Russian tennis players Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won the US Open Championship in a paired category, winning 2: 6, 6: 6: 6: 3, 6: 2 in the decisive match, the International Duet Martin Hingis (Switzerland) - Flavia Pennette (Italy). For Makarova and Vesnina, this success was the second at tournaments from the Grand Slam series. Last year, they won Roland Garros . “Before the match, I accidentally met Serena Williams,” Vesnina told reporters after the victory.

Five people died in an accident in the Yaroslavl region, Interfax reports with reference to the deputy head of the information and public relations of the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs Marina Kokueva. According to the source of the agency, the accident occurred at 231 kilometers of the federal highway M-8 Moscow-Kholmogory in the Gavrilov-Yamsky district at 19:40.

The striker of the Swedish national football team Zlatan Ibragimovich during his career managed to score the balls in every minute of the match. Thus, the striker repeated the achievement of the Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, reports Daily Mail . On Thursday, Ibragimovich, having made a double in a friendly meeting for the Swedish national team in the game against the Estonians, broke the record for the scored goals for the national team (50 goals).

The United States requires Russia to completely withdraw troops from the border with Georgia. The American Minister of Defense Chuck Heigel made such a statement on Sunday in Tbilisi. In Washington, the transcript of his joint press conference with the Georgian colleague Irakli Alasania spread the Pentagon, ITAR-TASS reports. "The United States continues to urge Russia to completely withdraw its troops from the Georgian border.

Ulyanovsk police detained a 33-year-old local resident who reported the Railways of Russian Railways about the allegedly mined passenger train "Moscow-Chelyabinsk". The composition because of this lingered for three hours at the Miass station, passengers were evacuated. The head of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Ulyanovsk Region, Alexei Ryzhov, informed the Interfax agency that the bomb laid in one of the train wagons was made on Sunday morning.

Advisor to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko Yuri Lutsenko called the countries with which an agreement was reached at the Summit in Wales on the supply of modern weapons of the Ukrainian army. On his Facebook page in an extensive text with the name "New Start", he reports: "At the NATO summit, agreements on Western military advisers and the supply of modern weapons from the USA, France, Italy, Poland, Norway were reached." What weapons can be discussed, is not specified.

They searched for a bomb on the Moscow-Chelyabinsk train, Znak.com reports. The train No. 392 was stopped at the Miass-1 station due to an anonymous message that a bomb was laid in one of the wagons. As a result, the explosive device was not found. A message about the bomb was received on the "hot" line of Russian Railways. As Znak.com was informed in the South Ural line of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia on transport, the train was stopped in the morning at 9:15.

Two three -year -old children died in a fire in a cottage in the suburbs, another may be in a burning house. This was reported to ITAR-TASS by a representative of the press service of the police of the Moscow Region. A two -story cottage burns in a suburb of the city of Khimki in the Terekhovo quarter. "At present, two dead twins are known for three years. According to the parents, another child remained in the house," the agency’s interlocutor said. Fire extinguishing continues.

Russian Evgeny Kafelnikov was one of the candidates for the inclusion of tennis in the International Hall of Glory in 2015, the official website of the Organization of the International Tennis Federation. Two -time winners of the Grand Slam tournaments of the Frenchwoman Marie Pierce and Amelie Morozho, as well as the Spaniard Sergio Bruger, who are a two -time winner of the French open championship, claim to get into the Glory Hall.

The human rights organization of Amnesty International accused Russia of complicity to the separatists, presenting satellite images that indicate a large accumulation of Russian armored vehicles and artillery in eastern Ukraine. In the same report, published on the organization’s website, AI accuses the Ukrainian security forces and separatists of abductions and torture of people and possible war crimes.

The first hostages, Ukrainian troops, were released by separatists. Interfax with reference to the press secretary of President Uarina Svyatoslav Tsegolko, reports that two ordinary 9th battalions of territorial defense were released. According to the General Staff, they went through the "Cretorov" checkpoint in the Lugansk region.

The pilot of the Mercedes team Lewis Hamilton won the race of the 13th stage of the Formula 1 championship-the Italian Grand Prix. For the British, this victory has become the sixth this season. “Today was a difficult day, but I liked every minute of the race. When problems arise, you think that you will never be able to catch up. But this thought cannot be put deep into consciousness.

OSCE observers who were in Donetsk said that a mutual night mortar shelling between Ukrainian military and pro -Russian separatists is a violation of the ceasefire agreement, but this incident is not a sufficient basis for the termination of the agreement, the Russian BBC service reports. Comments of organizations were made against the backdrop of clashes for control over the airport of Donetsk. At the airport of Donetsk, a bilateral mortar fire was conducted.

The traffic on the Moscow Ring Road (MKAD), limited due to the failure of the soil that occurred early in the morning on Sunday, was restored. The incident occurred on the 24th kilometer of the highway, at the congress to the Kashirskoye highway towards the region. There, construction work was carried out from the inside, at about 5:00 there was a failure of soil on an area of ​​3 meters. The pit reached about two meters in depth.

The Belarusian schoolboy, who took part in the Ice Bucket Challenge campaign and challenged the country's President Alexander Lukashenko, was called to the police. After the visit, the tenth grade student Dmitry Daineko deleted the video with dousing with YouTube, there are no other consequences for him yet, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Belarusian Radio Liberty .