The Turkish Galatasaray is interested in buying an striker of the Russian football team and St. Petersburg Zenit Artem Dziuba, reports Sporundibi . The club has already contacted an agent of the 29-year-old striker to discuss the details of a possible transition. Earlier, the media wrote about the interest in Artem from the French Bordeaux. Galatasaray won the Turkish championship last season, having received the right to speak at the group stage of the Champions League of the 2018/19 season.

A sculpture in honor of the head coach of the Moscow football club “Lokomotiv” Yuri Semin was opened in Orenburg, according to the official website of the “railroad workers”. Semin took part in the gala event. The sculpture represents half of a railroad wheel topped with a soccer ball. “The biggest memory of Orenburg: when I was six years old, my mother and I came here to visit my grandmother. It was a cold winter, and we couldn’t get on the bus. We had to walk - I was very cold.

The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of the Russian Federation denied the information that Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, convicted of terrorism, lost 30 kilograms during a hunger strike in the Yamal colony. The press service of the department also published how much money was spent on medicines and medical services for the prisoner from the budget.

Russian tennis player Karen Khachanov confidently beat the Dutchman Robin Hase with a score of 6: 3, 6: 1 in the quarter -final match of the Toronto tournament, whose prize fund is $ 5.3 million, and entered the next stage of the competition. The meeting of the 22-year-old Russian and representative of the Netherlands lasted only 56 minutes. Khachanov made 11 ais against one of the opponent and realized four out of six Break Punts.

An American received 42 years in prison for killing a man with a glove in the style of the famous movie maniac Freddy Krueger in the capital of Colorado, Denver. This was reported by Denver 7 TV channel. The incident occurred near a local cafe in May 2017 as a result of an argument. 37-year-old Christian Gulzou wounded his 29-year-old opponent in the neck.

Russian boxer Alexander Povetkin, champion in the heavy weight category according to WBO International and WBA Intercontinental, has completed the first stage of preparation for the fight against the holder of the WBA, IBF and WBO belts, Briton Anthony Joshua, according to the official website of the World of Boxing promotion company.

In the match of the third round of the Russian Football Championship, Krasnoyarsk Yenisei and CSKA played in Tyumen draw 1: 1. Mikhail Kostyukov (58 ') distinguished himself as part of the Siberians, the army of the Army was realized by Abel Ernandez (79'), who scored his first ball for an army club. By the way, the appointment of a 11-meter blow looked very controversial.

The Manchester United football club defeated Leicester City with a score of 2:1 at the home stadium of Old Trafford in the opening game of the first round of the English Championship of the new season. Already in the third minute, French midfielder Paul Pogba put the home team ahead with a penalty kick, and in the end the advantage of the Manchester club was doubled by defender Luke Shaw (83'), for whom this goal was his first in senior football (134 matches).

A passenger plane employee stole a passenger aircraft at the Settl-Takom International Airport in the American state of Washington and, flying about 50 kilometers, crashed near the island of Ketron. There were no passengers aboard the near-Highway liner, the press service of the airport on its Twitter said. The incident occurred on August 10 at about 20:00 local time (about 5 a.m. on August 11 to Moscow). At the time of the crash, the plane was accompanied by two fighters.

The founder of the British rock band The Libertines, Pete Doherty, decided to help the Margate football club, which plays in the Isthmian Football League in the Southern Conference. 24 hours before the start of the new season, the musicians agreed to become the title sponsor of Margate. Demand for the club's shirts has skyrocketed, as has their price: one shirt with the legendary band's sponsorship logo costs £37.

The police detained the former deputy chairman of the board of a commercial bank in Moscow on suspicion of embezzlement of 800 million rubles, according to the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia . According to the TASS source in law enforcement agencies, we are talking about the former employee of Interotopenergobank, deprived of a license last year.

Prisoner Evgeny Makarov, who suffered from torture in the Yaroslavl correctional colony number 1 (IK-1), was recognized as the victims in the case and received state protection. This was reported on the Facebook of the Public Verdict Foundation, whose lawyers represent the interests of Makarov. On Friday the prisoner, who is located in the penalty isolator (schizo) for refusing to remove the camera, was visited by lawyer Eldar Lusin.

Russian athletics Maria Kuchina (in marriage - Lasitzkene) won gold in height at the European Championship in Berlin, taking a height of 2.00 meters on the second attempt. A similar result was shown by the Bulgarian of Mirla Demirev on the third attempt and received a silver medal. Bronze in German Marie-Lawrence Jungflyish (1.96). Kuchin and Demireva then declared a bar with 2.04 meters, but failed.

Russia is working on mirror measures in response to new sanctions , which the United States is going to introduce against the Russian Federation due to the "case of Skripals." This was announced by the official representative of the Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova during a visit to Serbia. “Now these response measures are being worked out. We said that, unfortunately, we were once again forced to come up with how to improve and deduce relationships from the impasse, to answer mirror.

Ukraine blocked the Russian Tanker "Mechanic Pogodin" in Kherson's sea shopping port. The ship cannot leave the port, but there are no decisions on the detention of the vessel and the team yet, the UNN agency was told in the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). They explained that the tanker belongs to the company to which the National Security Council of Ukraine imposed sanctions.