To bring the team to the final again Davis Cup The semi-final match of the Davis Cup between the national teams of Russia and Germany starts today. Barring anything unexpected, the Russian team, the current trophy holder, should reach the final for the second time in a row, in which it will most likely be opposed by the US team.

For the first time in recent years, abducted persons have returned alive. On Thursday night, the Aushev brothers, residents of the Ingush village of Surkhikhi, who were kidnapped two days ago, were released. This is the first time in recent years that missing Ingush returned home alive. Relatives of the Aushev brothers claim that they were taken to be shot and that their lives were saved by a multi-hour rally in the center of Nazran and the intervention of local authorities.

Deputy Minister of Industry and Energy of the Russian Federation Andrei Reus has been relieved of his position due to a transfer to another job, RIA Novosti reported on September 21. The corresponding order was signed by the new Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov.

at his campaign headquarters Yesterday, United Russia carried out a hardware castling. The deputy head of the party's executive committee, adviser to Vladislav Surkov, Konstantin Kostin, who oversaw three departments at once - political, information and PR - lost leadership over two of them. His place as deputy head of the election headquarters will be taken by the head of PR projects at IMA-Consulting, Mikhail Sidorov.

Pallinghurst Consortium imposed penalties on ConsMin in the amount of AUD 10.84 million. Pallinghurst has asked Australia's largest manganese ore miner Consolidated Minerals (ConsMin) to seek punitive damages following its board's revocation of a share sale recommendation. Let us recall that on September 18, the offer of Pallinghurst’s main competitor in the fight for control over ConsMin, Palmary Enterprises (Belize), owned by PrivatBank co-owner Gennady Bogolyubov, came into force.

The Tyumen Regional Duma approved a proposal to introduce a fine for smoking while driving 51 2 minutes. ... Yesterday, deputies of the Tyumen Regional Duma approved the initiative of their colleague Vladimir Sysoev, who proposed sending a proposal to the State Duma to introduce a fine for smoking while driving. True, not all deputies turned out to be supporters of such an initiative.

The Russian-American Pacific Eagle exercise will take place at the end of September in the waters from Vladivostok to the La Perouse Strait. ITAR-TASS reported this on September 21. To participate in these maneuvers, a detachment of US warships, consisting of the Lassen guided-missile destroyer and the Patriot mine countermeasures ship, arrives at the main base of the Pacific Fleet on September 24. This was reported at the US Consulate General in Vladivostok.

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Ibragim Aldatov won silver at the World Championships Yesterday at the World Wrestling Championships in Baku (Azerbaijan), Ibrahim Aldatov brought the first medal to the Ukrainian team. In the freestyle wrestling competition in the weight category up to 74 kg, he lost in the final to Russian Makhach Murtazaliev and took second place. Thus, Aldatov was unable to repeat his achievement last year, when he won gold at the World Championships in Guangzhou (China).

Tournaments In his blog on the website sports.ru, the best player of the European Basketball Championship, Andrei Kirilenko, announced that he intends to leave the NBA Utah Jazz club.

Roman Abramovich will try to find another like-minded person Personnel Yesterday, Chelsea announced the resignation of head coach Jose Mourinho. The official wording - “by mutual agreement of the parties” - corresponds to reality in the sense that the main reason for the departure of the Portuguese specialist is that in three years he has not managed to become a true like-minded person of the team owner Roman Abramovich.

970 1 min. ... Goals: Perrotta 9. Totti 70. Roma: Doni, Joan (Ferrari, 82), Mexes, Aquilani (Pizarro, 83), Taddei, De Rossi, Perrotta, Tonetto, Mancini (Julie, 61), Cassetti, Totti. “Dynamo”: Shovkovsky, Fedorov, El-Kaddouri, Gavrancic, Markovic, Michael (Rebrov, 56), Mikhalik, Gusev (Correa, 71), Yussuf, Bangura (Rincon, 46), Shatskikh. Warnings: Tonetto, 65 – Yussuf, 29. Judge. Alan Hamer (Luxembourg). Rome. Stadio Olimpico. 40 thousand viewers Newspaper "Kommersant Ukraine" No.

Czech justice refused to extradite banker Ilya Stashevsky to Russia, who is accused in his homeland of large-scale financial fraud. ITAR-TASS reports this. The corresponding decision was made on September 21 by the regional court in the city of Ostrava (North Moravia). Previously, the Czech Ministry of Internal Affairs granted political asylum to the banker. Mr. Stashevsky was not present at the court hearing, citing health problems.

The third film festival of the European Union countries opens in Kaliningrad. ITAR-TASS reported this on September 21. The film forum is organized by the representation of the European Commission in Russia, embassies, consulates and cultural centers of the EU countries together with the Zarya cinema, where the film screening will take place. From September 21 to October 6, about 40 films from 22 EU countries will be shown.

Context President of Kalmykia Kirsan Ilyumzhinov yesterday denied reports from a number of media outlets that he would leave his post early in the near future. “I think that these rumors are being spread by those who are not satisfied with the stable situation in Kalmykia,” suggested the head of the republic.