Russian businessman Roman Abramovich turned to an investment bank regarding the consideration of the issue of the sale of the Chelsea football club, Sunday Times reports. It is noted that representatives of the "aristocrats" turned to Joe Ravitchu, a specialist of the Raine Group Bank for help.

Drivers Fernando Alonso from the McLaren team, Nico Hulkenberg (Renault) and Charles Leclerc (Sauber) retired from the race of the 13th stage of the Formula 1 championship - the Belgian Grand Prix - due to an accident at the first circle. The incident occurred a few seconds after the start at the first turn of the track at the Spa-Francochamps circuit. Due to a collision between several cars, a safety car appeared on the track.

Former England midfielder Paul Gascoigne has been arrested by transport police on suspicion of sexual assault, The Sun reports. Gascoigne was detained at Durham station on a train from York. The woman claims the 51-year-old veteran touched her inappropriately. Police later released Gascoigne pending investigations.

For an hour and a half, the Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev won the score of 6: 4, 6: 4 American Steve Johnson in the final of the Tournament of the Professional Tennisian Association in Winston-Saley (USA), whose prize fund was 691 thousand dollars. “It’s just amazing, at the beginning of the week I didn’t think that it was possible, because, although I played quite well, I didn’t feel that I was in the due form to win the tournament. I would say I didn’t really start the competition.

In Syria, English -speaking specialists arrived to the south of the Idlib deepalias for staging a chemical attack against the civilian population. About this, according to Interfax , said on Sunday the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Major General Igor Konashenkov.

The two -time boxing champion of boxing Tarik Sahibeddin neutralized the Aviadoboshir, who tried to capture the plane, which was following from Munich to Paris. As journalist Arno Romero said on his Facebook page, the aircraft passenger showed aggression and tried to penetrate the pilots’s cabin to force them to change the course.

The problems and contradictions arising in Belarusian-Russian relations are discussed by the presidents of the two countries openly. This was stated by Alexander Lukashenko in an interview with the Belarus-1 television channel, excerpts from which BVVI was published on the official website of the President of Belarus. “The Soviet past is probably also dominating us when we lived together when we just could say to each other what we think. Plus our Slavic gut.

In the 82nd year of life, American Senator John McCain died, one of the most influential politicians in America. He "in good faith has served the United States" within 60 years, the American media now celebrate. McCain died surrounded by his family in his house. Last summer, McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma - an aggressive shape of the brain tumor. He recently refused treatment due to his inefficiency.

A professional boxing evening took place in Minneapolis, the main event of which was the fight between ex-world title challenger Willie Monroe and Javier Francisco Maciel, but viewers will most likely remember it for another fight. On the undercard of the fight, a heavyweight match was scheduled between Nigerian prospect Efe Ajagba and American Curtis Harper, but this confrontation did not last even ten seconds. Harper left the ring immediately after the bell signaled the start of the fight.

The Canadian driver of the Schmidt Peterson Motorsports team, Robert Wickens, who was involved in a serious accident at the Indycar racing series in Pocono (Pennsylvania), began breathing for the first time since the incident without medical assistance, the team reported on Twitter . On August 19, during a race, Wickens' car collided with another car. The Canadian's car crashed into a fence and then flipped over several times in the air.

The Moscow authorities rejected the application of Alexei Navalny about the holding of a rally in the city of a rally on September 9, TASS reports on Sunday. “We sent our answer to the organizers. We did not agree on this application for a number of reasons,” said Vladimir Chernikov, head of the regional security department of the capital, answering the agency’s question regarding the blogger’s application.

In the match of the fifth round of the national football championship, Spartak beat Dynamo with a score of 2: 1 in the oldest metropolitan derby. The confrontation of the teams began back in 1923. The balls in the winners were scored by Kuinsi Promes (7 ', from the penalty) and Lorenso Melgareho (14'), Vladimir Rykov (82 ') distinguished himself from the losers, who sent the ball into the goal of Alexander Maksimenko from the center of the field.

The deputies of the Mejlis (parliament) of Iran voted for the resignation of the Minister of Economics and Finance of the country Masuda Karbasian, reports with reference to the agency Mehr. According to the Iranian agency, 137 parliamentarians cast their votes for the resignation of the minister, while 121 were against such a step. Two deputies refrained from voting.

Oppositionist Sergei Udaltsov, who holds a hunger strike in a special -reception, was again hospitalized, his wife Anastasia Udaltsova said. "Sergey was hospitalized at 11 in the morning today," Udaltsova told Interfax . Details of his state of health are still unknown, as he will be allowed to visit him in the hospital after 16:00.

In the match of the fifth round of the Russian Football Championship, Zenit outposted Ufa with a score of 2: 0. The Midfielder of the midfielder Ivan Paurevich (3 ') and the exact blow of the striker Artem Dziuba (11') returned the club from St. Petersburg leadership in the country's championship standings. From the middle of the second half, the home team played in the minority: the removal was earned by Boyan Yokich (68 ').