are suspected of bullying and torture A scandal is breaking out around the Moscow Sokolniki police station. As Vremya Novostey learned, the Preobrazhensky district department of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case “against unidentified police officers” of this police department, who in April severely beat six young people, including three minors.