The Fair Russia faction in the State Duma is considered Deputy Prime Minister, the head of the government of the government of Sergei Sobyanin, the candidate "number one" for the post of mayor of the capital. This opinion was expressed today by ITAR-TASS, deputy head of the Duma reference, Gennady Gudkov. “Half of the candidates was already obvious,” the parliamentarian said.

The three -time winner of the Tour de France Alberto Contador intends to sue several printed publications for slander, which followed him after a recent doping scandal . Now the racer has been temporarily suspended from the competition, since traces of Klenbuterol were discovered in his doping industry. The Spaniard does not intend to ignore the information defaming his dignity and an honest name and is going to initiate a trial for slander from the media that he has not named, reports "SE" .

A significant deterioration in the global grain market has occurred in the last day, when the US authorities warned of significant losses of the current corn and barley crop. As the London newspaper Financial Times notes today, fears about the entry of the global economy into the food crisis have intensified on grain exchanges.

A traffic accident with the participation of a police car Ford from the support of the motorcade of the Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, the presidential envoy to the North Caucasus Federal District, Alexander Khloponin, occurred in Karachay-Cherkessia, a source in law enforcement agencies of the North Caucasus Federal District told Interfax .

The General promoter of Formula 1 Bernie Ecclestone told the Kommersant newspaper that he agreed on the terms of the contract for the Russian Grand Prix in Sochi. If the transaction takes place, then the Russian stage of Formula 1 will be held in 2014 in the Olympic Park. “The main problem that can interfere with the implementation of the agreements is the price.

In Russia today, the "Day of Silence" has been announced before a single voting day on October 10. On Saturday, any election campaign is prohibited, including in the media, and on Sunday Russian citizens expect about 7 thousand 800 elections of the regional and local levels. In six regions of the country, elections will be held in legislative assemblies: deputies will be elected in the Kostroma, Novosibirsk, Belgorod, Magadan and Chelyabinsk regions, as well as in the Republic of Tyva.

The Hungarian authorities announced that the acid water level in the Danube returned to normal. According to them, they managed to stop the spread of poisonous waste caused by an accident at the clay factory in Central Hungary, and thereby prevent the danger of pollution of the second largest water artery in Europe, the Air Force reports. Meanwhile, the number of victims of the accident increased to seven people.

The temporarily acting mayor of Moscow Vladimir Resin, hopes that United Russia will not be mistaken in choosing candidates for mayor of Moscow, Interfax reports. United Russia will present candidates to the president today. This is her right. Further, the president will be determined, and will present the candidate to the city Duma (Moscow). I think that they will not be mistaken, ”Resin said on Saturday, the words of the NTV TV channel.

The Italian Football Federation fined the captain of the metropolitan "Roma" Francesco Totti for ten thousand euros for statements to the arbitrators, Football Italia reports. During the pre -season training of Tentti, he stated that the judges stole two scudto from Roma. “The situation with the arbitrators as it was and remained. Only the color of their shape has changed, and everything is still. Strong teams as they received preferences and continue to receive them.

The Russian striker Detroit Pavel Datsyuk made Het-trick Gordy Hou in the NHL regular season match against Anaheim, which ended with the victory of his team with a score of 4: 0. The attacker has an abandoned washer, an accurate gear and a fight. Datsyuk began to attract increased attention only in the second period: at first he completed a combination with the participation of Henrik Zetterberg and Brian Rafalski, and then successfully assisted Danny Chiri.

Two accurate strikes by Miroslav Klose in the Euro-2012 qualifying match brought the German team a confident victory with a score of 3-0 over Turkey, which is now headed by the former coach of the Russian team of the GUS Hiddink. Despite the powerful noise support of the Turkish fans who occupied a good half of the stadium in Berlin, German football players looked much stronger than rivals.

Strong ongoing rain forced the organizers of the Japanese Grand Prix to transfer the qualifications of the 16th stage of the World Cup in the Formula 1 class from Saturday to Sunday. The qualification on the Suzuk highway was supposed to begin at 9.00 Moscow time. But weather conditions have made it holding a hazardous pilot health.

In the center of Moscow, the mass excitement of Muslims almost broke out. Believers were outraged by law enforcement officers from the Cathedral Mosque of the capital before Friday prayer, the Council of Muftis of Russia says. The law enforcement officers blocked the roads to the mosque, according to which for many years believers gather for prayer, so that those who came were pushed to the tram tracks, the Echo of Moscow reports.

The prefect of the Northern District of Moscow, Oleg Mitreol, believes that the decree on his resignation, signed by the acting mayor, Vladimir receiver, contradicts the legislation, since it is impossible to dismiss the sick person - and Mityol is on the sick leave all week. Nevertheless, now the prefector is led by one of his deputy Fazil Izmailov, the brother of the former co -owner of the Cherkizovsky market, the billionaire Telman Ismailov.

United Russia offered President Medvedev four candidates for the post of mayor of Moscow. Igor Levitin - Minister of Transport; Sergey Sobyanin - Deputy Prime Minister, head of the government apparatus; Valery Shantsev - Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod Region; Lyudmila Shvetsova - Deputy Chairman of the Government of Moscow. Earlier, Medvedev met with all four candidates, Presidential press secretary Natalya Timakova said, Interfax reports.