A gift to the former head of the MFR MENATEP Platon Lebedev for the upcoming birthday will be a visit to his family members in the investigative isolator. “The whole gift of the family will be that children are going to visit him,” Konstantin Rivkin told Interfax Lebedev. On the upcoming Monday, on November 29, Lebedev will have a birthday - he will be 51 years old. As Rivkin noted, his son is going to visit Lebedev on Lebedev’s birthday.

In the London final of the final tournament of the year, the first and second rackets of the world will meet - Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. This became possible after on Saturday in the second semifinals the Swiss confidently outplayed Serb Novak Djokovic - 6: 1, 6: 4. From the very beginning of the meeting, Roger outlined the advantage by leading with a score of 3-0. Only after that Novak was able to win his only game in the starting set.

One citizen of Russia died when a cargo plane fell in the largest Pakistani city of Karachi, the rest of the crew, presumably Ukrainians, said Alexey Zenkov , representative of the General Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Karachi. The cargo plane, heading to Sudan, fell on Sunday at 1:48 local time (23:48 Moscow time) shortly after taking off at Karachi airport.

In Belgrade, where the General Assembly of the European Olympic Committee began, IOC President Jacques Rogge handed Alexander Zhukov a bronze medal of the 2008 Olympic Games , intended for Alexander Kolobnev. More than two years ago, in Beijing, he took fourth place in a group race , and after the disqualification for the use of doping of the silver medalist David Rebellin (Italy) was declared the third prize winner.

Russia issued Venezuela a loan of $ 4 billion to strengthen defense capacity. This was announced by the President of the Latin American country Huga Chavez, reports Reuters. The funds were issued during a visit to Moscow for the purchase of weapons, the President of Venezuela said. He clarified that Karakas "simply fulfills the task of protecting his homeland from the threat of imperialists and their allies." At the same time, Chavez did not explain what kind of weapons Moscow issued funds.

China offers an extraordinary consultations of the six on the problem of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in early December, the special representative of the Chinese government in Korea by Daway said on Sunday in Beijing, RIA Novosti said. The naval forces of the United States and South Korea on Sunday began joint four-day exercises west of the Korean Peninsula.

One of the militants who were killed in the Kizlyar region was identified as a native of the village of Khutsievka Abdulmumin Abdulmumin, he was one of the ideologists of the armed terrorist underground, Interfax was told in the Information Center (IC) of the National Anti -Terrorist Committee (NAC) of Russia. "Abdulmuminov was an imam of one of the district mosques, and in May he switched to an illegal position, was considered one of the ideologists of the underground.

The Ministry of Defense of South Korea on Sunday ordered reporters to leave the Yonphyndo border island in the Yellow Sea against the backdrop of a tense situation with North Korea, Reuters reported. "All journalists must leave the island of Yonphendo," the Ministry of Defense said in a statement. The naval forces of the United States and South Korea on Sunday began joint four-day exercises west of the Korean Peninsula.

In Moldova, early parliamentary elections began. At 7 o’clock in the morning local time (8:00 Moscow time), 2037 polling stations opened, the secretary of the Central Election Commission (CEC) Yuri Chokan Stirbu said today. According to him, about 4 thousand police officers and combatants are involved in the course of the election to ensure public order. The Ministry of Internal Affairs will also ensure the safety of transportation of ballots.

US President Barack Obama, barely recovering from the injury received on Friday on basketball, again went to this game, but now as a spectator, not a player. On Saturday, he and his family attended a match of student teams in Washington, one of which is trained by his wife’s brother, Craig Robinson, ITAR -TASS reports.

The head of the Engels district of the Saratov region, Mikhail Lysenko, is one of the detainees on suspicion of involvement in the murder, completely several years ago, the official representative of the Investigative Committee of Russia Vladimir Markin told Interfax . "In the near future, the issue of the election of a preventive measure in the form of detention in the form of suspects will be resolved," Markin said.

Due to the spill of sulfuric acid at the Yekaterinburg-Sorting station, no one was injured, there is no threat to the population and the environment, Interfax was told in the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation for the Sverdlovsk Region. "The message about the emergency on the 32nd path of the station was received by the Service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations at 12:32 Moscow time.

The US State Department’s confidential diplomatic correspondence, which WikiLeaks intends to publish, contains anti -Islamic statements by US and Great Britain diplomats, their publication can jeopardize the security of American and British citizens in Muslim countries. In addition, materials contain unpleasant statements to the Western allies in the Islamic world. This was reported today by the Sunday Times , citing British government sources.

The acting head coach of Dynamo Kiev Oleg Luzhny at a press conference after a match with Sevastopol said that in the near future he will leave his post, the official website of the Ukrainian football club reports. The match of the 19th round of the Ukrainian football championship, held in Kyiv at the Valery Lobanovsky stadium, ended with the victory of the hosts with a score of 2: 0.

The wife of Leonid Parfenova Elena Chekalova says that she did not say anything about the possible dismissal of her husband from the Channel One, reports Echo of Moscow . Chekalova stated that she opposed the violation of the rules of the journalist of ethics-when what was said in a private conversation is published without permission and is interpreted in its own way.