Security officers at the World Fencing Championship on September 27-October 7 in St. Petersburg, ensuring order in the final zone, will be dressed in hussar uniforms. This was announced by the Director of the Championship Mikhail Rydnik about this to the Sports Information Agency. “At the last three world championships, I was present as an observer and noticed that the organizers are stylizing the form of the guards in accordance with their national color,” said Mikhail Rydnik.

Thousands of Buddhist monks in large cities of Burma conduct marches against military dictatorship in the country, reports the Air Force . The procession of the monks passed through the streets of five cities in the center of Buddhist scholarship of Mandalaye and the former Primorsky capital of Rangun. On Sunday, 150 nuns joined the five thousandth demonstration of monks in Rangun. They are supported by about ten thousand local residents.

One road worker was killed and one was wounded as a result of a conflict with shooting, which occurred tonight in the south-west of the capital. According to the Russian Information Channel, an employee of the Information and Public Relations of the Council of Internal Affairs of the city, Anatoly Lastovetsky, today near midnight, the driver of the Mercedes car started a quarrel with workers, after which he opened the shooting of a pistol.

For the first six months of this year, Russia took fifth place in the world in the number of citizens of the country who wanted to get asylum abroad, having moved from the third according to the results of 2006, the UN Supreme Commissioner for Refugees (UVKB) said. In the first half of the year, 6 thousand 500 citizens of Russia asked asylum in economically developed countries.

The regional conference on the preliminary election of the Unified Candidate from the opposition in the 2008 presidential election, organized by the Movement "Another Russia", was opened in one of the hotels in St. Petersburg. By decision of the conference organizing committee, seven people are included in the voting list, Interfax reports.

One soldier died, two were injured as a result of an explosion in the Shata district of Chechnya, RIA Novosti told a law enforcement source on Sunday by phone. "The incident occurred on the eve of about 22:00 Moscow time in the village of Vyndara. According to preliminary data, as a result of careless handling of a shell in the household of a soldier" West "of the Russian Ministry of Defense, an explosion occurred," the source said.

Rescuers are looking for a two-year-old child who was gone on the eve of the Krasnodar Territory on the eve, a representative of the press service of the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies of the Russian Federation told RIA Novosti on Sunday. “At about 18:00 Moscow time, the Saturdays resting at the Silver Key camp site found that their two -year -old child was lost, after which the search was organized,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

The victory of Igor Andreev over the German Philip Kolshraiber in four parties brought the Russian national team to the final of the Davis Cup for tennis. The semi -final match Russia - Germany, which was held in Moscow on the court in the Olympic sports complex, ended with the victory of Russians with a score of 3: 2. The Russian went to the match rested, unlike his opponent, who played a paired meeting on Saturday. However, Igor did not have a big advantage at the beginning.

The Party of Regions of the Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych intends to organize protests in the case of falsification of the results of early parliamentary elections scheduled for September 30. This was reported by the press service of the "regionals", Yanukovych announced today on the air of the Nikolaev regional television and radio company. “We will not allow falsifications, and if this happens, we will raise the people,” said Yanukovych.

The Georgian Prosecutor General’s Office on Sunday morning detained the former plenipotentiary representative of the president in the region of Shida Kartli (borders on the Zone of the Tskhinvalsky conflict) Mikhail Karelle, Nikoloz Gvaray, Deputy Prosecutor General of Georgia, told reporters. “When trying to leave the territory of Georgia and hide from the investigating authorities this morning, the former envoy Mikhail Karelle was detained on the border.

Ancient Olympia will be restored to the lighting ceremony of the 2008 Beijing Olympics of the Beijing Olympiad, the day before, Prime Minister of Greece Kostas Karamanlis. “Cleaning and restoration of antiquity monuments in Olympia will be completed by the end of the year. The lighting ceremony will be held in the appropriate historical and symbolic environment,” the press service of the Greek prime minister of the word Karamanlis quotes.

The famous French actor Marseille Marso, nicknamed Charlie Chaplin, pantomime, died on Saturday at the age of 84. This was reported today by his relatives. The character he created in 1947, under the name Bip, became somewhat Pierrro of the twentieth century and brought Marseille Marso world fame in the years when the world experienced difficult times after the Second World War.

The Israeli army, police and special services prevented a large terrorist attack, conducting a multi-day operation that began with street battles on the western bank of the Jordan River and ended with the removal of an explosive structure in Tel Aviv.

A police plane with an ex-president of Peru Alberto Fuhimori extradited from Chile landed in Lima. At the arrival of Fuhimory, they detained on one of the objects of Interpol. The Peruvian authorities are against him about 10 charges, among which - corruption, financial abuse and human rights violations, ITAR -TASS reports. Alberto Fuhimori headed Peru from 1990 to 2000 and achieved considerable success in restoring the economy and suppressing the ultra-stroke partisan movement in this country.

The French boxer Jean-Franesois Bergeron plans to go straight to the famous holiday of Oktoberfest in Munich, if on September 29 he manages to defeat the ex-champion of the world in the heavyweight of Nikolai Valuev. The Canadian has never played a person who has never lost seriously to spoil the return of the Russian boxer to the ring after the defeat and the loss of the championship title in battle against Ruslan Chagaev.