The football players of the Kazan Rubin tied 0-0 in the return match of the third round of the InterToto Cup against the Austrian Rapid. Thus, the Russian club failed to win a ticket to the UEFA Cup, which goes to Rapida, who won in the first game in his field with a score of 3: 1. The Kazan ended the meeting with ten times after the removal of Macbet Sibaya in the 68th minute, RIA Novosti notes.

USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev is now participating in an advertising photo shoot of the famous manufacturer of expensive clothes and accessories Louis Vuitton. According to The New York Times , a photo of a politician will appear in the September issue of the American version of Vogue magazine. In this photo, Gorbachev sits in a car, and next to him stands the Louis Vuitton road bag. The advertising action should promote suitcases and other road accessories.

The next ultimatum expired, established by Afghan Taliban in negotiations on the fate of South Korean hostages. Earlier, the representative of the Taliban movement Kari Yusuf Ahmadi said that terrorists intend to continue negotiations until 15:30 Moscow time. He demanded in exchange for captives to free a Taliban group from prison. “If the government does not begin to issue prisoners, we will begin to kill the hostages,” he said.

The scandal caused by the statements of Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov about the possibility of placing cement plants in Abkhazia for Olympic construction and explanations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Unrecognized Republic of Sergei Shamba about where and what objects are planned to be built, forced the parties to adjust and detail the positions.

The Prosecutor General’s Office stems for the arrest of Boris Berezovsky in the case of the theft of money from the SBS Agro bank, Interfax reports. The issue of issuing a decision on arrest will be considered in the Basmann District Court of Moscow on August 7. ITAR-TASS clarifies that charges of fraud and legalization of funds were brought in a criminal case opened upon theft of $ 13 million from SBS-GRRO Bank in 1997.

A video appeared on YouTube, the authorship of which is attributed to Dell. The video captures the moment of destruction of a Toshiba laptop. The essence of the video is that a certain person is cutting a Toshiba Portege 3500 laptop into two halves using an electric metal saw. At the same time, at the end of the video the following caption appears: “Don’t like your laptop? Dell Latitude XT coming soon.” Toshiba's reaction to such unethical advertising from a competitor is not yet known.

The scandal caused by the statements of Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Zhukov about the possibility of placing cement plants in Abkhazia for Olympic construction and explanations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Unrecognized Republic of Sergei Shamba about where and what objects are planned to be built, forced the parties to adjust and detail the positions.

Washington announced his readiness to provide military assistance to Egypt in the next 10 years in the amount of $ 13 billion and Israel - $ 30 billion. Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf states can receive similar assistance. This statement was made on Monday by US Secretary of State Kondoliza Rice - a few hours before the start of her trip to the Middle East, Reuters reports.

The authorities of the Ukrainian city of Chervonograd (Lviv region) demolished the monument to Soviet tankers-liberators, motivating this decision by the emergency state of the monument, RIA Novosti reports. “There were no burials under the obelisk, only the numbers of the units that freed Chervonograd,” Orest Orest Orenovsky told reporters on Monday. According to him, the monument was going to restore, but because of its emergency state, a decision on demolition had to be made.

Speaker of the Federation Council Sergei Mironov said that he is preparing a bill that can solve the problems of affordable housing for Russians. The essence of the law is to create a state construction corporation that would deal with the main issues of the construction market. He spoke about this, speaking in the Ufa Motor-Building Production Association, ITAR-TASS reports. The state corporation must have branches in all constituent entities of the Russian Federation.

In the city of Balashikha, Moscow Region, a citizen of Tajikistan was killed in a drunken quarrel. According to Interfax in the law enforcement agencies of the region on Monday, the corpse of a 35-year-old man was discovered on the site of the seventh floor of a residential building. As the examination established, the death of a foreigner occurred on Saturday morning as a result of a penetrating knife wound into the abdominal cavity.

A resident of the American state Michigan persuaded employees of the scrap metal reception points to sacrifice metal allegedly for the construction of a monument to soldiers, participants in the Iraqi campaign. Then the donations were resold.

Miraculously managed to survive a middle-aged Briton who fell from a 30-meter cliff in his car. The incident occurred in the county of Cornwall on the territory of the golf club located on the steep shore of the sea. Witnesses of the incident told the police that a man of about 50 years of age got into the Mazda car and drove through the club’s parking in different directions several times.

US Vice President Dick Cheney underwent a small operation to replace an implanted device for monitoring the rhythm of the heart last weekend, Interfax reports. According to the office of the vice president, the operation was successful. To conduct the operation of Cheney, accompanied by his wife, Lynn arrived on Saturday morning at George Washington’s hospital in the US capital, RIA Novosti reports with reference to CNN .

In the Middle Urals, two minor girls from the Moscow Region, which were part of the group of ecologists, were lost. Two teenagers, 14 and 16 years old, were lost in the Ivdel City District near the reserve "Konozhkin Stone" near Severouralsk, the New Region reports. 16-year-old Masha Sorokina and 14-year-old Masha Tarnopolskaya arrived in the Middle Urals from the city of Zheleznodorozhny, Moscow Region. On July 25, Masha went to the forest to search and study insects.