After the defeat from the Moscow Spartak in the 20th round of the Russian championship, the head coach of the “Wings of the Soviets” Sergey Oborin was resigned. The new mentor of the Samara club will be Alexander Tarkhanov, who has already led this team from 1999 to 2003. A statement about this on the official website of the club was made by the President of the Wings of the Soviets Alexander Baranovsky.

The Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II can sue the creators of the film, who presented her in an unprofitable light, writes Sunday Telegraph British newspaper on Sunday. The scandal erupted a month ago, when journalists on the press scope of programs of the new BBC season saw the video of the television film "The Year with the Queen".

Most Russians are concerned about the environmental situation in the country and believe that in recent years in Russia it is deteriorating, studies of sociologists show. According to the survey of the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM), 72% of Russians said that the environmental situation in the country is concerned, 21% said that the state of the environment does not bother them.

Czech tennis player Radek Stepapanek and the ex-first racket of the world Martin Hingis decided to part and not marry. This was announced by the representative of the ATR-Tour Steven Dakkitt at the Masters series tournament in Montreal.

The ex-champion of the world in boxing in three weight categories Marco Antonio Barrera announced that this year he will most likely complete his performances in the professional ring and wants to leave boxing on the major note, defeating the Mennie Pacquiao match, appointed on October 6. “I want to thank Pakyao and Bob Arum for giving me the opportunity to hold a rare match,” Barrera said. “I am a typical Mexican boxer, that is, after the first battle, I understand how to win the second.

“Recently, I had a very dense schedule, so I needed a vacation,” Maria said on her website . It also became known that the Russian woman will not perform at the tournament of the first category in Toronto, which will be held next week. Thus, Nadezhda Petrova without a struggle reached the final of the tournament in Los Angeles.

The Afghan movement "Taliban" refused to fulfill the promise to free two South Korean hostages, RIA Novosti reports on Sunday with reference to the Renhap agency. “Our leaders changed their minds and decided not to free two women -consumers,” the representative of Kari Yusuf Ahmadi said by phone.

At the moment when most Europeans still think about summer vacation, the UK has already begun to meet for the New Year. The discovery of this impatience was the opening of the famous Harrods of New Year's trade in the Harrrods London store. To the ceremony, which took place at an air temperature of 25 degrees, arrived in the store in the store for the transportation of ice cream Santa Claus in a luxurious fur coat. New Year and Christmas trade is located 10 thousand square feet.

In the city of Taganrog, the Rostov region, due to strong winds on Thursday and Friday, were deprived of power supply of 4,000 inhabitants, including 1300 children. As Interfax agency was told on Sunday in the press service of the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, one local resident also died due to impulses of wires, who himself tried to restore power supply in his house. According to the Ministry of Emergencies, there is no light on the territory of 9 square meters. km.

Today, Russians pay tribute to the sailors from the nuclear submarine Kursk, who died seven years ago, on August 12, 2000, in the Barents Sea. This tragedy claimed the lives of 118 submariners of the Northern Fleet. According to the conclusions of the government commission, the cause of the crew was the explosion of a torpedo in the nasal compartment of the submarine, ITAR-TASS reports.

The rating of the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown is growing against the backdrop of his successful actions in crisis situations of the last two months - the fight against terrorism, floods, the outbreak of foot and mouth disease and a decline in financial markets, the new survey of public opinion testifies. The survey was conducted by the IPSOS MORI company by order of the Sun newspaper among participants in a representative sample of thousands of residents of the United Kingdom.

The editor -in -chief of the newspaper Saratov alignment Vladimir Spiragin confirmed to Interfax the media information about the search in the editorial office of his publication. At the same time, he refused to give more detailed comments. Interfax does not yet have confirmation of this information by law enforcement agencies.

In the match for the Super Bowl of Portugal, the Russian midfielder Marat Izmailov scored the only ball in the meeting with the fundamental opponent of Porto and brought the honorary trophy to his new club. No one could have imagined that Marat Izmailov, extremely rarely recently appeared in the main composition of Lokomotiv so soon would begin to benefit its new team. Recall, recently, Marat was leased to Lisbon Sporting.

The chief editors of more than 60 Chinese newspapers signed a declaration calling for fighting the fabricated news and say the “truth in journalism,” the Sinhua agency reports on Sunday. The declaration says that all media employees must separate the truth from lies, fight with fabricated news stories, and ensure the reliability of information. The main editors of the Chinese media also called for the creation of a long -term responsibility system.

A number of members of the Central Election Commission of Ukraine announced the inadmissibility of pressure on them with the aim of registering an electoral list of the Yulia Tymoshenko bloc in extraordinary parliamentary elections scheduled for September 30. “No one will ever be able to make us make an illegal decision, even using such dirty and unacceptable means in the democratic state as threats and intimidation,” the CEC members signed on Sunday, the text of which is the Interfax agency.