16:57 // 11.09.2008 The police detained a gang of robbers on Belovezhskaya Street in the west of Moscow in the afternoon, a source in the capital’s law enforcement agencies told RIA Novosti . “In total, seven people were detained, including five Georgian citizens,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

14:49 // 11.09.2008 The Ukrainian athlete Lyudmila Osmanova, who plays at the Paralympic Games in Beijing, is convicted of doping, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the German Wave. The athlete is disqualified for two years. She has seven days to appeal this decision. Lyudmila Osmanova - Honored Master of Sports, European Champion in Powerlifting in the bench press of lying among the disabled athletes. Source: gzt.ru

The sixth week of the action “Win IPOD Touch every hour!” Fun, which is conducted by Pepsico during this week, participants who have found a unique PEPSI bottle with symbols of the promotion, sent it from 10:00:00 to 21:59:59 Moscow time using SMS for 5767 or recorded it on the site www.ppsi.ru and every hour received a chance to win the iPod Touch. The action will last until September 15, 2008, details on the website www.pepsi.ru .

16:23 // 11.09.2008 Russia will pay priority to the creation and acquisition of new types of weapons to equip its armed forces, Dmitry Medvedev said, ITAR-TASS reports. "We will do this in order and carefully, and based on the problems that have arisen recently," said the President of the Russian Federation at a meeting on these issues. - The events in the Caucasus - aggression of Georgia and its ongoing militarization also influenced these decisions.

12:44 // 11.09.2008 Russian President Dmitry Medvedev awarded the famous actress, artistic director of the Moscow Art Theater. M. Gorky Tatyana Doronin Order of Honor. The corresponding presidential decree is posted on the Kremlin website, RIA Novosti reports. The actress was awarded "for great contribution to the development of domestic theater and cinematic art, many years of creative activity," the document says. September 12, a famous actress will celebrate the 75th anniversary.

The participant in the hostage capture in 1993 was detained by the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation (SCP) in the Rostov Region resumed an investigation into a criminal case on the seizure of 16 Rostov schoolchildren in 1993. This was done after the detention of Ruslan Kalmykaev, one of the participants in the events of 14 years ago.

15:44 // 11.09.2008 Consultations on the plans for the placement of elements of American PRO in Europe will continue, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, RIA Novosti reports. "The minister said that the Polish side is ready to contribute to a decrease in our concern, and we are ready for such a dialogue," the minister said at a press conference after negotiations with the head of the Foreign Ministry of Poland Radoslav Sikorsky Sergey Lavrov. Source: gzt.ru

21:45 // 11.09.2008 As a result of the fire in the tunnel, 14 people were hospitalized under the La-Channel Strait: six of them were poisoned by carbon monoxide and eight people were injured, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the French media. The fire broke out the day before at about 17.00 Moscow time, after a truck caught fire on one of the freight trains. The movement along the Eurotunnel was completely stopped until the morning of Friday.

16:12 // 11.09.2008 In total, 66 Russian troops were killed in South Ossetia during the fighting in South Ossetia, Vladimir Markin Vladimir Markin told RIA Novosti, the head of the media interaction department at the prosecutor's office (SCP). "In total, during the fighting to repel the attack of Georgian armed groups, 66 military personnel of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation died in South Ossetia," Markin said.

In St. Petersburg, the trial of young terrorists in the city court of St. Petersburg on Thursday took place in the first meeting in the case of the demolition of McDonald's. This is the first in the post -Soviet history of the city of terrorism. All the accused asked for their fate to be decided by the jury. Two criminal episodes appear in the case: explosions in McDonald's on February 18 last year and in a flower camp on February 4.

City electric trains will appear by 2010 yesterday OJSC Russian Railways and the Moscow government signed an agreement on the implementation of the project for the construction of a small ring of the Moscow Railway (MKMZH). It is assumed that in the near future a joint venture will be created - OJSC Moscow Ring Railway.

The premiere of the play “Man = Man” was held at the Alexandrinsky Theater at the III International Theater Festival “Alexandrinsky” in St. Petersburg this year, a German accent suddenly arose. The main event of the program - the two performances of Michael Talhaimer from the Berlin Doech Theater - is balanced by his own staging by Alexandrinka based on the play of the German Bertolt Brecht “Mann ist Mann” (“Man is a man”).

18:38 // 11.09.2008 Airing aircraft Airunion, whose flights from September 7 are operated by the Air government of Moscow, Atlant-Soiuz, will fly under its call sign from September 30, the mayor of the capital Yuri Luzhkov told reporters, RIA Novosti reports. “The priority task of ensuring regular flights Airunion has been resolved.

21:39 // 11.09.2008 The cause of the fire in the tunnel near La-Channel was the fire of a truck with chemicals, which was traveling from France to the UK, Reuters reported with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of France. As a result of the fire, no one was injured, but the iron -breeding message on the tunnel is closed until Friday.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev awarded the Order of the courage of three employees of the collection department of a joint -stock commercial savings bank, two of them - posthumous .. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev awarded the Order of the courage of three employees of the collection department of a joint -stock commercial savings bank, two of them - posthumous. The corresponding decree of the head of state is posted on the Kremlin website, RIA Novosti reports.