Victor Chernomyrdin. Photo from the site www.peoples.ru Russia is ready to work with any Ukrainian government. According to ITAR-TASS, this was stated by the Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin. "We worked with the Party of Yanukovych, and with" our Ukraine ", and with Tymoshenko, when she was the prime minister. All the characters are known to us," said Chernomyrdin.

Boris Sokolov. Photo from the site www.open-forum.ru Judging by the data coming from Ukraine, the results of the parliamentary elections are formed in favor of the "orange": the Blok Yulia Tymoshenko and the Presidential Bloc "Our Ukraine - People's Self -Defense" gain more votes than in last year’s elections, significantly ahead of the Party of the regions of Viktor Yanukovych, and, apparently, will be able to gain enough places in the new rank to form a government Coalition.

Vladimir Abarinov The US academic circles are excited. They cannot decide whether the president of the Columbia University of Lee Bollenger correctly or incorrectly, having arranged a public performance in the walls of this institution Mahmad Ahmadinejad. Students, teachers, historians, diplomats, journalists, and bloggers participate in a stormy discussion on this subject.

Victor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko. Photo by ar The Socialist Party of Ukraine does not take place in the Verkhovna Rada, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the data of the CEC of the country. According to information at 13.45 Moscow time, socialists gain only 2.94 percent and do not overcome the three percent barrier. At this point, 63.72 percent of the protocols of district election commissions were processed.

Vladimir Putin. Photo from the site www.bild.t-online.de On October 7, on the birthday of President Vladimir Putin, a book by Igor Kositsyn and Tatyana Damnova “Presidential Vacations” will be on sale.

Police. Photo from the site 'Novaya Gazeta' 13 activists of the Coalition "Another Russia" were detained on Monday entry the building of the CEC of Russia. According to Marina Litvinovich, a member of the Federal Council of the OGF Federal Council, they were detained after the list of candidates from another Russia in the State Duma election in the Central Election Commission. “They are trying to incriminate the conduct of an unauthorized rally,” said Litvinovich.

Alisher Usmanov. Photo from the site pda.finiz.ru Entrepreneur Alisher Usmanov handed over the Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya collection to Konstantinovsky Palace in Strelna, reports Echo of Moscow. Usmanov said that he took into account the "wishes of the family, so that the collection would find a place in one of the palaces of St. Petersburg." He also added that it was also taken into account that in the Konstantinovsky palace there is still no its own collection of works of art.

Shot from the movie "12" The painting by Nikita Mikhalkov "12" was put forward from Russia for the Oscar film award in the nomination "Best Film Film of the Year," ITAR-TASS reports. According to the rules of the American Film Academy, the Russian Oscar Commission considered films that were released from October 1, 2006 to September 30, 2007.

Vladimir Putin and Boris Gryzlov. Photo by ar The pre -election congress of United Russia, which will approve the federal list of the party in the State Duma elections, will be visited by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Interfax reports. According to the leader of the United Russia, the State Duma Speaker Boris Gryzlov, "this will become a very significant form of support for the party." The first three of the federal list will be formed at the congress.

Patriarch Alexy II. RTVI frame The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Alexy II said that he was ready to meet with Pope Benedict XVI in the near future. According to Interfax, he said this in an interview with French Figaro on the eve of a visit to France, which began on Monday. “Touching upon the possibility of a meeting with Benedict XVI, I don’t exclude anything,” said the head of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Viktor Yanukovych at the polling station. Photo by ar The Party of Regions of Ukraine came out in the first place when counting votes in the elections to the Verkhovna Rada. As reported on the website of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine, 32.21 percent of voters voted for it. 32.01 percent of Yulia Tymoshenko’s block of Yulia Tymoshenko. This is data after processing 76.97 percent of the protocols of the precinct commissions.

Milan Elich. Photo by RIA '' News '' President of the Republic of Serbian (Bosnia and Herzegovina) Milan Elich died in the city’s hospital in Doboy from a heavy heart attack, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Belgrade news agencies. According to the chief doctor of the clinic in the Doboy Dobuy Vasich, 51-year-old Elich was taken to the Doboy hospital with signs of a heart attack around 18.00 local time.

Yuri Malenchenko and Edward Lou. From the Air Force website Russian scientists continue to work on the penguin load suit, which in orbit helps astronauts keep muscles in tone and, if necessary, "drive" excess growth.

Emblem Buty After processing 36.53 percent of the protocols from polling stations, the gap between Yulia Tymoshenko’s bloc and the Party of Regions increased again. According to the Central Election Commission of Ukraine, BYUT received 33.55 percent of the vote, the Party of Regions with 30.21 percent of the vote is in second place, in the third - "Our Ukraine - People's Self -Defense" from 15.71 percent.

Blok Yulia Tymoshenko. Photos of faces According to 25 percent of the protocols in the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, the Blok Yulia Tymoshenko, which gained 33.38 percent of the vote, is in second place, the Party of Regions (29.99 percent) is in second place, in the third, "Our Ukraine is Narodnaya Self -Defense" (16.1 percent), RIA Novosti reports with a link to the Central Election Commission of Ukraine.