Estonian Asko Esna spent the season wearing the 24 Hours jersey The club championship of the men's volleyball Baltic League with the participation of teams from Estonia and Latvia in the 2009/10 season could not have become a particularly noteworthy event for fans of the flying ball, if not for one circumstance. For the first time in the history of world volleyball in official competitions, an athlete’s game number consisted not only of numbers, but also included an entire word.

Watch from August 12 on Moscow screens “The Expendables” (USA, 2010, Sylvester Stallone). Perhaps the most anticipated and obviously adored project of the year by very, very many is a rapid-fire, piercing and cutting skit with the participation of the main heroes of the action genre of the 80s and 90s.

Rosavtodor declares that the construction of a route through the Khimki forest has become a fait accompli While the defenders of the Khimki forest are waiting for a reaction from President Dmitry Medvedev to their appeal, the federal department, which is directly related to the construction of the Moscow-St. obviously won't suit you.

Yuri Luzhkov returned to his workplace Having returned to the capital, Yuri Luzhkov yesterday again had to deal with firefighting issues. Let us recall that before leaving abroad, the mayor demanded an investigation into the causes of the Moscow fire of 1812. “Is this the decision of the authorities to burn the city?

Yesterday the Russians won two bronze medals at Euro 2010 After the next, seventh day of the competition program of the European Aquatics Championships taking place in the Hungarian capital Budapest, the Russian team continues to lead in the overall medal table - six gold and four bronze awards. Italy is in second place (3--4--3), France is in third (2--5--2).

Medicines also suffer from heat The ongoing heat may have consequences that are still difficult to predict, which, however, also directly threaten to affect the health of Russians. The heat has become a force majeure for the pharmaceutical market.

Today at the European Figure Skating Championships in Tallinn, dancers will present an original dance. After the mandatory, the current European champions, Russians Yana Khokhlova and Sergei Novitsky, take second place, behind the 2009 world champions, compatriots Oksana Domnina and Maxim Shabalin. Five points separate the Russian pairs, so the fight is ahead.

The champions of Athens and Beijing met on the court in Melbourne The central match of the third gaming day of the Australian Open in Melbourne was the duel between the champions of the last two Olympics that took place in the second round. Beijing 2008 gold winner Elena Dementieva fought with the Athens 2004 winner, Justine Enin, who recently returned to tennis after a year and a half “creative break.” Next comes the Belgian - 7:5, 7:6 (8:6) after three hours of dramatic and beautiful fight.

Members of a group that declared a “white war” on the police were detained in Orel Law enforcement agencies in Oryol yesterday announced that they had uncovered a series of explosions and arson attacks on police and prosecutor's offices that occurred in the city this year. As it turned out, they were organized by members of a local nationalist group, headed by a former teacher at the department of physical training at the FSO Academy with the rank of major.

Vladimir Putin decided to put out fires personally Prime Minister Vladimir Putin yesterday, by his own example, confirmed a long-known truth: if you want to do something well, do it yourself. The head of government in the Ryazan region, as the co-pilot of a Be-200 amphibious aircraft, extinguished one of the forest fires. In addition, the prime minister is no longer satisfied with online broadcasts from the sites of construction of new housing for fire victims - Mr.

Chinese markets fell by about 3% yesterday. This happened against the backdrop of statistical data about a drop in the volume of imports into the PRC: according to the General Administration of Customs of the PRC, the volume of imports in July rose by only 22.7%, to $116.8 billion, although experts predicted an increase of 30%. At the same time, in June demand was at the level of 34.1%.

Wagner Festival takes place in Germany This year's premiere was Lohengrin, directed by the patriarch of German filmmaking, Hans Neuenfels. Inviting a person with such a reputation (shocking on the verge of scandal) to Bayreuth is unheard of impudence on the part of the festival directors, sisters Katharina Wagner and Eva Wagner-Pasquier.

The court did not approve Kovalchuk's contract Independent American arbitrator Richard Block issued a verdict in the case of Russian hockey player Ilya Kovalchuk, who signed a 17-year contract worth $102 million with the NHL club New Jersey. The agreement was declared illegal. Kovalchuk has regained his status as a free agent. In the history of the NHL, such long contracts have never been concluded. New Jersey's idea was to cleverly circumvent the current team salary cap rule.

Dick Advocaat just can't part with St. Petersburg and Zenit The Russian national team will play its first match today under the leadership of Dick Advocaat. In the test game with Bulgaria, the new head coach of the Russian national team will probably immediately check the fighting squad: there is less than a month left before the official qualifying round matches for the 2012 European Championship, and he met the players while still working at Zenit.

One of the main reasons for this year's forest fires is the total drainage of swamps under Soviet rule. The main Russian TV channels throughout the country are showing terrifying maps on which entire regions are marked as burning. The unprecedented heat, breaking records in the entire more than century history of keeping climate records, not only increased the number of “natural” deaths, especially among the elderly, dozens of people burned alive in fires.