The Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Mikhail Kasyanov, after participating in the opening ceremony of the new gymnasium in Saransk, met today with students and teachers of the Ogarev Mordovian State University. The Chairman of the Student Council of Mordovian University, Alexander Agapov, presented the premiere of a ticket, giving the right to free travel in public transport the capital of Mordovia for five years. All students of Mordovia have such a right, ITAR-TASS reports.

An unusual suicide case is registered in Moscow. As reported on Saturday in the Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the capital, the night before in the apartment on the Semenovskaya embankment, a 21-year-old Muscovite cut off a penis with scissors. Relatives called the doctors, but it was not possible to save the young man - he died of an extensive loss of blood. It is still unknown what caused such an unusual suicide, Interfax reports. Links on the topic

Mikhail Gorbachev today held a lesson in patriotism at the 237th school of Moscow. The first and last president of the USSR explained to high school students that we must love the homeland and not trample the past "under the guise of a struggle for freedom and democracy." Gorbachev called on the students "not to be afraid and not be shy to be patriots." “Sounding patriotism, people lose landmarks,” the ex -president emphasized.

Neman 2001 is the largest military exercises in the history of independent Belarus. The army of the republic is learning to repel an air blow by the type of NATO operation in Yugoslavia, as well as withstand the superior forces of the enemy in a western direction. Moreover, all this happens on the eve of the presidential election. The Belarusian leadership, in general, never hid that the current teachings are a kind of NATO answer.

The Russian runner at the seventh stage of the Golden League series in Athletics in the capital of Germany set a European record at a distance of 5000 meters - 14 minutes 29.32 seconds. She updated the achievement of the Romanian Gabriela Sabo (14.31.48), shown in the same competitions in Berlin two years ago.

The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Kasyanov "quite calmly" refers to constantly arising conversations about his possible resignation. So the head of the government answered questions from Mordovian journalists, who associated some resignations of Russian prime ministers with a visit to Mordovia, A RIA Novosti reports.

On the night of Friday to Saturday September 1, the next "international landing" of illegal emigrants tried to force the border river March. The Austrian border guards detained over 100 desperate swimmers, among whom were Afghans, Romanians, Palestinians, Iraqis, Iranians and Armenians. The detainees after a short stay in the Austrian prison awaits the shipment to his homeland. Similar "swims" in the summer months have already become traditional.

The tragedy ended the next training in the Military-patriotic club "Orbit" on Sudakova Street, the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate of Moscow reported on Saturday. The night before, in the basement of the house where the club is located when working out a combat reception with a layout of the Kalashnikov assault rifle, to which a bayonet-knife was attached, a 38-year-old member of the club Alexander Arslanov received a knife wound in the stomach. The wound was deadly.

From today, 10 members of the organization of oil exporting countries reduce the production of raw materials by 1 million barrels per day. The daily production, thus, will amount to 23.2 million barrels. This measure is designed to maintain stable prices for "black gold". The decision to reduce production was made at the end of July, when in two months oil fell by 15%.

The match of the championship Paraguay between the Lukeseno and Olympia teams, which was held last night, was stopped in the 67th minute due to the hooligan attack of one of the players. According to Dailyfootball, the veteran of the Paraguay Paraguay midfielder Gabriel Gonzalez during the game struck the chief referee of the Benito Lugo Chaveza match. From this blow, the Lugo Chavez formed an open wound on his face. Also, in addition, one eye was damaged.

The third day is being conducted in the Black Sea of ​​the Black Sea near Odessa searches for a broken homemade catamaran, on which there were two children and a man, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the press center of the Ukrainian Ministry of Emergencies. On August 30, without the permission of the border guards and the relevant organs from the Portovik yacht club, a home -made catamaran - 2 connected rubber kayaks connected together.

On September 1, the new Criminal Code of Ukraine enters into force, which provides for life imprisonment for the most serious crimes (before the introduction of the moratorium in 1997, in accordance with the current Criminal Code, the death penalty was used).

In one of the schools of Novosibirsk, you can now get an additional education. From now on, there they are offered to study in the classroom to eighth -graders where they are trained by specialists in combating fire. In the future, it is planned to prepare firefighters from grade 1 at the school, NTV reports. For 45 Novosibirsk guys, the new academic year began with a demonstration of combat deployment and songs on the topic of fire safety.

A strong fire broke out in a residential building in the center of Moscow, ITAR-TASS reports citing the management of the state fire service of the capital. Information about the fire in the house at 26 Petrovka, I entered the remote control "01" at 14:40. The firefighters who arrived at the specified address entered the fight against fire in the attic of a four -story residential old house. The fire area is about 200 square meters.

The parish of spring in the South African Republic was marked there by the creation of the world's largest bouquet in the world. The organizer of the action was one of the radio stations of Johannesburg, and a supermarket was chosen by the place of its holding. A bouquet 6.5 meters high is made up of 36 thousand colors and weighs almost 4 tons, NTV reports. It took 300 steel clothespins, 900 plastic pots, 120 meters of wire and 2 tons of water.