In January 2008, the Japanese company Subaru officially announced the start of the release of the first cars with diesel opposition engines called Boxer Diesel. In February, the diesel Legacy Sports Tourer and Legacy Outback was born? These models were the first to be sold in the UK and became the first in the line of the company, under the hoods of which were installed motors working on such a "heavy" fuel. Now the turn of the crossover Forester has come.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel left for Sochi, where he will meet with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev. The focus will have the situation in the Caucasus, ITAR-TASS reports.

Satirist and journalist Viktor Schenderovich gave an interview to the REN TV channel on the occasion of his fiftieth anniversary. The interview did not go on the air - “there was a war in Ossetia, and we decided to ask Victor other questions,” the preamble says.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree "On awarding by state awards of the Russian Federation of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, " Interfax reports. According to the Kremlin’s press service, “for the courage and heroism manifested in the performance of military duty in the North Caucasus region,” the title of Hero of the Russian Federation was awarded to Major Denis Vetchinov (posthumous) and Lieutenant Colonel Konstantin Timerman.

The official Pakistan denied the rumors that appeared in the press that President Musharraf was resigned to avoid impeachment. This was announced by the press secretary of President Rashid Kureshi. He called such information "unreasonable", noting that in recent months such rumors have arisen repeatedly.

In Thailand, a sentence is sentenced to Canadian, who is found guilty of sexual violence against a child. The pedophile, who also worked as a teacher, was calculated according to the blurry pictures, which he himself posted on the Internet. 32-year-old Christopher Neil from the Canadian province of British Colombia was sentenced to three years and three months in prison, and must also pay a fine of 60 thousand bats (almost 2 thousand dollars), writes The Times .

The young people arrested in the Yaroslavl region, suspected of killing four teenagers, classify Satanists. Earlier it was argued that the Goths committed cruel ritual killings. In the Yaroslavl region on Thursday, three more suspects in the murder of four teenagers were detained, Interfax reports with reference to the investigation department at the regional prosecutor's office. All of them are the inhabitants of Rybinsk, and one was detained within the walls of a psychiatric clinic.

Russian weightlifter Nadezhda Evstyukhina won the bronze medal of the Beijing Olympics. In the competitions of women in the weight category up to 75 kg, the Chinese woman Cao Lei became the champion, the second place in the representative of Kazakhstan Alla Vazhenina. Diary of the Olympiad-2008 Cao Lei excited a clear advantage, setting Olympic records both in a jerk (128 kg) and in a push (154 kg). The total 282 kg are also a new record of summer games. Weightlifting. Women. Up to 75 kg 1.

One of the main opponents of Washington after the Usama Ben Laden, the Iranian leader Mahmud Ahmadi Nezhad suddenly spoke highly about the importance of the US military presence in neighboring Iraq. While on a working visit to Turkey, he stated that the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq would create a threat to security in the region.

The Catholicos-Patriarch of All Georgia Elijah II addressed the President of Russia Dmitry Medvedev and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with a request to provide him with the opportunity to personally visit the city of Gori and the Nikosa Diocese of the Georgian Orthodox Church , the Blagoverst-Info reports. "We ask us to give us the opportunity to enter the Gori and the Nika -Za diocese and organize a corridor for the export of the wounded and the bodies of our dead heroes.

Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church (Russian Orthodox Church), the Protestant community of Russia and public organizations are urged to prevent the growth of anti -Georgian sentiments in Russia, which can be provoked by an armed conflict in South Ossetia. This was stated at a press conference held the day before in RIA Novosti and convened at the initiative of the Moscow Human Rights Bureau (MBPH). Its participants recalled the tragic events of the past days.

As part of the criminal investigation on the fact of "Georgian aggression against Russian citizens in South Ossetia, 2136 people were recognized as victims, the representative of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office (SCP) Vladimir Markin told reporters on Friday. He clarified that we are talking about the inhabitants of South Ossetia, who have already arrived in the territory of North Ossetia, ITAR-TASS reports.

The last set of Olympic awards on Friday in the National Stadium Arena in Beijing played 10,000 meters. At this Stayer distance, a representative of Ethiopia Tirunes Dibab won the “gold” at this styers' distance, who had obtained the first award of the highest dignity for her country at 2008. Diary of the Olympiad-2008 The result of Dibaba (29.54.66) is a new Olympic record. Tourchanka Elvan Abelegessa lagged behind the winner by only 1.68 seconds.

Analysts of the Center for Analysis of Strategies and Technologies (AST) calculated that one day of the war in South Ossetia cost Russia in a monetary terms of 2.5 billion rubles, said the head of the center Ruslan Pukhov. "For Georgia, one day of hostilities in South Ossetia cost 4.8 billion rubles (about $ 200 million)," he said. “Two billion rubles a day is the most minimum that Russia was spent on war.

The Baikal cellulose-paper plant (BCCB) received sewage and treatment facilities (KOSD), which will allow the enterprise to switch to a closed water circulation cycle. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a press release from the administration of the Irkutsk region. The plant plans to start a transition to a closed water circulation cycle on September 10-15.