A lawsuit by Andrei Kashechkin against the International Union of Cyclists (UCI), the verdict on which the court of first instance in the Belgian Lija must pierce a legal gap in favor of those who dispute the right to exist anti -doping struggle and disqualification of athletes for the use of doping.

The US Ambassador to Ukraine William Taylor, answering the questions of students of one of the Kiev universities about the possible accession of Ukraine to NATO, expressed the opinion that the interests of Ukraine are responsible for the conclusion of gas supplies to the country on the principles of transparency and without intermediaries, Interfax reports. "There must be a transparent contract. The current contract is not very transparent, depends on the intermediary," Taylor said.

George Bush called the President of Pakistan as soon as possible to hold elections in his country and abandon the post of commander of the armed forces. “We expect the elections will be held as soon as possible and that the president will remove military uniform,” the US president said after his meeting in the White House with a visit to Washington, Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan, RIA Novosti reports.

A package of strange and suspicious content was delivered to the UN children's office (UNISEF) to the UN), Interfax reports. The office of the Office Security Service UNICEF Vasily Selivanov said that on Monday, a cardboard box of size 35x40x40 centimeters entered the office. Selivanov checked the received mail with a metal detector, but did not attach the importance that the device “piled up” near the box, considering that there are spare parts for computers.

In the capital of Ingushetia Nazran, unknown people shot a car in which there were two men. This was reported by "Interfax" with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. The incident occurred at about 20:00 Moscow time. The BMW car, which was moving in the area of ​​the 2nd city school of Nazran, in which two railway drivers were located, were shot by unknown people, and then disappeared from the scene in the VAZ-2107 car. Both men from the wounds died on the spot.

The head coach of the Ukrainian national football team Oleg Blokhin turned 55 years old. The anniversary and in the beautiful attacker in Monday was congratulated by President Viktor Yushchenko and Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych. The name of the best football player in Europe and the USSR has long been inscribed in the history of football, with gold letters.

Based on the results of the counting of 95% of the bulletins submitted for presidential candidates on the second round of the presidential election held on Sunday on Sunday, a levocentric candidate, businessman Alvaro Cola is ahead of his opponent, retired General Otto Perez Molin by 5%. 52.64% of the Guatemal residents supported the candidate from the Left-Center Party "National Unity of Hope" (NEN), ITAR-TASS reports.

Russian woman Svetlana Ponomarenko finished the first in the standings of the 25th Athenian classic marathon. Later it turned out that Ponomarenko set a record of these competitions among women, running a distance in 2 hours 33 minutes and 19 seconds. The second was Japanese Tikhiro Tanaka (2: 41.00), the third was the Greek woman Magdaleni Gazaa (2: 41.31). Among men, the first seven places were taken by runners from Kenya.

After the American heavyweight, Eddie Chambers defeated the divisions of the judges of his compatriot Kelvin Brock, as part of the IBF Tournament, he “went” to Alexander Povetkin, ready to solve any problems. Now Chamber has to meet with the Russian heavyweight Alexander Povetkin and determine in a full -time meeting, which is allegedly held in January next year, an obligatory contender for IBF weight in heavyweight, which is now owned by Vladimir Klitschko.

Five people died as a result of the collision of the Volga and the semi -trailer of the MAZ truck in the Altai Territory.

The head coach of Spartak Stanislav Cherchesov on the eve of the 30th round of the Russian championship, which will determine the champion of this season, told whether to call the mentor of Saturn Haji Gadzhiev to properly set the players to the upcoming game with Zenit. “I won’t call Gadzhieva. Because after such a call, he will never give me hands at a meeting. The real men and professional coaches are entitled to contact each other with a similar request.

In Italy, he was arrested by Salvatore Lo-Piccolo, who is considered the new head of the Sicilian mafia. According to the widespread Palermo Police, his son Sandro was also detained during the special operation. Lo-Piccolo Sr. successfully hid from law enforcement agencies over the past 20 years. He became the head of the Sicilian mafia last year after the arrest of the former criminal boss Bossov Bernardo Provenzano, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Spanish coach Juande Ramos, who recently left Seville to Tottenham, wanted to lure Frederick Kanate to the foggy Albion of Andalusians. But when this attempt failed because of the fundamental position of the president of the Andalusians Jose Maria del Nido, the specialist turned his attention to the Russian striker. After Ramos left Seville, Kerzhakov stopped falling into the main team.

Despite the successful start in the Italian championship, Juventus is not ready for the struggle for Scudetto, says the goalkeeper of the Turinians, Gianluigi Buffon. “I think that this season it is too early for us to fight for the victory in the A. series A. If you objectively look at things - two or three teams surpass us. Nobody result with Inter is an achievement for today's Juventus,” says Buffon.

In the Sakhalin city of Nevelsk, which suffered from a destructive earthquake , the distribution of apartments in newly built seismic -resistant houses began. So far, two such houses have been rented for 12 apartments in each. On November 5, the city hall took place at the city hall between the families, which determined what apartment they will enter and on which floor it is located. All participants in the draw will be denied housewarming on November 8, ITAR-TASS reports.