* The 171st station of the Moscow Subway, Delovoi Tsentr (Business Center) will open (12:30 p.m.).
* The first world open Kyokushinkan Karate-Do Championship under the aegis of the International Kyokushinkan Karate-Do Organization and Russia's Kyokushinkan Federation will begin. Jackie Chan is expected to attend (September 10-11).
MISSION CONTROL CENTER
* The Progress M-54 cargo spaceship will dock with the International Space Station (6:49 p.m.).
ST. PETERSBURG
* St. Petersburg governor Valentina Matviyenko will meet with Chechen President Alu Alkhanov, whose visit to the city is timed to the arrival of a Friendship Train from Chechnya. Matviyenko and Alkhanov will sum up cooperation between St. Petersburg and the Chechen Republic.
* Festivities will be held in the St. Petersburg suburb of Peterhoff on the occasion of its 300th anniversary.
VLADIVOSTOK
* The third International Movie Festival Pacific Meridian will open (September 10-15). A total of 88 movies from 24 countries of the Asia Pacific region will be presented at the festival.
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