Brazil is the champion of the World League, Russia has bronze The Russian men's volleyball team became the bronze medalist of the World League. At the decisive stage of the tournament in Belgrade (Serbia), the team of Italian specialist Daniele Bagnoli lost to Brazil (0:3) in the semi-finals in all respects, and beat Cuba (3:0) in the match for third place. Now our team will have to participate in the selection for the 2010 World Championship.

CLUBS Ash. The repertoire of song arrangements by A.-K. Jobima, Brazilian classics, as well as works by group leader Igor Nadezhdin in Portuguese. Forte , 21.00. Haleo (Cuba). Latin American rhythms, youthful enthusiasm and tropical temperament in “B2” , 21.00. Mikhail Sokolov (vocals, harmonica). BBKing , 20.00. The Jumping Cats. A combination of blues with all related genres such as swing, funk, surf and many others. "House by the Road" , 21.00. Sergey Voronov and Gia Dzagnidze in a blues jam.

Balkars are dissatisfied with municipal reform and counter-terrorism operation Sunday's rally of ethnic Balkars in Kabardino-Balkaria was a reminder that, along with the shooting and explosive republics of the eastern North Caucasus, there are a number of less visible conflict situations on Russia's southern flank that cannot be ignored.

June 24 -- July 24, 2009 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of “Vremya Novostei” and the “Medialogia” company, are ratings of political figures who are most actively discussed in the federal press and on central TV channels.

The first US-China summit opened in Washington The US and China will advise each other on effective ways to combat the global recession. This is the official theme of the first US-China economic and strategic summit that opened yesterday in Washington. However, the United States also has a more specific task - to convince the Chinese authorities of the need to significantly limit exports and focus on domestic consumption.

The Soviet atomic project has become a little less mysterious The exhibition “Atomic Project of the USSR”, which opened in the Exhibition Hall of the Federal Archives, is an extraordinary event.

The President of Chechnya was going to a performance where a suicide bomber detonated a bomb The victim of the terrorist attack committed by a suicide bomber last Sunday in Grozny was supposed to be Ramzan Kadyrov. The President of Chechnya himself stated this yesterday, and this was officially confirmed by the government of the republic. It turns out that Mr. Kadyrov was going to attend a performance in the concert hall of Grozny, where the emergency occurred.

Manufacturers of commercial software go public Adobe and Microsoft open source code for some of their products to independent developers. This is not the first time that large software manufacturers are turning to open source technology. Moreover, we can already talk about a trend emerging on the development market. Last week it became known that Adobe intends to make additional applications of its Flash platform (the same one that is used to watch videos on YouTube) publicly available.

The new Prime Minister of Bulgaria doubts Russian projects The implementation of the Russian South Stream gas pipeline project may encounter unexpected difficulties. In Bulgaria, one of the countries participating in the project, a new government was sworn in yesterday. Its head does not hide his wary attitude towards the agreements with Moscow concluded by the previous cabinet.

"Bruno" on Moscow screens Three years ago, a film about Kazakh TV journalist Borat Sagdiev, who fell in love with Pamela Anderson, tucked his shirt into his trousers to a level unattainable for the average person, stuffed a live chicken into his suitcase and went across the ocean to look for his sweetheart, became (with a meager budget) a box office hit.

Americans conducted the first global survey on attitudes towards Obama and his foreign policy Attitudes towards America with the arrival of Barack Obama in the White House changed dramatically in Europe and some countries of North and South America; has hardly changed in Asia and, in fact, has not changed at all in Poland, Pakistan and Russia.

The capital of the 2014 Olympics failed to declare itself also the birthplace of the Golden Fleece Last week, the Argo ship, a copy of the mythical galley on which ancient Greek heroes led by King Jason of Thessaly went to the shores of Colchis for the Golden Fleece, was on a friendly visit to the Georgian ports of Batumi and Poti.

Last weekend there were explosions in Dushanbe. One of them was heard late in the evening of July 25 near the capital's airport, the second - five hours later at the presidential palace next to the Tajikistan hotel. There were no injuries; a tree fell and a nearby car was damaged. The Dushanbe explosions followed high-profile events in eastern Tajikistan, in Tavildara.

Film producers are in no hurry to buy licensed software A modern film, TV show or computer game cannot be made without 3D modeling tools. The corresponding software products form a very specific sector of the software market. In our country, this sector has been taken over by pirates. The size of the Russian computer modeling market (including television and film projects and the creation of computer games) is small compared to the Western market.

Royal Dutch Shell will fire 600 top managers to cut costs According to analysts, British BP may replace the Anglo-Dutch Royal Dutch Shell as Europe's largest hydrocarbon corporation. However, the management of the latter is making every effort to maintain leadership. The company is cutting costs, and the first victims of the struggle for financial efficiency will be the company's managers.