Daniel Johnson

Rita, Zhenya, Sonya, Gail, Lisa – few people know that the unforgettable heroine of the novel "the dawns here are quiet" (and the same movie) in real life was... men.

In Kazan has passed a match of basketball Eurocup. Local UNICS defeated the "Ritas" from Lithuania with a difference of 13 points.

"Zenit" from St. Petersburg hosted a Euroleague Turkish "Fenerbahce". Guests won with a difference in five points.

Officially after 1945 the USSR in the war did not participate. But this did not prevent the Soviet soldiers to be in the thick of almost all major military conflicts of the second half of the last century – from Indochina to Africa. And in all these cases, regardless of the result, invariable there was one: going home in zinc coffins and scanty breech telegrams for relatives with impersonal content "was killed when performing combat tasks". Below are the three most bloody for the USSR, conflicts that were never officially declared wars.

Midfielder "Schalke" Daniel Caligiuri received a knee injury in the match of the Cup of Germany with Berlin "Gerta". The footballer revealed a partial tear of knee ligament.

The official abdication of the monarch from the throne, called the scientific term abdicate, occasionally, but it happens in a particular Kingdom. Sometimes the abandonment of authority happens on the good will of the ruler, but sometimes the decision to push the insurmountable external circumstances.

As you know, most marshals of the Soviet Union were buried at the capital's cemeteries. And only Vasily Ivanovich Chuikov has long remained the only military leader of such high rank, found his peace beyond Moscow. At least, it was not until 2014, while the life is not gone, Marshal Vasily Ivanovich Petrov. "Marshall"

German painter Franz Eichhorst, focused on the Eastern front in the company of Nazi propaganda in the army of Friedrich Paulus, was one of the artists, has earned the favor of the führer. Time to do some fighting in the trenches of the First world war, he knew firsthand about the rigors of a soldier's life without unnecessary pathos portrayed in their battle paintings. Military sketches of the Polish campaign in 1939 became the basis for the award Ichhorst "Medal for fine arts" and the painting "Memory of Stalingrad", written in 1943, sparked the enthusiasm of Hitler. When looking for a canvas was born the understanding that war is not a feat, and suffering, when every second can be your last, and another trench – grave.

In the capital of Qatar, Doha continues the tournament with the participation of three Russian clubs – "Spartak" "the Locomotive" "Rostov" and the Serbian "Partizan". "Spartak" and "locomotive" played in regulation time in a draw 1:1. The shootout is better performed players of "Locomotive" 4:2.

Midfielder of "Rubin" Dmitry Tarasov for the third time became a father. His wife Anastasia Kostenko gave birth to a daughter.