14:52 // 20.08.2008 Four aircraft of the Russian Air Force, destroyed during the fighting in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, were knocked down by the Zenitic and M1 ZRK-M1 anti-aircraft missile systems (air defense systems) of the Ukrainian Division, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the deputy chief of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces, Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn.

20:45 // 20.08.2008 The fate of the silver medal of the Olympic Games in Semiborye for women can be decided by 21 avusts. On this day, Lyudmila Blonskaya’s doping industry will be opened, who finished the second, but later it turned out that her doping test a was positive. This was at a press conference in the Chinese capital was told by the President of the International Athletics Federation (IAAF) Lamin Diak.

09:08 // 20.08.2008 Russian Larisa Ilchenko won the Olympic gold of Beijing in 10 km swimming in open water - a discipline that debuted in the Olympiad program in 2008. Ilchenko, who has become a 7-time world champion in Marathon Swimming in the incomplete 20 years, added the most expensive award to her medal collection, RIA Novosti reports. At the last meters of the distance, Ilchenko fell into a rather difficult situation - behind the two Britons and between the two representatives of Brazil.

The reorganization of the movement will begin with the patriarchal ponds this year will become open only for the movement of Bolshaya and Malaya Bronny, Ermolaevsky, Spiridonyevsky, Granity and Khlebov Lane in one direction, the first newspaper of the Central Administrative District, the first newspaper CAO Elena Vasina said today. Recall that in total, as the newspaper reported (see the number of July 2), 58 streets will become one-sided in the center of Moscow during 2008-2009.

Russian indices have grown a little today the domestic stock market managed to grow up. The RTS index added 1.66%, the MICEX index - 1.84%. The main factor in growth was the correction of the price in the raw materials markets. The price of a WTI brand in September on the New York Modern Exchange (NYMEX) rose to 83 cents relative to the level of closing of trading on August 19 and amounted to $ 115.36 per barrel.

12:55 // 20.08.2008 During the attack of Georgia, 1492 residents of South Ossetia were killed. Such updated data from the South Ossetian authorities were informed by RIA Novosti by the head of the State Committee on the information and press of South Ossetia, Irina Gloheva. "At a meeting of the Extraordinary Commission for the Elimination of the consequences of Georgian aggression, it was stated that during the Georgian attack on South Ossetia, 1492 people were killed," said Glloeva.

22:00 // 20.08.2008 Spanish authorities confirmed the death of 146 people with the aircraft disaster at the Madrid airport, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the National Radio of Spain. According to official figures, there are 26 people in hospitals. Data on the victims is constantly changing. The incident occurred about 16.45 Moscow time. The MD-87 Aircraft JK-5022 SPANAir was heading to Las Palmas (Canar Islands). The liner set off from the T-4 terminal GDP and caught fire.

Should I invest in Uncle Sam? The US economy continues to generate bad news: an increase in unemployment and inflation, a collapse in the real estate market, and problems in the banking sector. Despite such information, since the beginning of the year the best indicators of the effectiveness of investments have been achieved in the American stock market. Although this does not mean that investors did not have to lose money. Perhaps this situation looks unfair.

Soviet dissident Pavel Litvinov in an interview with Gazeta 40 years ago on August 25, five men and three women went to the frontal place on Red Square. They launched posters with protests against the entry of the Warsaw Treaty of Czechoslovakia troops. The participants of the action were arrested, tried and imprisoned. There is no photograph of that demonstration. It lasted for several minutes, but the whole world found out about it.

18:25 // 20.08.2008 Representatives of the Belarusian opposition Andrei Kim and Sergey Parsyukevich, whom the opposition considered political prisoners, were exempted from custody on the basis of the decree of the President of the country Alexander Lukashenko to pardon, the RIA Novosti correspondent reports from Parsyukevich and the mother of Kim.

20:20 // 20.08.2008 The position of NATO in South Ossetia will currently not affect cooperation between Russia and the Alliance, as well as the position of Moscow in Iran, said the Permanent Representative of Russia at NATO Dmitry Rogozin, RIA Novosti said. “No decisions from the Russian side that could question the cooperation with NATO were made,” the ambassador said to Brussels.

13:14 // 20.08.2008 The Georgian military authorities reached the head of the Russian military commandant’s office of the city of Goro with a proposal to discuss the issue of finding Georgian nationality citizens who want to return to Georgia in South Ossetia, and on the territory of Georgia of Ossetian nationality who want to return to South Ossetia. This was announced by RIA Novosti a senior representative Ministry of Defense of South Ossetia.

20:22 // 20.08.2008 The White House calls on to accelerate the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, RIA Novosti reports citing Reuters. The United States see signs of the withdrawal of Russian troops from the conflict zone, but it does not occur quickly enough, the representative of the White House Gordon Jondlora told reporters. "Signs of the withdrawal of troops are insignificant, it must accelerate," Jondloland said.

OJSC MOEK plans to finish repair work by August 28, OJSC "Moscow United Energy Company" (OJSC "MOEC") today said that she was almost completely ready for the heating season. “The preparations for winter 69 district and quarterly thermal stations, 8552 central heating points were completed, and preventive work for 2.72 thousand km of main and 6.9 thousand km of diluting heating networks was completed,” the company reports.

18:31 // 20.08.2008 The Estonian citizen, who was engaged in intelligence in Russia, left the Russian Federation at the proposal of the FSB, the representative of the press service of the FSB of the Russian Federation for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region told RIA Novosti . "On August 20, an Estonian citizen Allan Saar, born in 1962, left the borders of the Russian Federation through the checkpoint, the borders of the Russian Federation.