The coaching staff of the Russian national team led by Fabio Capello decided on the final list of players who will be called to prepare for the qualifying matches of the 2014 World Cup with the teams of Luxembourg (September 6, Kazan, Central Stadium, 18.30) and Israel (September 10, St. Petersburg, Petrovsky Stadium, 19.00), the official website reports. RFU. The list includes 25 players. Goalkeepers : Igor Akinfeev (CSKA), Vladimir Gabulov (Dynamo) and Sergey Ryzhikov (Rubin).

At the Arena Khimki stadium near Moscow, the match between CSKA and the Perm Amkar opened the program of the seventh round of the Russian football championship. The meeting ended with a strong -willed victory of the Moscow club. Already in the first minute, the guests led in the score: Georges Povu was struck by the gates of Igor Akinfeev.

Russian tennis player Ekaterina Makarova entered the fourth round of the US Open Championship. In the third round of the competition, it turned out to be stronger than Sabin Lisicka from Germany - 6: 4, 7: 5. For an hour and a half, Makarova made three breaks, six Aises and made three double mistakes. Note that Catherine after this success came forward in personal meetings with Sabin (2: 1).

In 2011, the American intelligence services held 231 kiberataka against networks of foreign states, including Russia, according to the American newspaper Washington Post with reference to materials transferred by the ex-employee of the CIA Edward Snowden. They say that to penetrate foreign networks in order to take them under control in recent years, $ 652 million were allocated.

The rehearsal of the elections of the Moscow Mayor was held on Saturday at one of the polling stations of the capital. Muscovites were offered to choose a "genius for all times" of five candidates - cultural and science figures. The voting rehearsal took place in the center of the capital at the polling station No. 1, which is located in the building of the printing house "Science", RIA Novosti reports.

Russian Yana Kudryavtseva won the gold medal at the World Cinema Gymnastics Championship in Kyiv, winning in the personal all -around. The winner showed the result of 73.866 points. Ukrainian Anna Rizatdinova (73.041) took second place, and Melitin Stanet from Belarus (72,166) closed the three winners. Another Russian woman Margarita Mamun became only the sixth, making a mistake in the exercise with the tape.

Moscow "Spartak" and German "Stuttgart" reached an agreement on the transition to the capital club of the central defender of Serdar Taski. The German national team football player signed a long -term contract with the Russian club and soon, when the latest formalities will be settled, it will be included in the team’s application, the official website of Spartak reports. Serdar Taski was born on April 24, 1987 in the German city of Esslingen-on-Neckar.

Former Barcelona striker Zlatan Ibragimovich spoke about relations with coach Josep Guardiola during their collaboration in the Catalan club. - Ibrahimovich shouted to Gvardiola: “You just went on, seeing Mourinho! "In my first days, the Gvardiola club told me that Barcelona players do not drive fast cars and lead a modest lifestyle. He wanted me to consider myself an ordinary guy, but I am golden: I love to be different from others, to be outstanding. Guardla could not cope with this.

Unknown attackers in Yekaterinburg stole a police officer, took him to the forest and killed him, according to the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Sverdlovsk region. Today, August 31, at about 15 hours of local time in the Elmash microdistrict in a forest belt two kilometers from Norilskaya Street, a corpse of a 23-year-old ordinary police with a head injury was discovered.

Ex-President of South Africa Nelson Mandela returned to his house in Johannesburg after a long treatment in a hospital with a pulmonary infection, the British television and broadcasting corporation reports on Saturday. Information about this was confirmed by Sky News, the daughter of the ex-president of South Africa. There have been no official message from the authorities or leadership of the hospital. Mandela was in a hospital with a relapse of pulmonary infection in early June.

The representative of Sergei Sobyanin in the public headquarters on observation of the election talked about how the election of the mayor will be held on September 8. Koibov, who "brought from all over Russia" was enough only a third of the plots, and the head of the public headquarters Alexei Venediktov will have the opportunity to "rewind" and increase the video from the polling stations.

According to the mentor of Chelsea, the Swedish referee Junas Ericksson “killed” the game in the match for the European Super Cup against Bavaria , deleting Ramirez in two yellow cards in the 85th minute. “My story with UEFA lasts a very long time. I have a fantastic experience of performances by ten in matches under the auspices of UEFA. Therefore, I have the right to such a reaction.

Muslims of Kazakhstan argued what mosques in their country should be and deal with a sexual scandal in a spiritual school, Deutsche Welle reports. On August 17, the Public Organization of the Union of Muslims of Kazakhstan called on local mosques to adopt the experience from the Orthodox churches and Iranian mosques.

On the first two weekends, when the Max 2013 aircraft is open to everyone, the organizers did not disperse the clouds over Zhukovsky, and the pilots work in conditions of reduced cloudiness, ITAR-TASS reports. There were fears that because of this, the flight program, which would last until 18:00, will have to be reduced, but so far the organizers assure that this will not happen.

The main prize of the Sakhalin International Film Festival "End of the World" (a million rubles) received the director of the film "capture the father" of Reta Nakano, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the representative of the organizing committee of the festival. “The Japanese director receives the Grand Prix of the Sakhalin Festival, a high, sacred meaning of its holding is concluded,” General Producer Alexei Agravovich said at the closing ceremony of the festival.