“Spartak” and “Zenith” took away each other’s chances for the championship If you now conduct a sociological survey on how you see the Russian football champion, then in the resulting “photo identikit” it will hardly be possible to recognize any Premier League team. This is not the current Lokomotiv, which, together with the former coach, lost a clear understanding of their game. This is not the current bloodless CSKA.

The former owner of Sodbiznesbank was shot along with his family Yesterday, the former owner of the capital's Sodbiznesbank and Kredittrast, Alexander Slesarev, his wife Natalya and their 15-year-old daughter Elizaveta became a victim of unknown killers. The Mercedes, in which there was a businessman and his family, was fired upon at about 10.00 in the Moscow region on the Moscow-Don highway.

The Dutch began to catch terrorists Now the Dutch security forces have seriously taken up the task of eliminating the Islamist underground in their country. On Friday, a series of arrests took place in The Hague, Amsterdam and Almere with great fanfare: seven people from the extremist group Hofstad were detained. Dutch Interior Minister Johan Remkes said the arrests foiled several terrorist attacks that targeted political figures and an intelligence and security building.

A self-defense leaflet has been issued for foreign students The Ministry of Education is trying to keep foreign students in Russia who are frightened by the numerous manifestations of extremism and xenophobia in our country. One of these days, a batch of student reminders about the rules of behavior and safety will be sent to Voronezh, where the murder of a Peruvian student took place on October 9.

The Russian national team can become the world football champion. There is some truth in this unfunny joke. This will happen only if Russia finally - for the first time in the history of domestic football - has a properly organized main national team. To win big tournaments in modern football you need to head well. And outside the field.

According to the will of Oleg Leonidovich Lundstrem, he will be buried in a cemetery in the suburban dacha village of Sokolovka. Before this, the Union of Composers will hold a farewell to the great musician, who is called nothing less than the father of Soviet jazz, whose life and work became the very history of jazz music in the USSR and post-reform Russia. Lundström did not live long enough to reach his 90th birthday.

A plane with big problems is waiting in Azerbaijan Today's expected return to the homeland of the disgraced ex-speaker, leader of the Democratic Party, 58-year-old Rasul Guliyev, could explode the political situation in Azerbaijan. Both the authorities and the opposition are looking forward to this event.

President Signed the federal constitutional law “On the formation of a new subject of the Russian Federation within the Russian Federation as a result of the unification of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, the Taimyr (Dolgano-Nenets) Autonomous Okrug and the Evenki Autonomous Okrug.” The merger of the subjects was approved by the State Duma on September 22, 2005, and by the Federation Council on October 5. Government Expressed gratitude to Russian Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin.

Rice showed how votes should be counted in Iraq In Iraq, the results of Saturday's constitutional referendum continue to be summed up. The draft Basic Law establishes Iraq as a federal parliamentary state with equal rights for all citizens. The name does not specify which republic it is, Arab or Islamic, as this has caused controversy. Arabic and Kurdish are declared the state languages, and Islam is declared the state religion, while religious freedoms are simultaneously consolidated.

FOOTBALL. October 18-19. Champions League. 3rd round. October 19-20. UEFA Cup. Group stage. 1st round. Premier League. 27th round. October 22. "Spartak" - "Torpedo". October 23. "Saturn" - "Shinnik", "Moscow" - "Zenith", "Rubin" - "Wings of the Soviets", "Amkar" - CSKA, "Rostov" - "Tom", "Dynamo" - " Terek", "Alania" - "Lokomotiv".

A Vremya Novostei correspondent tried to figure out what was actually happening in Nalchik over the past few days. Day two By Friday evening, the road from Mineralnye Vody to Nalchik was covered in places by such thick fog that ambulances moving towards us from the direction of the Kabardino-Balkarian capital were barely visible.

Yesterday, for the first time, an Italian played for a Russian basketball club at the official level. True, the debut did not turn out to be particularly impressive. Gianmarco Pozecco, who signed a contract with Khimki near Moscow in the off-season, came on as a substitute in the club’s opening match in the Super League against Spartak (Vladivostok), spent 13 minutes on the court and scored only three points.

These days, the 33rd session of the UNESCO General Conference is taking place in Paris, which re-elected the Japanese Koichiro Matsuura as Director General for a second four-year term. Vremya Novostey special correspondent Katerina LABETSKAYA spoke in Paris with Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Alexander YAKOVENKO, who oversees international organizations, about Russia’s expectations from this organization.

The Duma Security Committee did not agree with the presidential bill on parliamentary investigations, proposing to rework the text of the document “conceptually.” That is, essentially. Deputies, already members of a parliament obedient to the executive branch, did not want to become a laughing stock when investigating real large-scale tragedies. This parliamentary front is a response to perhaps the most scandalous bill in recent history.

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