Boxer Roy Jones received Russian citizenship, the Kremlin press service reports. It is known that Jones submitted an application on August 20, the day after meeting in Crimea with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in Crimea said that the fate of Donbass should not be decided by Russia. So he answered the request to comment on the proposals of "take the Donbass" who sounded on Friday from citizens when Putin and Berlusconi walked along the Yalta embankment, TASS reports. He also called the Minsk agreements the only option for resolving the conflict in Ukraine and positively appreciated the truce in force on September 1.

Tomsk police officers conducted conversations with participants in the training, where they prepared the Voice of the Volunteers of the Voilogos movement for polling stations, the coordinator of the Tomsk branch of the organization of Ksenia Fadeev on Saturday told Interfax . Six volunteers were delivered to the police for a conversation, and after four hours they were all released.

In the central match of the eighth round of the Russian Football Championship at the Khimki Arena KSKA and Zenit Arena near Moscow, they tied from St. Petersburg. In the ninth minute of the meeting, the guests organized a goal against their goal: Nicholas Lomberts unsuccessfully completed the ball discount, which, passing the goalkeeper Yuri Lodygin, flew into the Zenit gate net - 1: 0.

The former fourth rocket of the world American James Blake was mistakenly arrested by New York police on Wednesday. The athlete tried to catch a taxi to go to one of the events within the framework of US Open. The law enforcement officer in civilian clothes took the man for a fraudster engaged in the theft of personal data, and without explaining the reasons he threw him on the asphalt, putting on handcuffs. “In my opinion, the main factor in the arrest is racism.

Former Governor of Texas Rick Perry, who was gathering in the upcoming elections of the US president to become a candidate from the Republican Party, ceased to participate in the struggle for the highest state post. The text decoding of the speech of the policy at the congress of conservative activists in St. Louis is published on his website.

Swiss tennis player Roger Federer, having replayed his compatriot Stanislav Vavrinka - 6: 4, 6: 3, 6: 1, became the second finalist of the US Open Championship, which ends in New York. "At the beginning of my career, I met with the generation of Hughitt, Nalbandan, Agassia and Henman. I had a lot of problems in matches with them, but this struggle tempered me and did it stronger. The same can be said about the guys of my age: Safin, Huguitt, Ferrero, Roddik.

At the entrance to Kostroma, the Volkswagen Passat car was detained, which was driven by the 49-year-old coordinator of Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Open Russia. About two million rubles were seized from him, "intended to pay activists of radical youth groups planning illegal shares during the election period," according to the website of the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Representatives of Open Russia confirmed the fact of detention.

Former Yukos shareholders appealed to the Supreme Court of Berlin with a lawsuit against Russia in the amount of $ 42 billion, Spiegel reports. According to the publication, the lawsuit may lead to large -scale confiscation of Russian property in Germany. Requirements from ex-campaigners are considered at the level of the Ministry of Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany.

In the Syrian airport, Latakia airport on Saturday landed two military cargo aircraft of the Russian Federation. Reuters reports that they brought about 80 tons of various cargoes. The Ministry of Defense claims that goods are needed to create a refugee camp for 1000 people. Two AN-124 Ruslan aircraft flew to Latakia. The representative of the Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, in a commentary for RIA Novosti, did not mention any military cargo.

UN Secretary General Pan Hi Moon proposed reforming the UN peacekeeping activity. The main change should be the speed with which peacekeeping forces will unfold after the resolution of the Security Council. For this, parts of constant readiness must appear at the disposal of the UN. Now the UN missions operate in 16 countries, they include about 105 thousand military personnel and police officers.

In India, a house was destroyed by a powerful explosion, the number of emergency victims can reach 80. The reasons are called different: according to some data, an explosive stored in one of the premises of the building was exploded. Voices are heard from under the rubble, there is a rescue operation. The emergency occurred in the city of Petlyavad of the Central state of Madhya-Pradesh.

In the metropolitan region, Babier Summer begins - Moscow and the region will leave rains , warming is expected. So, on Saturday, September 12, the thermometer columns will rise to 16 degrees Celsius, and on Sunday - to 18 degrees. In places, frosts will take place in places to minus two degrees, no precipitation is expected, TASS reports with reference to Roshydromet data.

Forward of the Russian hockey team and the Washington NHL club Alexander Ovechkin made an offer to his friend Anastasia Shubskaya and received consent. One of the most famous athletes of Russia in March on the Instagram account published a photo with the daughter of the actress Vera Glagoleva Anastasia Shubskaya and signed: "My girl, thanks for appearing in my life !!!

Sport-Express on the eve of the central match of the 8th round of the Russian Football Championship between CSKA and Zenit calculated the cost of starting compositions of both clubs. Players of the St. Petersburg team were more expensive: their total value amounted to 159 million euros against 106.8 million - at CSKA. The difference is a little more than 52 million.