CSKA won the World League in Yekaterinburg The capital's women's basketball club CSKA, previously known as the Samara team VBM-SSAU, became the winner of the fifth World League draw. In the final match, the wards of Latvian head coach Gundars Vetra, who had recently worked with the team, prevailed over the US national team - 75:65.

Russians won gold and silver in Dusseldorf Russian skier Natalya Matveeva won the first sprint stage of the World Cup in Dusseldorf. For the first time in her career, the athlete won a gold medal in the individual race and became a silver medalist in the team sprint in a duet with Natalya Korosteleva. The World Cup sprint stage is being held for the sixth time on the Rhine embankment, attracting crowds of spectators.

Vladimir Putin made the Eurotroika an offer they couldn’t refuse The leadership of the European Union lives in anticipation - and, it seems, impatiently - of Vladimir Putin's departure from the presidential post. This is how one can describe one of three vivid impressions from the 20th anniversary Russia-European Union summit that took place last Friday in the Portuguese town of Mafra.

The price of Russian gas for Belarus from the beginning of 2008 will increase by no more than 15-20%, Minister of Economy of Belarus Nikolai Zaichenko told Vremya Novostey. “I think that as a result of negotiations with Russia we will not go beyond these limits,” the minister suggested, noting that a price increase within these limits will not hinder economic growth in Belarus next year.

September 26 -- October 26, 2007 “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media,” a joint project of Vremya Novostei and the Medialogia company, are ratings of the political figures most actively discussed in the Russian media. “Politicians Through the Eyes of the Media” are published weekly on Mondays: over the course of a month, you can consistently familiarize yourself with the ratings of Russian governors, deputies, ministers and heads of foreign states and governments.

Former course of Oleg Kudryashov played “The Swedish Match” at the Theater of Nations Amorous Moscow theatergoers have a new hobby - a course by Oleg Kudryashov, who graduated from RATI (GITIS) a little over a year ago. This course had a rare feature: the master prepared students for work in musical theaters and for the usual disciplines required of dramatic actors, and added extra hours of vocals and plastique.

The verdict of the participants in the case of corruption in law enforcement agencies came into force Last Friday, the verdict in the scandalous case of “werewolves in uniform” - former EMERCOM general Vladimir Ganeev and MUR employees Yuri Samolkin, Nikolai Demin, Vadim Vladimirov, Igor Ostrovsky, Evgeniy Taratorin and Alexander Breshchanov - came into force.

11 parties were allowed to participate in the State Duma elections The ballot paper that Russians will receive in the parliamentary elections on December 2 will be unusually short . The Central Election Commission allowed only 11 parties to fight for popular recognition, having registered their lists of candidates for deputies. Three parties were denied the right to compete for parliamentary seats. Registration ended yesterday.

The leadership of the FSIN and human rights activists have different interpretations of the events in the colony near St. Petersburg The regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) in St. Petersburg yesterday morning carried out “routine preventive regime measures” in colony No. 5 in the village of Metallostroy.

Creditors will receive 76 billion rubles less from Yukos YUKOS transferred its last funds to creditors last Friday . But it was not possible to pay off all the debts: as stated in the message of the bankruptcy trustee Eduard Rebgun, 76 billion rubles. The company’s “registration” requirements (that is, those submitted after the bankruptcy procedure was introduced) were not enough.

Russia and the United States demonstrate their combat power to each other in the Far East Yesterday, strategic command and staff exercises on controlling groupings of troops and forces in the Eastern region “Vostok-2007” began. This large-scale action is led by the Chief of the General Staff, Army General Yuri Baluevsky. The exercises will last until November 3.

The European North is dominated by Atlantic cyclones, and there is an anticyclone in the center of Russia. At night and in the morning, the central areas were covered in fog, due to which visibility deteriorated to 100-500 meters, and in some places to 50 meters. In the coming days, the weather pattern in the central regions of European Russia will not change significantly. At night the temperature is still -3...+2оС, during the day +1...+6оС.

In two issues of Vremya Novostey (September 13 and 14 , 2007), an article by the author of the book “Breakthrough into the Future. Sociology of the Internet Revolution,” sociologist Igor EIDMAN, “The Rise of the Smart Crowd. Manifesto of the global social Internet revolution.” This article, dedicated to the prospects for a global Internet revolution designed to create a society of free creativity and direct democracy, caused a lively discussion in the Internet community.

Chronicle of sporting events Russian figure skaters Vera Bazarova and Yuri Larionov became bronze medalists at the opening stage of the Grand Prix series in the American city of Reading. This is the first award in the career of the students of Perm coach Lyudmila Kalinina, for whom this competition was their debut at the stages of the “adult” series.

The former head of the State Council of Chechnya, businessman Malik Saidullaev was wounded on Friday in Moscow on Leninsky Prospekt, where the office of his companies is located. “The attempt on Saidullaev was made at approximately 11.30,” Oleg Polinov, a representative of the businessman’s security service, told ITAR-TASS. “Three bullets were fired from a black jeep parked near the businessman’s office. Saidullaev received two wounds - in the arm and jaw.