10 September 2009, 17:12 Sports Virgilush updated the record for speed climbing Elbrus The victory of the Russians - 27-year-old climber from Nevinnomyssk Sergei Fursov and 23-year-old Valentin Vergilush from Rostov-on-Don - ended on Thursday in the Elbrus region the fifth international competition "International Elbrus Race" in speed climbing to the highest peak in Europe Elbrus (5 thousand 642 m ).

Sport “Yanbaev is the fastest in the world” Hiddink on victory over Wales Sergey Alekseev (Cardiff) After the victory over the Welsh team, Russian head coach Guus Hiddink said that he was pleased with how his players overcame a difficult situation, especially praising Roman Pavlyuchenko and Renat Yanbaev, calling the latter one of the fastest players in the world.

September 10, 2009, 20:38 Cars Our Opel GM Board of Directors sells Opel to Magna-Sberbank consortium Elena Khodyakova The Board of Directors of GM is ready to sell Opel to the Magna-Sberbank consortium. The Russian-Austrian alliance was able to obtain the brand only by agreeing to a number of conditions on the part of General Motors, according to news agency sources. According to experts, we are talking about a limited right to Opel's intellectual property.

10 September 2009, 16:29 Sports IFFHS declares Real Madrid the best club of the 20th century The International Federation of Football History and Statistics (IFFHS) presented a new ranking of the best clubs of the 20th century, calculated using a modified methodology. According to the new rating, Real Madrid is recognized as the best club of the century. The best Russian club was Spartak, which took 49th place. Rating 1. "Real" Spain - 563.5 2. "Juventus" Italy – 466 3.

10 September 2009, 14:38 Sports Sainz won the sixth stage of the Silk Way Rally The Spanish Volkswagen driver Carlos Sainz (05:01:47) won the sixth stage of the Silk Way Rally, the official website of the rally reports. The second to the finish line was another Volkswagen pilot, Nasser Al-Attiyah (+ 00:03:13). The third time was taken by another member of the German team, Mark Miller (+ 00:06:32). Al-Attiyah leads the overall standings, 2 minutes and 56 seconds ahead of Sainz.

September 10, 2009, 19:48 Society "I'm happy that I'm with dad" Kristina Orbakaite's son wants to live with his father Ignat Belovsky The son of Ruslan Baysarov and Kristina Orbakaite, Denis, wants to live with his father. He said that he regularly communicates with his mother by phone. When asked when and under what circumstances Orbakaite would be able to see his child, Ruslan Baysarov did not give an answer. Denis Baysarov wants to live with his father.

September 10, 2009, 01:43 Sports Hiddink: I really like Pavlyuchenko this way After the victory over the Welsh team (3:1), the head coach of the Russian national team, Guus Hiddink , explained why he replaced Igor Semshov with Roman Pavlyuchenko . “We changed Semshov when the score was 1:1, because we needed to achieve victory,” the Gazeta.Ru correspondent reports Hiddink’s words. — We introduced a second forward into the game, and he immediately began to prove himself.

September 10, 2009, 20:49 News The approval of the sale of Opel by the board of trustees was “teetering on the brink” The final approval of the sale of the controlling stake in Opel owned by the American GM by the board of trustees of the German automaker almost fell through. “Of the four voting members on the board, two voted in favor, one against and one abstained,” said Fred Irwin , chairman of the board of trustees and head of the American Chamber of Commerce in Germany .

10 September 2009, 17:18 Science “Mirs” will not dive on Lake Baikal for several years The Mir-1 and Mir-2 spacecraft will not be dived into Lake Baikal in 2010 and, probably, over the next few years. expedition on Lake Baikal, Anatoly Sagalevich, told Gazeta.Ru about this The head of the “Worlds” .

September 10, 2009, 00:54 Sports The England team reached the final stage of the 2010 World Cup The next qualifying matches for the 2010 World Cup take place on Wednesday. In the 6th European group, the England team beat the Croatian team with a score of 5:1. Goals: Lampard 8, 58; Gerrard, 18, 67; Rooney, 76 - da Silva, 71. This victory allowed the England team to reach the final stage of the 2010 World Cup. Gazeta.Ru conducted an online broadcast of this match.

Scientists have opened the sarcophagus of Grand Duke Yaroslav the Wise in the St. Sophia Cathedral in Kiev . His ashes were disturbed in order to conduct anthropological research with the participation of scientific institutions from the USA, Sweden, Great Britain and Ukraine. This was reported by the Ukrainian TV channel “Inter”. Using modern means, the composition of DNA will be analyzed, and using computer graphics, researchers intend to recreate the appearance of the prince, canonized.

September 11, 2009, 00:03 News British consul found dead in Jamaica British Honorary Consul to Jamaica John Terry was found dead in the resort town of Montego Bay in the north-west of the island. This was reported by the British Foreign Office. The diplomat's body was discovered near his home on Wednesday. Jamaican police are investigating the circumstances surrounding Terry's death. According to her information, no traces of forced entry into the consul's house were found.

General Motors has made a decision on the future of Opel, however, it will not be announced until mid-Thursday, an anonymous source said . The German government and Opel management will be informed of GM's decision on Thursday morning. The Austrian-Canadian consortium Magna and the Russian Sberbank , as well as the investment company RHJ International, are vying for Opel.

September 10, 2009, 21:29 News Election campaign schedule announced in Ukraine The official start of the campaign for the presidential elections in Ukraine will be given on October 19. This was stated today by Deputy Head of the Central Election Commission Andrei Magera in connection with the publication on Thursday of a new law on presidential elections in the parliamentary newspaper “Voice of Ukraine”. Thus, the normative act signed the day before came into force.

September 10, 2009, 10:11 Sports FC Dynamo players were fired at their own request St. Petersburg FC Dynamo announced that goalkeeper Anton Smyslov and midfielder Alim Khabilov were not expelled by the club after the shooting incident in a nightclub, but wrote statements “of their own free will.” As Dynamo general director Vladislav Alekseev emphasized , Smyslov, who was wounded in the leg, was out of action for two months, so there was no point in leaving him on the team this season.