A referendum in Transnistria may be considered an held, said in the CEC of an unrecognized republic. According to the Central Election Commission, at 15:00 local time, more than 58% of voters voted. By regions: fishing - 53.69%, Slobodzia - 59.62%, Dubosary - 52.47%, Kamenka - 65.23%, Bender - 59.87%, Tiraspol -58.85%, Grigoriopol - 66.37%. Under the law, a referendum in Transnistria can be considered consisted if 50% of registered voters voted plus one person.

The striker of the Swedish national team Zlatan Ibragimovich told the chief coach of the Scandinavians Lars Larsbek that he would not help the national team in the next matches of the Euro-2008 qualifying campaign with the Spaniards and Icelanders. The motive for such a decision is a disciplinary punishment previously taken against the striker, the UEFA website reports.

The leader of the Hizballah movement, Sheikh Hassan Nasell, urged the Lebanese to take part in the mass rally in Beirut in honor of the victory over Israel. He said that this event will take place on the next Friday in the southern suburb of the Lebanese capital, inhabited mainly by Shiites. “The whole world should see our glee in connection with the victory of honor, glory and faith,” said Nasrollah, speaking on the AL -Manar television channel.

Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Igor Shuvalov said that Rosneft "will sooner or later be privatized." “In the period from three to ten years, it will be completely private,” Shuvalov said on Sunday in Sochi, answering the question of Interfax. At the same time, the presidential assistant emphasized that the privatization of Rosneft should go through the public placement of shares.

Three people were injured in St. Petersburg as a result of a mass fight during the action of the movement against illegal immigration (DPNI). More than twenty people were detained, Interfax told in the city police department. According to the police, in St. Petersburg on Pionerskaya Square on the Embassy on Sunday, about 30 representatives of the DPNI gathered for a rally dedicated to the events in the Karelian city of Kondopoga.

In Chechnya, a militant from the Movsaev gang was detained, a source in law enforcement agencies of the republic told RIA Novosti on Sunday. "The police detained a participant in illegal armed groups the day before in the village of Chechen-Aul during operational-search measures," the agency’s interlocutor said. According to him, the detainee in 2001 was a member of the Movsaev gang. A check is carried out on this fact.

Russian basketball players unexpectedly lost the French national team in the first match of the second group stage of the World Cup in Brazil with a score of 64:74 (18:18, 9:23, 20:14, 17:19). The French women escaped forward from the very first minute of the meeting, which took place on the site of the Barueri sports complex 30 km from San Paulo, and led 5-0.

The general manager of New Jersey La Lamorello explained the situation that developed around two Russian hockey players of the club-Alexander Mogilny and Vladimir Malakhov. Lamorerello said that both players, most likely, would not play for the "devils" in the coming season, if they ever ever perform. The 37-year-old grave cannot play due to hip inflammation. This injury tormented Alexander throughout the last season both in the NHL and in AHL.

The American shuttle of Atlantis has been sold today from the International Space Station (ISS). This operation was performed, as planned, at 16:50 Moscow time. After the uniforms, the spaceship "shuttle" flew around the ISS to fix the new configuration of the station. The photographs taken by astronauts will be transferred to NASA engineers for processing, ITAR-TASS reports.

The chances of winning the national teams of Russia and the USA in the semifinal tennis match of the Davis Cup, which will be held in Moscow, according to the captain of the Russian team Shamil Tarpishchev, are equal. "Everything will depend in what physical form tennis players came to this tournament. Already closer to the match I will decide who will play. I think we are waiting for a very interesting meeting, the outcome of which is unpredictable," Tarpishchev said.

At least eight people died, one went missing and about 240 were wounded in Japan as a result of the Shan Shan typhoon, which has been rampant from Friday in the area of ​​the Southern Japanese Islands and fell on the island of Kyusu tonight. The victims are at least ten out of 47 prefectures of Japan, ITAR-TASS reports.

The crew of the 14th expedition, including the first "space tourist" on Monday on Monday on Monday on Monday, strictly observes all pre-flight traditions introduced by Yuri Gagarin. "The crew has just finished the traditional viewing of the film" The White Sun of the Desert ", now they will have lunch and go to bed - the rise will be early - at 2 a.m. Moscow time, " said Igor Panarin, a spokesman for Roskosmos, who was on Baikonur.

The Liberal Democratic Party of Japan, which plays a key role in the ruling coalition in the country, has prepared a bill creating a legal framework for the use of space space for military purposes. According to the Iomiuri newspaper, which managed to get the text of the bill, the LDP intends to submit it to an extraordinary parliamentary session, which opens on September 26.

Supporters of the Left Political Forces in Mexico on Saturday proclaimed their leader Andres Manuel Lopez, the “legitimate president” of the country. Such a decision, quitting an open challenge to state institutions of power, was made on the so -called National Democratic Convention in the center of Mexico City in the Center of Mexico City. According to its organizers, 1.2 million delegates gathered to participate in it in the capital.

Specialists of the Iranian defense department created the "most modern ship gun in the world. This was announced on Sunday by the commander of the Iranian Navy Admiral Sajad Kukei. “The gun, which was called the Fajr, consists of approximately 25 thousand details. Specialists of more than a hundred national defense enterprises and research institutes took part in its creation,” the Fars quoted the words of a senior Iranian military information agency.