On Wednesday, on the third day of the competition at the UK Open Tennis, the matches of the second circle will play nine Russians - three in men and six in a female category. The central fight for our fans will be a meeting of Marat Safin, sown at the tournament under the 5th number, and Australian Mark Filippusis.

The City Court of Prague decided to admit from a legal point of view of the issuance of Russian entrepreneur Oleg Orlov to law enforcement agencies of Ukraine. According to Interfax with reference to Radio Prague , according to the resolution of the Czech judicial authorities, the issuance of a Russian entrepreneur by the Ukrainian side is possible, but the Czech Minister of Justice will be made on possible extradition. Orlov is suspected of illegal trade in military equipment.

The fitness center with a water park is planned to be built in Moscow in the territory of the Southern Administrative District, a source in the city administration said on Wednesday. According to him, the fitness center is scheduled to be built before the end of 2007 at the intersection of Borisovsky Prudy and Natashinskaya streets. It is assumed that the total area of ​​the center will be 55 thousand 430 square meters, the water park in its composition is 3.5 thousand square meters.

The Moroccan writer decided to fight the position of women in Muslim countries, composing an erotic novel. “My goal is to return to women the right to vote, who was deprived of their fathers, brothers and husbands,” Nedzhma wrote in the preface to the novel called “Almonds,” Interfax reports.

On Wednesday, in the affected match of the 7th round of the Russian CSKA championship, playing by ten, managed to avoid defeat from the Yaroslavl Shinnik, playing 1: 1. The army team scored 18 points and reached sixth place, and Yaroslavls with 15 points take the tenth line. "Shinnik" 1: 1 CSKA Bognyak 43 Zhirkov 63 In the first half, the Yaroslavls imposed a tough struggle to players, which led to numerous mistakes and violations by the army, Sport-Express notes.

The authorities of the American state of Arizona banned the ex-champion of the world in heavyweight Mike Tyson to build a pigeon in the courtyard of the recently acquired house , according to Allboxing with reference to the publication of Arizona Central . Inspectors of the Construction Department visited Tyson, receiving a signal from his neighbor that a certain design is being erected in the backyard of the ex-champion house.

Owners of the clubs of the National Basketball Association and the League Players agreed on a new six -year collective labor contract, which should enter into force next month. The appropriate application at the press conference before the sixth match of the final of the NBA playoffs was made by the League Commissioner David Stern and the director of the trade union Bill Hunter.

A new -sample passport will be able to accommodate any amount of biometric information about their owner. This was stated by the Deputy Head of the Federal Agency for Information Technologies (Rosinform Technology) Alexander Pankratov. He emphasized that "today there are no specific solutions, what kind of biometric data will be used in documents of a new sample." “Most likely, so far everything is limited only to digital photography,” Pankratov said.

The leadership of the Moscow Internal Affairs Directorate for the adoption of the Law of the Russian Federation, which would provide for criteria for forced delivery of persons without a specific place of residence to the shelters.

On the 64th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Alexy II , members of the Holy Synod and about 200 priests laid a wreath to the grave of an unknown soldier, on which the Orthodox Cross was laid out with yellow carnations. Together with other representatives of the Moscow clergy, the Primate of the Church sang the "eternal memory" of the soldiers who fell on the battlefields, Interfax reports.

The plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Southern Federal District Dmitry Kozak qualified the incident in the village of Borozdinovskaya as "a glaring sabotage against Russia and Chechnya." "The incident in Borozdinovskaya is a flagrant sabotage against Russia and the Chechen Republic," Kozak said at a meeting in Grozny.

In the lobby of the Marxist station of the Moscow metro, GAZ was sprayed. According to preliminary data, the unknown people sprayed gas from a gas can used as a means of self -defense in the lobby of the gas station, RIA Novosti reports. "The incident at the metro station occurred at about 10:30 Moscow time. Passengers who were on the station platform unexpectedly felt a pungent smell that caused people burning in their eyes and sore throat," the eyewitness of the incident said.

The chances of getting pregnant are reduced in women who eat soy food. Studies show that because of such food, it can be more difficult for them to get pregnant. Therefore, they should stop using it during the most fertile period of the monthly cycle, scientists said at the conference of the European community of human reproduction and embryology, which is held in Copenhagen.

The space apparatus "Cosmos-1" with the "solar sail" did not go out at a given time in the calculated orbit due to the spontaneous stop of the engines of the first stage of the launch vehicle. This was reported by Interfax on Wednesday at night a source in Russian space structures. According to the manufacturer of the conversion missile-"KB named after Makeev", "at the 83rd second of the flight, the engine of the 1st stage stopped," ITAR-TASS reports.

The Federation Council on Wednesday approved a federal law that significantly reduces the list of activities for which mandatory licensing is required. “The measures proposed in the law will contribute to the reduction of excessive functions of state regulation of economic activity and a decrease in corruption,” said the chairman of the Economic Committee of the Federation Council Oganes Oganyan.