Triumph failed to cope with the Super League club Basketball. Russian Cup. Men. 1/8 finals. "TEMP-SUMZ" (Revda) -- "Lokomotiv-Kuban" (Krasnodar) -- 71:91, "Irkut" (Irkutsk) -- "Red Wings" (Samara) -- 56:75, "Spartak" (St.

St. Petersburg artist Arthur Molev settles scores with Barbie In St. Petersburg, in one of the galleries of the art center “Pushkinskaya 10” - Navicula Artis, an exhibition of Artur Molev, a St. Petersburg artist and now a resident of Amsterdam, “Burn, Barbie, Burn!” opened.

Brazil's first female president Dilma Vana Rousseff, a former partisan and Marxist, became the first female president of Latin America's largest country, Brazil with a population of 190 million. The center-left Workers' Party candidate and political successor to current President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva won the support of 56.05% of voters in the second round of voting last Sunday.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky exchanged remarks with prosecutors In the Khamovnichesky District Court of the capital yesterday, during the trial of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, prosecutors and the disgraced oligarch exchanged so-called remarks - opinions regarding the positions expressed by the parties during the debate. The prosecution insists that Khodorkovsky and Lebedev stole 218 million tons of oil worth 824 billion rubles, and demands that they be imprisoned for 14 years.

Moscow officials unsuccessfully tried to intercept the initiative of “Arkhnadzor” Officials of the capital's cultural heritage committee (Moskomnasledie) clearly lack the skill of involving members of the public in the work of protecting historical and architectural monuments.

Kim Clijsters became champion in Doha Belgian tennis player Kim Clijsters won the final women's championship for the third time in her career. Seven years after her last triumph at this tournament in the capital of Qatar, the 27-year-old Belgian beat Dane Caroline Wozniacki in the final - 6:3, 5:7, 6:3. True, her opponent has no reason to be particularly upset. Wozniacki finished this season ranked first in the world.

The Bank of Russia has already revoked the license of the second bank, which was unable to pay the regulator for an unsecured loan. Like Mezhprombank, which was deprived of its license last month (see Vremya Novostey on October 6) , Petroff Bank did not properly service the Central Bank loan: the amount of debt by October 1 reached 3.8 billion rubles. The departure of the bank, experts are sure, will not affect the banking system in any way.

The State Duma has launched the procedure for transferring the Federation Council under the control of United Russia The lower house has taken on the actual reduction of the powers of the chairman of the upper house of the Russian parliament, Sergei Mironov. Yesterday, the State Duma adopted in the first reading and as a basis a bill according to which newly appointed members of the Federation Council will automatically begin to perform their duties within ten days.

The bill on the consolidated taxpayer may become an obstacle to the renewal of production The government's draft law on a consolidated group of taxpayers, which allows large corporations uniting many enterprises to pay taxes as a single legal entity, deprives companies that invest heavily in the modernization of production from such an opportunity.

Dmitry Medvedev was the first Russian leader to visit the Southern Kuril Islands Dmitry Medvedev's upcoming trip to Yokohama, Japan at the end of next week for the APEC summit promises to be not only interesting, but also dangerous. The Russian President's visit to the Russian city of Yuzhno-Kurilsk on the Russian island of Kunashir yesterday caused not only a sharp political reaction from official Tokyo, but also protests from ordinary Japanese.

Bashneft’s victory was reflected in the state budget Federal budget revenues from one-time payments for the use of subsoil next year should amount to about 58.5 billion rubles, ITAR-TASS reports, citing data from a high-ranking official in the Ministry of Energy. RUB 35.7 billion Of this amount it is planned to receive proceeds from competitions for the Lodochnoe, Shpilman, and them fields. Trebs and them. Titova.

CONCERTS Nikolai Levinovsky Quartet (USA-Russia). Igor Butman Club , 20.30. Tricky (UK). British trip-hop musician, one of the founders of the style. Milk , 21.00. CLASSIC State Symphony Orchestra "New Russia". I. Brahms, B. Britten. Conducted by Justus Franz (Germany). Soloists A. Baeva (violin), Yu. Bashmet (viola). Tchaikovsky Concert Hall , 19.00. The American Piano Quartet (USA). A. Rubinstein, A. Dvorak, F. List, E. Chabrier, M. Moszkowski, M. Wilberg. Soloists D. Shumway, P. Poley, R.

From November 1, it has become easier to obtain permission to fly over St. Petersburg The order of the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation changes the order of flights over the northern capital from November 1. From now on, permits for flights over the city will be issued not by the Air Force General Headquarters, from which permission could have been waited for months and never received, but by the Smolny Committee on Transport and Transit Policy (KTPP).

The state will help Transneft and oil workers build a pipeline from the north of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug The Zapolyarye-Purpe oil pipeline, which will connect the fields of the north of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug with the Transneft system, will be built together, and the state will help with loan guarantees.

The story of the “first killer of the Czech Republic” has become a profitable business The Pilsen Regional Court is considering the possibility of holding a new trial in the case of 49-year-old Jiri Kainek, the most famous prisoner in the history of the Czech Republic. The fate of this repeatedly convicted recidivist thief resembles a dashingly twisted thriller.