Russia strengthens military cooperation with Jordan in Russia with an official visit by King of Jordan Abdullah II. He met both Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and President Dmitry Medvedev. The parties discussed trade and economic cooperation, primarily a military. During his visit, the King of Jordan was shown primarily by new military developments.

China’s athletes became the triumphs, the Russian team took third place the Olympic parade took place in Beijing at the bird's nest stadium, where the closing ceremony of the XXIX summer Olympics was held. The first in the stadium appeared a delegation of Greece - the country of the Olympic Games. The Russian national team came out under the 138th serial number. Closed the parade of the owners of the Games Chinese.

The UN Commissioner for Refugees completed his visit to South Ossetia during a trip to the North and South Ossetia to the UN Supreme Commissioner for refugees Anthonya Gutherrish last Friday had to constantly remind the interlocutors about their mandate, since he was not so much asked to help refugees as evidence of Georgian aggression.

An investment fund on microelectronics, the government included the construction of a plant for the production of microcircuits in Zelenograd in a list of projects financed from the investment fund. The total project cost is 58.5 billion rubles. The state will invest about 27 billion rubles in it, the rest will be financed by Sitrix OJSC and its main shareholder of OJSC AFK Sistema. Sitronics OJSC (former OJSC "Concern" Scientific Center ") was created in December 2002.

15:33 // 24.08.2008 The Commissioner of the European Council for Human Rights Thomas Hammarberg, who arrived in Tskhinvali, told reporters that, following the results of his mission, will prepare an impartial report on human rights violations during the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. “Then various organizations themselves will make their conclusions,” he said, RIA Novosti said.

Games in Beijing entered the finish direct team of Russia took third place.

Tomorrow, the court will decide the fate of the CEO of OGK-2 tomorrow the Moscow Arbitration Court will consider the lawsuit of the generating company OGK-2 in the Golden Parachute case. The lawsuit was filed against the former general director of the general company Mikhail Kuzichev, from which OGK-2 demands to recover 494 million rubles aimed at paying the fired top management of the company.

19:13 // 24.08.2008 At excavations in the Novgorod Kremlin, archaeologists discovered the oldest civilian structure of Russia, scientists believe that they found the lord of the middle of the XIV century, a source in the Novgorod archaeological expedition told RIA Novosti .

The US Navy warship delivered humanitarian aid to the Georgian port. Russian generals were dissatisfied with this on Sunday NATO warship delivered humanitarian aid to Batumi for Georgia. This happened a day after the last ship of the Black Sea Fleet, which participated in the peacekeeping mission off the coast of Abkhazia, returned to the base in Sevastopol. According to Russian news agencies, there are blankets, hygiene products and baby food on board the USS McFaul destroyer.

On the Day of the State Flag, the United Russia sang, and the democrats rally the day of the State Flag of Russia, supporters of United Russia celebrated the hymn on the scale of the whole country with choral singing. The party initiated the action "Your Voice in the Hymne of the Country", which began on Friday at 12 a.m.

In Ufa, the exposition of the gifts of the International Foundation Rudolf Nuriev Bashkir State Opera and Ballet Theater in Ufa is preparing to open up to the opening of the world of the world as a creative cradle of the legend of the world ballet Rudolf Nuriev. Seeing here the ballet "Crane Song" based on national legends, Nuriev as a boy caught fire to learn how to dance, and later made his debut on the Ufa scene.

13:26 // 24.08.2008 A group of armed people abducted two foreign journalists, from Canada and Australia in Somalia, RIA Novosti reports with reference to Reuters. Representatives from the Somali Union of Journalists argue that the abduction of the Canadian correspondent Amanda Lindhaut and the Australian photojournalist Nigel Brinnan occurred the day before in the vicinity of Mogadisho, the capital of Somali. The hostages are supposedly held in the city itself.

11:48 // 24.08.2008 The leader of the presidential race among the Democrats, Senator Barack Obama, and US Vice-President, Democrat Senator Joseph Biden, first performed at the election rally, saying that America should end George Bush’s “disastrous foreign policy, and not to come to the White House of Republican candidate John McCain, supporting this policy. “We know that we will receive from the other (republican) side.

15:41 // 24.08.2008 The Russian national team took third place in the team event at the XXIX Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, RIA Novosti reports. In total, domestic athletes won 72 medals: 23 gold, 21 silver and 28 bronze. In the overall standings, only Chinese teams were better-100 medals (51-21-28) and the USA-110 (36-38-36).

The Central Bank is satisfied that the growth rate of the banking system slowed down as the first deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia Gennady Melikyan reported at the banking forum in Nizhny Novgorod, the growth rate of the Russian banking system in seven months of this year is noticeably lag behind the indicators of a similar last year.