“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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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".

The Ministry of Industry and Energy and Gazprom were not ready to comprehensively develop Eastern Siberia The Ministry of Industry and Energy and Gazprom admitted that they had reached a dead end in the difficult task of developing a program for creating a unified gas supply system in Eastern Siberia and the Far East.

Nalchik attacked from within The Russian leadership over the weekend took stock of efforts to restore peaceful life in the capital of Kabardino-Balkaria, Nalchik, which was attacked by a large detachment of militants on October 13. The fighting in the city continued for more than a day and ended on Friday afternoon. According to final official figures, 33 law enforcement officers and 12 civilians were killed.

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.

CLUBS Craig Moore (USA). Another dinosaur of American garage rock, singer and bassist of the band GONN. “OGI Project” , 22.00. Anatoly Gerasimov (saxophone) and DJ Yazykov . “Chinese pilot Zhao Da” , 22.00. Big band of Igor Butman. "Le Club" , 20.30. CONCERTS Concert for the 100th anniversary of the birth of Natalia Baratova. The choir of the Institute of Music takes part. Schnittke conducted by Lev Kontorovich , flute sextet of the Institute of Music.

The Ministry of Economic Development has figured out how to improve the quality of Russian gasoline The government is trying to figure out what to do to prevent prices from skyrocketing after the gasoline price freeze expires early next year.