Before the Japanese Grand Prix, Hamilton and Massa have the best chances for the championship Before the finish of the 59th Formula 1 World Championship, drivers have only three stages left to complete. So far, five participants still have theoretical chances of winning the individual competition, but in reality only two pilots can really count on the championship title.

The investigation into the supply of counterfeit spare parts for Russian MiGs has been completed The Moscow Department of the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor's Office (SKP), as Vremya Novostei learned, is completing an investigation into a scandalous criminal case regarding fraud in the supply of obsolete and counterfeit spare parts for MiG-29 fighters sold to Poland.

The President of Ukraine called early parliamentary elections Last night, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, in his televised address to the nation, announced the dissolution of the Verkhovna Rada and called early parliamentary elections.

Russia is in the top ten The Russian national team in the new FIFA rankings has risen from 12th place to 9th position. This is the most significant change in the first lines of the International Football Federation rating list, which is still headed by the European champion Spanish team. Meanwhile, the Russian team, before the important match of the European Championship qualifying round with the German team (3rd place in the FIFA rankings), suffers one loss after another.

Russia withdrew troops from the buffer zone around South Ossetia Russian peacekeepers are leaving the buffer zone near Georgia's border with South Ossetia and Abkhazia, whose independence Russia has recognized since August 26. The commander of the peacekeepers in South Ossetia, Marat Kulakhmetov, announced yesterday the removal of all six Russian checkpoints in the buffer zone along the South Ossetian border.

Sybil Bedford. Mexican Odyssey: a visit to Don Otavio. -- M.: European publications Paulsen. 2008. Women in general rarely go on journeys alone - even in our time. Even less often do they leave documentary evidence of their autistic movements. There are two reasons for this. On the one hand, a lonely girl on the road can arouse the unhealthy curiosity of a variety of people, which is not always safe.

Tatyana Golikova outlined pension prospects for deputies The average Russian pensioner in 2020 will be much wealthier than today. The program for eliminating poverty among citizens who have reached retirement age was the first to be assessed by future pensioners from the State Duma, who were told yesterday by the Minister of Health and Social Development Tatyana Golikova about the material prospects of a well-deserved rest.

Yesterday, the third racket of the world Dinara Safina, exempted from playing in the first round of the 2008 Kremlin Cup due to her high seeding number, competed with the experienced Frenchwoman Amelie Mauresmo in the 1/8 finals. Shortly before the start of this meeting, Dinara SAFINA answered questions from Vremya Novostei correspondent Olga ERMOLINA. -- Two-time winner of the Kremlin Cup Anastasia Myskina called you the main contender for the champion title of the current women's competition.

Moscow bailiffs will use telephone databases and social networks to search for defaulters To collect information about debtors evading the performance of their duties, the Moscow department of the Federal Bailiff Service is already using popular Internet sites, and it is possible that in the near future the data available to mobile operators will be used for the same purposes.

The exhibition “Utopia Incarnate” opened in St. Petersburg. New architecture of the 1920s. Russia - Germany" Constructivism at the Academy of Arts! It sounds strange or even provocative. Indeed, the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts, strong in conservative traditions, not only (unlike the Moscow VKHUTEMAS, for example) has never been a stronghold of constructivism, but the architectural style itself and its ideological guidelines developed among architects working in Moscow.

McCain and Obama take their cue from Reagan and Roosevelt After the second debate, which took place on the evening of October 7 , US presidential candidates Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama will not have to relax: the third and final meeting, scheduled for October 15, is approaching.

Psychologists have found that it is not the most effective people who come to power, but the most self-centered ones. In order to get to the top, you need to be a narcissistic egoist. However, this does not help at all in making the right decisions, psychologists from Ohio University (USA) believe. In contrast, narcissistic leaders often make risky decisions and manage no better than ordinary people.

For the first time, astronomers were able to calculate the location and time of a meteorite fall On the night of October 7, 2008, the Earth experienced a predicted cosmic event. Asteroid 2008 TC3 fell in the northern regions of Sudan. According to the latest data, when our planet collided with this meteorite, an explosion occurred, the energy of which amounted to 1.1-2.1 kilotons of TNT equivalent.

E.ON and Siemens will build a second offshore energy park The largest German energy concern E.ON has given an order to Siemens to supply 90 wind power plants for the Roedsand II offshore wind farm in Denmark. This new large-scale project of German companies is developed for the southern part of the island of Loland in the Baltic Sea. The wind farm will have a capacity of up to 207 MW, making Roedsand II the world's largest offshore wind farm.

Moscow authorities may acquire their own stabilization fund The optimistic statements made recently in Munich by Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and his first deputy for economic affairs, Yuri Roslyak, about the ability of the Russian capital to survive the global financial crisis painlessly, it seems, were not only given much credence by Europeans.