In Belgrade, a control match was held between the basketball teams of Serbia and Montenegro and the USA. The meeting had a special connotation: two years ago the owners (then the national team of Yugoslavia) outplayed the Americans at the World Cup, after which Dream Team took only sixth place. On the eve of the NBA stars, they partially rehabilitated for the defeat, outplaying the current world champions with a score of 76:60.

In Moscow and the Moscow Region, a sharp deterioration in the weather is expected. From 14:00 to 21:00 on Saturday in the capital and the Moscow region, local thunderstorms, showers are expected, a hail is possible, the Hydrometeoro Bureau of Moscow and the region reports. It is expected that the amount of precipitation can be from 5 to 10 mm. With a thunderstorm, the wind strengthening to 12-15 meters per second. On Monday, short -term rains will be held in the capital.

The former world champion in the Royal Auto Raders Mika Hakkinen can return to Formula 1 and get behind the wheel of a combat car. According to unconfirmed information, Khakkinen intends to take the place of the British racer Jenson Batton in the Bar team, if the scandalous transition of the latter in Williams will end successfully. In this case, his partner of Khakkinen will be the Italian Yarno Truli.

Almost all the benefits that currently exist for Muscovites will be preserved, Yuri Luzhkov, mayor of the capital, told reporters on Saturday. So he commented on the law on preferential payments adopted by the State Duma. "Our veterans, beneficiaries, including pensioners, will receive all the benefits that they had, including free travel on city public transport for both urban and federal beneficiaries," Luzhkov said.

Two more Turkish hostages have been executed in Iraq, the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs reported. One of them is a driver captured last week. The personality of the other has not yet been established, reports the Radio "Freedom". In addition, Islamic extremists forced to resign the Governor of the province of Anbar, capturing the hosts of three of his sons.

The Turkish company Atahan Logistic leaves Iraq. This decision was made after Turkish television showed personnel, where a stolen driver-tuki calls for the company to leave the country and not to assist the American troops. The company representative said this in an interview with AP. The Islamic group, holding the Turkish driver in threatening to kill the hostage for 48 hours if its requirement to stop the work of Atahan Logistic in the country will be fulfilled.

The Moscow Spartak, which includes its first match in the Premier League, was held by the Czech defender Martin Jeranek, in the postponed match of the 14th round of the Russian football championship, he worthy of resistance to Lokomotiv and kept his gates into non-deposit, without scoring, however, 0-0 in strangers.

At least seven people died, 29 were wounded today during the clashes of the American military with Iraqi militants in the Shiite quarter of Baghdad - Madada -Sadre. According to the information received here, among the victims are women and children. In the morning, about 10 American tanks invaded this quarter - one of the poorest in the Iraqi capital. They were immediately fired by the militants of the Shiite "Mahdi Army" from grenade launchers and mortars. The Americans opened fire.

The meeting of the co-chairs of the mixed control commission (SCC) to resolve the Georgian-Ossetian conflict was postponed to the beginning of the next week, RIA Novosti told the commander of mixed forces in the conflict zone, General Svyatoslav Nabzdorov. "The meeting will take place on Tuesday -environment. The exact term will be clarified on Monday," he said.

The Prime Minister of Iraq Ayad Alaii signed a decree on amnesty. In accordance with the adopted document, those Iraqis who have not committed serious crimes will be amnestied. Initially, it was assumed that Iraqi rebels who participated in attacks on coalition servicemen would fall under the amnesty. However, the United States expressed dissatisfaction with the possibility that the militants guilty of the deaths of American soldiers will evade responsibility.

More than 200 under investigation of the Moscow pre -trial detention center N1, known as the Sailor Silence, threatened to start a hunger strike if the administration of the correctional institution would not satisfy a number of their requirements.

On Sakhalin, power engineers continue to tightly limit the supply of electricity to the military towns of the Russian Ministry of Defense located in the south of the island. According to RIA Novosti on Saturday in the press service of Sakhalinnergo, the facilities used by the Bochinsky apartment-operational part for economic and entrepreneurial activities have been turned off from electricity.

Due to the threat of avalanches in the Khan-Tengri peak area (Issyk-Kul region, North of Kyrgyzstan), where on August 5, a group of climbers covered the avalanche, Russian rescuers cannot yet begin rescue work. According to Emil Akmatov, a press secretary of the EMERCOM of Kyrgyzstan on Saturday, the rescuers are currently in Karakol. In the area of ​​the Khan-Tengri peak on Saturday morning, three avalanches came off, and the threat of re-gathering is currently preserved.

The picture of the Russian painter Ivan Shishkin was stolen from the State Historical and Architectural Art Museum, located in the village of Ples of the Ivanovo Region. This was reported on Saturday "Interfax" by a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. According to him, on the night of Friday, unknown people penetrated the premises of the museum, from which they stole the painting "Meadow on the edge of the forest. Siverskaya", written by the landscape painter in 1887.

Mikhail Saakashvili is ready to provide Georgian citizenship of Georgians living in the United States, reports Rustavi-2. "My task is to return the Georgians living in the USA to their homeland. Some of them are physically returned and provide a job to serve their own country. And to provide others with Georgian citizenship," Saakashvili said, speaking at the Georgian Georgia diaspora in Atlanta, RIA Novosti reports.