The Hungarian thrower of the hammer Adrian Annush does not intend to return his gold medal, which he was formally deprived of by the decision of the International Olympic Committee for refusing to undergo a second doping test at the Olympics in Athens. The athlete also announced the end of his career, RIA Novosti reports. “The hammer was my whole life, but I wanted to leave sports at all,” the athlete said in an interview with the MTI Hungarian information agency.

Among those killed in Beer Sheva there are many Russians who once immigrated to Israel. The names of 15 people who died as a result of a double terrorist attack committed by suicide bombers on Tuesday, August 31, are published. The head of the consular department of the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Israel Alexei Strykin confirmed on Thursday that one of the dead with the Russian surname had dual citizenship. The deceased Vitaly Brodsky had a double - Russian and Israeli - citizenship.

In Moscow, due to the threat of explosion on Thursday afternoon, 25 residents of an apartment building were evacuated. "According to preliminary data, one of the residential buildings on Bogdanov Street in the metropolitan district of Solntsevo can be mined," an informed source in the capital's law enforcement agencies said on Thursday. The house was completely examined by specialists, no explosive device was found.

Israel accused Syria of patronizing terrorism, in particular, due to two explosions on Tuesday in the southern of Israel , which led to the death of 16 people. In this regard, the Deputy Minister of Defense of Israel Zeev Bonm warned that the Israeli side could strike at certain facilities in Syria, ITAR-TASS reports.

The actions of terrorists who captured hostages in Beslan are most likely a link in a certain terrorist, possibly an international chain. Such an opinion on September 2 was expressed by psychologists, participants in the press conference "Psychology of terrorism. The threat to the state and society." That is why psychologists believe, the invaders cannot put forward the main requirement, and they have not yet decided on the intermediate ones.

Three hostages from Turkey were killed in Iraq. According to the AL-JAZEERA channel, the Jama'at Al-Tawhid group made execution. There are no details of the incident. According to the Iraqi police, the bodies of the three killed were discovered today near the highway north of Baghdad. It was established that two dead were Turkish citizens, presumably - truck drivers. The nationality of the third is clarified. The Turkish electronic media believe that the third dead is Iraqan, notes ITAR-TASS.

According to the Minister of Internal Affairs of North Ossetia Kazbek Dzantiev, according to preliminary data, a group of bandits who captured school in Beslan, is multinational. “Its composition is Ossetians, Ingush, Chechens and Russians,” Dzantiev said. According to him, the terrorists said that they would negotiate only with Aslanbek Aslakhanov, North Ossetian President Alexander Dzasokhov, President of Ingushetia Murat Zyazikov and Dr. Leonid Roshal. The minister noted that Dr.

The pass through the border of Russia with Georgia has been resumed. This was announced by the representative of the border service of the FSB of the Russian Federation. "The checkpoints are working. Border inspection and execution of documents of citizens, vehicles are carried out as usual," said on Thursday an employee of the press service of the North Caucasus regional border control of the FSB of Russia.

Several hundred participants in the strike of Russian schoolchildren on Thursday, about noon, gathered in Riga near the campaign tent of the headquarters of the protection of Russian schools, installed on the Square of the Esplanade to go to the house of the court on Abrees Street. Not only young people gathered near the tent, but also their parents and other activists, enrolling in the United Congress of the Russian community of Latvia (Okrol).

The final conclusions regarding the doping scandal with the Russian athlete Irina Korzhanenko at the Olympic Games in Athens are still early to do, but now it is clear that Doping did not use Doping during the Korzhanenko Olympics. This was stated on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station, the head of the anti -doping commission of the Russian Olympic Committee Nikolai Durmanov.

On Wednesday evening, the 61st International Film Festival officially opened on the island of Lido in the Venice Lagoon. An hour before the opening ceremony, the traditional passage of movie stars began between the rows of spectators and the huge statues of "golden lions" guarding the entrance to the palace of the cinema. The current Venetian festival has gathered a lot of stars.

The European Union of Football Associations lifted all suspicions from the Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich during the investigation of the possible conflict of the interests of Chelsea clubs and CSKA, which will play among themselves in the Champions League. Recall that CSKA and Chelsea got into one group, and UEFA decided to investigate the forms of ownership of these clubs.

In Moscow, an unknown person with the help of a knife killed two teenagers. According to the Moscow Central Internal Affairs Directorate, the murder occurred at about 20:00 opposite the house number 44 on Shabolovka Street. According to preliminary information, between the group of adolescents aged 16 to 17 years old, who were intoxicated, and two young people have a conflict, RIA Novosti reports.

The central performance of the third day of the work of the Congress of the Republican Party of the United States was the speech of Vice President Richard Chaini, in which he sharply criticized the platform of the Democrats candidate in the November elections of the head of state John Kerry, RIA Novosti reports.

Events similar to the capture of hostages in Beslan can seriously contrast each other with people of different religions and different nationalities, ”said Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, Deputy Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate of the Moscow Patriarchate of External Church Relations .