Vladimir Zhirinovsky. Photo from the site www.nyrussianpages.com On Friday, in Abkhazia, an exit meeting of the LDPR faction under the leadership of the Vice-Speaker of the State Duma Vladimir Zhirinovsky was held, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to Interfax. The faction unanimously spoke out to begin the "integration process" (inclusion of Abkhazia in the Russian Federation. - Ed.).

Georgian soldiers. Photo from the site www.eucom.mil On Saturday morning, in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict from the shot, the Sniper was wounded in the head of the Georgian peacemaker. According to RIA Novosti, this was reported in the Ministry of Defense of Georgia. The wounded helicopter was transported to Tbilisi and placed in the National Medical Center named after Gudushauri. "The condition of the wounded is critical. He received a through bullet wound to the head.

Marine infantrymen. Photo from the site www.iit.edu The United States intends to withdraw 70 thousand of their military from Europe and Asia. As Reuters reports, according to Financial Times, will officially announce George Bush on Saturday, speaking to the veterans in Cincinnati. According to official sources, the European group will be most reduced, which has more than 100 thousand American military.

In Tatarstan, 15 people died in a collision between a passenger car and a minibus, RIA Novosti reports. As reported in the press center of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the republic, the accident occurred on Saturday morning near the village of Malye Kurguzi. On the Apastovo-Verkhniy Uslon highway, a Volkswagen collided with a Gazelle. The victims of the accident were 13 people in the minibus and two people in the Volkswagen. The accident caused a huge fire.

On Friday, during trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange, the price of oil reached a new record - $45.90 per barrel. According to RIA "Novosti", this amount is 15 cents higher than the previous historical maximum value of the futures contract, which was fixed the day before.

Sergey Ivanov. Photo from the site www.lenta.ru The situation in Georgia is developing according to a very dangerous scenario. According to RIA Novosti, the Minister of Defense Sergey Ivanov made such a statement at the end of negotiations with his American colleague Donald Ramsfeld in St. Petersburg. According to him, the first step to resolve the conflict should be the withdrawal of all illegal formations from the conflict zone.

World champion in judo - Iranian Arash Miresmaili - refused to participate in the Olympic Games. As the BBC reports, the reason is that in the first round Miresmaily had to fight an athlete from Israel. The champion said that he refused to participate in the Olympics out of solidarity with the Palestinians and is proud of it. Miresmaili was scheduled to carry the Iranian flag ahead of his team at the opening ceremony of the Games on Friday night.

Sergey Ivanov in Colorado-Springs. Photo by ar According to Rosbalt, at a meeting of the Minister of Defense of Russia and the USA Sergey Ivanov and Donald Ramsfeld, speech, in addition to the situation in Georgia, was about the relationship between Russia and NATO. Assessing the entry into the NATO countries of the Baltic, Ivanov emphasized that the security of the alliance did not increase as a result. “These are security countries, not manufacturers,” he explained.

Governor McGrivi with his wife. Photo from the New York Times "In the life of every person, there is a moment when he should look in the mirror as in his own soul, and see the only truth there-not the one that we want or hope to see, but the one that is. My truth is that I am an American gay." So James McGrivi announced his orientation on Thursday at a specially convened press conference in the capital of New Jersey Trenton.

On Saturday at the Kursk railway station there was a scuffle between taxi drivers and the police. According to Gazeta.ru, at about 9:30 am, traffic police officers on duty on the square in front of the station building, with the support of private taxi drivers, tried to drive one of the New Yellow Taxi drivers out of the taxi rank.

Opening games. Photo from the Air Force website The Russian woman Lyubov Galkina at the Olympics in Athens won a silver medal in a bench shooting from a pneumatic rifle from 10 meters. According to RIA Novosti, the first gold winner of the Olympics was the Chinese Lee Du, the bronze award went to the Czech athlete Katerina Kurkova. Another Russian woman, Tatyana Goldina, took fifth place. Galkina set a new Olympic record in qualification - 399 points.

On Saturday, several dozen people held a rally near the Russian embassy in Georgia demanding that Russian peacekeepers be withdrawn from the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, RIA Novosti reports. The protesters were holding banners, one of which read: "Russia, immediately withdraw your peacekeepers from the Tskhinvali region." According to the participants, the action at the Russian embassy will be permanent.

The coat of arms of South Ossetia On Saturday night, an agreement on the ceasefire in South Ossetia came into effect. According to the Air Force, the night in the conflict zone really went without shooting. The agreement was reached on Friday at a meeting of a mixed control commission, including representatives of Russia, Georgia, North and South Ossetia.

Henry Padva. Photo from the site www.old.echo.msk.ru The lawyer of Mikhail Khodorkovsky Henry Padva hopes that “five to ten days later” the prosecution will finish the announcement of the materials of the criminal case against Khodorkovsky, Lebedev and Kraynov. According to RIA Novosti, on Friday Padva said that by this time, perhaps, the court will already begin to interrogate witnesses of the prosecution.

Porsche, top view. From the site www3.us.porsche.com All demonstrative flights at the international festival of pilot groups in Zhukovsky near Moscow were canceled due to bad weather. According to Lenta.ru, the general director of OJSC "Aviation" Igor Novikov said to Interfax. He apologized to those who arrived at the festival and fell under heavy rain. Novikov said that all tickets purchased for today's number will be valid on Sunday.