The ex-champion of the world in chess, the leader of the "United Civil Front" Harry Kasparov is not going to return to sports. He said this in an online interview on the Internet. “I made the final decision to change the genus of activities,” ITAR -TASS quotes Kasparova. “I continue to work on the chess books of the“ My great predecessors ”series, now in the process of passing the sixth volume. As long as it will be written for several years.

Gazprom OJSC is studying the issue of acquiring the assets of the Yukos NK in the Tomsk Region, Alexander Ananenkov told Interfax. "Today we have no unequivocal answer to this question. We cannot say that it is quite interesting for us or vice versa. We study this question," he said. As previously reported, in early August of this year, the Governor of the Tomsk Region Viktor Korus expressed the hope that Gazprom will become the owner of a stake in Tomskenergo, owned by Yukos.

On Wednesday, at the capital's Lokomotiv stadium, the Russian national football team began a struggle for access to the final part of the 2008 European Championship. Our team fell into the qualifying group E, where the teams of England, Croatia, Israel, Macedonia, Estonia and Andorra became its rivals. In the starting match of the qualifying cycle, the Russians tied 0-0 with the Croats.

On the banks of the Moscow River in the Nizhny Mnevniki area, a modern golf park will build. The project presented by the Korean company Lotta on Wednesday was approved by the First Deputy Mayor of Moscow Vladimir Recyin. According to the design of designers, a golf field will appear in an area of ​​118 hectares, which will be able to play both amateurs and professionals.

The Moscow City Court recognized the arrest of real estate to the executive vice president of the NK Yukos Vasily Aleksanyan, arrested on charges of embezzlement of someone else's property and laundering of funds. "The court refused to satisfy the complaints of Aleksanyan's lawyers against the decision of the Basmanny Court," Interfax told in court.

Petersburg has the right to apply for the Winter Olympics, Oleg Nilov, president of the city figure skating Federation, told reporters. He said that the Figure Skating Federation he headed with the initiative to hold the Winter Olympic Games in the northern capital.

Many people have noticed a strange phenomenon - they can call them a person whom they just thought about. A scientist from the UK claims that this phenomenon really exists, and presented evidence that he called telephone telepathy. Rupert Sheldrack, whose study is financed by the Trinity College Cambridge College, conducted experiments that have proved the effect of this phenomenon regarding phone calls and even emails, CNN reports.

The Russians, who have already bargained in copying pirate DVDs, twisting their own Marlboro cigarettes and stamping of the Nika cheap T -shirts, switched to a thinner art of making false medications. Fake drugs released according to recipes are distributed in Russia and many other countries, writes The New York Times . The American newspaper gives an example one of the large clinics in Siberia.

Acrus-Real Estate is a technological leader in the real estate market. It is here that for 8 years a rare and unique service for the Moscow market has been successfully developing - trust management of apartments. Many owners of apartments know the advantages of renting an apartment through trust management, however, not all tenants know that when renting an apartment in the Akrus-Real Estate Management, they receive a more complete range of services and real benefits.

The chairman of the spiritual department of the Muslims of the Republic of Bashkortostan (DUM RB) Mufti Nurmukhamet Nigmatullin adopted a document dedicated to the attitude of Islam to the victims of sexual violence and the issues of abortion during pregnancy arising as a result of rape. “Islam has never justified any violence, including sexual,” Mufti said.

On Wednesday morning, Japanese Princess Kiko gave birth to a boy in the Tokyo hospital, who over time can become an emperor. The baby, which was born as a result of Caesarean section, became the third in line to the "chrysanthemum throne" of the ancient dynasty of the planet after the two sons of the current emperor Akihito, the eldest son, the 46 -year -old Crown Prince Naruhito and his father, Prince Akisino.

The little Japanese prince who was born in Tokyo, who has every chance to sit on the "chrysanthemum throne" over time, received the first gift from his grandfather. Following the ancient tradition, Emperor Akihito sent AIIK to the metropolitan hospital, where the marriage of the monarch Princess Kiko and her newborn son, the messenger, are located. He delivered a sword to the hospital, which is designed to protect the baby from ailments and other misfortunes.

The metro operating time according to the schedule of “PIK Hour” will be increased from October 3 with the transition to the winter mode, the “Interfax” press service reported on Wednesday. It was noted there that already, in connection with the end of the vacation period and the beginning of the school year, passenger traffic has increased significantly in the subway.

According to the head of the Ministry of Economic Development of Hermann Gref, following the crisis of energy supply , which is prophesied by Chubais, a gas shortage may occur in Russia in 2008. According to the minister, this is due to the underdevelopment of the free and transparent market for gas production and transportation. In turn, the underdevelopment of energy infrastructure slows down economic growth, Interfax reports. “Two years later, a gas supply crisis is possible,” Gref said.

More than 2.5 thousand participants from 56 countries represent their products at the XIX Moscow International Book Exhibition-Fair , which opened on Wednesday. This largest review will be held until September 11 in the territory of the All -Russian Exhibition Center. The exposition is located in three pavilions with a total area of ​​30 thousand square meters. The exhibition will present 150 thousand names of books.