BATE -- in the third round of the Champions League Football. Champions League. 2nd qualifying round. "The Path of Champions" Return matches.

America promised to protect allies from Iran Faced with political, financial and technical problems in deploying elements of a missile defense system in Eastern Europe, the new US administration began to look for backup options. The Americans continue to justify their plans by the need to protect allies from Iranian missiles. However, the anti-missile umbrella may open not over Poland and the Czech Republic, but over the Persian Gulf.

Young art in PROJECT_FABRIKA The most interesting things are happening today at the border of different cultural topoi. This is confirmed by the best programs of the Chekhov Festival: theater and even a circus could well decorate the program of the Biennale of Contemporary Art as a performance, happening or multimedia project. The same thesis is confirmed by the best youth exhibition of recent times - “The Machine and Natasha”, which is open until mid-August in the PROEKT_FABRIKA center.

China has found a way to get rid of dollar dependence The Chinese authorities have officially announced how they are going to get rid of dollar dependence and invest their significant reserves. As the head of the State Council of the People's Republic of China, Wen Jiabao, said, Beijing will help its companies absorb foreign assets. In this way, China can reduce the importance of the US dollar as a reserve currency in its economy and conquer new markets.

The process of major fraud in the field of shared construction has begun The Meshchansky District Court of the capital yesterday began the trial of one of the most scandalous criminal cases of fraud in the field of investment construction. Responsible for deceiving shareholders, theft and laundering of 180 million rubles.

Paleontologists were able to solve Darwin's dilemma Based on discoveries in recent years, scientists have come to the conclusion that the evolution of living organisms did not proceed exactly as previously thought. By the time Charles Darwin published his theory of evolution, the earliest fossilized remains of living organisms dated back to the Silurian period (443-416 million years ago). As for later geological periods, no traces of ancient animals were found in them.

Barack Obama saves on expensive fighter jets President Barack Obama won a symbolic victory in the fight to save budget funds - the US Senate voted by a majority to suspend production of the fifth-generation F-22 Raptor (Predator) fighter jets. Thus, legislators supported the head of the White House, who demanded that excessive spending on aircraft designed to gain air superiority be abandoned; they have nothing to do with either Afghanistan or Iraq.

In Turin they give performances both in halls and in squares The international theater festival taking place in Turin for the third time is called A Corte, which means “courtly”. There are plenty of suitable courtyards for theatrical performances in Turin and its surroundings - the Italian province of Piedmont. The Savoy dynasty tried.

One in five asteroids in our solar system could be an alien Millions of space objects located in the main asteroid belt may well be icy aliens. They could have flown from the depths of the Universe, and found themselves in their current orbits thanks to the movements of giant planets. The main asteroid belt is located between Mars and Jupiter and is a huge accumulation of cosmic bodies ranging in size from a grain of sand to one and a half kilometers in diameter.

Warsaw traders defended their jobs until they bled to death Yesterday, Warsaw was healing its wounds and counting its losses after the battle that unfolded the day before in the very center of the Polish capital. It continued on Tuesday from morning until evening. Almost 200 people were forced to resort to emergency medical services. 37 victims with serious injuries were hospitalized, and 15 people spent the night in the outskirts.

US Vice President Joseph Biden arrived yesterday evening for a two-day visit to Tbilisi. From the airport, where Biden was met by Georgian Prime Minister Nikoloz Gilauri and other officials, he went to the presidential residence in the Avlabar district for a dinner party. “We stand next to you because the Americans understood the desire of the Georgian people after the Rose Revolution for democracy,” he said at the residence of the President of Georgia.

What presidents don’t have to take on if they need to save the country! Most often they take the helm of a combat aircraft or, say, a tank. This is what Putin and Medvedev did - however, in peacetime. The Turkmen president, who had already once held the helm, now had to take up the scalpel. Glory to Allah, also in peacetime.

About the new story by Alexander Kabakov The main part of Alexander Kabakov’s story “The Fugitive (Diary of an Unknown)” (“Znamya”, No. 5; book edition - M.: “AST”) consists - in accordance with the subtitle - of daily notes made by a certain L-v (a native of from the philistines, the holder of a university diploma, the head of a department in a small Moscow bank, a person at first more or less wealthy) from December 13, 1916 to July 15, 1917.

CLUBS The Jumping Cats. A combination of blues with all related genres such as swing, funk, surf and many others. BBKing , 20.00. Levan Lomidze (guitar) and Blues Cousins. Bilingua , 22.30. "26 hertz". The band plays fun blues music. The arsenal includes clarinet, bassoon, double bass, etc., and there is a very pretty girl at the microphone. FM-Club , 21.00. "Arsenal" by Alexey Kozlov. The ensemble of the founder of Russian jazz-rock performs at the Forte club, 21.00.

On Thursday, from the northern borders of European Russia to Azov, weather conditions will be dictated by the anticyclone forming over this territory. In the northwestern region there is mostly no precipitation, the temperature in the morning is +9...+14°C, in the afternoon +20...+25°C. In the central region, short-term rains are possible in places during the daytime, temperature on Thursday morning +9...+14оС, in the afternoon +20...+25оС, on Friday night +10...+15оС, in the afternoon +22..