President Saakashvili won for President Medvedev a victory over the Russian security forces; If Medvedev use the fruits of this victory correctly, then the consequences of his victory will be significant not so much for Tbilisi as for Moscow. Why - over the security forces? Because I can’t name the regime in South Ossetia at least separatist. Who, in fact, are separatists?

The conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia has already escalated into war. We regret that our earlier proposals for a peaceful settlement were not heard. The Yabloko party has repeatedly stated the inadmissibility of forceful resolution of interethnic conflicts. At one time, we condemned the Russian leadership's reliance on a forceful solution to the conflict in Chechnya. In the same way, we condemn today similar actions of the Georgian leadership in South Ossetia.

Real fighting is already taking place on the territory of South Ossetia. South Ossetia and some observers call it a war, to which Georgia says it cannot declare war on its own territory. South Ossetia claims that more than a thousand people were killed as a result of the shelling, but there is no exact data on the number of victims. Saakashvili announced general mobilization.

So, Mikhail Saakashvili went va-Bank. Whatever the official Tbilisi declares, the fact remains: just at the moment when Saakashvili spoke on television, announcing a one -sided ceasefire, the Georgian troops had already completed the operational deployment to strike at Tskhinvali. Regardless of how the Georgian blitzkrieg ends, Saakashvili pulled his country into a long difficult conflict, which will stop the development of Georgia for a long time.

All week the country said goodbye to Solzhenitsyn. And if some admired his furious denunciation of the crimes of the Soviet regime, others pressed on Solzhenitsyn’s denunciations of the “damned 90s.” Where the former agreed with the latter was that Alexander Isaevich was an extremely sincere person, he said and wrote what he really believed in.

So, units of the Russian 58th Army entered South Ossetia and suppressed Georgian firing points with the help of military equipment. In any case, this is what the Russian Ministry of Defense says, adding that any attempts to attack Russian peacekeepers will be harshly suppressed. It is possible that units of the 76th Airborne Assault Division stationed in Pskov will be transferred to South Ossetia, division commander Alexander Kolpachenko told the Pskov Province newspaper.

July 2008 - a historical milestone in the development of Russian business. It was this month that Sergey Chemezov, the old friend and colleague of Vladimir Putin, merged more than 426 enterprises that have now become part of the Russian technology impergo -holding (Rostekhnology). In Russian, such conglomerates are called figs (financial and industrial groups), and in Japanese Daibatsu. By the way, these figs were invented in the country of the rising sun - back in the century before last.