05 November 2009, 12:00 Sports Shevchenko: failed to cope with pressure Dynamo Kiev forward Andrey Shevchenko shared his opinion about the Champions League match with Inter Milan (1:2) . “It’s hard to say what happened. We have a lot of young players in our team who don’t have much experience playing in the Champions League,” the club’s official website quotes the player as saying . — The status of the match affected some players, especially in the end.

05 November 2009, 02:53 News Kommersant: Junior Eurovision will not be postponed due to flu The Cabinet of Ministers decided not to postpone the children's Eurovision 2009 song contest due to the flu epidemic, writes Kommersant-Ukraine . According to members of the government, in Kyiv, where the competition will be held, quarantine has not yet been introduced, which means that the capital is not subject to requirements to limit public events.

London Arsenal entered the match of the fourth round of the group stage in Group H of the Champions League as the leader of the quartet. Already on Wednesday, the Gunners could secure a ticket to the playoffs of the competition, and it would be especially pleasant for Arsene Wenger’s team to do this in front of the stands of their native Emirates.

05 November 2009, 14:06 News The court prohibited cutting off the Mordovian police from communications for non-payment The Supreme Arbitration Court, at the request of the prosecutor's office of Mordovia, prohibited Volgatelecom OJSC from disconnecting police departments from communication services, the website of the Prosecutor General's Office reports.

Sport Text size A A A Forget the first period The Russian team beat the Finns at the Karjaly Cup Boris Khodorovsky (Helsinki) In the opening match of the second stage of the Euro Hockey Tour - the Karjaly Cup - the Russian team, losing after the first period with a score of 0: 3, achieved a draw in regulation time of the match against the Finns and won in a shootout. When you come to Hartwall Arena, parallels inevitably arise with the Ice Palace in St. Petersburg .

The largest super tournament in the history of chess (in this case, two superlatives are not too much) in Moscow brought together grandmasters with an average rating of 2764 points, which is a fantastic indicator and unique for 10 participants.

Opel workers pushed out onto the street — 5.11.09 15:09 — TEXT: Victor Marakhovsky PHOTO: Reuters Photo report Trade union protests began in Germany, caused by GM's decision not to sell Opel and lay off 10.5 thousand workers. There was a temporary stoppage of work at German Opel factories, and people took to the streets. In the meantime, the cancellation of the deal may be discussed at a meeting between the German and US Foreign Ministries.

05 November 2009, 08:57 Business Kommersant: Shokoladnitsa opens the first Burger King in Russia The world-famous fast food chain Burger King, the main competitor of McDonald's, will soon open its first location in Russia, the Kommersant newspaper writes today . According to the publication, the eatery is being opened by Russian licensees of Burger King - the Shokoladnitsa coffee shop chain and the owners of the St. Petersburg holding Adamant.

05 November 2009, 08:42 News GRU: NATO, Israel and Ukraine supply weapons to Georgia The head of the Main Intelligence Directorate ( GRU ) of the General Staff of the Armed Forces, Lieutenant General Alexander Shlyakhturov , said today that Georgia continues to receive weapons and military equipment from NATO countries , Israel and Ukraine.

— 05.11.2009 20:11 — Krejci has swine flu Boston forward David Krejci has swine flu. According to the official NHL website , the diagnosis was confirmed by the Bruins medical headquarters. The striker was isolated from the rest of the team for 24 hours. "Gazeta.Ru"

05 November 2009, 06:00 News Handelsblatt: GM for Opel and Germany is better than Magna and Sberbank GM is more likely to protect Opel from collapse than a consortium consisting of the Canadian-Austrian component manufacturer Magna and the Russian Sberbank, writes the German business newspaper Handelsblatt . The former and hopelessly quarreled duo of General Motors and Opel actually looks fresher than the Magna and Sberbank alliance can imagine.

Ukraine will pay for gas consumed and pumped in October using Special Drawing Rights (SDR). reports this UNIAN , citing a source in the Ministry of Finance of Ukraine. The SDR is a special currency of the International Monetary Fund. Following the decision of the G-20 summit in London, the IMF issued SDRs worth the equivalent of $250 billion this year.

05 November 2009, 11:44 News Accountants of a boarding house in Sochi are accused of stealing 21 million rubles. The chief accountant and accountant-cashier of the Mosenergo boarding house in Sochi are accused of embezzling 21 million rubles from the boarding house’s cash desk, said the assistant to the head of the SKP in the Krasnodar region.

05 November 2009, 15:38 Sports Slyusareva completed her sports career Leader of the Russian cycling team, Olympic champion (Athens 2004), two-time Olympic bronze medalist (Athens 2004, Sydney 2000), six-time world champion, five-time European champion 40-year-old Olga Slyusareva has decided to end her sports career and is awaiting birth child. “My last start was the World Championships in March of this year in Poland,” Olga Slyusareva told the All Sport agency .

PSV management invited the head coach of the Russian national team, Guus Hiddink, to join the club’s supervisory board. A few months ago, club president Fritz Schuitema offered the ex-mentor to head an important position on the board, but Hiddink refused because he intends to concentrate on his current job, reports Eindhovens Dagblad . At the same time, Hiddink was sincerely flattered by the offer. Hiddink called this proposal a “broad gesture”, but did not want to agree to it.