Of great interest in the 16th festival of Russian cinema “Window to Europe” in Vyborg was caused by the premiere of the film by Alexei German Jr. Paper Soldier, which will represent Russia at the Venice Film Festival. In a digital cinema, erected under the tent specifically to the cinema forum, tickets were sold even for prequeling chairs, ITAR-TASS reports.

The head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia believes that domestic prices should not be equal to the world, Prime-Tass reports. "Many of our companies are trying to either sell all products abroad or work according to the Net-Back scheme, when domestic prices are equal to the world. With our cheap work strength, resources, the internal price should be lower than the world," Artemyev emphasized.

In Nepal, they began searching for a girl aged 3 to 4 years, who, according to the centuries -old tradition, will become a new Kumari - a “living goddess”, the Izvestia newspaper reports. Kumari, or Kumari Devi (in Nepali - a girl) - a living Hindu deity. Kumari becomes a girl who has not reached puberty, chosen from the caste of Shakye of the people of Nevar (people, considered the autochthonous population of the Kathmandu Valley).

The Russian national team basketball players suffered a second defeat at the group stage of the Olympic Games. On Thursday, in the third round of the group stage, the wards of David Blatt in a bitter struggle lost to the Lithuanian team with a score of 79:86 (24:23, 17:21, 21:25, 17:17). Diary of the Olympiad-2008 The most productive player in this meeting was a naturalized American in our team John Robert Holden, who recorded 25 points on his own account.

US President George Bush discussed on Thursday "possible scenarios" in Georgia with the leadership of the CIA. He stated this after visiting the headquarters of the intelligence department, ITAR-TASS reports. According to him, the CIA experts "analyze the situation." "We discussed various options for the development of events," Bush said, emphasizing that "the ceasefire agreement must be respected." “We will work on this in the near future,” the head of the White House added.

A cultural and business complex "Helsinki House" will be built in the center of Moscow, reports Interfax. “The building will be erected before 2011 in 4th Rostovsky Lane on a plot of 0.22 hectares,” a source in the city administration told the agency. The project is being implemented on the initiative of the Finnish construction company Hartela-Oy within the framework of the Russian-Finnish intergovernmental agreement.

On August 14, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow issued a decision on the declination of the Chairman of the Board of TNK-VR Management OJSC Robert Dudley in connection with the failure to fulfill the next order of the state-owned inspectorate, a source familiar with the court’s decision told the oil information (Ani).

The Foundation of Daria Zhukova, the girlfriend of the Russian oligarch Roman Abramovich, is financed by the large-scale project "Ilya and Emilia Kabakov. Moscow retrospective. Alternative art history and other projects", which starts on three art sites of Moscow in September, said RIA "Novosti" Curator of the project Iosif Bakshtein. “The cost of this large -scale project, which will begin on September 15 and will last until mid -October, about $ 3 million.

The solemn procession from Moscow to Zvenigorod will be committed in late August in honor of the founder of the Savvino-Wrong monastery, the heavenly patron saint of Russia. Exactly 10 years ago, the same procession was returned to the monastery of its main shrine - the relics of Savva Storozhevsky, which were secretly stored by Christians in Soviet times.

The German team in Hike Kemmer, Nadine Kaplmann and Isabelle Verta excelled in team horse -drawn competitions at the Olympics in Beijing. All three participants in the German team were already Olympic champions. Diary of the Olympiad-2008 Horse sport. Track. Team competitions. 1. Germany 72,917 2. Holland 71.750 3. Denmark 68.875 The German horsemen won the next, already third “gold” of the current Olympiad for their team, ahead of the closest competitors with a small one.

The Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fitzo said that Georgia provoked an armed conflict in South Ossetia. At the same time, he called not to look at the situation "in black and white colors." “I reject a black and white vision of the situation that one is good and the other bad,” he said. According to the Slovak Prime Minister, it is necessary to stop fire, sit down at the negotiating table and solve problems, ITAR-TASS reports.

The Russian Greco-Roman style fighter Aslanbek Khushtov, who performs in the weight category up to 96 kg, won the gold award of the 2008 Olympics. Athens champion Hassan Baroev in the weight category up to 120 kg lost the final fight to the Cuban and won the silver. Diary of the Olympiad-2008 In the final, the European Champion 2008 Aslanbek Khushtov unconditionally defeated the German Mirko Englich with a score of 6: 0, 3: 0.

The bloody conflict, flared up around South Ossetia and Abkhazia, taught the lesson to the West: you should not make promises that you do not want and you cannot fulfill when circumstances are forced, writes The Financial Times on Thursday. The Western countries, and primarily the United States, are largely responsible for the Georgian attack on South Ossetia, and they deserve the humiliation to which they are now subjected to, the publication believes.

The Riga Regional Court postponed the consideration of the prosecutor’s complaint about the acquittal to the leader of the Latvian “National Bolsheviks” to Vladimir Linderman, who accused of illegal storage of weapons, Interfax reports. “The consideration of the prosecutor’s complaint has been postponed, but the date of consideration has not yet been scheduled,” Alexander Averin said on Thursday a member of the Coalition Executive Committee of the Coalition.

The head of the state corporation Rostekhnology and the Public Organization of the Union of Machine -Builders of Russia, Sergei Chemezov, wrote a letter to the prime minister with a reminder that while as president, Vladimir Putin promised to reduce VAT.