Joseph Stalin ordered the KGB to kill John Wayne because he considered his anti -communist statements a threat to the Soviet Union, the new biography of the movie star says. Stalin, apparently, learned about Wayne’s popularity from the Soviet director Sergei Gerasimov, who participated in 1949 in a peaceful conference in New York. Cinema historian Michael Mann, author of the book "John Wayne. Man, not a myth," claims that Gerasimov told Stalin about Yar Anti -Communist Wayne.

Today, two matches in Moscow have started the nineteenth round of the Russian Football Championship among Premier League clubs. In the 'Luzhniki', the torpedoes received 'torpedo -metallurgist and won a confident victory - 3: 0. Already by the break, the hosts of the field scored all three goals into the gates of rivals - Samushevas, Lebedenko and Budilin distinguished themselves.

In Poland, near the Russian border on Friday evening, the Robinson R 44 helicopter crashed. According to the Polish radio, the disaster occurred in the town of Vilamov near Kentzhin near the border with the Kaliningrad region. On board the helicopter were two people, both were injured. The disaster occurred after the helicopter took off, RIA Novosti reports. The car took off to a height of 200 meters and after a while collapsed to the ground.

The Russian Party of Life (RPG) expressed concern about the situation around the Spartak physical education and sports society. "The press in the press caused a wide resonance in the press on June 25 this year on cooperation between the Russian Party of Life and the RFSO" Spartak ' . It was signed based on the community of interests and goals for the development of mass sports in our country, " the RPG press release said.

In Japan, unknown or unknown discard citizens a pack of cash. Money is thrown into mailboxes or sent anonymously by mail for the past two months. These facts became the subject of anxiety of both the authorities and those who received these mysterious parcels. In June alone, the total amount of money thrown in this way amounted to about 9 million yen (75 thousand dollars). All the money was thrown anonymously, and in none of these cases there was not even the slightest hint of their owner.

The court of the Leningrad Military District on Friday sentenced the entrepreneur Mikhail Mirilashvili to 12 years in prison with a strict regime in a colony. Mirilashvili was found guilty of organizing the abduction and illegal penetration into the home. The 105th article of the Criminal Code - the organization of the murder - the court removed, recognizing the arguments of the investigation unreasonable and recognized Mirilashvili as innocent on this point of the prosecution, Interfax reports.

From Saturday, hot weather will return to the capital, the general director of the Hydrometeorological Unit of Moscow and the Moscow Region Alexei Lyakhov told Interfax. On the night of Saturday, it will be plus 13 - plus 15 degrees, and during the day the air will warm up to 25-27 degrees of heat. On Sunday, in the capital it will warm even more: at night up to 15-17 degrees, and in the afternoon until 27-29 degrees. Precipitation is not expected in Moscow this weekend.

Syria has at least a hundred ballistic missiles equipped with warheads with neuro-paralytic gas. These are large -range missiles aimed at the central part of Israel, reports Ha'Aretz with reference to Jane's Foreign Affairs. According to a senior Israeli official, the warheads of missiles are carried by GAZ VX - the most fatal neuro -paralytic gas. Thus, the Syrians are trying to balance the nuclear superiority of Israel, the publication in an article published by Inopressa.ru reports.

The Mercedes bus with 43 tourists from the Penza region got off the track to the ditch and rolled over. This happened early in the morning of July 31 on the 395th kilometer of the Saratov -Kursk highway, in the territory of the Voronezh region, reports REGNUM . As a result of the accident, a resident of Penza Eduard Orlov, born in 1971, 7 passengers, including the bus driver, were injured and hospitalized in hospitals in Voronezh.

The price of Russian Urals brand oil in the second half of 2003 will be an average of $ 26 per barrel. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, German Gref, ITAR-TASS reports. The price of oil will directly affect GDP growth, which, according to the forecast of the Ministry of Economic Development in 2003, will be 5.9%. Inflation will be 10-12%. Since August 1, the Urals raw oil export fee in Russia has been reduced by $ 1.8.

In Japan, the 64-year-old owner of Pitbul was sentenced to three years in prison conditionally for the fact that several people bit his dog. The court also decided to confiscate an aggressive dog, Kyodo reports. According to the agency, for the first time in Japan, the court accused the dog owner of intentionally applying his dog with bodily harm, RIA Novosti reports. The inhabitants of Japan have few large and strong dogs, and incidents are quite rare with them.

The leaders of all world religions and leading faiths confirmed their participation in the congress of world and traditional-national religions, which will be held in Astana on September 23-24, RIA Novosti reports.

In the UK, the television series "Spooks" ("Ghosts") is recognized as suitable for the further show, one of the episodes of which tells about the origins of Islamic extremism in England, ITAR-TASS reports. More than a thousand complaints were received at the BBC television and radio company, 43 of which concerned this episode. Having examined them, the National Broadcasting Commission announced on Friday that the tape does not violate the ethical norms in force in the country.

More than 500 volunteer paratroopers who have concluded contracts from the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to conduct military service during the experiment in the 76th Airborne Division (Airborne Forces), they have already been terminated and returned to peaceful life. This was announced on Friday by the head of the press service of the airborne troops Colonel Nikolai Bragin, Interfax reports.

A drunken Croatian exhibitionist seriously suffered from his own hooligan trick. An absolutely drunk man for no apparent reason suddenly began to verbally insult the woman standing on the lawn in front of his own house, Reuters reports. To insult the woman even more, the man lowered his pants and stuck his penis through the gap in the fence. He could not assume that the dog’s dog was sleeping behind the fence nickname Medo (little bear).