Our skiers performed well at the stage in Canada The central event for fans of winter disciplines last weekend was the World Luge Championship on the track in Oberhof, Germany. Contrary to hopes for a successful performance by the 2006 Olympic silver medalist Albert Demchenko, the Russian team in Germany was left without medals. But awards were won at the World Cup stages in skiing and bobsleigh.

Israel's Tourism Ministry said that by early next year the flow of Russian tourists to the Jewish state will increase fivefold, which could mean up to half a million people a year. This was facilitated by the visa-free regime established on September 20 between the two countries . Russia and Israel have abolished tourist and visitor visas, allowing holders of general civil passports to stay on the territory of both states for up to 90 days within six months.

“Kings of Dance” will tour Russia and Ukraine Last fall they performed in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Perm - now Sergei Danilyan, who invented this ballet project, in which four of the top ten dancers in the world appear on stage, is taking the program to more distant Russian cities, and then to Ukrainian cities. This event is completely unique, just as the project itself is unique for Russia.

At the Channel One Football Cup in Israel, Russian clubs suffered a fiasco in their confrontation with Ukrainian teams. Spartak lost heavily - 0:3 - to Dynamo Kyiv, and CSKA could not resist Shakhtar - 1:3. The defeat of the UEFA Cup winners was even fairer than the failure of the “red and whites”. If Stanislav Cherchesov's team was not physically ready, then the army team was clearly inferior tactically.

At the first stage of the Eurotour, the coaching staff of the Russian national team decided to test several players. I was especially surprised by the appearance of 37-year-old Dynamo defender Alexei ZHITNIK in the team. In an interview with Vremya Novostei correspondent Oleg YEREMIN, the athlete explained how he felt in the national team, whether he was used to his partners and why he decided to live separately from everyone.

The Moscow City Court thought about the legality of the arrest of General Bulbov The Moscow City Court yesterday began a re-examination of the petition of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (SKP) to extend the arrest of the head of the Department of Operational Support of the Federal Drug Control Service, Lieutenant General Alexander Bulbov, and his alleged accomplices - subordinates Yuri Geval and Alexander Donchenko, and the general director of Gaztekhleasing LLC

Samaraneftegaz demanded 5 billion rubles from the former company of Mikhail Gutseriev Rosneft is going to compensate for the losses suffered by its subsidiary Samaraneftegaz, inherited from YUKOS, from the actions of Russneft. This will be a rather unpleasant surprise for the new owner of the defendant company, Oleg Deripaska (his structures are believed to already own Russneft).

Alexander Ovechkin fell just short of the title of best player in the NHL All-Star Game The 2008 NHL All-Star Game, which took place on Monday night Moscow time, ended in victory for the Eastern Conference team with a score of 8:7. This is the most useless information you can give about this past all-star weekend. A show is a show, players are gathered for this match not to win, but so that they give the viewer a beautiful picture.

The northwestern regions of the European territory of Russia were covered with clouds by the North Atlantic cyclone, the south of the territory remains under the influence of the anticyclone. On Tuesday there will be rain in the northwestern region, winds up to 18 m/s, temperatures will rise during the day to +6...+11оС. In the central region there will be mostly no precipitation, only in the Kostroma region there will be rain in places, during the day +2...+8oC.

Magnitogorsk has suspended supplies of rolled products to GAZ Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) was the first steel producer to announce the suspension of rolled steel supplies. So far we are talking about supplies to the GAZ group (part of Russian Machines, owned by Oleg Deripaska’s Basic Element), whose debt to MMK has grown sharply. As a representative of Magnitogorsk explained to Vremya Novostei, the total debt of automobile industry enterprises is about 3 billion rubles.

Leaders of parliamentary factions promised the president to hurry up with the adoption of his bills Russian President Dmitry Medvedev yesterday received at his country residence in Barvikha the leaders of parliamentary parties and discussed with them in an informal atmosphere his recent message to the Federal Assembly .

Women are involved in the Rakhat Aliyev case These days the 41st session of the UN Committee against Torture is taking place in Geneva. Last week, committee members reviewed the situation in Kazakhstan in terms of the changes that the country's authorities have achieved by implementing the recommendations of the UN Committee on the Elimination of Torture, developed in 2001, when a delegation from Kazakhstan first presented its report at the 34th session in Geneva.

Budget money is not in demand from banks The Ministry of Finance relinquishes its authority to supply the banking sector with budget money . Yesterday it became known that the department does not plan to hold an auction this week to place temporarily free budget funds on deposits in banks. The Ministry of Finance still prefers to call this a “pause,” but it is likely that the auctions launched in April have outlived their usefulness.

CLUBS Ash. The repertoire of song arrangements by A.-K. Jobima, Brazilian classics, as well as works by the group organizer Igor Nadezhdin in Portuguese. "Forte" , 21.00. Haleo (Cuba). Latin American rhythms, youthful enthusiasm and tropical temperament at Cool Train Club , 21.00. Overrun. Ethnic trip-hop. “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 22.00. CONCERTS Michael Bolton. Kremlin Palace , 19.00. Credo-quartet. F. Bridge, W. Walton, R. Strauss. The quartet consists of: N. Zlobina (piano), A.

Gas producers will gather in Qatar, and diversification will be discussed again in Brussels Today and tomorrow, the capital of Qatar, Doha, will host the first meeting of the highest technical committee of the “Big Gas Three,” the creation of which was announced two weeks ago by Russia, Iran and Qatar . The delegation of Gazprom specialists will be headed by Alexander Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Board for Foreign Economic Affairs.