The head of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Vladimir Churov offers those who wish to vote "against all" to spoil the ballots. “Just cross out the ballot obliquely and lower it into the voting box. The bulletin will be invalidated and your voices will be filed“ against all, ”Churov said on Saturday on the air of Radio Mayak.

The leader of the OGF Harry Kasparov appealed to the President of Tatarstan with a request to accept the leader of the local branch of the OGF Zartdinov in connection with his hunger strike. “I wrote a telegram to Shaimiev with a request to accept Zartdinov. Because a person is starving and pretending that nothing is happening, would be inhumanly,” the leader of the United Civil Front, Harry Kasparov, said on the air of the Echo of Moscow radio station.

By the morning of Saturday morning, 48 children were hospitalized with symptoms of intestinal poisoning by the morning of Saturday morning. According to Interfax agency in the regional department of the Ministry of Emergencies, the total number of sick people was 94 people, while 46 children undergo an outpatient treatment. Cases of the disease are registered in kindergartens in five settlements of the Georgievsky district.

Ukraine intends to connect international companies to improve the image of the country. This was announced today by President Viktor Yushchenko, answering direct television to students' questions. "We are working with three international agencies that would connect to the improvement project, in particular, the international image of Ukraine," Yushchenko said.

In Sydney today, the construction of a concrete fence and barbed wire 2.8 meters high, which is designed to isolate the central part of the city, where on September 8-9, a meeting of the leaders of the member countries of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum (APEC) will be called. A hedge of 5 km long will surround, in particular, the famous opera theater and adjacent hotels, where participants in the upcoming events will be accommodated, ITAR-TASS reports.

In Lithuania, the "dry law" is in effect today. Sale of alcohol is prohibited not only in stores, it is not allowed to pour in cafes, bars, and restaurants. The first day of autumn, he - the day of knowledge became the day without alcohol according to the new edition of the Law on Control over Alcohol adopted by the Sejm (parliament) in November last year.

The current winner of the Milan Champions League became the owner of the UEFA Super Cup. In the French Monaco, an Italian club with a score of 3: 1 outplayed in a dispute for the honorary trophy of the winner of the UEFA Cup of the 2006/07 Spanish "Seville". The players went to the match with mourning bandages on the sleeves in memory of the tragically deceased defender of Seville Antonio Puert, who died on Tuesday after a heart attack, which overtook him on the football field last weekend.

The World Health Organization reported on Saturday that its representatives are studying the outbreak of an unknown disease with a high level of death in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Reuters reported with reference to the UN. WHO does not have accurate data about how many people became victims of the disease and how many people fell ill with an unknown virus. Of the ill people, more than half of cases of an unknown disease are observed in children under the age of ten years.

In Nazran, on the fact of an attack by unknown people, a criminal case has been opened on transport, Interfax told the Ingushetia prosecutor Yuri Turygin on Saturday. "A criminal case was instituted under two articles of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation - Article 317 (attempted life of a law enforcement officer) and part 2 of article 222 (illegal circulation of weapons and ammunition," Turygin said.

The Moscow authorities expect that at least 3.5 million Muscovites and guests of the city will take part in the event dedicated to the celebration of the 860th anniversary of the Russian capital, the first deputy mayor of Moscow and the head of the complex of social protection of the population of the capital Lyudmila Shvetsova told reporters. “According to our polls, most people really like to celebrate this holiday,” Shvetsova said.

More than a hundred people gathered on Saturday in the center of St. Petersburg for a mourning rally in memory of the victims of the attack in Beslan, Interfax reports. On the fence of the monument to Gogol, near which the rally takes place, a banner with photographs of all dead children is posted. Nearby, the rally participants laid flowers, toys, lit candles.

The law enforcement agencies of the Chechen Republic detained two former participants in illegal armed groups. The identities of three more accomplices of the militants were identified, the press secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Chechen Republic Magomed Deniev told Interfax on Saturday.

Russian tennis player Marat Safin, at the stage of the second circle, completed the struggle at the opening championship of the United States, whose competitions these days are held on the courts of New York. The Russian, sown at the tournament under the 25th number, in his second match at the tournament in three parties lost to the representative of Switzerland Stanislasu Vavrinka - 3: 6, 3: 6, 3: 6. Safin made a huge number of unstable mistakes in this fight - 51 -U, RIA Novosti reports.

The Sunday match against Hamburg will be for the goalkeeper of the Bavaria Oliver Kan 535 in Bundesliga. Thus, he will be the sole owner of the record for the largest number of matches in the elite German division. According to the statistics of the German football league, today the same result - 534 matches - have 38 -year -old Cannes and Aike Immel, who defended the gates of the Dortmund Borussia and Stuttgart from 1978 to 1995.

The sixth subtropical storm this year, which received the name Felix, was formed today in the Atlantic Ocean 120 km from Grenada. The speed of his wind at the moment is, according to estimates by specialists of the National Center for Observation of Hurricanes in Miami (Florida), more than 70 km per hour. The storm moves west at a speed of about 30 km per hour. It is expected that within 24 hours it will not change its direction and will significantly increase.