“I knew it” Medvedev-Putin castling in blogs On Saturday, September 24, at the United Russia congress, it was announced that Vladimir Putin would go from the ruling tandem to the 2012 presidential elections, and Dmitry Medvedev would head the party list in the Duma elections, and then become prime minister. Politicized bloggers threw a tantrum about this.

The Russians responded to the worsening situation in the financial markets by buying up foreign currency. newspaper The Kommersant writes that over the last two weeks of September, the demand for cash currency increased by a third. According to bankers surveyed by the publication, American dollars were most in demand. In addition, bank depositors began converting rubles into foreign currency in bank accounts.

General manager of the KHL club “Vityaz” Alexey Zhamnov promised that in the KHL regular season match with Omsk “Avangard”, which will take place on September 26, his team’s players will not fight. Zhamnov made a promise to Avangard general manager Anatoly Bardin, who spoke about this, writes Sport-Express . In the past two seasons, matches between Avangard and Vityaz ended in mass fights. In the 2009/10 season, the match had to be interrupted and postponed.

Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero announced the dissolution of the country's parliament and announced the date for early elections. The Spanish news agency EFE reported this on Monday, September 26. Early elections to the Cortes General of Spain will take place on November 20. The new parliament will begin its work on December 13.

A Syrian government spokesman announced on September 26 that he had lost contact with 14 army officers who had been captured by opposition forces, the Associated Press reported . According to these data, a day earlier, rebels ambushed a detachment of government troops in the city of Quseir on the border with Lebanon. During the short battle, six soldiers were killed, as well as a representative of the local security services. The officers were captured.

The Indian Ministry of Defense has tested the Shaurya tactical missile, capable of carrying both conventional and nuclear warheads, Defense News reports . The launch of the missile, whose range ranges from 750 to 1.9 thousand kilometers, took place at the ITR training ground in the state of Orissa as part of Indian ground forces exercises. The test of Shaurya, which hit a target in the Bay of Bengal, was considered a complete success.

Against the backdrop of a huge computer tricolor, the bright-eyed and beaming Dmitry Medvedev announced that he was nominating Vladimir Putin for the role of presidential candidate. A little later, Putin offered Medvedev the post of head of the government of the Russian Federation. The echo of these historical words did not have time to subside before rejoicing swept over the party masses - they jumped up discordantly from their seats, desperately applauding the bright future of the tandem.

Russian stock indices opened the trading session on September 26 with a significant minus. In the first minutes of trading, the main MICEX indicator fell by 3.14 percent to 1285.56 points, and the RTS - by 3.55 percent to 1269.29 points. Thus, both indicators continued the decline that began on September 22-23. In general, according to the results of last week, the MICEX index lost 11 percent, and the RTS - almost 14 percent.

Simultaneously with the communists and United Russia, A Just Russia held its pre-election congress on Saturday. The Social Revolutionaries gathered in one of the hangars of the convention and exhibition center deep in Sokolniki Park. The congress was led by both party leaders - ex-speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov and party chairman Nikolai Levichev . graced the very ascetic stage State Duma deputy Tatyana Moskalkova .

British low-cost airline easyJet has created an advertising campaign that parodies a previously launched British Airways ad. This was reported by The Marketing magazine . The campaign, launched in the press, was released under the slogan "To Fly. To Save", playing on the British Airways motto - "To Fly. To Serve". easyJet explained its new slogan: "When we launched 15 years ago, those four words summed up everything we believed in. And it still does.

The artificial island of New Holland in St. Petersburg will be closed to the public from October 2 this year to carry out conservation work on historical objects. As stated in the message of the Millhouse company (manages the assets of Roman Abramovich), whose structure will be involved in the reconstruction of the complex, the territory will be reopened in the spring of 2012. For the first time in history, New Holland was open to the public in mid-July this year.

Gold prices during trading on September 26 fell by 6.4 percent to $1,552 per ounce. According to The Financial Times, over the past four sessions, gold has fallen in price by 13.8 percent, and in three weeks (since the all-time high of $1,920 per ounce was set) - by 19 percent. Bloomberg calls gold's decline over the past two sessions the highest since 1983.

The Beginning of a Dream Boeing delivers first Dreamliner to customer The American aircraft manufacturing concern Boeing handed over to the customer - the Japanese airline All Nippon Airways - the first passenger aircraft B787 Dreamliner, the delivery of which was delayed by almost three years. The new airliner will begin regular flights on October 26, 2011.

The prosecutor's office of the Central District of Volgograd appealed to the Central District Court of the city with a claim to recognize Sergei Mavrodi's new project "MMM-2011" (We Can Do Much - 2011) as a financial pyramid, said district prosecutor Alexander Rasstrygin, RIA Novosti reports . As the prosecutor clarified, if MMM-2011 is recognized as a financial pyramid, this will make it possible to prohibit advertising of the project in any form.

The brewing company Carlsberg held a promotional draw in a Belgian cinema, seating 148 bikers in one theater. This is reported by the Campaign website . People who came to see a movie at the cinema found that their seats were the only free ones, and all the others were occupied by a crowd of bikers. Many couples refused and left the session, and those who did sit down were greeted by bikers with applause. The bikers offered Carlsberg beer to viewers who dared to watch the film with them.