About four thousand people were evacuated due to forest fires that covered the southeastern island of the Kanar Islands Palm, reports on Saturday with reference to the Spanish authorities AP. The causes of fires have not yet been established, however, according to preliminary data, they could be associated with the incredibly hot weather that has been established in the region recently. Local fire brigades and six helicopters participate in extinguishing forest fires.

India today handed over to Pakistan additional materials of the investigation of a terrorist attack, carried out at the end of November last year in Mumbai, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the official information of the country's Foreign Ministry, the dossier contains answers to all the requests made by Islamabad after the previous provision of a package of documents.

The presidents of Russia and Kyrgyzstan signed a memorandum for further development and improvement of the bilateral legal framework governing the stay of Russian military units in the territory of the Kyrgyz Republic and the placement of an additional Russian military contingent.

The investigation in the case of a terrorist attack in Grozny near the theater-cultural center is engaged in the establishment of customers of this crime.

The observation center of the Ministry of Defense of South Ossetia on Saturday morning underwent mortar shelling. “This morning at 9:25, two shots from the Miner Minomet were made from the Georgian village of Ditsi, border with the Ossetian village of Heredvy,” Ibrahim Gasseev, Deputy Minister of Defense of South Ossetia, told Interfax . A few minutes before the message about this shelling on the channels of the news agencies came the statement of the Foreign Ministry of South Ossetia.

Georgia refutes the statement of the Ministry of Defense of South Ossetia, who accused the Georgian law enforcement agencies of shelling of the Ossetian checkpoint, reports News-Georgia, citing a regional police representative. On Saturday, the Ministry of Defense of South Ossetia stated that on the morning of August 1, the observation post of the military department of the republic, located in the border zone, was shot from the mortar.

The government intends in the near future to develop mechanisms for stimulating enterprises to introduce environmentally friendly technologies. This was announced today by the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin at a meeting on the protection of the environment and ensuring environmental safety. “In the near future, it is necessary to develop and implement such mechanisms.

The observation mission of the European Union in Georgia did not confirm information about missile shelling from the Georgian side of the capital of South Ossetia - Tskhinval, RTL television channel said on Saturday. The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation today expressed concern for the latest shelling of Tskhinval and its suburbs by Georgia, leaving the right to use all available forces and means to protect citizens of South Ossetia and Russian troops located in the republic.

Specialists of the Russian Flight Management Center today held the second maneuver of the correction of the ISS orbit this year. According to ITAR-TASS in the Central Administrative District, "the orbit of the correction of the orbit was regular." The maneuver was carried out automatically using 8 engines of mooring and orientation of the M-67 progress cargo ship, which on Wednesday was attached to the service module "Zvezda".

Moscow Spartak largely beat the Krasnodar Kuban as part of the 16th round of the Russian football championship - 4: 0, RIA Novosti reports. The score in the duel, which took place on Saturday in Luzhniki, was opened in the 21st minute. After the penalty strike from the angle of the penalty area performed by Brazilian, Alex Arthur Tlisov set his leg, the ball changed the flight path, disoriented the goalkeeper of the guests of Bogdan Karyukin and flew into the net - 1-0.

Maria Sharapova could not go to the semifinals at the Stanford tennis tournament, whose prize fund is 700 thousand dollars. On Friday, the Russian woman in all respects lost to the second racket of the competition to the American Vinus Williams - 2: 6, 2: 6. Sharapova made 8 double mistakes, while not making a single Ace. Once she managed to take the rival, while Williams designed five breaks.

The head of Rospotrebnadzor, the chief state sanitary doctor of the Russian Federation Gennady Onishchenko, said that at present children's groups from Russia are leaving for relaxation or training abroad with zero legal protection, which is unacceptable.

The legendary Formula 1 racer Michael Schumacher held on Friday the first test races at the Ferrari Avtodrome in Mujello (Italy), the German sports magazine Auto Bild Motorsport said. The German will soon replace the Brazilian Felipe Mass as part of the Italian team, who, due to the accident at the Hungarian Grand Prix, most likely, was out of order until the end of the season.

Five people died, one person was hospitalized as a result of a car accident in the Krasnodar Territory. According to ITAR-TASS in the Southern Regional Center of the Ministry of Emergencies, the incident occurred on the road near the village of Zhuravskoye Korenovsky district. According to the preliminary version, the trailer, which crashed into the passenger Gazelle, broke off the milk of the milk. To date, the circumstances and causes of the accident are being clarified.

Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov proposes not to let out the owners of enterprises abroad who delay their employees. "Salary business delays are half of the delays in Moscow. This is a problem with the owners who do not pay. If the owner has not paid the salary on time, it does not need to be released. He paid - please go. The scheme will work and will be very effective," Luzhkov told reporters during the Saturday bypass of construction sites.