The Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Georgia, Ekaterina Zguladze, said on Tuesday at a briefing that the Georgian leadership had no information, that Russian troops intend to go to Tbilisi. “Russian troops remain in their former positions near Gori, and they are not in contact with the local population and do not create special problems,” Interfax quotes her words. Earlier, President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili stated the same.

During the operation that began on Tuesday in the Kodor Gorge, the Abkhaz Armed Forces defeated the enemy’s group at the Azhar’s stronghold and surrounded the military units of Georgia. This was announced by ITAR-TASS by the head of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Abkhazia Anatoly Zaitsev. "The Georgian troops located on the territory of the Kodor gorge were surrounded by the settlements between Adjara and Chkhalta," Zaitsev said.

The Olympic champion in weightlifting in the weight category of 69 kg was Liao Hoy from China, which brought his country the 13th "gold" at home games. Diary of the Olympiad-2008 According to the sum of the biathlon, the winner lifted 348 kg (158 kg in a jerk + 190 kg in a push). The silver medal was won by the Frenchman Vincent Dabaya, the Armenian Tigran Martirosyan, the Armenian - the Armenian. Weightlifting. Men up to 69 kg. 1. Liao Hoy (China) 348 (158+190) 2.

The number of flood victims in Ukraine increased to 39 people, reports the Ukrainian "5 channel" with reference to information from the Minister of Labor and Social Policy Lyudmila Denisova. Earlier, the Ministry of Health reported 38 dead or missing, RIA Novosti reports As a result of the storm on July 23-27, more than 40 thousand houses in Western Ukraine were flooded. Destroyed bridges, roads, other infrastructure facilities.

Specialists of the American company Tulip Systems engaged in the hosting of the Internet site Mikhail Saakashvili are hardly repulsing the attacks of hackers. As the Vesti TV channel reports, providing the acting head of Tom Berling’s company, “Now the situation can be described as a game of chess.

Youth movements "Our" and "Young" organize a joint picket in the Novopushkinsky Square and at the Georgian embassy in Moscow with a demand to betray Mikhail Saakashvili to the court of the President of Georgia.

Abkhazian units began surgery to displace Georgian military units from the upper part of the Kodor gorge, Interfax reports with reference to the Ministry of Defense of Abkhazia. At about 8 in the morning, the advanced units of the Abkhaz army entered the upper part of the Kodor gorge. NTV with reference to the Abkhaz command assesses the number of groups of 2000 people. On the Georgian side - about 2500 thousand.

On Tuesday in Tbilisi at 13:00 local time, by decision of the President of Georgia, an emergency meeting of the parliament will begin. Mikhail Saakashvili at night at a special meeting of the Georgian government said: "Extraordinary meeting of the parliament is convened to discuss measures to ensure calm and law and order, to provide residents with everything necessary," ITAR-TASS reports.

Huge inflatable dog excrement, created by the American artist Paul McCarthy, flew from the Garden of the Swiss Museum in Bern, where they exhibited. A giant brown mass, the size of a standard house, flew 200 meters, reports Breitbart.com . At the same time, a work of art called "Complex D (Shit)" during the flight damaged the power line, broke the window in one of the nearby orphanages, and then, to the joy of the inhabitants of the orphanage, landed safely in its yard.

In February of this year, the son of the famous French actor Gerard Depardieu Guillaume was detained by traffic police for driving Motoroll. Last week, he again became a participant in a traffic accident. Like almost six months ago, Department-Jr. got behind the wheel of Motoroller drunk. According to the newspaper "View" with reference to Le Parisien, the accident occurred on August 5, when Guillaume, returning home, failed to manage his "iron horse".

In the Israeli National Park, Tsipori, located in the Lower Galilee, scientists discovered the ruins of the ancient Roman temple. For a long time, the temple was under the foundation of the Byzantine church. Only now, during excavations, it was possible to detect it, reports Newsru.co Israel . The found temple was most likely built in honor of Zeus and the goddess of the chance and fate of Tyuha. Its dimensions are 24 by 12 meters.

Nikolai Davydenko finished his performance at the Olympic Tennis tournament in the second round. On Tuesday, the Russian, sown in Beijing under the fourth number, lost to the Frenchman Pole-Henri Mathieu with a score of 5: 7, 3: 6. Diary of the Olympiad-2008 But Igor Andreev managed to enter the third round of the tennis game tournament-2008. Today he won the Frenchman Michael Lludra with a score of 6: 4, 3: 6, 6: 1.

Last Sunday, the next case of the theft of an expensive foreign car was recorded in the western district of Moscow. This time, the director of Autovorov became the director of one of the departments of OJSC Rosgosstrakh. According to RIA Novosti , a source in law enforcement agencies, unknown people stole his Lexus GS300 car from the house on the Borovskoye Shosse, where the victim lives. According to him, the cost of a stolen car is 1,500,000 rubles.

The NASA leadership abandoned plans to create a new generation of reusable use of the new generation of Orion by 2013, which should be replaced by the current shuttle, due to technical problems and lack of funding. This was announced by the head of the construction program for the new ship Jeff Hanley.

In Voronezh on September 2, a bronze monument to Osip Mandelstam will be opened. The monument to the poet will be erected in the Orlenyok city park - opposite House 13 on Friedrich Engels Street, where the poet lived with his wife during the exile, Interfax was told on Tuesday in the City Hall information and analytical department. The city hall of Voronezh announced the plans for the installation in the city of the monument to Mandelstam back in November last year.