The government of Guinea-Bissau is ready to accept the ousted Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. “If Gaddafi accepts the invitation and arrives in Guinea-Bissau, all conditions will be created for him and security will be ensured,” Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Junior said at a meeting with reporters. Thus, the official confirmed the invitation, which was sent back in August.

The film "Faust" by Alexander Sokurov won the main prize at the Venice Film Festival. The jury unanimously awarded the Golden Lion to the Russian director. In addition, the film took two alternative prizes at the film festival. The day before, the ceremony of awarding the prizes of the Venice Film Festival took place at the Cinema Palace on Lido Island. The jury, headed by director Darren Aronofsky, unanimously awarded the main Golden Lion to the film Faust by Russian director Alexander Sokurov.

The Egyptian authorities have decided not to change the rules for issuing visas to tourists who do not use the services of travel agencies. Egypt's First Deputy Minister of Tourism, Hisham Zaazoua, said on September 11 that all tourists will continue to receive visas at Egyptian airports.

On September 11, the Russian men's volleyball team prevailed over the Portuguese team in the group stage match of the European Championship, which takes place in the Czech Republic and Austria. The meeting of Group B teams ended with a victory for the Russians with a score of 3:1 (25:15, 23:25, 25:23, 25:13). The most productive among the winners was Maxim Mikhailov, who scored 22 points.

As RIA Novosti reported on September 11, the special representative of the Federal Agency for Tourism in Bulgaria, Grigory Sarishvili, about 500 people are waiting for departure from the Bulgarian airports of Burgas and Varna. Flights were delayed due to financial disagreements between the tour operator and the carrier. As of the morning of September 11, more than 500 people were waiting for flights.

Washington police are on high alert Today in New York a funeral ceremony is being held in memory of those killed in the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001. On the eve of the anniversary, new threats of terrorist attacks were reported, and therefore increased security measures were taken in the United States. President Barack Obama, in turn, spoke to the nation about successes in the fight against terrorism. Funeral events are taking place throughout New York.

On the morning of September 11, actor of the Mossovet Theater Yuri Kuzmenkov died in the Moscow region at the age of 71. He had a heart attack. Kuzmenkov was one of the best performers of the role of Vasily Terkin. The actor himself said that he became famous after the role of Dyuzhikov in the film “Taimyr is calling you.” The 70-year-old actor died at his dacha. The actor's wife Galina called an ambulance, but arriving doctors pronounced him dead.

On September 11, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the government to stop operating airlines that are unable to ensure flight safety. The reason for the closure of unreliable air carriers was the Yak-42 crash, which claimed the lives of 43 people. “Develop a set of measures to terminate the activities of air carriers in the Russian Federation that are unable to ensure flight safety. The deadline is November 15, 2011,” the Kremlin said in a statement.

As a result of a suicide attack on a NATO military post in eastern Afghanistan, 89 US troops were injured, the Associated Press reports. In addition, 25 Afghan residents were injured. There were no military casualties, however, according to local authorities, at least two civilians, including a child, were killed. According to NATO spokesman Major Russell Fox, the source of the explosion was a truck bomb that drove up to a NATO combat post.

Russian director Alexander Sokurov became a laureate of the Venice Film Festival The film "Faust" by Alexander Sokurov won the main prize at the Venice Film Festival. The jury unanimously awarded the Golden Lion to the Russian director. In addition, the film took two alternative prizes at the film festival. The day before, the ceremony of awarding the prizes of the Venice Film Festival took place at the Cinema Palace on Lido Island.

Russian director Alexander Sokurov received the main prize at the 68th Venice Film Festival for his film “Faust,” shot in German. The painting by Alexander Sokurov, based on the first part of Goethe’s tragedy of the same name, completes the historical tetralogy, which also included the paintings “Moloch”, “Taurus” and “Sun”.

In the opening match of the second day of the 23rd round of the Russian football champion, Spartak Moscow beat Perm Amkar 1:0. The Muscovites entered the game without their leading striker, Brazilian Welliton, who was disqualified for six matches for injuring CSKA and Russian national team goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev. The outcome of the match five minutes before the end of regular time was decided by a penalty kick, brilliantly executed by Spartak's Argentine defender Nicholas Pareja.

Veronica Kutsillo about what she saw in New York on September 11, 2001 10 years ago I wrote a column for the magazine “Power” about September 11, 2001. Today I re-read it and realized that the main thing is missing. The taxi driver who agreed to take us to southern Manhattan on September 11 suddenly pulled over for an elderly American woman voting. She didn't cry, only her face was hardened. “My son works there, in the south tower,” she said.

The Russians confidently beat the Brazilian team in the final of the World Beach Soccer Championship, which took place on September 11 in Ravenna, Italy. The meeting ended with a score of 12:7 in favor of the Russian team. As part of the winners, Dmitry Shishin scored a hat-trick (21st minute, 31, 32), Egor Shaikov (2, 6), Ilya Leonov (8, 25), Egor Eremeev (13, 19) and Alexey Makarov (15) scored doubles , 20), the opponents sent another ball into their own goal (21).

New measures to reduce the state budget deficit by 2 billion euros in 2011 were announced today by Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance of Greece Evangelos Venizelos after an emergency cabinet meeting in Thessaloniki. According to Mr. Venizelos, by unanimous decision of the ministers, a one-time emergency tax on real estate is being introduced, which should compensate for the lack of revenue in the 2011 state budget caused by the recession, the rate of which exceeds 5% of GDP.