The issues of de-escalation of tension in the zone of the South Ossetian conflict will be discussed on Friday to Tskhinvali, the State Minor of Georgia for Reintegration, the special representative of the president of the country for the settlement of Temur Jacobashvili and the deputy prime minister of South Ossetia Boris Chocheyeva.

In the Sakhalin Region, the verdict was approved to an employee of the State Road Safety Inspectorate, found guilty of the murder of a colleague. The convicted person jokingly brought a pistol to his colleague’s head and pressed the trigger.

Russia will take all the necessary measures to protect its citizens in South Ossetia, said State Duma chairman Boris Gryzlov. According to him, Georgia exacerbates the situation in the region precisely when the efforts of the world community are concentrated on a peaceful and legal exit from crisis situations in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.

Tbilisi considers it necessary for Russia to intervene in the situation in South Ossetia as a peacekeeper. This was stated by "Interfax" by the State Minor of Georgia on the issues of reintegration Teimuraz Jacobashvili. "The Russian Federation should intervene as a real peacemaker, and it can do it," he said on Friday during a teleconference from Tbilisi. "We hope that Abkhaz separatists will not take such steps that will be oven of the situation.

A member of the 2004 Olympic Games, the 2005 World Cup and the 2002 championship finalist in 3,000 m running with obstacles, 30-year-old Roman Usov was expelled from the Olympic Russian Athletics Olympic team due to positive doping tests.

On the second attempt, the heir to the Japanese imperial throne Naruhito conquered the highest peak of his country - a 3776 -meter height of Mount Fuji, a sacred to his future subjects. The 48-year-old Kron-Prince began ascent back on Thursday, made a short stop at the inn for travelers at a mark of 3300 meters and completed the last jerk at about half-past seven in the morning. Summer - the traditional time of climbing Fuji, which foreigners incorrectly call Fujiyama, indicates ITAR -TASS.

Russian law enforcement officers continue to worry about the problem of drinking driving and taking new measures to combat such violations. So, the next innovation should be the device that will determine the number of vapor of alcohol among drivers in moving cars. Thus, to find out if the motorist is in a state of intoxication, he will not even have to be stopped, writes "5 wheel" .

The Italian police arrested the Boss of the Calabrian mafia, which was one of the organizers of the massacre in the German city of Duysburg . Then 6 representatives of the competing mafia clan were shot. The operation to capture the major mafiosi of the Kalabrian Mafia "Ndranget" was carried out in the city of San Luka, located in the Mountains of Opermont, writes The Times . Police and carbines arranged a raid on the boss of the Kalabrian mafia at dawn.

The Georgian media claim that Russian combat aircraft cause air strikes on Georgian positions in the Tskhinvalsky region, Interfax reports. According to Georgian media, Russian planes are bombing Georgian villages with an interval every 20 minutes. During the bombing of the surroundings, Tskhinvali was injured at least five Georgian troops, the media reported. There is still no information about the dead. Eyewitnesses confirm from the scene.

The military aggression of Georgia in relation to South Ossetia should put an official Tbilisi in a situation of complete international isolation, said Konstantin Kosachev, head of the International State Duma Committee. In his interview with RIA Novosti, he emphasized that the situation is developing according to the worst scenario and confirms the fears of the Russian authorities and the authorities of South Ossetia, which they expressed recently.

Ataman of the Almighty Don Army Viktor Vodolatsky at an emergency meeting of the Don Atamans in Volgograd called on all Cossacks to appear in the military commissariats and sign up to the help of South Ossetia until 40 years old. In the Stavropol Territory and North Ossetia, lists of Cossacks are formed, which expressed a desire to go to the conflict zone.

Russia takes adequate measures of a military and political nature for the cessation of violence in South Ossetia, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev Chancellor Germany Angel Merkel telephone conversation on Friday.

Russian journalists in Tskhvvvali fell under a massive artillery and mortar fire on the first signals for help from journalists from the Moscow Association of the Military Press of the Union of Moscow Journalists last night at 00:47 Moscow time, ITAR-TASS was told by the president of this public organization, Colonel Gennady Dzyuba.

Preparations for the Olympic Games in China, the opening ceremony of which will take place on Friday in Beijing, cost Russia $ 550 million (12 billion rubles). Financing came from three sources: from the state budget, due to the sponsors of the OKR and the Olympians support fund , established in 2005 by the 10 largest Russian entrepreneurs and the Vedomosti , headed by President Dmitry Medvedev.

The Prosecutor General’s Office rejected the CPRF’s application for the illegality of the election of non -partisan Vladimir Putin by the chairman of United Russia. This was announced by the First Deputy Prosecutor General Alexander Bogsman in the official response of the Communist Party, which the party’s legal service received yesterday, writes Vedomosti . The Communist Party on July 3 sent three requests to the Prosecutor General.