Paintball: Russian Open

Paintball fans, listen up: The Russian Open Paintball Championship will be running at the stadium of the State School of High Sports on Aug. 24-25. Selection matches are scheduled to take place Aug. 24 at noon, the semifinals will be Aug. 25 at 11 a.m. and the finals Aug. 25 at 2 p.m. The competitions will stick to a 5x5 scheme, where two five-player teams will fight to the finish. The rules are very strict: Everyone has to wear a full camouflage uniform - from masks to kneepads - and once you get hit with paint ("killed"), you're out. Although paintball guns aren't too powerful, a point-blank hit may be painful; therefore, shooting from a distance of less than five meters is forbidden.

Miller Euro Club Week

For the last week of August, the Downtown dance club, located inside Okhotny Ryad shopping center, will transform into a kaleidoscope of European clubbing capitals. From Aug. 25-31, the club will be hosting the Miller Euro Club Week - in other words, a parade of European DJs. Over the seven nights, seven DJs from London, Amsterdam, Berlin and Helsinki will be presenting their sets: Dutch DJs Phil and Jefferson, U.K. DJs Wayne Fontaine and Toby Young, Finnish turntablist DJ Ender and DJ Aroma from Germany. The festival opens Sunday, Aug. 25, with a performance by British DJ Kiddo from the Birmingham nightclub Miss Moneypenny's. The organizers of the Miller Euro Club Week have reportedly prepared some pretty mind-bending banks of video images to accompany each DJ's performance.

Honey fair

The Sixth All-Russian Honey Fair is now under way at the Kolomenskoye Estate-Museum. The fair opened Aug. 14 and will continue until Aug. 26. Honey has been popular in Russia for centuries, not only as a sweet delicacy, but also for its powerful healing effects. Beekeepers from 47 regions of Russia have arrived at Kolomenskoye to present the country's best honey varieties: lime, buckwheat, eucalyptus and many others. A kilo of honey should cost about 120-140 rubles. Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov attended the opening ceremony and said that currently Russia's honey output is only 97,000 tons a year, while in the times of Ivan the Terrible the country exported 1 million tons of honey annually. "We have goals to work toward," Luzhkov added optimistically.