14:30 // 18.08.2008 The coach of the Bulgarian athlete Daniela Yordanova, suspended from participation in the Olympics after a failed doping test, took responsibility for the results of doping tests. It is reported by Associated Press . “I take all responsibility for the positive results of Yordanova’s tests,” said her coach Dimitar Vasiliev.

President Saakashvili is ready for dialogue with Russia by military vehicles began to move from Tskhinvali towards Vladikavkaz, RIA Novosti reports. So far these are small groups - five to ten cars. Thus, the Russian armed forces began to fulfill the President’s decision to withdraw the departments of the 58th Army from South Ossetia to the place of deployment, where they were before the military operation in South Ossetia.

In the Swedish capital, the World Water Week was started at the opening of the World Water Week in the Stockholm Exhibition Complex of participants and guests from 140 countries, they tasted quite tolerable liquid from plastic bottles. And only then they announced that the water, it turns out, is not natural. Rather, the three stages of processing and cleaning. What wastewater were filtered and ultraviolet radiation for its manufacture did not specify.

Fitch rating agency sent a negative signal to the Moscow Real Estate to the Moscow Real Estate, the Fitch International Rating Agency spread a message yesterday that he left the long -term ratings of the Mirax Group in foreign and national currency B, the short -term RDE B, as well as the long -term long -term RDE. Rating on the national scale of BBB- (RUS).

12:19 // 08/18/2008 Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili said that he was ready to resolve all issues with Russia "through a civilized dialogue", but only after the withdrawal of Russian troops from Georgia. “In fact, Georgia is always open to resolve all issues through dialogue, negotiations based on civilized relations,” Saakashvili said in a television show, RIA Novosti said. “But the preliminary condition for this is the withdrawal of the occupying troops,” he said.

21:48 // 18.08.2008 The gold medal, won with a pole of Elena Elena Isinbaeva, helped the Russian national team to rise from eighth to sixth place in the team’s team standings of the 2008 Olympics, RIA Novosti reports. In Beijing Isinbaev, as she later admitted, she realized her dream - not just to win Olympic competitions again, but to do it with a world record.

19:42 // 18.08.2008 The American Angeo Taylor became the Olympic champion Beijing in 400 m running with barriers, RIA Novosti reports. The Olympic champion of Sydney 2000 showed 47.25 seconds in the final race. Silver and bronze medals also went to American runners: Kerron Clement (47.98) and Breshon Jackson (48.06). Russian athletes were not able to get into the final race. Source: gzt.ru

16:07 // 18.08.2008 Georgia activates sabotage activities in South Ossetia, the use of the mercenaries of Slavic appearance is not excluded, Anatoly Nogovitsyn said the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. "The Unit of the Armed Forces of Georgia takes measures aimed at restoring the combat effectiveness of the troops.

In Florida, a state of emergency on the Florida-Chis archipelago was introduced yesterday, a state of emergency was introduced yesterday in connection with the approaching hurricane. This was announced by the Governor of the state of Florida Charlie Krist. According to the forecasts of experts of the US National Center for Hurricanes, the Fai tropical storm today can fall on the islands. The power of the wind in the center of the storm can increase to 120 km/h.

18:37 // 18.08.2008 Russian woman Svetlana Feofanova won the bronze medal of the 2008 Olympics, Elena Isinbaeva continues the struggle for gold with the American Jennifer Stuchinsky. Feofanova added bronze of games-2008 to the silver of the 2004 Olympics. Isinbaeva goes to his second Olympic gold, RIA Novosti reports. Source: gzt.ru

16:57 // 08/18/2008 Reporters in Georgia of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Matias Yersha and Castriot Islam arrive on August 18 in the afternoon in Tbilisi to get acquainted with the situation in connection with the exacerbation of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, an employee of the apparatus of the Council of Europe told RIA Novosti .

Russian volleyball and handball teams went to the quarter-finals, the second week of games began, and somehow it suddenly found that the medal carrier was declining. That is, you seem to look at the column, where the daytime number of sets is listed, and you see all the same numbers - approximately 15-20. And the news has to wait all day. The whole thing, of course, is in royal grimaces: the second week is given to athletics, and she only trusts her finals.

12:58 // 18.08.2008 The air in Moscow, the increased pollution of which was caused by hot and dry weather of the last days, will become cleaner in the evening of August 19, an employee of the state environmental institution Mosecomonitoring told RIA Novosti . "According to the Moscow Hydrometero -Bureau, tomorrow the capital will be under the influence of a cyclone. A moderate wind, rainfalls, thunderstorms, as well as a change of air mass are expected.

11:59 // 18.08.2008 The deep-sea inhabited devices "MIR-1" and "MIR-2" performed 26 dives to the bottom of Lake Baikal during the first stage of the scientific expedition, which began at the end of July and ended the day before, the representative of the Baikal Lakes told RIA Novosti . The scientific expedition in Lake Baikal began on July 29, it is designed for two years. In total, it is supposed to be performed on the Devices "MIR-1" and "MIR-2" about 160 dives at different points of the lake.

Foreign investors leave Brazil and Russia to India and China Correction The price of raw materials forces investors to defend themselves. They withdraw funds from raw materials and sectors. This is evidenced by the analytical study of EPFR Global published yesterday. According to her data, in a week ending on August 13, the MSCI developing shares index decreased by 3.7%. At the same time, the American stock index S&P 500 dropped by only 0.2%during this time.