Novokuznetsk Metallurg is negotiating with Weisfeld Former general manager of Tolyatti Lada and general director of Atlanta near Moscow Leonid Vaisfeld was in Novokuznetsk on Wednesday, where he held negotiations with the management of Metallurg, who recently fired head coach Dmitry Parkhomenko . The negotiations were constructive, and in the near future, a well-known judge in the past may become the general manager of the Siberian club, reports Sport-Express .

11 November 2010, 13:17 Ermilin: the composition of “Virgin” for the 2011 season will remain the same The Marussia team is able to become a leader in Formula 1 thanks to the personality of its general director Nikolai Fomenko , says vice-president of the Russian Automobile Federation (RAF) and chief designer of Marussia Motors Igor Ermilin . “The appearance of the Russian team in Formula 1 auto racing is an important stage in the development of domestic sports,” said Ermilin.

Scientists have found evidence that complex life forms on Earth could have begun their evolution as early as 1.2 billion years ago, by using the increasing concentration of oxygen in the atmosphere in their metabolism, RIA Novosti reports, citing an article in the journal Nature. The authors of the study discovered the most ancient signs of the biological activity of microorganisms, the vital activity of which was associated with the use of atmospheric oxygen to generate energy.

11 November 2010, 18:18 Werder Bremen forward Pizarro out for three weeks Werder Bremen forward Claudio Pizarro is out for three weeks due to a hamstring injury, reports AP . He suffered the injury on Wednesday during training.

11 November 2010, 15:17 Makeev: “Wings” will fight with all their might On the eve of the match against Krylya Sovetov, Spartak defender Evgeniy Makeev shared his expectations from the game. “We haven’t studied the game of “Wings” yet,” the Gazeta.Ru correspondent reports Makeev’s words. - But judging by the tournament position, the Samara team will fight with all their might. So it would be a mistake to treat “Wings” carelessly.

11 November 2010, 21:46 Sunni elected speaker of Iraqi parliament Osama al-Nejaifi, a representative of the Al-Iraqiya bloc, was elected speaker of the Iraqi parliament on Thursday. He was the only candidate, and an agreement on his nomination was reached by the factions after long negotiations and consultations. 227 votes were cast for him; in total, 295 out of 325 deputies took part in the elections. Another 68 ballots were declared invalid.

Kovalenko: Beckham and I tease each other Ukrainian Dmitry Kovalenko , who has been playing in the American MLS since 1999, and is now David Beckham’s teammate at Los Angeles Galaxy, spoke about his partner, the former captain of the England national team. According to Kovalenko, he “took so many autographs from Beckham that David started making fun of me. He asked what I was doing with them.

Sport Relying on Themis Rustam Sharafutdinov The punishing sword of justice has reached the former president of the Serbian Football Union (FSS), Zoran Terzic. Or rather, the former head of the federation, after hiding from law enforcement agencies for two years, surrendered to the authorities himself, arriving with a lawyer at the criminal police department in Belgrade, reports RTV . He was placed in one of the regional prisons of the Serbian capital.

November 11, 2010, 20:40 Kadyrov organized horse races for Police Day Races involving purebred horses, dedicated to Police Day, took place at the central hippodrome of the city of Gudermes. Present were the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov , State Duma deputy Adam Delimkhanov , head of the FSB Directorate for Chechnya Alexander Kubasov , Minister of Internal Affairs of the republic Ruslan Alkhanov and others.

11 November 2010, 16:52 The prosecutor asked the jury to find all defendants in the Euroset case guilty At the debate in the case against former Euroset employees, the prosecutor called on the jury to find all the accused guilty. This was reported by the Russian Agency for Legal and Judicial Information.

November 11, 2010, 10:33 AM Opinions Ring the weapon Baku declares readiness to fight for Karabakh Sergei Markedonov Azerbaijan resorts to militaristic rhetoric on the Karabakh topic with purely rational goals. Both to calm public opinion within the country and to put diplomatic pressure on interested states - Turkey, Russia, the USA. Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev again stated that the conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh can be resolved militarily.

The first drive-in sex shop in the United States has opened in Alabama. The intimate goods store that opened in Huntsville is built and equipped like a drive-thru fast food store, reports the New York Times . According to the idea behind the idea and owner of the sex shop, Sherry Williams, the store, called Pleasures, is equipped with three lines with windows where you can order and immediately receive goods wrapped in discreet brown paper: sex toys, lubricants and stimulants.

November 11, 2010, 07:01 Vedomosti: billionaire Lev Kvetnoy turned out to be a co-owner of Vnukovo Billionaire Lev Kvetnoy turned out to be a co-owner of Vnukovo Airport - something that was previously discussed unofficially has now been revealed by the businessman’s bank, National Standard, writes the Vedomosti newspaper . and his partners four years ago Kvetnoy made his fortune by selling metallurgical assets to Alisher Usmanov .

The authors of the Nimbuzz project, which provides instant messaging over the Internet, have abandoned support for ICQ. The reason was the requirement of ICQ owners to pay for the use of the ICQ protocol. “For the last two weeks we have been negotiating the possibility of continuing support for ICQ. The final proposal implied the conclusion of an agreement under which we would be obliged to pay for each person who wanted to use ICQ in Nimbuzz,” the program’s blog says.

11 November 2010, 16:47 Yanukovych will instruct Kolesnikov to lead Ukraine’s preparations for the 2022 Olympic Games President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych intends to instruct Deputy Prime Minister for Euro 2012 football championship Boris Kolesnikov to lead preparations for the 2022 Winter Olympics in Ukraine. Ukraine intends to apply for the right to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.