Vera Zvonareva, who won the dispute for the "bronze" with a score of 6: 0, 7: 5 China in Lee, made the tennis pedestal of the Olympiad in the female single category of Russian. Elena Dementyeva won the Gold of Games, who defeated Dinar Safina in three sets. Diary of Olympiad-2008 and results Based on the interests of the Russian team at the Olympics, the match between Vera Zvonareva and the Chinese on Lee for a bronze award aroused no less interest in the domestic fan than the final.

The representative of Russia Elena Kartashova lost to the Japanese Kaori Japanese, who defended her title, in the final of the Olympic Wrestling Tournament in the Weight category. Diary of Olympiad-2008 and results Both periods of the final fight ended in extra time, and in each of them the athlete from Japan Japanese managed to earn a point. It is worth noting that Elena did not score a single score for the whole duel.

Russia, for the first time after the end of the Cold War, considers the opportunity to arm the ships and submarines of the Baltic Fleet with missiles with nuclear warheads. This is stated in the publication of the British newspaper The Sunday Times , citing high -ranking defense sources. The main base of the Baltic Fleet is Kaliningrad, a Russian enclave located within the boundaries of the European Union between Poland and Lithuania.

The Russian athlete Gulnara Samitova -Galkina confidently won the race of 3000 meters of the C/P at the Olympics, while setting a new world record - 8.58.81. The representative of Ufa was the first in history to run out of nine minutes. Diary of Olympiad-2008 and results This afternoon I went to the cafe to drink tea and met our boy, who won 20 km (Evgeny Borchin) yesterday, Sportbox.ru reports the words of the champion of the Olympics.

The Russian gymnast Anton Goltsutsk won the bronze medal of the Olympiad in free exercises. Our athlete was estimated at 15.725 points, having passed forward only Chinese Kai Zou (16.050) and the Spaniard Hervasio Deferra (15,775). Diary of Olympiad-2008 and results Goltsutskov appeared on the carpet the first of all eight participants in the final, and as a result he was ahead of such eminent rivals as the German Fabian Hambuchen, Japanese Kochi Ichimaru and Romanian Marian Draguleska.

After the military operations, the political future of South Ossetia should be decided by the people themselves, according to the OSCE Secretary General Mark Perrin de Brishambo, Interfax reports. “The fate of South Ossetia should be decided by the people of South Ossetia. People live in very difficult conditions. When making a decision, it will be necessary to take into account history and realities,” said de Brishamba at a press conference in Vladikavkaz.

The Chinese shooter Jian Tsu won the gold medal of the Olympiad in shooting a pneumatic rifle of three positions from a distance of 50 meters. Confidently leading Matthew Evans, performing the last shot, made a mistake, knocking out only 4.4 points, which allowed Jian to get ahead of the American and take first place. Diary of Olympiad-2008 and results The Chinese won competitions with a result of 1272.5 points.

Eight people, including one-month child, died as a result of the fall of the bus in the 15-meter gorge in the north of Brazil, 23 people were injured, RIA Novosti reports. According to the representative of the police Frankson Masel, three men, four women and the child died in Roraim on Saturday morning, when the bus drove off the road and fell into the gorge. In total, the bus transported 37 passengers.

From August 18, Russia begins the withdrawal of a military contingent, attached to the strengthening of Russian peacekeepers in connection with Georgian aggression against South Ossetia, in a certain decision of the SKK 1999, the security zone and actually on the territory of South Ossetia. This was stated by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in a telephone conversation with the French colleague Nicolas Sarkozy.

The income of the federal budget of the Russian Federation from the oil and gas sector will decrease almost three times by 2023 compared to 2007-mainly due to the massive decommissioning of old deposits, said Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation Alexei Kudrin. According to the Ministry of Finance, oil and gas revenues of the budget system will fall from 8.8%of GDP in 2007 to 3.1%of GDP in 2023, RIA Novosti reports.

In the Sea of ​​Okhotsk, all 19 members of the crew of the inverted fishing vessel Vostok-Orion were saved. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergencies in the Far Eastern Federal District. The distress signal came today at 04:10 in the morning of Khabarovsk time (21:10 in Moscow on Saturday). The crews of the craftsmen who approached the aid of the east found upside down.

Spaniard Rafael Nadal, who on August 18 will become the first racket of the world, won the Golden Olympic medal in a solitary category. In the decisive match of the tournament, Rafael in three parties (3: 6, 7: 6, 6: 3) beat the representative of Chile Fernando Gonzalez. Diary of Olympiad-2008 and results We add that Nadal was the first Spaniard to become the champion of the Summer Games in tennis.

On Sunday, August 17, the first Iranian artificial satellite of the Earth was brought to orbit. This was reported by the official information agency of Irna with reference to the Communny of the United Staff of the IRI Armed Forces. "The launch of the Safir launch vehicle (" envoy ") with the first Iranian companion of Omid (" Nadezhda ") was successful," the document says. “This test has reached its goal,” it emphasizes.

According to Autonews.ua , the famous pop singer Madonna decided to make an expensive gift on her 50th birthday-an exclusive Mercedes-McLaren Slr Speedster car. In total, the German automaker plans to release only 75 copies of this model. The singer will be able to get a car only at the end of the year, when the presentation of the supercar takes place. According to known data, the cost of Speedster from Mercedes will be 450,000 euros.

The former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder accused Tbilisi at the beginning of the military conflict in the Caucasus and warned from the rapid acceptance of Georgia in NATO, the prospects of which, after the last events in the Caucasus, moved away, in his opinion, "even further." Shreder said this in an interview with Der Spiegel magazine, ITAR-TASS reports. “The moment that laid the beginning of a military confrontation was the march of Georgia to South Ossetia,” Schroeder emphasized.