Russian basketball players Andrei Kirilenko and Timofei Brains are ready to play in European clubs at the time of the NBA Locaut. Moreover, the former player of the Utah Jazz, who became a free agent on the eve, is ready to consider even long -term offers from the Old World, and does not exclude the possibility of ending his career here. Recall that since the validity of the previous contract expired at midnight from Thursday to Friday local time, at that time a locout begins in the NBA.

The Tu-154 airline "Ural Airlines", due to malfunctions with the engine on Saturday, was forced to interrupt the flight into mineral waters. The liner landed safely at the Airport of Yekaterinburg at 16:31 Moscow time, Interfax was told in the Federal Air Transport Agency. During the landing, none of the passengers and crew members were injured.

The first case of death due to the outbreak of intestinal infection was recorded in France, the Bordeaux Health Department said. It was there that patients with signs of a dangerous disease were hospitalized. Later, one of them died in the hospital, reports Echo of Moscow with reference to France Press. In this way, the number of deaths as a result of infection with an especially dangerous strain E. Soli (E. coli) in Europe exceeded 50 people.

Images of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will be used during the pre -election campaign of the presidential candidate Anatoly Kaminsky. Such a decision was made during Kaminsky’s consultations with the Russian leadership, which decided to support his candidacy in the upcoming elections, the Kommersant newspaper writes.

The film of the Spanish director Alberto Morais "Wave" received on Saturday the main prize of the 33rd Moscow International Film Festival-the Golden "St. George", ITAR-TASS reports. The prize was presented by the chairman of the jury MMKF - daughter Charlie Chaplin, actress Geraldin Chaplin. According to the plot of the film, the main character Miguel, after 60 years, returns from Madrid to the small border town of Arzhel, who became the last refuge of refugees from the Spanish Civil War.

Russia plans to launch four Glonass-M navigation satellites until the end of October, a source in the missile and space industry told Interfax . According to the source, on August 30, one apparatus will be launched from the Plesetsk cosmodrome, and three more devices from the Baikonur cosmodrome on October 25.

Oleg Sudakov , detained the other day, who is considered an intermediary between the organizers of the underground casinos in the suburbs and their "roof" in law enforcement agencies, can draw into the "gambling scandal" of senior officials from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB. The Ministry of Internal Affairs on Saturday officially denied the information that Sudakov worked in the central apparatus of the department.

Both of the closest matches in the qualifying cycle of the 2012 European football championship - with Macedonia and Ireland - the Russian team will hold in Moscow at the Luzhniki stadium. This was announced by President of the RFU Sergey Fursenko in an interview with the correspondent of the newspaper Sport-Express . “A very important and in many ways a decisive game with the Irish one way or another needs to play at the largest stadium of the country,” Fursenko explained.

The 33rd Moscow International Film Festival was visited by more than 60 thousand people, Nikita Mikhalkov, President of the filmmaker, said before the closing ceremony of the MMKF. “This year the numbers are impressive,” the director said about this. According to Mikhalkov, last year there were 50 thousand spectators. About 2 thousand journalists from around the world were covered by a film. The program of the film festival includes more than 400 films, ITAR-TASS reports.

The first racket of the world, Spaniard Rafael Nadal, beat British Andy Marrey and for the fifth time in his career reached the final of the Wimbledon tournament, RIA Novosti reports. On Friday, on the central court, the Spaniard won over Mardia (4th sowing number) with a score of 5: 7, 6: 2, 6: 2, 6: 4.

Activists opposing the construction of the highway through the Khimkinsky forest announced the beating by employees of a private security company eight ecologists and one journalist. Activist of the "In Defense of the Khimkinsky Forest" Yaroslav Nikitenko reported on Saturday evening "Interfax" that a fight between ecologists and guards of the Vityaz enterprise had a tapping place in the Khimkinsky forest.

The leader of Jamahiria Muammar Gaddafi does not intend to give up and threatens Europe with a new weapon - a women's battalion. Moreover, as the Russian News Service reports with reference to France Press, Gaddafi called on the Libyans to “capture” the weapons that France supplies to the rebels. A training camp for women is located in Beni Valid in the north-west of the country, not far from Tripoli.

In a battle with the bandit group in the Vedensky district of the Chechen Republic, one policeman died, two more law enforcement officers were injured in varying severity, Interfax told on Saturday to the law enforcement bodies of Chechnya. According to the source, the bandit group consisting of about 10-12 people pursue police officers in Saturday morning.

In Monaco on Saturday, the wedding of Prince Albert II and Princess Charlene took place. On Friday, they had already marriage in the civil procedure - the ceremony was held in the throne hall of the princely palace. After its completion, the prince’s beloved, an athlete from South Africa Charlene Witts, became Princess Charlene Monakskaya, receiving, along with the surname of Grimaldi and the title, also modified in the French manner of name, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Communists in the resolution "On increasing the role of the Communists in the unification of all patriotic forces", adopted following the results of the Plenum of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Communist Party on Saturday, announced the creation of a folk militia and invited the Russians to join a new organization. “We took up arms against corruption, crime, bureaucracy, paid medicine and bloodless science,” said the party leader Gennady Zyuganov.