Moscow utility workers promise to turn on the heating next week With the September temperature unusually cool for the velvet season, when thermometer readings have already been below normal for a considerable time not only on the street, but also in the apartments of city residents, utility workers are in no hurry to open a full-scale heating period.

The Central Internal Affairs Directorate remains indifferent to the investigation into the brutal beating of young people at the Sokolniki police station. The investigation into the scandalous criminal case of the brutal beating of five young people in the Moscow Sokolniki police station , as Vremya Novostei learned, has moved forward.

CLUBS Big band of Igor Butman. Igor Butman Club , 20.00. Anna Koroleva (vocals, saxophone) and Jump . Forte , 21.00. CONCERTS Early Russian avant-garde: premieres postponed for a century. V. Zaderatsky, N. Obukhov, A. Vustin, Y. Vorontsov, V. Tarnopolsky, S. Pavlenko, S. Rumyantseva. Soloist S. Savenko (soprano). Ensemble "Studio of New Music". Chamber choir of the Moscow Conservatory under the direction of B. Tevlin. Conductor I. Dronov.

Romania and Ukraine are waiting for the verdict of the UN court The Hague International Court of Justice on Friday concluded hearings on Romania's claim against Ukraine regarding the delimitation of the continental shelf and exclusive economic zones in the area of ​​Zmeiny Island in the western part of the Black Sea. Since the beginning of September, two rounds of hearings have taken place.

CPC capacity may not double by 2012 The Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC) expansion project is under threat of serious cost increases and delays. The feasibility study for the project is valid until the end of September this year, but the memorandum on expansion has not yet been adopted due to disagreements among CPC shareholders .

Most of the European territory of Russia remains at the mercy of the anticyclone, the center of which is gradually shifting to the east. And the active cyclone will continue to unfold its actions over the south of Russia. Meanwhile, another cyclone will begin to push the anticyclone from the north. In the northwestern region there is mostly no precipitation. In the central region, on the southwestern periphery of the anticyclone, good weather will remain.

The famous Oktoberfest has begun in Germany. Oktoberfest kicked off in Munich on Saturday! - a beer festival, which is considered the largest folk festival in the world. Every year it attracts about six million beer lovers from all over the world. For 16 days, they dress up in traditional Bavarian peasant clothes, have fun, listen to music, sing songs and, of course, drink beer - a total of six special festival varieties.

Terrorists reached the center of Islamabad A new and vitally important for humanity front has appeared on the world map of the fight against terrorism - the Pakistani one. If, in relation to Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, and Somalia, the world community speaks mainly about the local activity of al-Qaeda and other international terrorist structures, then Pakistan, which has possessed nuclear weapons since 1998, can become a key target for terrorists.

Lebedeva ahead of the Olympic champion An athletics tournament took place in Shanghai, China, which brought several victories to Russian athletes. Olympic champion in the long jump, two-time silver medalist of the Beijing Games, Russian Tatyana Lebedeva, excelled in the triple jump (14 m 82 cm), ahead of two-time Olympic champion Francois Mbango-Etone from Cameroon (14.75). Anna Pyatykh finished third in the competition (14.71).

One of those greeting the first “visa-free” flight from Russia was the ex-Minister of Tourism of Israel, member of the Knesset from the “Our Home is Israel” party, Yitzhak Aharonovich. It was he who initiated the abolition of the visa regime between the two countries a year and a half ago.

Israel does not impose special requirements on Russian tourists The Russian-Israeli agreement on a visa-free regime came into force on Saturday, September 20, at 0 hours 1 minute. And at 0:55 a.m., a Russian airline plane landing on flight No. 331 from Moscow landed at Ben Gurion Airport in Tel Aviv. There were 87 people on board. They became the first Russians to be able to visit Israel without a visa.

Israeli Prime Minister resigns amid corruption allegations Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert announced his resignation - last night he met with Israeli President Shimon Peres and handed him an official letter requesting his removal from office. “This is not an easy decision. However, I feel that it is the only correct one and corresponds to what I promised the people of Israel,” Olmert said.

Safina became the first racket of Russia Russian Dinara Safina, at the peak of her career, won the prestigious WTA tournament in Tokyo with a prize fund of $1.34 million. In the final, she defeated her compatriot Svetlana Kuznetsova - 6:1, 6:3. Success in Japan allowed Safina to bypass her opponent in the finals of the Beijing Olympics, Elena Dementieva, in the individual BTA classification and take the highest place among all other Russians - third.

To be honest, I don’t know the history of world tennis so well as to say that in this history there has never been a case where siblings at different times won Grand Slam tournaments or became the first rackets in the world. But if this happened, it was undoubtedly extremely rare.

Dynamo coach Bagnoli won the trophy under this name for the eighth time Last weekend turned out to be extremely eventful for fans of the flying ball. The first Super Cup for men's teams in Russian history took place in the capital's universal hall "Friendship", the continental qualifying tournament for the 2009 Women's World Grand Prix ended at the Blinov sports and concert complex in Omsk, and the European Masters was held on the sand courts of Sochi Final" in beach volleyball.