On Friday at about 20 pm on one of the central squares of Rostov-on-Don, where a disco was held, there was a mass brawl, in which, according to various sources, from 30 to 80 people participated. A law enforcement source told RIA Novosti that baseball bats were used during the skirmish. As a result, several people were injured, one of the participants in the brawl was taken to the city hospital.

On Saturday, Chechen fighters blew up a land mine on the road along which a convoy of federal forces was passing. According to Interfax-AVN, citing a source at the headquarters of the joint group of troops in the North Caucasus, this happened a few kilometers from the village of Bamut in the Achkhoy-Martan district of Chechnya at about 12.00 Moscow time. According to preliminary data, as a result of the explosion 12 soldiers were injured. The injured were taken to Khankala military hospital.

The international awards named after Konstantin Stanislavsky were presented on Saturday to eleven theatrical figures, Interfax reports. In particular, Robert Sturua received the award "For contribution to the development of world theatrical art", Galina Volchek - "For high service to the theater", Boris Pokrovsky - "For outstanding contribution to the development of opera art". The play "Lady with dog", which was staged at the Moscow Youth Theater by Kama Ginkas.

Seven people were injured of varying severity as a result of an artillery shell explosion in the village of Agishty, Shali district. This was announced to Interfax on Saturday by the head of the district administration, Sherip Alikhadzhiev. Two of the wounded are in serious condition in the district hospital. These are Ramzan and Dulai Abuevs. Three houses were seriously damaged.

As a result of a traffic accident, five women were injured in the west of Moscow. The ITAR-TASS Department of the State Traffic Safety Inspectorate of the capital reported that a serious car accident occurred at 4 p.m. near the Arc de Triomphe on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. The woman driving the jeep lost control and crashed into a truck parked at the side of the road. The foreign car was thrown away from the impact and it hit three cars passing nearby.

Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov has said that he is not backing down on his proposal to restore the monument to Felix Dzerzhinsky, chairman of the Cheka, on Lubyanka Square.

Indian intelligence agencies have established the citizenship of terrorists who carried out an armed attack on a Hindu temple in the state of Gujarat on September 24. According to the Times of India newspaper, one of the terrorists, Mohammad Amjad, was a resident of the Pakistani city of Lahore, and the other, Hafiz Yassir, was from Attock. They killed 31 people, including women and children, and injured more than 100 in the attack.

http://www.kommersant.ru/photo/albums/albums-pages.html?album=2&page=151 People's artist Boris Efimov is still in good shape, and even prepares for a personal exhibition. Now he draws only friendly cartoons and believes that the time of political caricatures has passed. According to NTV, his first political caricature appeared in the Red Army newspaper in 1919. Then Efimov began to work in the journal Crocodile.

In Simferopol on Friday evening, an attack was made on a member of the presidium, chairman of the commission on local self-government of the Supreme Council of Crimea, Vladimir Klychnikov. This was reported to RIA "Novosti" in the law enforcement agencies of the city. According to them, unknown intruders attacked the deputy in the entrance of his apartment building, severely beat him, stole a purse with documents and a mobile phone, and then disappeared.

Former Miss Universe Oksana Fedorova returned to St. Petersburg on Friday. At a press conference, she said that she did not rule out the possibility of running for deputies of the Legislative Assembly. A year ago, Fedorova, being the owner of the title "Miss St. Petersburg", met with the deputies of the St.

Three residents of the Asankho village of the Bolnisi region in southern Georgia were urgently taken to the Marneuli regional hospital last night with a diagnosis of severe poisoning with an unknown substance. This was reported to Interfax by the head of the press center of the department for Emergency Situations Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia Tamaz Chogovadze.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will express concern about Russian-Iranian cooperation at the upcoming talks in Moscow. This was announced in an interview with Interfax on the eve of Sharon's visit to Moscow starting on September 29, Israeli Ambassador to Russia Natan Meron.

According to Finnish Prime Minister Paavo Lipponen, European countries are not ready to introduce a visa-free regime with Russia. After talks with his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kasyanov, he said that Helsinki could not support Moscow's corresponding proposal. At the same time, he stressed that this issue should not be linked to the solution of the Kaliningrad problem. Earlier on Friday, Mikhail Kasyanov rejected the latest EU proposals on the issue of Kaliningrad.

Relatives of British journalist Roderick John Scott, who was killed in Ingushetia, acknowledged his death. This is reported by the BBC, while noting that there is currently no final clarity in the fate of the journalist. The journalist's family said in a statement: "He went on his last trip fully aware of the dangers he might be exposed to.

The group of militants who crossed the Russian-Georgian border and entered into battle with the federal forces in Ingushetia included at least 40 foreign citizens. Such data was obtained in the course of a criminal investigation conducted by the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia.