20:20 // 08/08/2008 Japanese researchers have developed a very flexible and very stretching material that conducts electricity very well, which will create elastic electronic devices that are not afraid of deformations. The development message is published in the journal Science, RIA Novosti reports. The author of the article by Tsuiosi Seitani from the Tokyo University and his colleagues developed elastic composite material on the basis of carbon nanotubes and placed organic transistors in it.

12:55 // 08/08/2008 The Presnensky court of Moscow fined the head of the TNK-BP Robert Dudley for an administrative offense for 500 rubles, RIA Novosti reports from the courtroom. The court found Dudley guilty under Part 1 of Article 19.5 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation - non -fulfillment of the register of the body exercising the state supervision on the elimination of violations.

12:13 // 08/08/2008 Access to communication channels in the Sakhalin Region has been restored, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of Dalsvyaz, the largest fixed communication operator of the Far Eastern Federal District. On the evening of August 6, Transtelcom (TTK), in front of which Dalsvyaz had debt, closed access to the Internet channels on Sakhalin, and on the morning of August 7, access was closed to intra -zone and intercity communications.

16:06 // 08/08/2008 Six people were killed and 31 was wounded as a result of the railway catastrophe of the Express of Eurositi, who was heading from Krakow to Prague, said the official representative of the Czech Salvation Service. The railway disaster occurred in the area of the village of Student. The international express at a speed of 140 km/h ran into the design of the bridge that fell on the railway tracks. Lokomotiv and six passenger wagons turned over.

17:42 // 08/08/2008 Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin instructed the Ministry of Economic Development together with interested ministries no later than August 22 to finalize the draft concept of long-term socio-economic development of the Russian Federation until 2020, a source said, RIA Novosti reported.

20:51 // 08/08/2008 With the beginning of hostilities in South Ossetia, Georgia did not stop exporting excess electricity to Russia and still supplies Sochi as part of the current contract, RIA Novosti said a source in the electric power industry of the Russian Federation. "Georgians still supply electricity to Russia, supplying, in particular, Sochi," the agency’s interlocutor said.

13:30 // 08/08/2008 The European Nuclear Research Center (Cern) appointed on September 10 the first attempt to draw protons on the ring of a large adron collider - the most powerful in the history of the accelerator of elementary particles, the Tserna said in a statement. RIA Novosti reports. The press release notes that this date was scheduled after the cooling of all sectors of the tank to temperatures close to absolute zero was successfully completed.

12:59 // 08/08/2008 Georgian snipers do not allow ambulance vehicles to the wounded in South Ossetia, do not allow people to save people, Dmitry Medoyev said in Moscow, RIA Novosti, RIA Novosti said. According to him, there are no exact data on the dead and wounded as a result of military aggression by Georgia. "The numerous blockages under which people are still under fire. And this does not give us the opportunity to find out how much a person was injured at all.

12:52 // 08/08/2008 The police took the Georgian Embassy in Moscow, the head of the information department of the capital's Central Internal Affairs Directorate of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate Viktor Biryukov told RIA Novosti . "In connection with the events in Tskhinvali, the Moscow police set additional outfits, including riot police, near the Georgian Embassy in the center of Moscow," Biryukov said. According to him, no incidents near the diplomatic mission building were recorded.

16:01 // 08/08/2008 Russia was and will remain a guarantor of the security of the peoples of the Caucasus, President Dmitry Medvedev said at an emergency meeting of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, RIA Novosti reports.

19:53 // 08/08/2008 Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said that "Georgia decided to withdraw its peacekeeping brigade from Iraq." He said this today in an interview with the American television channel CNN.

The authorities of the unrecognized republic announced the beginning of a military operation in the Kodor Gorge President of Abkhazia Sergey Bagapsh that the armed forces of the unrecognized republic were attacking Georgian battalions in the Kodor Gorge. He explained participation in the operation by agreement between the two territories, according to which, in the event of aggression against one of them, the other defends.

11:11 // 08/08/2008 Three combat aircraft penetrated from Russia into the airspace of Georgia. The message about this was posted at 10.00 Tbilisi time on the official website of the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs, RIA Novosti reports. "Three military aircraft, presumably the front -line bomber Su -24, entered the airspace of Georgia from Russia.

Georgio Armani came up with a new costume for the Toreadors of the Spanish Corrida - such a bright sight that such a creative person as designer Georgio Armani could not pass by him. And this week, Armani showed the public his sketches to the new robe of Toreador.

12:35 // 08/08/2008 Fierce battles are going on in the center of Tskhinvali, the shelling of the city continues, RIA Novosti told the commander of the collective mixed forces to maintain peace in the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict General Major Marat Kulametov. The Georgian troops invaded the territory of the unrecognized Republic of South Ossetia at night and fired at, including from the Gradi salvo fire installations, the capital of the Republic of Tskhinvali.