The largest Russian cemetery abroad is in the famous Port Arthur. Today it is the Chinese city of Lyushun. Here, participants in several wars are buried: Russian-Japanese, Second World War, classified Korean.

World Chess Olympiad. Khanty-Mansiysk, Russia Women Russia-1-Bulgaria China is India Ukraine is Georgia Russia-2-Serbia-3: 1 Poland - Armenia - 3: 1 Cuba - Latvia - 2.5: 1.5 Position after 10 rounds: 1. Russia - 20 points 2. China - 16 3-6.

WTA tournament in Tokyo. 1/2 finals Elena Dementyeva (Russia) - Francesca Skyavone (Italy) - 6: 4, 7: 5 Karolin Vozniatski (Denmark) - Victoria Azarenko (Belarusian) 6: 2, 6: 7, 6: 4

Radio Free Europe began broadcasting from Munich on July 4, 1950.

In Tyumen today, the regional court sentenced 14 skinheads for beating and killing immigrants from Central Asia and Transcaucasia. By the court decision, the leader of the extremist group, Alexander Khodyrev, was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Members of the group, among whom were nine minors, made armed attacks on citizens of Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Armenia. 14 people were injured, two were killed, six were seriously injured.

Consumer prices for automobile gasoline in Russia for the period from September 21 to 27 have not changed, and since the beginning of the year they have grown by 3.8%, the Federal Statistics Service said. The average cost of one liter of fuel was 22 rubles 24 kopecks or almost 73 American centers at the current rate. The increase in gas prices occurred in 11 regional centers of the country, while 60 they remained at the level of the previous week.

Scene from the play by Sergey Zhenovach "Boys" Since October 2, at the personal invitation of Mikhail Baryshnikov, "Boys" in New York. The performance of the Moscow "Theater Art Studio" will be played five times, after which he will move to Sarasot, Florida, where the International Festival of Arts takes place. Mikhail Baryshnikov regularly invites Russian theater groups to the Jerome Robbins Theatre stage, and this time his choice fell on the play by Sergey Zhenovach "Boys".

Former mayor of Tomsk, Alexander Makarov, changed the preventive measure. The regional court issued the decisions to take the ex -mayor into custody for a period of three months, - Radio Liberty correspondent Melanie Bachin reports. For almost three years in a pre -trial detention center, one year under subscription about the lower room, six months under house arrest and again in jail. This was required by the prosecution.

On Thursday evening, the Secretary General of NATO, Anders Fogg Rasmussen, arrived in Georgia. Today his negotiations will be held with the Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Georgia Grigol Vashadze, the leadership of the Ministry of Defense, the chairman of the parliament David Bakradze. Then, FOG Rasmussen will meet with Prime Minister Nikoloz Gilauri and President Mikhail Saakashvili.

The road to the Altai Compound was built right along the mounds In Mountain Altai, three criminal cases were instituted for a journalist and a deputy of the local parliament, investigating the circumstances of illegal hunting for archars and the destruction of archaeological monuments at the Gazprom construction site. Governor Alexander Berdnikov demands the excitement of the fourth.

In Georgia, negotiations between the Secretary General of NATO Anders FOR Rasmussen with the leadership of the country are held. According to Radio Liberty, Georgy Kobaladze, according to the tragic coincidence, on the day the head of NATO arrived in Tbilisi, it became known about the death of four Georgian military personnel in Afghanistan.

Cycling. World Cup. Melbourne, Australia Men. Up to 23 years. Group race. 159 km. 1. Michael Matthews (Australia) 2. John Degencolb (Germany) 3. Taylor Finney (USA)

US law enforcement agencies charged 37 citizens of Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan and Belarus. 20 of them were arrested, 17 - are listed on the wanted list. According to the investigation, they are suspected of using fake personality certificates in order to abduct more than three million dollars from American banks, "infecting" preliminary banking accounts with a computer virus. All defendants are students, students in the United States.