A group of pilots received a five-second penalty The ninth stage of the Formula 1 World Auto Racing Championship ended with the victory of Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel from Germany, ahead of the Englishmen from McLaren, Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button, who finished in second and third place. Thus, the motorsport prologue to the football battle between two fundamental rivals at the world championship in South Africa was won by the Germans. Germany also won the World Cup playoff match.

CONCERTS Big band of Igor Butman. Igor Butman Club, 20.00. Ensemble of soloists Mobilis. The ensemble's repertoire ranges from Baroque masterpieces and arrangements of popular music of the 20th century to music of the Romantic era and works by contemporary composers of the early 21st century. CC "Dom", 20.00. "Umka." Solo concert. Mezzo Forte, 20.00. Valery Ponomarev (trumpet, USA) & Big band. "Union of Composers", 20.30. Anna Koroleva (vocals, saxophone) and Jump. "Forte", 21.00.

What businessmen told Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama One of the important developments in Russian-American relations in the near future, it seems, will be the preparation and signing of a new agreement in the field of trade and economic cooperation. This was discussed at a meeting between Dmitry Medvedev and Barack Obama with entrepreneurs from the two countries on Thursday - the last day of the Russian president's visit to the United States.

Rosrybolovstvo official shared bribe with passers-by The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow on Friday issued a warrant for the arrest of two high-ranking employees of Rosrybolovstvo, who were detained on Thursday while receiving a large bribe. The operation to expose them, which took place near their place of work on the Warsaw Highway, ended in an unprecedented incident.

Ramzan Kadyrov came face to face with the difficult nature of the Russian Internet Chechen President Ramzan Kadyrov has undergone modernization trends and at the end of last week joined the number of Russian politicians who have their own page on LiveJournal. The first blog entry with the name ya_kadyrov was made on June 25th.

The spouses of the presidents of the United States and Russia visited the art school US First Lady Michelle Obama, who hosted Svetlana Medvedeva last week, prepared a surprise for the wife of the Russian president. In Washington, the presidents' wives visited the Duke Ellington Children's School of the Arts, and Mrs. Obama invited another Russian guest, prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theater Diana Vishneva, to participate in this event.

Yuri Luzhkov confirmed the decision to demolish the “extra” floors of the “House on Mosfilmovskaya” The scandalous story of the elite skyscraper on Pyryeva Street, better known as the “House on Mosfilmovskaya”, is reaching a new level. The city authorities are demonstrating their firm intention to force a large developer to remove unplanned floors. Yesterday, the position of the mayor’s office was voiced by mayor Yuri Luzhkov himself.

Russian carrier-based aircraft will appear at the NITKA training ground Russia and Ukraine are restoring full-scale and mutually beneficial military and military-technical cooperation. Such an optimistic result was summed up at the third meeting of the subcommittee on security issues of the Russian-Ukrainian interstate commission, which took place at the end of the week in the seaside village of Partenit in Crimea.

Hundreds of Russians became victims of abnormal heat The abnormal heat that has been scorching the center of Russia for the last four days, as doctors warned, has not had the best effect on the health of not only citizens suffering from chronic diseases, but also completely healthy ones. According to preliminary estimates, the historical maximum temperature reached last weekend cost the lives of several hundred of our compatriots.

Moscow Film Festival has closed The festival closed in unimaginable heat. Despite this, MIFF President Nikita Mikhalkov decorated the poisonously green (sponsor's color) main staircase of the Pushkinsky cinema - perhaps not a feat, but there was something heroic in it.

England leave World Cup due to referee error A refereeing scandal is breaking out at the World Cup in South Africa, which could lead to the most fundamental change in the rules of football. The 39th minute of the 1/8 finals match between Germany and England should go down in history.

Basketball CSKA headed by Montenegrin Montenegrin specialist Dusko Vujosevic, who last year received the Alexander Gomelsky Prize as the best coach of the men's Euroleague, and last season led the Serbian Partizan (Belgrade) to the Final Four of the continental club championship, became the new coach of the multiple Russian champion CSKA. The contract was signed for three years. Former CSKA coach Evgeny Pashutin took over UNICS Kazan. Vujosevic is 51 years old and was born in Podgorica.

A shipwrecked young American woman is about to sail around the world again. 16-year-old California resident Abby Sunderland, who six months ago went on a solo circumnavigation of the world (and almost got into the Guinness Book of Records as the youngest traveler to circumnavigate the globe), was rescued during a storm by French fishermen three thousand kilometers off the coast of Australia .

The summit of leaders of the leading countries of the world was accompanied by broken windows If it's possible to waste $1 billion on security for a major international event, Stephen Harper's government has done it. The unprecedented amount gave rise to another reason for protests, which the Canadian authorities were unable to prevent anyway (and would not have been able to).

A referendum on a new constitution was held in the republic The referendum held yesterday in Kyrgyzstan on the adoption of a new constitution could be considered completed with the arrival of the first voters to the polling stations. Turnout at the current Kyrgyz plebiscite does not matter. This is what the country's interim government decided, fearing that under the state of emergency imposed due to pogroms two weeks ago in the southern regions, population activity would not be high.