10:39 // 08/29/2008 Two and a half thousand employees of Los Angeles International Airport did not go to work the day before. According to the Associated Press , members of the service union of service personnel, including porters, cleaners and other airport employees, staged a strike after the administration broke negotiations with companies responsible for the transportation of baggage, cleaning the cabs of aircraft and air termination rooms, security and other services.

12:52 // 08/29/2008 The passengers of the four daily flights of the Krasaire airline, which are part of the Airunion alliance, cannot fly out of Barnaul to Moscow, and the airport does not serve and sends two aircraft of the company due to debts, the Director General of Altai Avia, Vitaly Arkhipenko, told RIA Novosti . Every day, the Altai Air enterprise serves flight No. 182 from Barnaul to Moscow (Domodedovo), whose departure is scheduled at 7.00 (4.00 Moscow time).

11:41 // 08/29/2008 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov expressed deep appreciation to all foreign compatriots for support and solidarity with Russia. This was reported in the Russian foreign policy.

18:49 // 08/29/2008 The Moscow City Court extended until December 10 the arrest of the three ex-heads of the Federal Fund of Compulsory Medical Insurance (FFOMS), accused of corruption, the lawyer of one of the defendants in the case Andrei Leshchikov told RIA Novosti . According to him, the court granted the application of the investigation to extend the term of detention under guard the former head of the FFOMS Andrei Taranov, and his two former deputies Yakovlev and Klimova.

19:11 // 08/29/2008 Russia has not yet received answers from the United States to questions on measures proposed by the United States to increase the transparency of the third positional district of the national system of the national system about the United States in Poland and the Czech Republic, as well as the draft text of the future START Treaty in writing, the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrei Nesterenko told RIA Novosti .

15:02 // 08/29/2008 The ferry message between the Russian Federation and Bulgaria by the Black Sea from the port of the Caucasus, located in the Kerch Strait, will begin in September 2008, said Alexander Davydenko, head of the Federal Agency for Sea and River Transport of the Russian Federation. "The first test flight of the ferry will be held in September, it is originally planned to make one flight a week," Davydenko said.

Flight delays continue. Passengers on the verge of despair are two daily flights to Norilsk Sibavianatrans, which is part of the Airunion airlines, they are delayed at the Novosibirsk airport Tolmachevo due to the non-consumption of aircraft. Passengers, some of whom are expected to send for more than two days, intend to block the entrance to the airport, Olga Kochetova, press secretary of the airport, said on Friday RIA Novosti .

18:03 // 08/29/2008 Former adviser to the Governor of the Moscow Region Maxim Vasiliev spoke on Friday at the first hearing on the merits of his criminal case, where he said that he did not consider himself guilty of fraud, RIA Novosti reports. “No, I don’t find myself guilty,” Vasiliev said after the announcement of the indictment. The defendant did not recognize the claims in court for a total of about 19 million rubles filed by the victims in the case.

12:17 // 29.08.2008 The prosecutor's office of Stavropol opened a criminal case against Sergei Demidenko, who headed the city administration in 2002-2006.

16:45 // 08/29/2008 The Miass City Court of the Chelyabinsk Region sentenced four residents of the Orenburg region who attacked the driver of the autocrane, dressed in police uniforms. This was reported to ITAR-TASS in the press service of the prosecutor's office of the Chelyabinsk region.

17:49 // 08/29/2008 The car of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Abkhazia was blown up on Friday afternoon on the landmine in the upper part of the Kodor gorge, no one was injured, Anatoly Zaitsev, Deputy Minister of Defense of Abkhazia, told RIA Novosti . "At 13.45, one of the six cars moving in a column of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic was broken. The car was broken, there are no victims among the police," Zaitsev said.

20:40 // 08/29/2008 The prosecutor's office of the Moscow region brought a person to the rape of a five -year -old girl in Khimki to the man, a source in the investigative bodies of the Moscow Region told RIA Novosti . According to him, the policemen detained the suspect in the rape of a five -year -old girl of a young man on August 24 near the Skhodnya River in the city of Khimki. It turned out to be an 18-year-old stray named Ibrahimov.

18:53 // 29.08.2008 The leader of the presidential race among Republicans, Senator John McCain, called his candidate in the US Vice President Alaska Palin Governor, said with reference to his sources in the republican circles of CNN and NBC. Palin, who is 44 years old, is the first woman-governor in the history of Alaska. She has five children - two sons and three daughters. The eldest son Palin now serves in the ground forces, and in the fall, its part will be sent to Iraq.

20:33 // 29.08.2008 None of the Russian tourists who are in Pattai and Phuket were injured. This is stated in the statement of the embassy, received by the ITAR-TASS representative office. According to the diplomatic mission, up to 500 tourists from Russia on the island of Phuket are now, in Pattai - about 3 thousand.

16:10 // 08/29/2008 The pilot of the aircraft transporting relatives of those who died in a plane crash in the Madrid airport asked permission to change the planned take -off plan so that the victims did not see the crash. It is reported by Associated Press with reference to the Spanish aviation authorities.