The best Russia’s forward at Euro 2008 Andrej Arshavin has rejected the luxurious agreement of 5 million euro, offered by his present Zenit Club, in favor of future with western clubs.

Eminent physiologist Natalya Bekhtereva, granddaughter of world famous Russian scientist Vladimir Bekhterev, recently died in a hospital in Berlin.

According to the statistics, circumstances of every 10th air catastrophe remain unclear. The air catastrophe that invoked death of the world’s first cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin can be referred to those 10%.

Aleksei Nemov, a Russian gymnast and fourfold Olympic champion, has become one of the first torchbearers of Beijing Olympics.

On February 7 legendary Russian constructor and academician Gai Severin died at the age of 81. K-36 ejection seat invented by Severin and its modifications are supposed to be amongst the best in the world.

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications has signed an exclusive four year sponsorship agreement with Russian tennis player, Maria Sharapova.

Today, January 9, St. Petersburg court has sentenced professional boxer and former WBA heavyweight world champion Nikolai Valuev to paying a fine of 130.000 roubles for beating up a service guard of the sports complex Spartak.

Russian users of famous LiveJournal blogging system are trying to paralyze frauds, who sell fake “panacea”.

Yesterday Mikhail Kononov, a famous Russian actor and national artists of Russia died after serious illness at the age of 68.

Today Mstislav Rostropovich, a great Russian cellist and conductor, and Kirill Lavrov , a famous Russian and Soviet actor, passed away, aged 80 and 81 consequently. They both loved Russia and this feeling was mutual.