On the eve of the four-year anniversary of the Georgian-Russian war of 2008, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili visited the territory border with the southern Ossetia and met with local residents. He promised them that he would restore the integrity of Georgia and expel the “invaders”. “I walked a lot through these gorges, and for me a huge pain, an unhurried wound that they trampled. We will definitely return everything! I am firmly convinced of this.

Boris Akunin “The writer had a very sweet wife and a nice son, but the main creature in the house was the cat. Everything was subordinated to the interests of his catness. The hostess warned me: “Try to please Murzik... If he doesn’t like the guest, he can shit on the pillow.” This has already happened." After such a warning, I, of course, began to treat Murzik with servility. And he accepted my attentions favorably.

The industry scheme of high -altitude restrictions on the territory of Moscow, which allows to build buildings no higher than 75 meters within the "Old Moscow", was approved at a meeting of the city government on Tuesday. "High -rise restrictions are introduced in order to maintain valuable The features of the city landscape, ”said Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin at a meeting. According to him, the scheme is developed on the basis of "visual-landscape research.

For 10 years, the British Bank of Standard Chartered for 10 years was about $ 250 billion due to operations with Iranian clients bypassing American sanctions, the New York State Financial Services Department of Financial Services said on Tuesday. The report claims that the bank acted as a “fraudulent organization” and that because of its actions, the United States turned out to be “vulnerable to terrorists, weapons, drug lords and corrupt regimes”.

Recently, information has recently surfaced on the Internet that the Germans in the near future plan to replenish the range of modifications of the Panamera model. Now the dates were added to the abstraction. According to rumors, already in September in Paris, a presentation of the prototype of the station wagon Porsche Panamera will be held - it will go to the series in 2015.

In St. Petersburg, the regional administration of the Investigative Committee terminated the criminal case against the activist of the Khryusha against movement, Andrei Bogomolov , accused of applying violence against a police officer. According to RIA Novosti in the department, the case was dismissed on the basis of a statement by the victim. Earlier, the activist was accused of biting the policeman.

The 26-year-old pop-diva Lady Gaga posted on her official website LittlemonsTers.com a photo in which it is captured in the pool, in the arms of her boyfriend Taylor Kinny. Apparently, the singer is absolutely naked, although her knees and crossed hands are hidden by the intimate parts of her body, reported by Newsru Israel . Lady Gaga, as befits a real star, bathes, without taking off the overhead eyelashes about two centimeters long.

Kirill Serebrennikov replaced Sergei Yashin as the artistic director of the Moscow Drama Theater. Gogol, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the head of the Moscow Department of Culture Sergei Kapkov, who announced this after the working meeting held in the theater. The contract with Kirill Serebrennikov was concluded for three years. In addition, the director also changed in the theater - Anatoly Shlastas, who worked in tandem with Sergey Yashin for many years, leaves his post.

The buyer of the most expensive mansion in the UK sold last summer for 140 million pounds (about 217 million dollars) was the former head of the Bank of Moscow Andrei Borodin, who was announced by the British newspaper The Sunday Times , citing the representative of the local council of the conservative party of John Holsall.

The world is watching the development of the situation in Syrian Aleppo, where fierce battles between the army and rebels continue. Moreover, in the West it is believed that the outcome of the battles will determine the fate of the regime, led by Bashar Assad, who is already compared with the Nazi Field Marshal Friedrich Paulus, and Aleppo with Stalingrad. However, observers in Russia do not wait for any turning point and predict Syria with a protracted civil war .

The editorial office of Newsru.com received an open letter to the heads of domestic sports from the Fund for Assistance and the Social Adaptation of the Persons of Life with a request to support the initiative of the Fund on the creation of the trace-chocking teams based on the Continental Hockey League clubs and, in the future, the Russian trail league.

In the capital of the Tyumen region, the police detained a 29-year-old man suspected of brutal murder of a young child in a playground in the courtyard. A hammer became the instrument of reprisal. His house neighbor is suspected of killing a four -year -old child. Currently, the issue of his arrest is being decided, the official website of the Investigative Department of the Tyumen region reports.

The police of the resort city of Aiya-Napa of the Republic of Cyprus conducts the search for a criminal who attacked two girls from Russia. The criminal tried to rape one of the tourists and inflicted it on her, writes the local newspaper The Cyprus Mail . The crime was committed on Saturday evening, when two 21-year-old Russians decided to go to the city center for a walk. They left the hotel and immediately caught the car that they took for a taxi.

The former chairman of the European Central Bank Jean-Claude Trisha said that he believes in the successful future of a single European currency. This authoritative economist, in addition, is a supporter of the creation of banking and budget unions, writes RBC Daily . The ex -head of the ECB noted that the world economy is currently undergoing the third stage of the crisis - the state debt crisis.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation confirmed the verdict to the former head of the Chekhov district of the Moscow region. The corruption official demanded from the businessman the bribe, promising to accelerate the collection of duty in his favor. According to the court’s verdict, the former head of the Department of the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP) of the Russian Federation in the Chekhovsky district of the Moscow Region Viktor Ponomarev will spend four years behind bars.