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.

Aslan Maskhadov. Photo from Newsru.com The leader of the Chechen separatists, Aslan Maskhadov, dismissed the Cabinet of Ministers of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and appointed a new government. It is reported by Newsru.com with reference to the website of the Chechen separatists.

Observers from the OSCE mission in Georgia confirmed the facts of numerous violations by the Georgian side of the agreed regime in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. Andrei Kokoshin, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on CIS Affairs and Relations with Compatriots, told RIA Novosti about this after a meeting with representatives of the OSCE mission.

On Thursday, the Russian State Duma adopted a statement "On the Situation in the Caucasus." As reported by news agency REGNUM, the chamber "with particular concern notes that the situation in the Caucasus, connected with the unsettled status of the republics of Abkhazia and South Ossetia, has become extremely aggravated in recent days." The deputies believe that the events reached their climax on Wednesday, when Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili ordered the border troops to "open fire and

The leadership of the police on the Moscow metro will undergo an extraordinary certification, the head of the Moscow police department, Lieutenant-General Vladimir Pronin, told reporters on Thursday. According to him, the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia has granted a request for an extraordinary attestation of the leadership of the Internal Affairs Directorate at the Moscow Metro "in order to objectively assess its activities." It is reported by Gazeta.Ru with reference to Interfax.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

In the northern Athenian suburb of Acharnon, not far from the Olympic village, an explosion occurred, reports the BBC. An explosive device went off next to an electrical substation in the building of the Attices Diadromes company, which was building a new ring road specifically for the Olympics. According to preliminary data, a homemade bomb exploded. The substation building suffered moderate damage, no one was injured.