Georgia before an attack on South Ossetia created a group of troops, fourteen times surpassing the number of Russian peacekeepers in the conflict zone, said Colonel-General Anatoly Nogovitsyn, deputy chief of the General Staff of the Russian Federation. The Georgian action of the invasion of the Yuo was carried out from Gori, where the radar station and battery of anti-aircraft missile artillery was located, he said, Interfax reports.

The qualifying match of the 2010 World Cup between the national teams of Russia and Wales, which will be held on September 10 at the Moscow Lokomotiv stadium, will be held with a full house. Two days before the game , the Russian Football Union (RFU) announced such information two days before the game. "The RFU informs you that all tickets for the qualifying match of the 2010 Russia -Wales World Cup are sold," the fans say.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia published a new administrative regulation that determines the sequence of steps and the duration of the procedure for registration of vehicles. The draft document, which has 69 sheets, is published on The official website of the department, Interfax reports.

Investigative bodies of the Zelenograd Administrative District of the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office (SCP) of the Russian Federation in Moscow are investigating a criminal case of abuse of authority to travel officials from Zelenograd to Croatia instead of schoolchildren, RIA Novosti reports on Tuesday.

The temporarily acting Minister of Natural Resources Semyon Levy signed a notification on Tuesday about the dismissal of the deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor Oleg Mitvol in connection with a reduction in personnel. This was reported in the Federal Service for Supervision of Nature Management (Rosprirodnadzor).

Although each of the Baltic countries has its own defense plan, but the general one should also develop. This opinion was expressed by the Minister of Defense of Latvia Voletre at a meeting with the Commander of the US Air Force in Europe Roger Brady. The Commander of the National Armed Forces of Latvia, Major General Yuri Maklakov, also participated in the negotiations, Interfax reports.

The ex-television presenter of the Mus-TV channels and MTV, the secular lioness, and the deputy of the Belgorod Duma Masha Malinovskaya was expelled from the LDPR for poor behavior. The main claim to Masha was the absenteeism of the meetings of the regional legislative assembly, reports "News Time" .

The North Korean leader Kim Jong Il is not present at the parade , which is currently taking place in Pyongyang on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the DPRK, a source in the capital of this country told RIA Novosti . “Kim Jong Ir did not appear at the parade,” the source located on the square, where the anniversary was held on the phone, said on the phone.

Sri Lanka’s military forces shot down on Tuesday a plane belonging to the rebel group Tigers of the Liberation of Tamil Ilam. It is reported by "Interfax" with reference to the military command. The plane was shot down over impassable jungle near the city of Mullaitiv. He was intercepted by fighters after, together with another rebel plane, he bombed a military airfield located in the north of the island, representatives of the Air Force say.

In the UK, forensic linguists have developed a technique that allows you to determine the personality of the criminal by short text messages sent from a mobile phone. Thanks to the linguistic analysis of small fragments of the text transferred from the cell phone, the detectives have already managed to disclose several crimes and find the killers, the newspaper The Independent writes with reference to Dr. Tim Grant.

The Russian Progress Cargo ship, turned into the "Orbital Laboratory" for a week, today completed its flight to the "cemetery of spacecraft" in the Pacific Ocean. According to Valery Lyndin, the official representative of the flight management center (TsPU), "at 00:47 Moscow time, at the command of the on-board computer, the engines of the Progress M-64 cargo ship, which was in an autonomous flight for more than a week," ITAR-TASS reports.

The delegation of representatives of the People’s Union party of our Ukraine (NSNU), headed by the party leader Vyacheslav Kirilenko, arrived on Tuesday in Georgia. According to the NSNU press service, the "Our Ukrainians" will visit the Parliament of Georgia, where Kirilenko will speak to the deputies. NSNU members will also meet with the President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili.

The son of the former President of Georgia, who is pre -imprisoned, Tsotne Gamsakhurdiya, accused of espionage in favor of Russia and an attempt by a coup, announced a hunger strike, Interfax reports. As lawyer Keti Bekauri told reporters, Gamsakhurdia announced a hunger strike in protest, as he did not recognize the charges against him.

The Stavropol Regional Court, at a meeting on Tuesday, found two residents of Ingushetia Ruslan Kostoev and Zurab Tsuroev guilty of the murder and attempted murder of passengers of Pyatigorsk-Stavropol's passengers at the Nevinnomysskom bus station in December 2007, Interfax reports.

The Supreme Court of India decided not to initiate a case against one of the most famous artists of the country Macbul Fida Hussein. The 92-year-old painter was accused for several years of reproaching the shrines, BBC reports. The reason for the dissatisfaction with the work of Hussein by representatives of nationalist movements was the artist’s picture, depicting India as a naked goddess.