We inform you of the current situation of the Race for the time of 23:00 on the 26th of February 2008.

All the teams continue the competition and the participants are full of enthusiasm. There is no fatigue in the voices yet. Here are some quotations from the teams' reports.

"Junona and Avos" says that they are "super, only very hungry".

"Bremenskije musikanty" — the international Russian-Belarusian team reports: "Everything's cool! The chief Belarusian already shares the gold, but not with the team members, but with the locals met on the way. And while he sleeps, the team is trying to find a few more CNPs".

The "Ryzhiki" team has sent an SMS: "We are OK. Met the Kazakhs on the CNP by Sarov (CNP #8, Temnikivo village). Had lot of fun".

News from "Expedition-Ukraine": they are in "chocolate" now and like it there very much". According to their words the "chocolate" is right at CNP#8 in Temnikovo.

As for the "Mult and Êî" team, it has successfully arrived in Arkhangelsk to pick up the cars catch up with the other racers as soon as possible.

Now on the current location of the teams (control calls made by Moscow time):

• "Junona and Avos" — 20:05 — aproaching Nizhniy Novgorod;
  
• "Ermak" — 20:16 — heading for CNP #27 in the direction of Perm;
  
• "Bremenskije musikanty" — 20:23 — Zavolzhje;
  
• "Helios" — 20:27 — Vladimir;
  
• "Nomad" — 0:39 — Sasovo, Ryazan Region;
  
• "Komanda" — 21:39 — CNP #8 Temnikovo, Sarov;
  
• "Mult and Êî" — 22:06 — Arkhangelsk;
  
• "Ryzhiki" — 22:08 — CNP #8 Temnikovo, Sarov;
  
• "Ukraine" — 22:32 — CNP #8 Temnikovo, Sarov;
  
• "Brodiagi" — 23:22 — near Murom.