There are enough contenders for gold in the starting men's super league On Friday, the championship of the men's volleyball super league begins with a match between the Novokuybyshev team NOVA, which has returned to high society, and the silver medalist of the previous national championship, Odintsovo Iskra. The tournament promises to be extremely interesting and intriguing, because this time the circle of real contenders for “gold” is very wide.

Russians are not stopped by rising loan prices Rosbank intends to raise car loan rates by an average of one or two percentage points. The first deputy chairman of the bank's board, Igor Antonov, told reporters about this yesterday. Rosbank is far from the first financial institution that, amid the crisis, is tightening conditions for lending to individuals. Before him, this had already been done by Sberbank, Bank of Moscow, Raiffeisenbank, Avangard, MDM Bank and many others.

Art director of the Yekaterinburg Dance Theater Oleg Petrov is a legendary figure in ballet circles. A historian by training, he became a reviewer and ballet scholar - his two-volume work, dedicated to the Russian theater in Russian criticism of the 19th century, is on the shelf of all self-respecting professionals. But nineteen years ago he put writing aside and began creating performances.

Magnitogorsk Metallurg almost created the main sensation of the summer. The Urals were close to defeating the New York Rangers in the final match for the Victoria Cup. But, having led with a score of 3:0, they were told: the KHL can spend as much money as it wants, but real hockey is still overseas. "Rangers" won - 4:3. And there was a feeling that if necessary, I would have won back five goals.

In most areas of European Russia, the weather will remain at the mercy of a powerful Atlantic cyclone. In the northwestern regions, near the center of the cyclone, the rains are longer, and on Sunday they can be heavy in places and accompanied by gusty winds of up to 15-17 m/s. On Friday and Saturday it’s still +8...+13оС, on Sunday it’s already +6...+11оС.

The European Court made three decisions on torture in police custody Yesterday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) issued three decisions on complaints from Russian citizens that they were tortured and beaten in Moscow police stations, demanding to confess to crimes that they did not commit. Three Muscovites and one guest of the capital will receive, according to the decision of the ECHR, from 10 to 30 thousand euros in compensation for the moral suffering they have suffered.

On October 1, 2008, at the 81st year of his life, an outstanding designer in the field of small arms and cannon weapons, Hero of Socialist Labor, laureate of State Prizes of the USSR and the Russian Federation, full member of the Russian Academy of Engineering and the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences, Doctor of Technical Sciences, Chief designer of small arms and cannon weapons at the State Unitary Enterprise Instrument Design Bureau Vasily Petrovich Gryazev. V.P.

Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko yesterday had to fly to Moscow for negotiations with her Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin , not on a special, but on a regular charter flight on an eight-seater plane, due to the lack of a plane for her from Ukraina Airlines. The reserve Il-62, intended for the prime minister, was needed yesterday by President Viktor Yushchenko after the emergency landing of his plane, on which he was planning to make a working trip to Lvov.

Performance by Joseph Naja at the Territory festival Starting a festival of contemporary art with a new performance by Naja is a win-win move. On the one hand, Naj is a long-known and much-loved choreographer-director in Moscow (he received two Golden Masks for the best foreign performance of the season), he is considered practically a classic, conservatives have reconciled with him, his performance will not cause protests and noisy departures spectators from the hall.

Russia was demanded to annul its decisions on South Ossetia and Abkhazia Deputies of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) have not reached a consensus on what happened in the Caucasus in August of this year and who is more to blame for the outbreak of the five-day war in South Ossetia .

General Jaruzelski apologized to the Poles and defends his innocence Yesterday, the District Court in Warsaw continued the trial of the initiators of the introduction of martial law on December 13, 1981. The main accused, 85-year-old General Wojciech Jaruzelski (pictured) , who is charged with “leading a criminal alliance,” began to testify . The illness of another accused, 82-year-old former head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Czeslav Kischak, did not become a reason to postpone the trial.

The Donetsk team was let down by “fair play” Middle-class clubs continue to establish new order in the Champions League. In Group A, the Romanian CFR, having drawn with Chelsea, shares the lead with the Blues. The Cypriot Anorthosis, in turn, confidently coped with its neighbors - the Greek Panathinaikos. Only Shakhtar Donetsk cannot get to the forefront. Leading almost the entire match with Barcelona, ​​Mircea Lucescu's team conceded two goals from Messi in the last minutes and lost 1:2.

A year later, the wreckage of Stephen Fossett's plane was found A year after the mysterious disappearance of the famous American millionaire and adventurer Stephen Fossett, his family and friends once again have hope of finding the remains of the adventurer.

CLUBS Olga Arefieva and “Ark”. Plan B , October 3, 20.00. "Aria". CDC MAI , October 3 and 4, 20.00. "Uma2rman." “B1 Maximum” , October 3, 20.30. The Wild Shamans (USA) featuring Frank Colon , an American jazz percussionist, one of the three most popular and respected multi-instrumental percussionists. "Union of Composers" , October 3, 21.00. Nike Borzov and “Infection”. "Vermel" , October 3, 21.00. Sergey Galanin. “Concert” , October 3, 21.30. "Bakhyt Kompot" XO , October 3, 21.30. "Moral Code".

Six candidates for the Best Novel Award have been named The short Booker list for the 2007/08 season is quite consistent with the long one, after the announcement of which it became absolutely clear: even the most inveterate envious person in the current situation will not envy the Booker jury, because, seriously speaking, there is nothing to choose from .