About 900 thousand people took participation on Saturday and Sunday in the opening of the most large national holiday in the world. In Munich, at the opening of the 173rd on a row of the traditional beer festival "Oktoberfest", the guests drank 500 thousand liter mugs of beer and ate 10 bulls. At the same time, it was drunk and eaten 10% more compared to last year, when 700 thousand people came due to rainy weather for the opening of the holiday, the Die Welt newspaper writes.

Russian tennis player Svetlana Kuznetsova won the Wismilak International International Tennis Tennis Tennis Tennis tournament with a prize fund of $ 225 thousand, which ended on the Indonesian island of Bali. In the final match, the first racket of the tournament in two sets with a score of 7: 5, 6: 2 outplayed the sown sixth Frenchwoman Marion Bartoli. Earlier, the Russian woman spoke at this tournament twice in 2002 and 2004, and both times won the main trophy.

The lawyer of the victims as a result of the collapse of the roof of the Transval-Park in Moscow filed a lawsuit against the recognition of the termination of the case against the architect Nodar Kancheli.

In Moscow, the murder of a graduate student of the Philology Faculty of Moscow State University Ekaterina Kiryushina and the baby in Troparevsky Park was revealed. Last Friday, employees of the 1st operational-search part of the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Western District detained the suspect in the commission of these two crimes. The murder of the 2-month Denmark Abakarev occurred on August 3.

On Tuesday, world leaders will gather in New York, where a meeting of the UN General Assembly will be held. One of the main topics will be the situation around the Iranian nuclear program. President Bush plans to devote his speech to Iran, which will be made to the General Assembly, explaining to the presidents and the Prime Ministers, why he considers the Tiegran government a serious threat, but is ready to support negotiations in order to mitigate reasons for anxiety.

One of the largest statues of the Buddha in the world, Tiantan, located on the Hong Kong Island of Lantau, can now be reached by the largest cable road Ngong Ping 360, the solemn opening of which took place today, RIA Novosti reports.

The presidential draft decree on the announcement of the amnesty participants in combat operations in the North Caucasus was submitted on Monday to the State Duma of Russia.

The International Center for the Provision of the Services of the Nuclear Fuel Cycle, which is being created in Russia, will begin work in 2007, the head of Rosatom Sergey Kiriyenko said on Monday. “We assume that by the end of the year all the conditions will be created in terms of preparing the site on the basis of one of our enterprises,” he said.

The neo-Nazi National Democratic Party of Germany has achieved success in the Earth’s landing election in the landtag of the Earth of Mecklenburg-Pomerania. She gained 7.3 % of the vote and, having overcome the five percent threshold, will be first represented in the land parliament. Located in the northeast of Germany, Mecklenburg Praising, is considered the poorest of the German federal territories.

Gazprom’s leadership is looking for ways to acquire a share of Russian shareholders of TNK-BP, they told Vedomosti two high-ranking monopoly manager. Moreover, according to the newspaper, informal negotiations were already being held on the sale of a Russian share in the company. The amount of such a transaction, according to experts, could reach $ 20-25 billion. 50% TNK-BR belong to the Russian side: Alfa-Group (25% of the shares in TNK-BP), Renov (12.5%) and Access (12.5%).

More than 97% of the inhabitants of Transnistria positively answered the question of a referendum on Sunday about joining Russia. According to official figures of the CEC, announced on Monday morning, 97.1% of the participants in the plebiscite answered “yes” to his first question. The referendum was attended by 77.6% of voters. The following questions were submitted to the referendum: 1.

Two people died, dozens of people were injured as a result of the collapse of a three -story residential building in the largest city in North Italy Milan. According to the rescue service, about 50 people are under the rubble of the collapsed building, ITAR-TASS reports. The forces of firefighters, rescuers, ambulance, and police are pulled to the place of disaster. They are engaged in the analysis of blockages. Rescuers and doctors do not exclude that the list of dead can increase.

France President Jacques Shirak offers not to bear the Iranian nuclear problem for discussing the UN Security Council while the negotiation process is underway. On September 18, in an interview with the Europe-1 radio station, Shirak said that the Iranian nuclear problem can be found by dialogue, RIA Novosti reports.

The winner of the two “large helmet” tournaments Marat Safin, currently taking 74th place in the ranking of the Association of Professional tennis players, may not play in the semifinal match of the Davis Cup with the Americans, which will be held in Moscow on October 22-24. About this agency of sports information "All Sport" was told by the captain of the national team and the President of the Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpishchev.

The prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg opened a criminal case on the fact of a fight that occurred on September 17 in the city center during a campaign against illegal immigration (DPH). The case was opened under Article 213 Part 2 (hooliganism committed by a group of persons by prior conspiracy using weapons or items used as it) of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, Interfax notes with reference to the prosecutor's office.