Yuri Semin would like to give his players three weeks of rest The correspondence dispute between the capital's Spartak and Lokomotiv for the gold of the Russian championship continued in the 23rd round, and both clubs won victories.

Old, new and supernew The publication of the Literary Guide "Polish Constellation" in the eighth issue of "IL" is timed to coincide with the Frankfurt Book Fair, of which Poland was the guest of honor this year.

A police officer guarding the German Embassy in Russia was seriously wounded on Sunday in Moscow. In the evening, near the embassy building on Mosfilmovskaya Street, a fight broke out between a policeman and a tipsy man. The hooligan stabbed the law enforcement officer in the side and fled. The ambulance team arrived and took the wounded man to the First City Hospital. It turned out that the criminal, a former police officer, knew the guard.

The country's main theater has a new general director By presidential decree, the Bolshoi Theater was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture. In a sense, this is a downgrade in status - previously, the affairs of the country's main theater were handled by the government and the president. Now the Minister of Culture Mikhail Shvydkoy has the opportunity to implement the necessary reforms according to his own plan.

At the end of June, an agreement was signed between the Agency for the Restructuring of Credit Institutions (ARCO) and the administration of the Kursk region, according to which the authorities promised to redeem the claims of Kursk depositors of SBS-Agro in the amount of 90 million rubles. At the same time, Governor Alexander Rutskoy promised to pay off debts to pensioners and disabled people in August. But this was not done.

The Central Election Commission begins to improve electoral laws The modernization of the electoral legislation will be carried out by a special working group created under the Central Election Commission by yesterday's presidential order. The group will analyze how effective the legal norms that were included in the laws on Duma and presidential elections turned out to be.

Don authorities persuade peasants to reduce sunflower crops The authorities of the Rostov region, having not yet completed the harvest of the current harvest, began to actively agitate the local peasantry to reduce sunflower crops and sow more winter wheat. The provincial authorities are even going to allocate 1 million rubles to hold special seminars with Don farmers, where, among other things, the business advantages of winter wheat over sunflower will be discussed in detail.

A methane explosion occurred yesterday afternoon in face No. 27 of the Krasnaya Gornyachka mine, seven kilometers from the city of Kopeisk, Chelyabinsk region. The explosion occurred at 13.35, when there were only four people in the face. Just a few minutes after the gas outbreak, four sections of the militarized mine rescue unit descended into the mine. The fighters quickly cleared the rubble and brought up all the trapped miners. None of them were injured in the explosion. Sergey KUVALDOV

The games of the traditional children's football tournament "Leather Ball" have ended in Moscow. This year’s draw, which has been held in our country for 36 years, was special: the winners in the younger age group received an unusual prize - a trip next spring to the French capital for the Danone Nations Cup World Championship. The honor of representing Russia in Paris went to the boys from the Iraf-Avtodor team (Chikola, North Ossetia).

On Sunday in Azerbaijan, instead of dozens of opposition and independent newspapers, one was published - the united "Obshchaya Gazeta" with the announcement: the mass media strike in Azerbaijan continues. Journalists are protesting against the arrest of the editor-in-chief of the newspaper "Yeni Musavat" Rauf Arifoglu. A well-known publicist who heads a popular opposition newspaper, accused of preparing and organizing a terrorist attack.

De Beers Corporation has gained control of the promising Canadian diamond mine Snap Lake. This is the largest deposit in the country. On Sunday, the corporation announced that all deposited shares of the former owner of the field, the Canadian company Winspear Diamond Inc. - became the property of De Beers, which spent more than $300 million on their acquisition.

The Southern Federal District acquired a board and council of elders The presidential representative in the Southern District, Viktor Kazantsev, is completing the formation of district-wide authorities. On August 28, the first organizational meeting of the territorial board of the Southern District took place in Rostov-on-Don. All district departments are represented on the board, and thus, we can say that Plenipotentiary Representative Viktor Kazantsev has a kind of his own government.

Financial markets did not react to the Ostankino fire The huge fire in Ostankino and the shutdown of the Moscow region from television did not make any impression on financiers. No segment of the Russian markets deviated from the usual trends, and there were no signs of a rush. Even the stock market, which is usually sensitive to all news, has not “woke up” in the absence of Western investors, many of whom are on vacation today.

The water festival, which traditionally crowned the summer in Stockholm, has been canceled this year. The festival, which began as an action to protect the environment, gradually turned into one of the events that causes irreparable damage to this very environment. A week of mass celebrations in the very center of Stockholm usually ended with trampled lawns and disfigured public gardens. And the city center itself after the water festival resembled a large garbage dump.

They want to bring the mayor of Samara to administrative responsibility The mayor of Samara and deputy of the Samara Regional Duma Georgy Limansky became the first victim of the new presidential policy in the region. On August 26, the prosecutor of the Samara region, Alexander Efremov, announced that he had decided to bring the mayor to administrative responsibility for evading giving explanations regarding the issuance of an illegal resolution.