Hamilton increased his lead before the end of the season McLaren driver Lewis Hamilton won his fifth victory of the season at the Chinese Grand Prix and, before the last race of the season, increased his lead over Ferrari's Felipe Massa to seven points. The Brazilian finished in second position, taking advantage of the courtesy of teammate Kimi Raikkonen, who let him take the lead at the end of the race.

Alexey Miller talks about record profits, and Gazprom asks the state for support The head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, as part of supporting the concern's share price, made a special statement in an interview with the Vesti TV channel. “Our annual income is just astronomical,” he said. — Based on the results of 2008, I can say that our revenue will be about $100 billion. And our net profit will be somewhere around $30 billion.

In Ingushetia, a convoy of security forces was ambushed Three people were killed and about a dozen more were wounded as a result of another militant attack on Saturday morning in Ingushetia. In the Sunzhensky district, near the village of Muzhichi, unknown persons shot a combined detachment of military and police officers who were heading to this village to conduct a “target check”.

Early Sunday morning in Atlantic City (USA), former absolute world middleweight champion 43-year-old American Bernard Hopkins defeated his compatriot, world champion according to WBC and WBO, by unanimous decision (117:109, 119:106, 118:108). 26-year-old Kelly Pavlik. This is Pavlik’s first defeat in 35 fights, however, he retained both of his championship belts, since the lost fight was not a title fight and took place within the intermediate weight range of up to 77.1 kg.

The financial crisis could affect the development model of big-time sports in Russia, especially gaming sports, much more than the President, Prime Minister and Minister of Sports Mutko combined.

Carlyle Group wants to force NLMK to buy pipe company JMC The Carlyle Group, the world's second largest private investment fund, filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of New York court against the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works (NLMK), owned by entrepreneur Vladimir Lisin. The Carlyle Group is accusing him of trying to change the agreed terms of a deal to buy American steel pipe maker John Maneely Company (JMC), Bloomberg reported.

FOOTBALL. October 21-22. Champions League. Group stage. 3rd round . October 23. UEFA Cup. Group stage. 1st round . Russian Championship. Premier League. 26th round. October 25. "Khimki" - "Luch-Energia", "Spartak" M - "Terek", "Rubin" - "Wings of the Soviets", "Shinnik" - "Spartak-Nalchik". October 26. "Tom" - "Zenit", "Amkar" - "Lokomotiv", "Moscow" - "Saturn". St. Petersburg Zenit has an excellent opportunity to win its first victory in the Champions League.

The government has decided not to give additional money to agriculture for now. Agricultural producers are not the first to turn to the state for support in difficult times.

The Kurgan Puppet Theater "Gulliver" showed a performance while passing through Moscow On the stage of the Center. Meyerhold was twice shown a puppet show for adults “Kaprich'io” (with the subtitle “Double with Cream”) by the Kurgan regional puppet theater “Gulliver”. Both times they didn’t sell tickets: the Moscow tour was something like a random, fleeting stop. “Caprich'io” took part in the III International Puppet Theater Festival “Tea Party in Mytishchi”, and is now returning home.

Anand took the lead in the match against Kramnik At the match for the world chess championship title in Bonn (Germany) between Viswanathan Anand and Vladimir Kramnik, after four games the Indian grandmaster is in the lead - 2.5:1.5. The current holder of the world crown achieved his advantage due to his victory in the third game, won by black. The confrontation will continue today - Kramnik plays White.

Isinbayeva was awarded the Waterford Crystal Two-time Olympic champion in pole vaulting, world record holder Elena Isinbaeva was recognized as the best athlete of the year in Europe. On Saturday in Amsterdam, where the European Athletics Convention took place, Isinbayeva was awarded the traditional Waterford Crystal prize.

Construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline is postponed for a year The start of construction of the Burgas-Alexandroupolis oil pipeline is postponed to October 2009, Bulgarian Minister for Regional Development and Construction Asen Gagauzov told Reuters. According to him, the date for the start of operation of the oil pipeline is also being moved to 2011. Mr.

The Deposit Insurance Agency will be connected to the support of the Russian banking system Vnesheconombank officially announced the purchase of Globex Bank. This is the second time that the state, represented by VEB, has acquired credit institutions that are experiencing serious liquidity problems: at the end of September, a similar transaction took place with Svyaz-Bank, purchased for 5 thousand rubles. In the case of Globex, the price will also be symbolic.

Patterns of Russian history For many years, in interpreting Russian history, I was guided by an understanding of Russia as an empire and a periphery at the same time. An empire implies enormous power, as well as a state ruling over a vast territory and many peoples. For me, empire is also the antithesis of popular sovereignty and national independence - the dominant ideologies of the modern world.

The heads of leading economic powers will discuss reform of the global financial system in New York The leaders of the G8 countries will gather for an extraordinary summit in order to develop a unified plan for reforming the global financial system, while preserving the fundamentals of a market economy. US President George W. Bush, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso (pictured) agreed on this over the weekend.