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In World Cup qualification round match in St Petersburg, Russian football team confidently won against Israel, scoring three goals.

Organizing XXVII World Summer Universiade in Kazan cost the federal budget 68 billion rubles. Russian and Tatarstan Accounts Chambers met in Kazan to review the results of budget expenditure verification.

On 9 September, the global community marks the 185th anniversary of the great Russian writer and thinker Lev Tolstoi. The National Museum of Tatarstan and Lev Tolstoi Museum in Kazan invite all the classic’s work’s enthusiasts at 12 pm on 9 September to come to the Tolstoi Garden, to lay flowers to his monument.

Kazan receives Russian team’s match for the first time on the 6th of September. The national team will face Luxembourg in 2014 FIFA World Cup qualification round.

Tatarstan and Kazan authorities have firmly decided to revive one of the city’s oldest districts, Admiralteyskaya Sloboda. President of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, was on Tuesday presented a concept.

19-year old Anna-Lena Friedsam from Germany won international tennis tournament Tatarstan Open-2013, defeating Marta Sirotkina from Russia in the final (6:2 6:3).

The unique project of the FISU International Education Centre (FISU IEC) - the only museum in the world dedicated to the Universiade - will open on September 2 with an updated exhibition.

Farid Mukhametshin, Chairman of the State Council of Tatarstan and President of Volleyball Federation of the Republic of Tatarstan, congratulated the students and teaching staff of the Volga Region State Academy of Physical Culture, Sport and Tourism with the first day of the new academic year.

Rubin Kazan won against the Russian Premiere League’s first-timer Ural at Yekaterinburg.

Tatarstan athletes concluded the Russian Trap-Shooting Cup at "Lisya Nora" ("Foxhole") complex on a high note.