The head of the Ukrainian Parliament Volodymyr Litvin expressed confidence that attempts to begin the impeachment procedure of President Viktor Yushchenko are doomed to failure and that the chances of Yuri Janurov to be approved at the premiere now are 50 to 50. “I think that today the balance of power is about 50 to 50. There is some kind of advantage in favor of the candidacy of Yehanurov. But the processes are changing dynamically.

Advisor to the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine, activist of the Ukrainian organization "Time" Sergey Yevtushenko, detained on September 15 in Baku, was released and deported to Ukraine. As Interfak was told at the Ukrainian Embassy in Baku, no documents were submitted to the diplomatic mission regarding both the detention and the deportation of Yevtushenko.

Large losses are carried by the Russian army in Chechnya. Over the past day, 11 federals were killed in the Chechen Republic and another 12 were injured, AFP reports. At the same time, the agency refers to sources in the government in Grozny. According to AFP, the positions of Russian troops per day were shelling 14 times. The command of the Russian troops does not comment on this information.

Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder and his wife Doris voted in the morning on Sunday in Hanover. According to the N-24 news channel, accompanied by a large crowd of supporters and journalists, they walked on foot to the polling station located at the school near their house, RIA Novosti reports. Smiling to others, under the outbreaks of cameras and welcoming screams, the couple simultaneously lowered their ballots into the yellow electoral urn.

The famous Mexican boxer Marco Antonio Barrera in Las Vegas defeated the Australian Robbie Peden, adding to his WBC title in the first lightweight IBF championship belt. The battle began with intelligence and exchanging jabs, in which Barrera looked clearly preferable. The Mexican also looked better in exchanges and won the first three rounds without any problems.

On Sunday, on Sunday, the main and duplicate crews of the next expedition to the International Space Station (ISS) arrived on Baikonur on Sunday. Two planes with astronauts and faces accompanying them landed at the “extreme” Baikonur Cosmodrome at 13:00 and 13:30 Moscow time, Interfax reports.

In Sunday, the rescuers found the second body of the deceased on Sunday, in the city of Dudinka, who was sanking in the seaport of Dudinka. This was reported by RIA Novosti by the Deputy Governor of the Taimyr Autonomous Okrug for Public Relations Vyacheslav Schukin. According to him, the body was found when examining the nasal premises of the sunken ship. It belongs to the senior assistant captain Sergei Golubkov.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that in the relations of Russia with the United States there cannot be a return to the previous times, when both states were opponents of each other. "There can be no return to the previous times, at least from Russia. We are not opponents, we are partners in so many areas of international activity, and I hope that it will be so because the interests of our countries and peoples coincide to a large extent.

According to preliminary data, the Opposition Bloc of the CDS/ CSS is won in the parliamentary elections in Germany, ZDF reports. According to the television channel, the HDS/CSS block received 37% of the vote. The ruling Social Democratic Party of Germany (SDPG) - 33%, "green" - 8%, free democrats - 10.5%, "left" - 8%. According to these data, Social Democrats can count on 204 places in parliament, while the CDS/CSS unit is 229.

In Moscow, on Sunday, after a serious illness, the former editor -in -chief of Moscow News and the General newspaper Egor Yakovlev died. He was 75 years old. “Recently, he has been sick for a long time and seriously. He was treated in Germany, but then he was transported here,” said Sergey Gryzunov, CEO of Moscow News. According to him, the newspaper will take over the organization of the funeral. “But now I can’t say how everything and when will happen,” said Gryzunov.

In Croatia, where the European Volleyball Championship began, the Russian team won the first victory at the group stage. In the starting game, our team, which is led by Italian Giovanni Caprara, defeated Turkey in three parties. "As we expected, the Turkish national team played very well against us. We need to work more on the block. But I am satisfied with the effectiveness of the attack, especially a lot of goals - on the account of Ekaterina Gamova.

The statement of President Iran at a meeting of the UN General Assembly leaves the EU does not leave any other choice, except to try to endure the Iranian dossier for discussion of the UN Security Council. This was stated by sources among European diplomats in New York, reports Reuters.

A group of Russian entrepreneurs offered 90 million euros for the control package of shares of the English football club Aston Villa, which plays in the Premier League. According to the English media, buyers are ready to pay € 8.7 for each club campaign. Previously, the former defender Manchester City was refused to buy Ray Ranson, who offered € 6 per share.

Before the decisive matches of the Tennis Cup final, Parisian resellers offer tickets for a triple face value. After the first game day, the intrigue of the match France - Russia did not die, which means the demand for tickets will exceed the proposal. At the end of the two single meetings, Saturday at the Roland Garros Tennis -Garros tennis center, “Pores d'atul” - speculators in English, French and a broken Russian languages ​​tried to sell tickets to fans returning from matches.

In the center of Moscow, in connection with the conduct of mass sporting events, traffic will be limited today, RBC reports.