The new Batman film breaks all possible records Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight, a new film about the adventures of a defender of the law dressed as a heroic bat, promised to be a sensation from the very beginning. But even the most desperate optimists could hardly have expected the true scale of “Batman mania” that swept America after the film’s release (the premiere took place exactly a week ago and covered an unprecedented number of American cinemas - 4366).

Zenit began a series with Moscow clubs In the coming week and a half, the St. Petersburg “Zenith” had the opportunity to prove the advantage in the football of the Northern capital over Moscow. Over the next ten days, the Dick’s team should play with Dynamo, CSKA and Moscow. And yesterday, the champions of the country took the metropolitan Lokomotiv, and the very first meeting with Muscovites turned out to be a loss of glasses for the St. Petersburg.

Rakhat Aliyev released incriminating evidence on his former father-in-law The former son-in-law of the President of Kazakhstan, the head of the once powerful media-financial group of this country, more recently one of the leaders of the National Security Committee, and then a high-ranking diplomat, sentenced in absentia this year by a Kazakh court to 40 years in prison for kidnappings and other crimes, now hiding in In Europe, Rakhat Aliyev dealt a powerful blow to the reputation of his country

Ingosstrakh managed to complete the shareholders meeting The owners of Ingosstrakh and irreconcilable opponents - Oleg Deripaska's Basic Element holding and the Czech PPF Investments group - seem to have managed to complete the meeting of the insurer's shareholders that lasted almost a month without mutual claims. Both owners of the company voted on the election of a new board of directors, the amount of remuneration for board members and dividends.

Chavez called Lukashenko to an energy battle with imperialism The main result of yesterday's visit to Minsk by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez was an agreement to expand cooperation between the two countries in the energy sector. The companies "Belorusneft" and "Petroleos de Venezuela" signed a memorandum on the accession of three additional fields to the joint venture for oil production.

An employee of a Kazan water park received two years in the case of the death of a child. The Vakhitovsky District Court of Kazan yesterday announced the verdict in the scandalous case of the death a year ago of a child in a local water park, who was sucked into the water intake pipe of one of the attractions by a strong jet.

The expansion of the Panama Canal was a gift to geologists and paleontologists Probably, it will not be a strong exaggeration to say that one of the main problems of archeology and paleontology is the “dashed” of their excavations. Not a single expedition, no matter how much funds are allocated to her, is able to examine the promising territory in the scale of square kilometers. In the best case, scientists dig a pit into several hectares.

The government promises not to substitute beneficiaries anymore Yesterday, the government studied on its own mistakes - now federal funds on a social package of beneficiaries will be laid to the budget of the previous year, so that in January the year there is no failure in social security.

Masonic theme in Russian museums Freemasonry in the cultural consciousness of most Russians still remains a marginal exoticism. This was confirmed by the exhibition “Freemasonry: History, Ritual, Symbolism” that opened at the Museum of the History of Religion in St. Petersburg. A report on the opening was published in the newspaper Vremya Novostey. The exhibition about Freemasonry is definitely of interest to two categories of viewers who will undoubtedly visit it.

Kaskol and Prominvestors invested in an American aircraft manufacturing company Russian investors Sergei Generalov and Sergei Nedoroslev managed to cheaply buy the assets of the bankrupt American aircraft manufacturing company Adam Aircraft Industries Inc (AAI). Yesterday, the buyers announced that the deal had been approved by the US State Department's Foreign Investment Committee and was thus legally sealed.

Russians cannot defeat the South Americans for six years in a row In the starting match of the final tournament of the world league, in the presence of 11 thousand spectators, two objectively stronger male prefabricated planets met today. Brazilians are the current Olympic champions and winners of the last mundial-2006.

In Egypt, near the pyramid of Cheops, archaeologists discovered an ancient boat on which, as expected, the legendary ruler of Egypt was supposed to make his posthumous journeys. As the AP agency reports, the craft was placed in an underground chamber and lay in this “dry dock” for 4.5 thousand years. This is the second boat that scientists have found: the first such burial was discovered back in 1954.

Those responsible for the strip club fire have been sentenced. The Tverskoy District Court of the capital yesterday handed down a verdict in the criminal case regarding the fire at the 911 night strip club, where ten people died in March 2007. Two bartenders of the club, Alexander Kosobutsky and Sergei Eremenko, as well as the director of the establishment, Sergei Cherkasov, who was responsible for compliance with fire safety rules, were found guilty of the tragedy.

The 1020th anniversary of the baptism of Rus' risks becoming another problem in relations between Moscow and Kyiv Preparations for the celebrations scheduled for the end of the week on the occasion of the 1020th anniversary of the baptism of Russia in Kiev are reminiscent of election battles: Kiev is plastered with many welcoming posters. More often than others, one comes across portraits of the Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, whom Ukraine is going to welcome today.

Chronicle of sports events A meeting of the Executive Committee of the Russian Football Union was held at the Football House on Taganka, at which the results of the country's national team at the European Championship were summed up. The head coach of the HUS Hiddink team, usually ignoring such events, made a report. “You can’t stop there,” Hiddink warned against the euphoria of the audience and immediately made the radar. - Now a lot of young Russian players are lost.