The pilot of the Mercedes team Lewis Hamilton defeated the first Formula 1 Grand Prix in the history of the Russian Grand Prix. The main prize of the competition was awarded to the British rider by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The holder of the Upol-Upersish Hamilton faster than all overcame 53 circles on Sochi Avtodrome, the second was his teammate Nico Rosberg. The third, Finn Valteri Bottas from Williams rose to the podium. “I was happy to be at the first step of the pedestal.

Six Israelis, the eldest of which is 66 years old, established a new world achievement, already listed in the Guinness Book of Records: they sailed 380 km on open water in the Mediterranean Sea, overcoming the distance from Cyprus to Israel. On October 5, they started in pathos (Cyprus), and on October 11 completed the water marathon in Herzli. Total swim time: 123 hours 10 minutes. Throughout the track, daredevils were accompanied by a yacht on which the support group was located.

Not far from the Canadian city of PRUDOM (Saskachevan province), an explosion at the lawn pump station thundered on Saturday, TASS reports with reference to the CBC television channel. “We are evacuating residents of rural settlements located within a radius of 3 km from the station. Nobody was injured in the explosion,” said the Saskachevan police department. Currently, gas supply to the damaged pipe is blocked. Firefighters are trying to localize the fire.

The head of the US State Department John Kerry, speaking at a conference on the reconstruction of the GAZ sector in Cairo, said that the States will allocate more than $ 200 million to restore the territory. However, he emphasized, the international conference of donor countries should be aimed not only at the collection of money, but also at the resumption of efforts on the peaceful settlement of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.

Germany refuses intergovernmental consultations with the Russian Federation, DW reports with reference to the publication of Der Spiegel magazine. Spiegel, citing a source in the government, claims that Berlin considers it inappropriate to hold a meeting with Moscow at the level of ministers and heads of government. The decision was made in connection with the crisis in Ukraine, the German edition points out.

The caustic smell of Gary is clearly felt in the east of Moscow and the Moscow region on Sunday afternoon, Interfax reports. Visibility is close to zero in the Novokosino area, as well as in the districts of the Reutov and Balashikha districts. Earlier, with reference to the press service of Mosecomonitoring, it was reported that in the near future in Moscow it was expected to reduce the concentration of pollutants in the air, but the smell of Gary will remain.

The Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation advocates increasing the flexibility of the ruble exchange rate and supports plans to cancel the bivalve basket corridor. Now, when the course approaches its borders, the Central Bank is obliged to undertake foreign exchange interventions, this week only on Thursday to maintain the course took $ 1.4 billion . But already on Friday the dollar again showed a historical maximum of the course: 40.29 rubles.

Forward of the American club "Los Angeles Galaxi" and the Robbie Football national football team Kin became the best scorer of qualifying matches of European championships, Infostrada reports. Forward, having scored three times in the match against the Gibraltar team (7: 0), with 21 balls bypassed the Danish Yon-Dal Thomenson and Turk Hakan Shukur, who had 19 goals in qualifying matches for the final tournaments of the championship of the continent.

The two largest student groups, heading the protest in Hong Kong, wrote an open letter to the head of China Xi Jinping. In it, they criticized the authorities, put forward their demands, and also accused the head of the Hong Kong administration Liang Zhenin of concealing $ 50 million against the background of the corruption campaign among senior officials. At the beginning of the letter, activists turn to Zhenin, contrasting the statements of the policy of his real actions.

Forward of the Russian national team and the Washington club, Alexander Ovechkin, opened the score to his goals in the new season of the NHL, bringing his club a guest victory over Boston in the regular championship match. In the 12th minute (when playing in the majority), Ovechkin put an excellent click on the gates of Tuukka Passk, and shortly before the first break he took out a double, performing an impeccably cystic throw - 2: 0.

The CEC of the Unrecognized Donetsk People’s Republic refused to register the famous public figure Pavel Gubarev, the head of the commission, the head of the commission, Roman Lyagin, said at a briefing in Donetsk. Gubarev became known after he proclaimed himself at one of the pro -Russian rallies by the People’s Governor of Donbass, but he did not get any post in the structures of the Donetsk People’s Republic.

The American boxer Shannon Briggs said that supporters of the world -weight of the Ukrainian Vladimir Klitschko, the battle with whom he achieves, threaten him. Briggs said that he received a call from angry supporters Klitschko on Saturday morning. “I don’t know what he is going to do, he is crazy. I think that he was tired of me. It was one of his camps. He said that I wouldn’t show up anymore. I received fatal threats.

In the next six months, the Premier League will conclude a new, amazing imagination, a contract for the sale of rights to television broadcasts within the UK. In the summer of 2012, an agreement was concluded with Sky and BT worth 3 billion pounds to broadcast matches in Britain. And although this contract expires only at the end of the next season, in March 2015 a new value of at least 4 billion pounds will be agreed.

In the seventh round of the second football Spanish division "Malorca", which is headed by the Russian coach Valery Karpin, Alaves defeated the 2-0 field with a score of 2-0. “This result is a starting point,” the Malorca’s official website quotes the words of Karpin. “We must stop yielding to the concingence. But we still need to improve much. This team can play much better. Malorca has much more qualities than it shows now.

Minister of Defense of Ukraine Valery Geletey was resigned. The official website of the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko informs that the resignation has been adopted, the candidacy of the new head of the Ministry of Defense will be submitted to the parliament on Monday.