In Moscow, President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev will receive the head of the executive branch of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, Donald Tsang.

At 11:00 in Moscow, at the central office of the Interfax agency, a press conference will be held by the moderators of the sections of the world political forum “Modern State: Standards of Democracy and Criteria of Efficiency.”

At 11:00 in Moscow there will be a meeting of the expert group to finalize the draft agreement on cooperation of the CIS member states in the field of information security and the provisions on the basic organization providing methodological, organizational and technical support for work related to information security and training of specialists in this field .

At 14:00 in Moscow, near the Thai Embassy in Russia, a rally will be held in defense of Russian citizen Viktor But, organized by the Moscow city organization of the LDPR.

At 17:00 in Moscow, a rally will be held on Pushkinskaya Square, concluding the mass action to collect humanitarian aid for victims of the fires “We do not abandon our own.”

At 18:00 in Moscow on Triumfalnaya Square there will be a “meeting of dissent” within the framework of “Strategy-31”.

In St. Petersburg, near Gostiny Dvor, the opposition will again hold rallies in defense of Article 31 of the Constitution.

In London, a rally of the Strategy 31 movement will be held near the Russian Embassy.

The US military operation in Iraq will end.

In Washington, US President Barack Obama will make a statement about the end of the military mission in Iraq.

A meeting of the board of the Federal Tariff Service of Russia will be held in Moscow at the Federal Tariff Service.

From August 31 to September 2, the head of the Hong Kong administration, Donald Tsang, will visit Moscow at the head of a delegation of 30 leading representatives of Hong Kong business.

To August 31, the Moscow Arbitration Court postponed the consideration of the claim of the Federal State Institution of the Ministry of Defense CSKA for the termination of the investment agreement, according to which the professional football club CSKA accepted obligations to build a football arena for 30 thousand spectators.

From August 31, two services provided by BlackBerry smartphone operators will be blocked in India if the country's authorities do not gain access to encrypted information transmitted from the devices.

An action to popularize the donor movement will take place in Moscow on Triumfalnaya Square.

In Moscow, on Pushkin Square, the traditional Donor Day will be held in order to solve the problem of the shortage of donor blood and popularize donation among young people.

In Moscow, at the training ground of the Search and Rescue Flight Support Service at the Sheremetyevo airfield, full-scale rescue exercises with a simulated emergency situation will be held.

From August 31 to September 5 in Moscow, in a mobile pavilion at the western gate of the Donskoy Monastery, the first Cossack exhibition-fair “Thank God, we are Cossacks!” will be held.

In Moscow, RIA Novosti will host a press conference by the head of the children's drug addiction department of the National Scientific Center for Addiction Medicine of the Ministry of Health and Social Development of Russia, Alexey Nadezhkin, on the topic "Smoking and alcohol at school: how to overcome alarming trends?"

A press conference by Zemfira will be held in Moscow, dedicated to a series of her concerts, which will be held in September in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg, Kyiv, Minsk and Moscow.

A press conference dedicated to the opening of the IV International Design Festival DESIGN ACT will be held in Moscow at the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art.

In Moscow, the State Historical Museum will host the opening of the exhibition “Master of Moscow” (to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Moscow Governor-General Prince Vladimir Andreevich Dolgorukov (1810 - 1891)).

In Moscow, the Center for Creative Industries "PROJECT_FABRIKA" will host the opening of the KJDT exhibition "Volokolamsk Highway X" (performance, installation).

From August 31 to December 5, the exhibition “Movement” will be held in Moscow at the State Darwin Museum.

From August 31 to September 9, an exhibition of paintings by Elena Yavorskaya (Odessa) will be held in Moscow at the Central House of Artists.

In Moscow, in the press center of the Megasport Ice Palace, a press conference will be held dedicated to the Moscow Mayor's Ice Hockey Cup, which will be held at this arena from September 2 to 5.

In Moscow, RIA Novosti will host a press conference on the topic “Results of the 2010 Youth Olympic Games in Singapore.”

In the suburb of Yakutsk, in the village of Zhatai, a funeral will be held for three crew members of the tugboat "Alexei Kulakovsky", who died last Friday in a shipwreck on the Laptev Sea.

The Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) has declared a day of mourning in connection with the tragic death of the crew members of the tugboat "Alexei Kulakovsky" in the Laptev Sea on August 27.

Calendar August 31, 2010