Sport Text size A A A New wave tandem About the path of Bykov and Zakharkin to Russian hockey Rustam Sharafutdinov The work of the coaching tandem Vyacheslav Bykov and Igor Zakharkin, who previously worked at CSKA, in the Russian national team bore fruit in the second year of their stay in the national team, which became the world champion. Not without reason, their combination is considered one of the best both in our country and in world hockey.

Rene Vandereycken has been fired from his post as head coach of the Belgium national team. The reason is an unsatisfactory performance in the qualifying round of the 2010 World Championship. After six matches in Group 5, the Belgians, having lost two matches in a row to the team of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2:4 at home and 1:2 away), occupy only fourth place and are 11 points behind the leader, the Spanish national team.

07 April 2009, 12:27 News Sibir Energy has begun proceedings against Cameron and Chigirinsky The Sibir Energy company announced the start of a trial in the case of unauthorized payments against the company's former executive director Henry Cameron and co-owner Shalva Chigirinsky . This is stated in the official statement of the company. The total amount of Sibir Energy's claims is currently estimated at $328 million, but is expected to eventually reach $400 million.

07 April 2009, 12:56 News The euro fell by 29 kopecks The weighted average exchange rate of the euro at the end of the single trading session using today calculations decreased by 29.30 kopecks and amounted to 44.6510 rubles per euro.

Russia's GDP fell by 7% in the first quarter. This assessment of the Ministry of Economic Development was voiced on Tuesday by Russian Presidential Assistant Arkady Dvorkovich . It means that the decline in GDP in March slowed compared to the beginning of the year, he explained, and this trend will continue.

07 April 2009, 11:41 Opinions Dust of modernization How to ensure that a significant portion of Russian scientists who go abroad return Alexey Melnikov The most reasonable and effective way to spend the Reserve Fund would be to purchase imported equipment to re-equip Russian scientific laboratories and finance an internship program for our scientists at the world's leading universities.

07 April 2009, 12:52 News Georgia detained a Turkish ship delivering gasoline to Abkhazia The Turkish ship Denfa Demet, which delivered a thousand tons of fuel and lubricants to Abkhazia, was detained by Georgian border boats in neutral waters, a source in the state-owned Abkhaz Shipping Company said. “On Sunday, around 18.00 Moscow time, the seiner left the Sukhumi port. After the ship left Abkhazia for neutral waters, it was captured by the Georgian coast guard,” the source said.

07 April 2009, 09:37 News Train traffic at Tushino station has been restored The fire on the platform of the Tushino railway station in north-west Moscow has been extinguished, train traffic towards the capital has been restored, the press service of the Moscow Railways reported. “The fire has been extinguished, train traffic has been restored to normal,” the press service said. A source in the capital's law enforcement agencies reported that the fire area was about ten square meters.

07 April 2009, 18:56 News Source: Former vice-mayor of Grozny was involved in the murder of Ruslan Yamadayev Operatives investigating the murder of Hero of Russia Ruslan Yamadayev believe that former vice-mayor of Grozny Gilani Shepiev , who in certain circles had the nickname Bastion, his bodyguard Khalid Molochaev and ex-adviser to the President of Chechnya Aslan Diliev , took part in the attack on him . Shepiev was killed earlier this year, and Molochaev and Diliev are now in custody.

— 07.04.2009 09:09 — 80 prisoners fought in the Sverdlovsk colony in the fight in Sverdlovsk colony number 62 (the city of Ivdel), which occurred on Monday night, the regional prosecutor’s office reports. More than 80 convicts took part “According to preliminary data, the conflict occurred at 22:25. 7 convicts belonging to the detachment of the discipline and order section, out of hooligan motives, began to beat 3 convicts from detachment No. 8 of this correctional colony.

Predicting when an approaching tropical storm will reach destructive and deadly hurricane strength can be done by assessing the frequency of its lightning. It is directly related to wind strength and is easily determined using ground-based electromagnetic monitoring stations. You can track the frequency of lightning using a fairly extensive network of radio stations around the world operating in the range of long and ultra-long radio waves - from 3 to 300 kilohertz.

07 April 2009, 10:35 Cars Bugatti may present Royale model in Frankfurt Bugatti may present the new Bugatti Royale model for the first time at the upcoming Frankfurt Motor Show, writes WorldCarFans. According to the publication, according to some reports, the new Bugatti model will be both more expensive and faster than the existing Veyron. There is also information that Bugatti engineers are working on a “budget” model of the brand, which will cost no more than €200 thousand.

07 April 2009, 13:17 Business Gazprom and ENI signed an agreement to purchase shares of Gazprom Neft The heads of Gazprom and ENI signed an agreement to purchase shares of Gazprom Neft. In addition, a memorandum of understanding was signed between the Russian companies InterRAO UES, Rosneft, Stroytransgaz, Zarubezhneft and the Italian ENI. InterRAO UES and Enipower signed a memorandum of cooperation in the energy sector. This is stated in a message from Prime-TASS.

07 April 2009, 13:21 Sports Bubka Bank froze the accounts of Olympians Ukrainian Olympic champions cannot withdraw their prize money from Rodovid Bank, controlled by the head of the National Olympic Committee Sergei Bubka . Thus, the Biathlon Federation and the National Olympic Committee hold their accounts in Rodovid. As Ukrainian swimmer Anna Khlistunova explains, according to her, she chose the bank for one reason.

07 April 2009, 01:02 Business The price of oil on the New York Stock Exchange fell to $51.05 On the New York exchange NYMEX, the cost of May futures for American light oil fell by $1.46. Thus, its price was $51.05 per barrel.