11:16 // 07/07/2008 The State Council of the Russian Federation, gathered the day before to discuss the situation around South Ossetia and Abkhazia, expressed support for the actions of the country's leadership and discussed national security issues, RIA Novosti reports. The governors and presidents of the republics who came to the Kremlin were unanimous in their assessments - Tskhinvali and Sukhumi must be helped, and Russia's interests are defended. Source: gzt.ru

16:56 // 07/07/2008 Russia's attitude to the Georgian people has not changed after Georgia’s aggression and remains warm and fraternal, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, RIA Novosti reported. During the opening ceremony of the new Moscow metro station "Slavyansky Boulevard", the capital mayor Yuri Luzhkov drew attention to the fact that the construction brigade is international, and there are a lot of Georgians in it.

14:39 // 07/07/2008 By the end of 2008, the Government of Russia will significantly tighten the requirements for applications from regions administrations to receive financing for projects of socio-economic development, the Minister of Regional Development of the Russian Federation Dmitry Kozak at the Yakut Economic Forum said, RIA Novosti said. In particular, the requirements for the preparation of design estimates will be tightened.

Konstantin Pulikovsky was dismissed from his position, the head of Rostekhnadzor Konstantin Pulikovsky was dismissed by the order of Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. The official wording is "at your own request." A source of Gazeta in Rostekhnadzor said that Pulikovsky filed a letter of resignation of his own free will in the summer. One of the possible causes of this step is the transition of the department from direct subordination to the prime minister to the Ministry of Natural Resources.

The Khabarovsk goalkeeper Tyler Moss stopped missing the washers following the results of the first week of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) championship (KHL) leaders were Salavat Yulaev and Ak Bars, which won three victories in three matches. Salavat, as befits the champion, began very powerfully.

15:18 // 07/07/2008 At least eight people became victims of the attack of the criminal police department of the Afghanistan Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city of Kandahar, a stronghold of militants, RIA Novosti reports with reference to France Press. Unknown people blown up on Sunday the Office of the Criminal Police of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Afghanistan in the city of Kandar, the administrative center of the Southern Afghan Province of the same name.

11:31 // 07/07/2008 The European Union believes that the deployment of the NATO fleet in the Black Sea does not contribute to the settlement of the situation, said Bernard Kushner, the Foreign Minister Bernard Kushner, at a press conference following a two-day informal meeting of the Foreign Ministers of the EU, said. "(This) does not serve anything, it is necessary to defuse this situation," he said, answering the question of how the EU relates to the presence of NATO ships in the Black Sea.

The temporarily acting head of the Department of Information and Public Relations of the Ministry of Defense according to the "Gazeta", on Saturday, the temporarily acting head of the information and public relations department (UIOS) of the Ministry of Defense, Colonel Ilshat Baychurin, has worked in this position for less than a year.

15:36 // 07/07/2008 Italy will allocate 10-15 people to participate in the EU peacekeeping mission in Georgia, said Foreign Minister Franco Frattini in the Italian city of Chernobbio, where an international conference is being completed, at which the most urgent economic and political world problems were discussed. "We (the European Union) are reflecting on the mission, which will include about 150 people. Of these, 10-15 people could provide Italy," he said, RIA Novosti reports.

Roger Federer reached the US Open final, Russian US Open ended on the night of Friday to Saturday. Elena Dementyeva lost to the final, and with it the first line in the WTA rating list Elena Yankovich, and Dinara Safina could not cope with the power of Serena Williams. On Saturday, instead of the planned splendor - both male semi -finals and the decisive female fight - the public of the Flashing Medouses tennis center saw only one and a half games, and even then on different courts.

In Moscow, an exhibition of artists of the Most group was opened by the beginning of the exhibition season of the Mlice of Museum of Sciences. A.S. Pushkin timed the exposition “Artists of the Most group”. German expressionists. " More than 130 works of painting and graphics from the collection of Berlin Bruck Museum are talking about the first movement of German modernism, which tried to approve the art model of national identity.

Tomislav Nikolich resigned from the post of leader of the Serbian Radical Party, the leader of the Serbian Radical Party since 2003, Tomislav Nikolich on Saturday resigned. The incentive reason was the decision of the majority of the party to vote against the agreement on stabilization and association with the European Union, issued to the vote of the Parliament by the Government of the Republic.

19:02 // 07/07/2008 The prospects for the development of Russian-Azerbaijani relations were discussed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the two states Sergey Lavrov and Elmar Mammadyarov in Moscow, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Department of Information and Press of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

The government discusses the possibility of reducing the tax burden on oil industry workers the tax burden on oil companies since 2010 may decrease significantly. The Ministry of Energy proposes to increase the non -taxable minimum on mining mining (personal income tax) from $ 15 to $ 25 per barrel. This will allow the industry to develop more actively and lead to an increase in oil production, according to the department. Not everyone share the optimism of the Ministry of Energy.

22:00 // 07/07/2008 The Israeli police recommended that the Prosecutor General of the country be charged with corruption against Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the Associated Press Agency. According to Israeli media, the police intend to accuse Olmert of corruption in a number of cases, in particular, of receiving tens of thousands of dollars from one American businessman and also conducting double accounting against Jewish tourist groups that went abroad.