On October 9, the Nobel Committee named the 2009 Peace Prize laureate. It was US President Barack Obama. According to the committee members, his efforts in strengthening international diplomacy and cooperation between people deserve such a high award. Obama will receive about €1 million. The award winners will be awarded in Oslo on December 10.

Vladislav Tretyak has been appointed general manager of the Russian Olympic hockey team. This was reported by the press service of the Russian Hockey Federation (RHF). Tretyak’s candidacy was agreed upon with the head coach of the national team, Vyacheslav Bykov. 57-year-old Vladislav Tretyak, who is also the president of the FHR and the goalkeeper coach of the Olympic team, will combine all three positions during the Olympic Games in Vancouver. ITAR-TASS

As predicted by Kommersant (see issue dated October 6), First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov actually disavowed the plans of the management of AvtoVAZ OJSC to lay off 27.6 thousand employees of the enterprise. “Various huge figures on expected layoffs are mentioned. AvtoVAZ employees are concerned about this,” said Mr. Shuvalov after yesterday’s meeting at the plant in Tolyatti. “This is a lie, no such layoffs or reductions are planned.

Russia continues negotiations and will soon decide on the possibility of providing a loan to Bulgaria and Serbia. Ukraine's application is still frozen. “Loans to Ukraine are not being considered, there was an application, it was considered, but the issue is frozen for now,” Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Russia Alexei Kudrin said on October 9. He noted that the Russian side agreed to continue negotiations with Serbia.

Today, October 9, plans for the United States to deploy a radar station (radar) in Ukraine became known. Ukraine could become part of an early warning system for missile launches that the United States will create, abandoning plans to locate its national missile defense facilities in Poland and the Czech Republic. A radar station may be located in Ukraine. Assistant Secretary of Defense and former US Ambassador to Russia Alexander Vershbow told reporters about this on Thursday.

Today, October 9, Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, speaking at the third All-Ukrainian Forum of Postal Workers, said that the government intends to create a postal bank on the basis of Bank Kiev. “Bank Kyiv operates successfully. It has the entire system, but does not have a serious extensive network of branches.

Anniversary of 101 Caliber Jaeger-LeCoultre in Venice noted Ekaterina Istomina Considered the most artistic (and in some ways the most French) high-end brand of all the Swiss, Jaeger-LeCoultre, a watch manufacturer from the mountain village of the Vallée de Joux, is a long-time sponsor of the Venice Film Festival, a cinematic event that, unlike its Cannes counterpart, is more degrees of bohemian than glamorous.

Nizhny Novgorod Muslims claim land near the temple, given over to a ski resort In Nizhny Novgorod, the situation around the planned construction of a ski complex and a cable car in the area of ​​the Cathedral Mosque is escalating. Due to the implementation of investment projects, the regional government refused to provide the regional Spiritual Administration of Muslims (DUMNO) with land to expand the territory of the temple.

Police officers are conducting investigative actions in the administration of the Luzhniki market, Philip Zolotnitsky, head of the press service of the department for combating economic crimes of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate, told PRIME-TASS on October 9. “Currently, department employees are conducting a series of searches and seizures in the market,” noted Philip Zolotnitsky.

Today, October 9, the heads of state of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) annulled most of the international treaties previously signed by Georgia. This was announced by CIS Executive Secretary Sergei Lebedev at an expanded meeting of the Council of Heads of CIS countries, which is taking place in Chisinau.

Investigation Last Wednesday, during the “government hour” in the State Duma dedicated to the fight against corruption (for more details, see the material on page 2), Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika said that he considered the decision of his deputy Viktor Grin, who canceled the decision to initiate a criminal case against the minister, to be correct Finance of the Khabarovsk Territory Alexander Katsuba. “I think that my deputy made the decision carefully.

Frieze fair in London invites Anna Tolstova The Frieze fair, founded in 2003 by the publishers of the contemporary art magazine of the same name, immediately took aim at monsters like Art Basel and the Parisian FIAC. It is inferior in scale to them, and no wonder: modernism of the first half of the 20th century, which long ago acquired antique status, is not allowed here - only contemporary art, preferably produced in recent years.

Today, October 9, it became known about the proposal of the President of Kyivstar GSM CJSC Igor Litovchenko, after the merger of his company with the Russian OJSC VimpelCom, to retain the latter’s brand - Beeline - exclusively fixed-line communications. OJSC VimpelCom, after its merger with CJSC Kyivstar GSM, must maintain its business in Ukraine only in the fixed-line communications segment, says Kyivstar President Igor Litovchenko.

Tomorrow the Russian national team will play against the Germans at Luzhniki World Championship 2010 Tomorrow the Russian national team will play a key qualifying match for the 2010 FIFA World Cup at Luzhniki.

Moonstruck Ulysse Nardin premiere in Nice visited by Ekaterina Istomina This remarkable astronomical timepiece was first presented at the Monaco Yacht Show, a glamorous waterfowl event whose title sponsor was Le Locle watchmaker Ulysse Nardin. However, a different place was chosen for the premiere of the watch: not some side of a boat, but the harsh interiors of the Nice Observatory.