On Thursday, the State Duma considered a draft statement on the situation in the Caucasus. During the hearings, First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Valery Loshchinin addressed the deputies. This is reported by the RBC agency.

On the night of Wednesday to Thursday, clashes between US troops and supporters of the radical preacher Moktada Sadr resumed in the holy city of Najaf for Shiites, reports the BBC. The riots began with an attack by militants on a local police station. Helicopters took part in the suppression of the Shiites. The American command reported that one of the helicopters was shot down. As a result, two servicemen on board were injured.

In the north-east of Moscow, employees of private security companies staged a fight, a source in the police department of the capital told Interfax. It is reported by Gazeta.ru. The incident took place around 08:00 on Thursday in the building of a commercial organization in Ogorodny passage. The source explained that the fight occurred as a result of a dispute between the enterprises. "The number of victims may reach ten people," the agency's source added.

On Wednesday in the Shali region of Chechnya, as a result of the explosion of an unknown explosive device, two servicemen were injured. This was reported to RIA Novosti by a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic. "An unknown explosive device was blown up on the road between Shali and Novye Atagi, hidden on the side of the road in a pile of rubbish," the source said. According to him, to increase the damaging effect, the device was reinforced with pieces of reinforcement.

Sergey Potapov and Gennady Zyuganov. Installation of faces. The opponents of the leader of the Communist Party of the Communist Party of Gennady Zyuganov intend to declare this fall to the creation of the Lenin Communist Party of Russia (LKPR). This was announced on Wednesday at a press conference by a participant in the alternative congress of the Communist Party Sergey Potapov, Gazeta.ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS.

30-year-old Kakha Tsereteli has been appointed the new head of the investigative unit of the MGB of Georgia, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press center of the MGB. Prior to that, Tsereteli worked in the prosecutor's office, until 2004 he was the deputy head of the investigative unit of the General Prosecutor's Office of Georgia, and more recently he has been the deputy head of the investigative unit of the Georgian State Security Ministry.

As it became known to Granyam.Ru, on August 9, the SOS coalition of public organizations will try to transfer tens of thousands of signatures to the Presidential Administration under an appeal calling on Putin to veto the anti-social package of laws. The collection of signatures was organized by public associations of veterans, disabled people, human rights organizations, independent trade unions that formed the Council of Social Solidarity (SOS).

Pensioners. Photo from the site www.publictv.novgorod.net The State Duma adopted the law on preferential payments in the third, final reading. As the correspondent of RIA Novosti reports, with the necessary 226 votes, the document was supported by 309 deputies, “against” - 118, three abstained. In the second reading, the bill was considered by the Chamber on August 3.

Andrey Kokoshin. Photo from the site www.temadnya.ru “The law admits the adoption of a foreign state or part of it as a new subject,” says Andrei Kokoshin’s deputy’s response on the response of the Constitutional Court of Russia on the possibility of entering South Ossetia into Russia, but the contract is concluded not with part of a foreign state, but directly with this state.

Flat cell cancer of the esophagus. Image from the site gastrolab.net A group of scientists, headed by Geret Williams from the Institute of Biomedical Studies at the University of London, has developed a method of biochemical analysis of gastric juice, which allows a high degree of reliability to identify malignant neoplasms of the esophagus. It is reported by British Journal of Cancer.

The new academic year in Georgia will begin on September 20 and end on July 1. According to RIA "Novosti", the Minister of Education of the Republic Kakha Lomaya postponed the beginning of the academic year to a later date due to "the climatic conditions of Georgia and the specifics of the country's tourism sector." In the future, the academic year will begin on the third or fourth Monday of September and end at the end of July.

Mine 'Tyzhina'. Filming NTV At the Severnaya mine, where on the night of August 3 the breed collapsed, three miners were saved. They were found at 23.43 and at 02.00 local time brought to the surface. This was reported by Gazeta.ru with reference to Interfax. Mountain rescuers continue intensive work on the analysis of the rubble and the search for four underground miners. The doctors appreciated the condition of the rescued miners as satisfactory.

Herman Gref. From the site PSDP.ru In the second half of this year, Russia is expected to reduce the ruble in relation to the dollar, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, German Gref, said at a government meeting on Thursday. It is reported by Newsru.com with reference to Interfax. He also said that in the second half of the country the country is facing an increase in inflation, which the Central Bank carefully restrained at the beginning of the year.

On Wednesday, the police department of the Naursky district of Chechnya received a report that on July 28, a Kalashnikov assault rifle with 30 rounds of ammunition was stolen from a checkpoint. The weapon was assigned to a 22-year-old policeman of the patrol service at that time who was in the fire cover group. This was reported to a REGNUM correspondent by a source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

About a million dollars were stolen from the inhabitants of the Chernozem region by "businessmen" of the financial club "Olimp", whose actions were stopped by the Tambov police. This was reported on Thursday in the press service of the regional police department, reports Gazeta.ru with reference to ITAR-TASS. During the three years of the "club's" operation, the criminals fraudulently seized the funds of thousands of residents of the Tambov, Lipetsk, and Voronezh regions.