Confederations Cup kicks off in South Africa At the season's crowning Confederations Cup, the main goal of which is not so much to determine the strongest team on the planet, but to test South Africa's readiness for the World Cup, the heavy artillery was used. The Brazilian national team, which sent the strongest squad to the tournament, managed to defeat the Egyptian team with great difficulty thanks to Kaka's double - 4:3 The winner of the Confederations Cup has a strange status.

Plans for military partnership between Russia and Belarus have been called into question The agreement on the creation of the Collective Rapid Reaction Force (CRRF) of the CSTO was signed in the Kremlin last Sunday in the absence of the Belarusian delegation. The chairmanship of the CSTO, which was planned to be transferred from Armenia to Belarus, temporarily passed to Russia as the host country of the summit.

Vladimir Putin urged not to call Belarusian leaders names Vladimir Putin, apparently so that the American administration does not relax, keeps not only his own people, but also its subordinates, on their toes. Yesterday, at a meeting of the government presidium, our prime minister recalled Barack Obama's initiative a month ago. More precisely, Mr.

Isinbayeva began her second campaign for the jackpot Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Elena Isinbaeva won the first stage of the largest commercial athletics series, the Golden League, in Berlin. The Russian woman achieved the best result of the season in the world and the record of the traditional DKB-ISTAF tournament - 4 m 83 cm. Moreover, to win, Isinbayeva had to make only two attempts. First she took the height of 4.68, and then successfully stormed 4.83.

The summit agenda did not fit into one day For the first time in the practice of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO), the summit will be held for two days - June 15 and 16: the agenda is very extensive. So, after all, the SCO participants are states whose population exceeds 2 billion people. The SCO was initially created with the goal of jointly protecting the borders of neighboring states, although almost immediately its activities became primarily economically oriented.

Russians in Poland are united not only by nostalgia About 30 million people permanently live outside the borders of Russia, whom we consider our compatriots. Each of them has their own destiny, relationship to their historical homeland and host country. Some recognize their fate as happy, others have resigned themselves to hopelessness. But almost all of them have one thing in common: nostalgia. Recently the All-Polish Conference of Compatriots took place in Warsaw.

Dmitry Medvedev assessed the first year of his presidency The situation in the Russian economy is difficult, but nothing critically dangerous is happening. This assessment was given by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in an interview with China Central Television on the eve of the SCO summit . “We are not dramatizing the situation; on the whole, it is no worse or better than in most developed economies,” the head of state believes. Although the numbers he mentioned look quite alarming.

MOITK restructured 98% of its bond issue of the second series OJSC Moscow Regional Investment Trust Company (MOITK) almost completely settled the debt on the second series of bonds it issued, exchanging some of them for bonds of the Moscow region. Thus, the company's sole shareholder, the government of the Moscow region, managed to avoid the negative development of events - the bankruptcy of MOITK - with little loss. However, part of the debt remains unresolved.

The main trend of modern animation is hand-drawn documentary The Annecy festival is over, the results of the world's main animation competition have been announced, so it's time to tell you what costs, what is "worn" these days, what is valued, and what is successful with the public. I'll start with the most unconditional - prizes for a full-length film.

Mentor of new champions surpasses Bill Russell The Los Angeles Lakers won their 15th NBA title. In the fifth match of the super final series, the “residents of the lake district” won at the Orlando site - 99:86. The overall score of the confrontation is 4--1 in favor of the Californians. The famous Lakers coach Phil Jackson has already earned his 12th championship ring. By this indicator, he surpassed the legendary Bill Russell, who earned most of his 11 rings as a basketball player.

Israeli Prime Minister agrees to create Palestine There is a faint glimmer of hope in resolving the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's keynote speech testifies to his government's fundamental readiness to reach a compromise with the Palestinians. Speaking on the evening of June 14 at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan (near Tel Aviv), the Israeli prime minister agreed to the existence of a new independent Palestinian state next to the Jewish one.

Robbery off the coast of Somalia has become a global threat NATO defense ministers have approved a new operation against pirates in the Gulf of Aden called Ocean Shield. It is scheduled for early July with the participation of six countries - Germany, Turkey, Greece, Italy, Great Britain and the USA. Back in early June, NATO leadership approached Russia with a proposal to jointly fight Somali pirates.

The summer garden is closed for reconstruction Yesterday, for the first time in two hundred years, the St. Petersburg Summer Garden was closed for reconstruction. The same garden where little Eugene Onegin was taken for a walk by his tutor, a “poor Frenchman,” and where Alexander Sergeevich himself loved to walk, has finally received a break: according to the project approved by the State Expertise, grandiose work is beginning in the Summer Garden.

Dmitry Medvedev managed to return Russian Tungsten from the Seychelles Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has his own "Pikalevo". After the Prime Minister “manually” temporarily solved the problems of three stopped enterprises in the village of Pikalevo, Leningrad Region, the head of state managed to do approximately the same with the village of Svetlogorye, Primorsky Territory.

On the problem of reserve currencies A change in a generally accepted universal equivalent is always a change of era in the development of the world economy. Today, the US dollar, the monetary unit of the world's largest national economy, works as such a means of payment. Many experts both in Russia and abroad are confident that the time has come to replace the American dollar in its role as the main reserve currency with some other means of payment.