Interrogation of witnesses for the prosecution began at the resumed trial in the case of the exhibition "Forbidden Art - 2006". According to Kasparov.Ru, witness Sofya Sokolova testified at the Tagansky District Court of Moscow on Friday. By her own admission, she was not at the exhibition, but claims to have seen "jurisdictional" paintings on the Internet.

the Discovery shuttle due to bad weather in Florida return of has postponed the NASA Flight managers have already tried twice to land the shuttle after its 13-day mission to the International Space Station, but rain and strong gusty winds near the Kennedy Space Center prevented this. This time, for safety net, NASA will open an additional landing site for Discovery at Edwards Air Force Base in California.

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev considers it possible to provide assistance to the power industry of Siberia in connection with the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station. It is reported by RIA Novosti.

Vladimir Voronin, in a televised address to the nation, announced that he was resigning from the powers of the president of Moldova, ITAR-TASS reports. The secretariat of the country's parliament told RIA Novosti that they had already received Voronin's resignation. The leader of the Communist Party held the presidency for 8 years. After the defeat of the Communists in the parliamentary elections, Voronin decided to return to parliament and focus on party work.

The Supreme Court of Russia did not cancel the order of the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications on the rules for screening mail, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the court decision. A lawsuit was filed by citizen Pavel Netupsky, who considered unconstitutional the "Requirements for networks and means of postal communication for carrying out operational-search activities" adopted by the Ministry of Communications and Mass Media.

There will be no competition between Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev in the 2012 presidential election. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by Putin himself during a meeting with participants in the Valdai discussion club.

Seven people died in a collision of two foreign cars on the administrative border of the Samara and Saratov regions, the doctor on duty at the Center for Disaster Medicine of the Samara Region told RIA Novosti. "The accident happened around 7.00 local time in the Pestravsky district of the Samara region. Ford and Honda collided, where a total of eight people were, seven of them died on the spot," the source said.

Three-time Olympic champion Irina Rodnina did not sign a letter from 50 public figures in support of the sentence of the ex-head of the Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky. With such a statement, she made in a television program dedicated to her 60th anniversary on the Ren-TV channel. “I didn’t sign it. It wasn’t yet. I was in Singapore at that moment. Yes, they wrote my last name there, but sometimes it happens,” Rodnina said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev instructed the government to consider "the consequences of a possible state monopoly on the production and circulation of ethyl alcohol and alcoholic products" by March 1, 2010, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the president's press service.

The Westminster Court of London released Yevgeny Chichvarkin, the ex-co-owner of the Euroset company, on bail of 100,000 euros, pending consideration of the request from the Prosecutor General's Office to extradite the businessman to Russia. Kommersant writes about this on Friday. At the same time, according to the publication, in fact, the police did not arrest, but only forcibly delivered Chichvarkin to court.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia opened a criminal case on the use of forged documents. The suspect in this case is RIA Novosti employee Besik Pipia, the agency reports. "The investigator who is in charge of my case told me that my driver's license is fake, as it was issued in violation of the laws of the Georgian SSR," the journalist said. When exactly the rights were issued, he did not specify.

In the case of the embezzlement of 20 billion rubles by the management of Mosvodokanal, charges were brought against Vladimir Seleznev, chief specialist of the capital construction department of Mosvodokanal, and Viktor Busharov, an employee of OAO Terrikon. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to sources in the Department of Economic Security of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The press secretary of the mayor of Moscow, Sergei Tsoi, called the allegations of embezzlement slander.

The Russian government will not allow excessive strengthening of the ruble. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin at a meeting with members of the Valdai International Discussion Club. The strengthening of the national currency is unprofitable for exporting companies that receive profit in foreign currency and spend it in rubles.

By decision of the director of the Gnessin School, Tatyana Petrova, the music school for gifted children, which existed at this college, is being closed. According to GZT.RU, the school administration believes that classes with children were economically unprofitable. School closure was announced to students and their parents on 26 August.

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine in the Nikolaev region put Igor Markov, head of the Motherland party, on the state wanted list. According to RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine, Markov is suspected of hooliganism. In September 2007, representatives of one of the political parties held a sanctioned picket in Odessa in connection with the erection of a monument to Russian Empress Catherine II in the city.